Moviepilot
Moviepilot was a fan-centric online magazine covering the film industry. Its content was written predominantly by an in-house team of staff writers, with additional articles from contributors known as Creators.
History
Movie Pilot was launched by three co-founders Tobi Bauckhage, Jon Handschin, and Ben Kubota in 2007, as a Berlin-based film website that also offered social media consulting services to film studios. Using an open-posting model that invites readers to write their own content and a recommendation algorithm for movies, moviepilot.de grew to more than 6.8 million unique monthly views by October 2014.Since its launch Movie Pilot expanded into other publishing verticals like Now Loading and Champions. In December 2015 Movie Pilot announced a formal rename of the company to Creators Media, Inc., a parent company that housed all their media brands.
As of 2014, based in Venice, California, Creators Media, Inc. employed approximately 100 employees worldwide.
In December 2017 Paris-based publishing group Webedia acquired majority control of Creators Media, the L.A.-based company that ran entertainment fan site Movie Pilot and video channel Super News covering nerd culture.
Contributor platform
Movie Pilot's publishing power came in part through an open posting platform model that afforded fans the opportunity to create their own content similar to Wordpress, but with distribution to a network of millions. As the platform grew and fans expressed their desire to expand their writing into other genres, like Video Gaming and MMA, Creators.co was launched in February 2016. Creators.co was the open web platform where fans created, communicated, and collaborated on all things entertainment and pop culture.Creators Media rewarded contributors with access to press events, celebrity interviews, and a revenue sharing model for Verified Creators who had gone through a verification process.