Last week, we learned that (in terms of search queries) YouTube has become synonymous with “funny videos.” Now Aniboom.com, which describes itself as “the home of animation,” will launch a channel on Google’s video-sharing site.
Seems like a good fit, no? The move should draw even more fans and users within Aniboom’s reach, though the company’s doing pretty well as it stands. “Aniboom offers professional and amateur animators a place to showcase their clips and test their popularity with Web audiences,” according to Reuters’s Michele Gershberg. “The company also provides tools for creating animations and has to date built a community of more than 2500 animators from more than 70 countries who use the site.”
With the launch of its new YouTube channel, however, Aniboom may hope to get its foot in a door that’s not strictly Internet-related. “We are finding the right, top talent out of the community of Aniboom animators and we are offering them a partnership that we create with them a series,” Aniboom’s founder and CEO, Uri Shinar, told Reuters. “We put the series all over the Web and whatever will catch will be the next hit. The main dream, if you like, is that the next South Park will come out of Aniboom.”
And if that wasn’t clear enough for you, a part of the company’s “About Us” section states, “[W]e intend to cross over to other mediums as well as TV, Cellular, PC games etc.”
Aniboom appears to have had a presence of sorts on YouTube for quite some time, so it remains to be seen if this new move will live up to everyone’s expectations. Still, Aniboom’s audience will likely grow, regardless, and a YouTube channel is not going to hurt the site’s prominence.
