Corridor Digital is an American production studio based in Los Angeles, known for creating pop-culture-related viral online short-form videos since 2010, as well as producing and directing the Battlefield-inspired web seriesRush and the YouTube Premium series Lifeline. They have also created television commercials for various companies including Machine Zone and Google. Corridor Digital consists of nine full-time employees, including founders Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer. As of July 2020, their channel has 8.02 million subscribers and has won awards at several Streamys, including the "Visual and Special Effects Award" at the 2017 event. Their second channel, Corridor Crew, consists of behind the scenes content - including the popular series "VFX Artists React" - and has over 4 million subscribers. Other creative endeavors include a podcast called Corridor Cast, a guillotine slicing channel called Guillotine Channel and a book about imaginary games.
History and prominent projects
Pueringer and Gorski began working together in junior high, making student films with an emphasis on special effects. They moved to Los Angeles in 2008 where they focused on special effects for other projects. In 2010, they released a fan film called "Modern Warfare: Frozen Crossing". In the subsequent years, Pueringer and Gorski began creating more short-form content. In 2012, they created the viral hits "The Glitch" and "Minecraft: The Last Minecart". They were featured in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 YouTube Rewind. In 2016, they co-wrote, co-directed, and produced the Battlefield-inspired web series Rush.
In 2019, the company published a book called Top 10 Games You Can Play In Your Head, By Yourself, released via Amazon and publicized with a commercial on their YouTube channel. The book is a collaboration between Sam Gorski and author D. F. Lovett.
In June 2019, Corridor Digital released a video in which a robot in the style of Boston Dynamics is abused in a variety of manners, before finally fighting back against the humans attacking it. The video, watermarked "Bosstown Dynamics", instead of "Boston Dynamics", went viral across platforms, although most versions of the video dropped attribution to the original source, with many claiming it to be an authentic Boston Dynamics video. Despite the online confusion, Corridor clarified that the video was never meant to be interpreted as "real", and that they would "like for people to be able to see the original", in response to one of the many unattributed viral versions online. Gizmodo described the video, saying the "real lesson from Corridor’s fake robot video might be just how far come in real life over the past decade". On October 26, 2019, Corridor Digital published a second video in which the same robot can be seen acting as a soldier, shooting targets etc. before escaping his human owners with a Boston Dynamics Spot. This video was received very similarly to the first, going viral on multiple platforms, with many people believing it was real.
''Rush''
Rush, a Battlefield inspired web series, was originally released for Go90 in 2016 and was subsequently re-released on the Corridor YouTube channel in December 2019.
