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| Jan 23, 2026 | WatchMojo Celebrates 20 Years: From YouTube Pioneer to Leading the Charge for the Montreal Expos' Return | The milestone comes as Founder and CEO Ashkan Karbasfrooshan elevates his vision for entrepreneurship and his hometown of Montreal
MONTREAL, Jan. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- WatchMojo, the definitive voice of pop culture and architect of... |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Fair Use on YouTube: What Creators Can Learn from Stream TV and WatchMojo | Created by Carl Williams
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| Jun 5, 2025 | No Nigerian YouTuber can replicate MrBeast’s success. Here’s why | With 400 million subscribers, American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, is the highest-paid in the world. His YouTube channel, built on viral stunts and hair-raising challenge videos, has turned millions of views into a... |
| Sep 18, 2024 | Как трансгендер из ТикТока чуть не потеряла «скромность», или Зачем превращать вирусную фразу в товарный знак | Может ли интеллектуальная собственность, а именно — товарный знак довести человека до слёз? Может, если человек — пуэрториканский трансгендер из ТикТока, которая шла к славе долгие 11 лет. А когда слава неожиданно свалилась — чуть не упусти... |
| Sep 16, 2024 | BlockBuzz Masterclass Debuts from Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Co-Hosted by Dustin Plantholt and Mark Kohler, Live on GOT ONE Tv Network, Streamed on Apple TV! | NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BlockBuzz to Stream Exclusive Masterclass Live from Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on GOT ONE TV Network, Available on Apple TV!
BlockBuzz is thrilled to announce that its upcoming Masterclass,... |
| Jul 9, 2022 | Should Christian Bale’s Dark Knight rise again in a fourth movie? | Holy headlines, Batman! Have you heard the Bat-news? Christian Bale has said he would play Batman/Bruce Wayne once again for Christopher Nolan should the auteur behind the massively successful Dark Knight trilogy be interested in making a f... |
| May 10, 2019 | ‘YouTube Content-ID Abusers Could Face Millions of Dollars in Damages’ | With over 20 million subscribers of its main channel and over 30 million over its entire network, WatchMojo is one of the largest players on YouTube.
The Montreal-based video production company has been around for well over a decade and con... |
| Apr 7, 2012 | The Future Of Content: Content Is The Future | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo, he hosts a show on business and has published books on success. Follow him @ashkan.
“I thought the analysis of content vs other video companies very convi... |
| Mar 31, 2012 | Is Technology A Zero-Sum Game? | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo, he hosts a show on business and has published books on success. Follow him on Twitter @ashkan.
In last week’s Get Rich or Die Trying article, I mentioned ... |
| Mar 24, 2012 | Get Rich or Die Trying | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo, he hosts a show on business and has published books on success. Follow him on Twitter @ashkan.
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. T... |
| Mar 3, 2012 | What A Love Doctor Taught Me About Fundraising | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo, he hosts a weekly show on business and has published books on success. Follow him on Twitter @ashkan.
“How You’re Defined by the Stories You Tell Yourself... |
| Feb 18, 2012 | Seize Your Opportunities Like Jeremy Lin | Editor’s Note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo, he hosts a weekly show on business and has published books on success. Follow him @ashkan.
Last week, Forbes contributor Eric Jackson published a list on ... |
| Feb 11, 2012 | Patience is a Virtue, for Losers | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
Patience is one of the seven virtues, the lesser-known cousins of the seven sins. And indeed, “patience is a virtue” – or so goes the ... |
| Feb 4, 2012 | Mark Zuckerberg’s 6 Ingredients For Success | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
Leadership guru Warren Bennis asked whether leaders are born or made. When asked if Wall Street would accept a young Mark Zuckerberg i... |
| Jan 28, 2012 | To Pivot or Not to Pivot | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
“To pivot, or not to pivot, that is the question:
Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortun... |
| Jan 22, 2012 | Six Lessons in Entrepreneurship | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. You can follow him @ashkan.
January 23, 2012 marks the 6-year anniversary of my company WatchMojo. In today’s post, I’m taking a look back at six of the m... |
| Jan 15, 2012 | Things Entrepreneurs Should Avoid When Raising Capital | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
Alright, in my last post I argued that bootstrapping is just as over-rated as raising venture capital. But for those who decide to pur... |
| Jan 7, 2012 | Why Bootstrapping Is Just As Over-Rated As Raising Venture Capital | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
Entrepreneurship requires balancing unbridled optimism with delusional foolishness. Most entrepreneurs are mocked and misunderstood un... |
| Dec 31, 2011 | Why Salespeople Make Bad Fundraisers | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
Company founders are the quintessential cheerleaders, promoting their vision and company every chance they get. But that doesn’t mean ... |
| Dec 28, 2011 | 12 Things That Won’t Happen In Online Video in 2012 | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
There are no shortages of “predictions” articles, here I look at a dozen things that won’t happen in the world of online video in 2012... |
| Dec 27, 2011 | The truths of entrepreneurship | Pinocchio. Wikipedia image
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo, recently wrote a guest post on TechCrunch about the Lies Entrepreneurs Tell. In the article he makes the point that entrepreneurs are “always in sell mode, but ... |
| Dec 26, 2011 | Is Video The New Software? | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
VC (TechCrunch contributor) Mark Suster published an article on his personal blog about one of his portfolio companies, Maker Studios.... |
| Dec 24, 2011 | Lies Entrepreneurs Tell | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
Entrepreneurs are always in “sell mode”, but that doesn’t mean they need to be BS-artists. Most entrepreneurs aren’t born liars, but w... |
| Dec 17, 2011 | Why So Many M&A Deals Fail | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
While some M&A deals turn out to be great successes, it’s no surprise that a lot of mergers and acquisitions fail. The obvious fac... |
| Dec 3, 2011 | The Web Is Rewarding Greed and Bad Behavior (Business As Usual) | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
The world wide web prospered and is what it is today because its inventor Tim Berners-Lee didn’t give into temptation and greed and ch... |
| Nov 24, 2011 | Why Haven’t We Seen A Rollup Yet in Online Video? | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is founder and CEO of WatchMojo, a video publisher.
Online video is booming and the are tons of small video companies across production, advertising, distribution, and technology. Yet w... |
| Nov 19, 2011 | The Rise Of Video Ad Networks | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo, a video publisher.
Venture capital is flowing into video ad networks: Brightroll recently raised $30 million, Yume raised $12 millio... |
| Nov 12, 2011 | Can Content Producers Be Disruptors Or Is Content Only Meant To Be Disrupted? | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan.
Why is content such a dirty word in venture capital? We have seen a few generations of technology entrepreneurs and investors, but the... |
| Nov 6, 2011 | Why Big Media Is Going Nuclear Against The DMCA | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo.
When Congress updated copyright laws and passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998, it ushered an era of investment... |
| Oct 23, 2011 | Who WIll Be The Next Talisman Of The Tech World? | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo.
In soccer (or football outside the U.S.), the term talisman is given to the one player whose genius can turn a game around. With him, his team wins—withou... |
| Oct 15, 2011 | Top 10 Greatest U.S. Digital Media M&A Deals Of All Time | Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo.
Back in November 2006, I published the Top 10 Greatest Internet Digital Media M&A Deals of All Time. It included eBay’s $1.5 billion acquisition of Pa... |
| Oct 8, 2011 | 9 Reasons Why Online Video Advertising Has Failed to Meet Previous Forecasts | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo.
In 2011, forecasters are projecting U.S. online video advertising revenues of $1.9 billion to $5.6 billion. I emailed Fo... |
| Sep 7, 2011 | Yahoo’s Options | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo.
With Yahoo! firing Carol Bartz—by phone no less, we are left to wonder what the next chapter will be for the one-time Internet pioneer.
So, what can Yahoo... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | The Case for Yahoo to Buy Hulu | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo.
While Yahoo! remains the best positioned digital media company around, Wall Street remains unconvinced.
Yahoo!’s revenues are not gr... |
| Jul 17, 2011 | Why TV Companies Couldn’t Care Less About Original Online Video | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo.
The rise and proliferation of cable grew the total pie for television, leaving networks with bigger businesses even if their share o... |
| Apr 3, 2011 | Raiding Engadget’s talent, Josh Topolsky forms new tech news site | Joshua Topolsky, former top editor at AOL’s Engadget tech blog, has set up a competing tech site with the backing of a new media company called SB Nation.
It’s a little odd on the surface, since SB Nation is a sports web publisher. Topolsky... |
| Apr 3, 2011 | Raiding Engadget’s talent, Josh Topolsky forms new tech news site | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Joshua Topolsky, former top editor at AOL’s Engad... |
| Jan 14, 2011 | Which Is The Most Capital Efficient Online Video Startup Of Them All? (Hint: Rocketboom) | Success in online video is relative to how much time, effort, and money you put into it. Andrew Baron of Rocketboom offers the (albeit self-serving) chart at right in a post updating the State of the Union for his startup and online video i... |
| Dec 24, 2010 | The Year In Online Video Deals And What To Expect In 2011 | Editor’s note: Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo. In this post he examines looks back at the online video deals of 2010 and what deals could happen in 2011. You can find his previous guest pos... |
| Sep 4, 2010 | Rise of the Anti-Content Farmers | Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the CEO of WatchMojo, a producer and distributor of premium video content. Read his other posts here, or follow him on Twitter @ashkan
My cohort at Revision 3, CEO Jim Lou... |
| Aug 28, 2010 | The Online Video Debate: Size Versus Quality | Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the CEO of WatchMojo, a producer and distributor of premium video content. Follow him on Twitter @ashkan or @WatchMojo
Last week, Erick posted an article on TechCrunch tit... |
| Apr 10, 2010 | Will AOL and Demand Media’s Content Farm Strategy Prevail? | Editor’s note: Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo. In this post he examines the two biggest content farms springing up on the Web: Demand Media and Aol. You can find his previous guest posts ab... |
| Feb 28, 2010 | The Ten Most Likely M&A Deals In Online Video | Editor’s note: Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo. Below are his picks for the ten most likely M&A deals in online video. Previously, he wrote a series if posts about the state of online vi... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Where Did VCs Go Wrong In Online Video? | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo.You can also read his series on the state of Online video (Parts I, II, III, and IV) video..
Yesterday’s final implosion of video sit... |
| Feb 7, 2010 | How To Make Money In Online Video | Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of posts by guest writer Ashkan Karbasfrooshan.Previously, he wrote about the State of Online Video, 12 Surprising Things Holding Back Online Video Advertising, and Context is King: How Videos A... |
| Jan 30, 2010 | Context is King: How Videos Are Found And Consumed Online | Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of posts by guest writer Ashkan Karbasfrooshan. Previously, he wrote about the State of Online Video, and 12 Surprising Things Holding Back Online Video Advertising. In part 3 today, he examines ... |
| Jan 16, 2010 | 12 Surprising Things Holding Back Online Video Advertising | Editor’s note: Earlier this week, guest writer Ashkan Karbasfrooshan wrote a post about the state of online video. In this post he follows up with some thoughts on what’s holding back this budding industry. Karbasfrooshan is the founder and... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | The State of Online Video: Getting Paid for Content | This guest post is written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the founder and CEO of WatchMojo, a leading producer of premium, informative and entertaining video content. The company’s catalog of 5,000 videos has generated over 105,000,000 streams s... |
| Dec 22, 2009 | Video: A Decade Of Tech Highs And Business Lows | Quick, which company was founded first: Facebook or Youtube? What year did Apple launch the Jesus phone? Can you name three of the biggest financial calamities of the past decade? The three-minute video above from WatchMojo recaps the decad... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | Video: Watch Erick Talk About TechCrunch | Our own co-editor Erick Schonfeld is currently chatting on WatchMojo Live. He’s being interviewed by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan about the site and other random things. Watch it below.
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CrunchBase Inf... |
| Apr 10, 2009 | About Those New CrunchPad Pictures | A little background for those of you who haven’t heard of the CrunchPad: This is the post that kicked off the project. I wanted something I couldn’t buy, and found people who said it could be built for a lot less than I imagined. The goal –... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | WatchMojo.com's Videos Watched More Than 50 Million Times | WatchMojo.com, a startup that produces professional videos and then syndicates them to social networking and media sites, has streamed more than 50 million videos since its launch in 2006. WatchMojo.com’s content is distributed to Hulu, MyS... |
| May 8, 2008 | Roundup: Facebook’s big profile changes, MySpace misses revenue targets, and more | Big Facebook profile changes are coming, sure to impact developers — Facebook has been experimenting with a ground-up redesign of its user interface for months, that it hopes will improve communication among users. Now, the company is provi... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | New York ad outfit sells widget advertising to brands | Social networks and their widgets are where many people want to spend time, instead of watching TV, listening to the radio, or even using other web sites. The challenge for brand advertisers, companies like Pepsi or Proctor & Gamble, is... |
| Feb 22, 2008 | Facebook hiring new #2 to face growth, challenges — vote now | Third party traffic data shows Facebook usage dropping off in core markets — like these numbers just in from Hitwise (see graph, below) — even as the company struggles to do things like monetize and improve important projects like its devel... |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Trends: Secretive New York bank Allen & Co. gets into Silicon Valley media tech | Some big social web companies have recently started working with a small New York bank called Allen & Company. It’s a secretive, family-run firm that specializes in high-level connections between investors, media executives and other po... |
| Jan 31, 2008 | Yahoo buying Maven Networks, to serve online video ads for big media | update 2/12: The acquisition price has been confirmed at $160 million.
Yahoo is buying a broadband television distribution company called Maven Networks, for $150 million, according to Techcrunch and for between $160 million and $170 millio... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Roundup: Microsoft ads for News Corp., Paramount’s virtual goods, and more | 1. WSJ Digital Network hires Microsoft for ads
2. Paramount Pictures, live in virtual world Habbo
3. Tim Draper raising fund for entertainment startups
4. MPAA downplay claim of movie piracy at colleges
5. Southern Cross first Aussie VC fir... |
| Jan 22, 2008 | Publicis’ creative talent to make Google ads more convincing, more lucrative | Publicis, a leading advertising conglomerate, and Google (stock ticker pictured, above)are planning to work together, the companies announced today.
Through this partnership, Publicis could help Google make even more money out of its online... |
| Jan 16, 2008 | Broadband Enterprises raises $10M to help with video shift online | Movie, television and radio writers have been on strike since last fall — and when they come back they may find all their viewers gone.
You’d think American Idol’s viewer ratings would be immune to the strike, because it doesn’t have any wr... |
| Nov 27, 2007 | Brightcove.TV Gets Its Plug Pulled (Sort Of) | Brightcove is pulling the plug on Brightcove.TV, its consumer-oriented video showcase. In an e-mail to the site’s members, Brightcove says that it will no longer be accepting video uploads after December 17. The YouTube-wannabe site was nev... |
| Nov 19, 2007 | Techmeme: A Cautionary Tale | I’ve been thinking about writing this post for the past several weeks as I watched this blog drop from high 40s on the techmeme leaderboard to the 50s, to the 60s, to the 70s, and now as of this weekend, off of it completely. Yes, my ego hu... |
| Oct 5, 2007 | Roundup: Geezeo, online ads booming, FaceTunes?, Docstoc invites | Here’s a Friday afternoon roundup of the latest action:
1) Geezeo connects you to personal and financial online services
2) Online advertising worth almost $10 billion in the first half of ’07
3) Rumor: Facebook has iTunes competitor in the... |
| Oct 5, 2007 | Google's Share of U.S. Online Ads Hits 40 Percent | |
| Aug 1, 2007 | Speculation: A Yahoo!-eBay Merger Makes Sense | The idea of a Yahoo!-eBay merger has been around for a long time. Most recently, the merger rumors were revived by Tim Poulus over at Seeking Alpha last June. Before that it was Jim Cramer on CNBC back in May. It’s been about a month since ... |
| Jun 20, 2007 | Facebook is the Winner of MySpace-Yahoo! Talks | On Monday, shortly after Terry Semel stepped down as CEO of Yahoo! CNBC Wall Street correspondent David Faber floated a rumor that News Corp. might be interested in offloading MySpace for a sizeable stake in Yahoo! — about 25%, he said. Thi... |
| Nov 25, 2006 | Top 10 Internet Acquisitions | HipMojo, a blog I’ve found myself reading a lot lately, has their list of the top 10 Internet acquisitions of all time (eleven actually, I love that).
Here is the list, but you really should click thru and read the color commentary.
#11 – H... |
| Oct 29, 2006 | Why Are Ads So Hated? | Ash sent me a link to his theoretical valuation of Wikipedia and I forwarded it to Jason who then wrote this post suggesting that Wikipedia run one leaderboard per page and give all the money it generates to charity.
I run ads on this blog ... |
| Oct 23, 2006 | GOOG - To Buy Or Not To Buy? | I don’t own Google stock. I never have. That has been a mistake.
And so now I ask myself, should I correct that mistake?
I have sat on the sidelines and watched Google put up amazing quarter after amazing quarter.
It is clear that Google is... |
| Oct 9, 2006 | 5 reasons why Google is looking to purchase YouTube | Rumors have surfaced that Google is in talks to purchase YouTube for an estimated $1.6 billion. Google’s own video site, Google Video, ranks a distant third in the ‘online video’ segment (MySpace Video is #2), with YouTube dominating the to... |
| Oct 8, 2006 | Roundup of best Silicon Valley news: YouTube, FON, Ning & more | Catching up:
YouTube is making $7.5 million a month –Everyone has been guessing whether YouTube is profitable, given the high costs it faces hosting all its videos. This guy says YouTube is doing $7.5 million a month in ads, and is profitab... |
| Oct 3, 2006 | Could YouTube Be Doing $7.5mm per month in revenue? | This time I didn’t do the math.
This blogger did.
And it’s not crazy math. |