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Defy Media, the Glossary

Defy Media was an American digital media company that produced original online content for the 12–34 age group.^[1]

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American companies disestablished in 2018
Multi-channel networks

ABS Capital Partners

ABS Capital Partners is an American private equity firm focused on investments in software and tech-enabled services businesses across a range of industries, including FinTech, Healthcare, EdTech, eCommerce, cybersecurity, and Smart Cities.

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Ad Age

Ad Age (known as Advertising Age until 2017) is a global media brand that publishes news, analysis, and data on marketing and media.

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Adweek

Adweek is a weekly American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1979.

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Alloy Entertainment

Alloy Entertainment, LLC (formerly Daniel Weiss Associates and 17th Street Productions) is a book packaging and television production unit of Warner Bros. Television Studios. Defy Media and Alloy Entertainment are entertainment companies based in New York City.

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Ally Financial

Ally Financial Inc. (previously known as GMAC) is a bank holding company organized in Delaware and headquartered at Ally Detroit Center in Detroit, Michigan.

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Alternative media are media sources that differ from established or dominant types of media (such as mainstream media or mass media) in terms of their content, production, or distribution.

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Anthony Padilla

Daniel Anthony Padilla (born September 16, 1987) is an American internet personality, filmmaker, host, and actor.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Body positivity

Body positivity is a social movement that promotes a positive view of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, skin tone, gender, and physical abilities.

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Break Media was an American digital media company that owned several Internet properties targeted at men (males aged 18–34 make up 70% of their visitors), including Break.com (its first website), Screen Junkies, CagePotato, Chickipedia, HolyTaco, MadeMan, AllLeftTurns, TuVez and GameFront.

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Break.com

Break.com (formerly Big-boys.com) is an entertainment and humor website founded in 1998 that featured comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material.

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Browser game

A browser game is a video game that is played via the internet using a web browser.

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Bustle (magazine)

Bustle is an online American women's magazine founded in August 2013 by Bryan Goldberg.

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CagePotato

Cagepotato was a news/entertainment website focusing on the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA).

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Cartoon Brew

Cartoon Brew is an animation news website created by Amid Amidi and animation historian Jerry Beck that was launched on 15 March 2004.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Channel One News

Channel One News was an American news content provider.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Comscore

Comscore, Inc. is an American-based global media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, advertising agencies, brand marketers, and publishers.

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Deidre Behar

Deidre Behar (born October 29, 1988) is an American producer and host for Entertainment Tonight.

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Delia's

Delia's, Inc. (stylized as dELiA*s) is a lifestyle brand of apparel & accessories, primarily targeting girls and young women. Defy Media and Delia's are companies based in New York City.

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Destructoid

Destructoid is a website that was founded as a video game-focused blog in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author.

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Digiday

Digiday is an online trade magazine for online media founded in 2008 by Nick Friese.

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In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats.

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Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Durham County.

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Enthusiast Gaming

Enthusiast Gaming is a Canadian digital media company specializing in video game journalism.

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Fandom (website)

Fandom (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.

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Foot Locker, Inc. is an American multinational sportswear and footwear retailer headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and operating in over 40 countries.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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GameTrailers

GameTrailers (GT) was an American video gaming website created by Geoffrey R. Grotz and Brandon Jones in 2002.

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Generate LA-NY

Generate is a Los Angeles–based entertainment studio that produces content for distribution across media, including the Internet, television, web television, film, video games, mobile devices and books.

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Gurl.com

Gurl.com (pronounced "girl dot com"; formerly stylized as gURL.com from 1996 to 2011) was an American website for teenage girls that was online from 1996 to 2018.

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Hearst Communications

Hearst Communications, Inc. (often referred to simply as Hearst and formerly known as Hearst Corporation) is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Holding company

A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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Human female sexuality

Human female sexuality encompasses a broad range of behaviors and processes, including female sexual identity and sexual behavior, the physiological, psychological, social, cultural, political, and spiritual or religious aspects of sexual activity.

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Human resource management

Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the effective and efficient management of people in a company or organization such that they help their business gain a competitive advantage.

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Joslyn Davis

Joslyn Davis (born April 25, 1982) is an American former on-air host and producer for ClevverTV, a brand formerly owned and operated by Defy Media.

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Krogzilla

Krogzilla is an adult animated web series, created by filmmaker and actor Cory Edwards for the YouTube channel Shut Up! Cartoons.

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Lionsgate

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (also known as Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, and doing business as Lionsgate) is a Canadian-American entertainment company currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

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MatPat

Matthew Robert Patrick (born November 15, 1986), better known as MatPat, is an American semi-retired YouTuber and internet personality.

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Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world.

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New media are communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Online advertising

Online advertising, also known as online marketing, Internet advertising, digital advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising that uses the Internet to promote products and services to audiences and platform users.

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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.

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Ponzi scheme

A Ponzi scheme is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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RBC Capital Markets

RBC Capital Markets is a global investment bank providing services in banking, finance, and capital markets to corporations, institutional investors, asset managers, and governments globally.

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Rebecca Odes

Rebecca Odes (born September 11, 1969) is an American media entrepreneur, author, and former musician.

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Rhett & Link

Rhett James McLaughlin (born October 11, 1977) and Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III (born June 1, 1978) are an American comedy duo.

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Screen Junkies

Screen Junkies is an online movie magazine and YouTube channel, owned and operated by Fandom, that focuses primarily on movies and television.

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Shockwave (game portal)

Shockwave.com, or Shockwave, is an online and offline video games distributor and game portal.

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Shut Up! Cartoons

Shut Up! Cartoons was a YouTube animation channel project created by the Smosh duo (Anthony Padilla, Ian Hecox) and Barry Blumberg that features various animated videos.

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Smosh

Smosh is an American YouTube sketch comedy-improv collective, independent production company, and former social networking site founded by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.

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The Amazing Race (American TV series)

The Amazing Race is an American reality competition show in which teams of two race around the world (except the Family edition which featured 10 teams of four and was contested entirely within North and Central America).

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The Amazing Race 28

The Amazing Race 28 is the twenty-eighth season of the American reality competition show The Amazing Race.

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The Confession (TV series)

The Confession is a 10-part web series created by Kiefer Sutherland, written and directed by Brad Mirman, and starring Sutherland and John Hurt.

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The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist (formerly known as Escapist Magazine) is an American video game website and online magazine.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Insider (TV program)

The Insider was an American syndicated newsmagazine television program that was distributed by CBS Television Distribution.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Topix (website)

Topix was an American Internet media company.

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A trailer (also known as a preview, coming attraction or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater or cinema.

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Tumblr

Tumblr (pronounced "tumbler") is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by American company Automattic.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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Unilever

Unilever PLC is a British multinational fast-moving consumer goods company founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Viacom (2005–2019)

The second phase of Viacom Inc. (or; a portmanteau of Video & Audio Communications), was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate with interests primarily in film and television.

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WarCry Network

WarCry Network (or WarCry.com per the URL) was a web portal centered on the MMO (massively multiplayer online) genre of video games.

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Warner Bros. Television Studios

Warner Bros.

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Webby Awards

The Webby Awards (colloquially referred to as the Webbys) are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over three thousand industry experts and technology innovators.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defy_Media

Also known as Addicting Games, Addicting Games, Inc, Alloy Digital, Clevver, Clevver Media, Clevver Music, Clevver news, ClevverMusic, ClevverTV, Crushable, Crushable.com, Teen.com.

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Defy Media, the Glossary

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American companies disestablished in 2018

Multi-channel networks

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