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Whistle, a five-year old entertainment and sports media company, has acquired Vertical Networks, a mobile-first content studio founded by Elisabeth Murdoch and backed by Snapchat parent Snap Inc. Vertical Networks, founded in 2015, is known for the popular Snapchat series Phone Swap as well as Brother, a male-skewing…

Elisabeth Murdoch’s mobile video content studio Vertical Networks announced a new CEO, Jesús Chavez, who will succeed Tom Wright in an executive transition that one source described as planned. Chavez will be responsible for creating new intellectual property, expanding the brand's presence across platforms, and…

Actor Jeff Goldblum talks about the intestine-rattling intensity of the roars on set while filming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and reacts to some of his cinematic highlights in the latest episode of Celebrity Binge Watch on Snapchat. The Vertical Networks show (for those who may have missed earlier installments)…

Phone Swap is becoming the first Snapchat series to go from a mobile format to television. Fox Television Stations has closed a deal with Vertical Networks for a TV version of the company’s Snapchat reality dating show to air for a limited run on select Fox television stations this summer. The Fox station group…

EXCLUSIVE: Facebook Watch's documentary series I Have A Secret could become a linear program after Elisabeth Murdoch-backed Vertical Networks struck a deal with Electus International. The distributor will be shopping the series for both digital and linear adaptations at next month's Mip TV in Cannes. The show, which…

Phone Swap, a modern twist on the game show dating genre popularized by Chuck Barris with the ABC show The Dating Game, returns to Snapchat Tuesday for a second season. The game invites two strangers to exchange phones before deciding whether to go on a date. One person leaves the room while the other inspects photos…

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver producer Avalon Television and Elisabeth Murdoch-backed Vertical Networks are to shop their unscripted comedy format Ghost Hunt to U.S. broadcasters after its successful launch on Snapchat. The show, which looks at the modern dating phenomenon of "ghosting," launched on the digital…