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| Industry | Entertainment |
| Founded | April 1, 2003 |
| Founders |
Burnie Burns Matt Hullum Geoff Ramsey Jason Saldaña Gus Sorola Joel Heyman |
| Headquarters | Stage 5, Bungalow A, Stage 4, Austin, Texas, U.S. |
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Number of locations
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3 (2016) |
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Key people
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Matt Hullum (CEO) Burnie Burns (CCO) Yvonne Secretan (COO) Ezra Cooperstein (President) |
| Owner | Otter Media |
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Number of employees
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350+ (January 2018) |
| Parent | Fullscreen |
| Divisions | Rooster Teeth Animation Rooster Teeth Games The Know The Roost Podcast Network Let's Play Network Achievement Hunter Funhaus ScrewAttack Sugar Pine 7 |
| Website |
Rooster Teeth Roost Podcast Network |
Rooster Teeth is an American media and entertainment company located mainly in Austin, Texas as well as Los Angeles, California. Rooster Teeth was founded by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman in 2003.
Rooster Teeth began with the production of Red vs. Blue, which premiered in April 2003 and is still in production, making it the second longest-running web series of all time. Due to server and web hosting costs, the founders created “Sponsorships” which is now known as “FIRST”, a subscription to exclusive and earlier access to content, discounts on their merchandise store, among other benefits. The company later branched out into live action shorts, series, comedy, Let's Play videos and full animated productions. Other projects include reality shows, video game development, entertainment news programs and podcasts. In 2015, Rooster Teeth released its feature film debut Lazer Team, a science fiction action comedy. The company hosts an annual convention, RTX, in multiple cities around the world.
The company's videos are regularly released on its own website and YouTube. As of March 2018, Rooster Teeth's primary YouTube channel currently maintains over 9.4 million subscribers and has over 5.3 billion video views. Including all of their other channels, they maintain over 45 million subscribers.
While attending the University of Texas at Austin, Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum collaborated with actor Joel Heyman on a 1997 independent film called The Schedule. The film helped Hullum and Heyman to find work in Los Angeles, California, but otherwise had limited success. Working for a local company named Telenetwork, Burns later met Geoff Ramsey (then named Geoff Fink), Gustavo Sorola, Dan Godwin, and Jason Saldaña, and the five formed drunkgamers.com, a website where the five reviewed various video games while drunk. According to Ramsey, the group tried to receive free games to review, but "incurred the wrath" of several game developers in doing so.
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