Tubefilter announced yesterday, that they have entered into an agreement to acquire Tilzy.TV. Founded by Jamison Tilsner and Josh Cohen, Tilzy.TV is a New York based media company that hosted OnFront this past spring.
The two companies worked together, along with NewTeeVee, to host the very successful Streamy Awards, which had over 40,000 people tune in over the course of the transmission. In the article posted by Marc Hustvedt on Tubefilter, he had this to say about the merger:
“This is a new chapter for Tubefilter as a company. We’re bringing onto the team a pair of experienced and passionate co-founders in Josh Cohen and Jamison Tilsner. These guys get it, and share our deep concern for the web creative community.”
Marc outlined some of the changes that would be occurring with the acquisition. Tubefilter will now be a bi-coastal media company, expanding their News coverage to include NY. Their Web TV Meetups will be signature events in both cities, and articles that were previously on the Tilzy.TV site have now been migrated over to Tubefilter News.
(Photo by Wm. Marc Salsberry)
With the merger comes new responsibilities and positions for our friends at Tubefilter. Brady Brim-DeForest will continue in his role of CEO, Mark Hustvedt and Drew Baldwin will take on the positions of Senior VP and EIC of Tubefilter News, and Senior VP of Product.
Congrats guys! With the future of online entertainment in your hands, I can’t wait to see what’s in store.
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