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Connected Ventures is a new media network and development company. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in New York City, Connected Ventures sites include CollegeHumor.com and BustedTees.com.

CollegeHumor.com is a leading entertainment website appealing to a core audience of young males. The site delivers daily comedic content, including videos, pictures, articles and jokes, both created by the CollegeHumor staff and submitted by users. Attracting more than 5.4 million monthly unique users and generating more than 74 million monthly page views (Nielsen/Net Ratings September 08), CollegeHumor provides online advertisers across a variety of categories with an efficient vehicle for reaching the desirable young adult demographic.

FACTS

  • Founded in 1999 and headquartered in New York City, CollegeHumor features a popular "Hotlinks" section which links to the day's funniest and most offbeat content on the web
  • CollegeHumor users can create school-based contributor accounts and set up personal profiles showcasing their favorite content on the site as well as their own articles and submissions
  • The CollegeHumor brand extends offline with the two books The CollegeHumor Guide to College and Faking It: How to seem like a better person without actually improving yourself , a live comedy show and a movie currently in development with Paramount Pictures
  • CollegeHumor has approximately 5.3 million unique monthly users and 74 million monthly pageviews (Nielsen/Net Ratings September 2008); with 24 million monthly video streams and 1.4 million registered users 
  • Over 270 CollegeHumor original videos have been viewed over 50 million times; and receive 1.3 million monthly mobile pageviews
  • Weekly email newsletter reaches 105,000 subscribers

Founded in March 2004, CollegeHumor launched Busted Tees, which sells humorous t-shirts to its core demographic of young males.

FACTS

  • BustedTees, headquartered in New York City, sells over 25,000 t-shirts a month
  • Writers of CollegeHumor create original t-shirt designs
  • Over 1 million monthly unique visitors and 5 million monthly pageviews (Nielsen/Net Ratings September 2008)
  • Has over 300 t-shirt designs with three to four new designs each week
  • BustedTees' weekly newsletter reaches over 250,000 subscribers