Endemol Shine North America is shutting down Endemol Beyond, the company’s global video digital studio that launched in 2013. All five of the unit’s employees including president Bonnie Pan are exiting the company. Pan had been an EVP at Maker Studios before coming aboard to run the division in March 2016 to replace…

Bonnie Pan, a former Maker Studios and Yahoo Video programming executive, will head up Endemol Beyond, the company’s North American digital division. She replaces Will Keenan, who left the company in August after launching the division two years earlier. At Maker, Pan was EVP Programming, responsible for original…

AwesomenessTV, the growing multi-platform company co-owned by DreamWorks Animation and Hearst, has inked a strategic partnership with Endemol Shine Group to extend the former’s international reach. As part of the agreement, Endemol Shine’s premium channel network Endemol Beyond will launch local-language…

Founded in 2008 by award-winning illustrator, animator and director Simon Tofield, London-based Simon’s Cat is behind the eponymous digital comedy series that has logged over 650M views on YouTube with 3.5M subscribers. In a deal for which financials were not revealed, Endemol Shine UK has taken a controlling stake in…

Premium Content Network Endemol Beyond is launching its first ever Mip-TV slate under the auspices of the newly formed Endemol Shine Group. Highlights include the ICON Network, the global lifestyle channel creatively led by Michelle Phan. ICON launched simultaneously in the U.S and UK last week with rollouts across…

Michelle Phan, one of YouTube’s biggest stars who has aggressively built a burgeoning offline fashion and beauty empire, is now launching ICON, her own premium online-video network in collaboration with Endemol Beyond. Phan’s ICON Network is launching separate channels on a variety of “over-the-top” online-video…

Endemol Beyond USA, the digital video unit of the TV production giant, is debuting online-video “hub” sites featuring original and reality programming, with first-look video promos featuring director Kevin Smith and producer Anthony Bregman to be shown during the webcast of tonight’s Streamy Awards…