Mondo Media


Mondo Media is an American company that produces animation targeted at teens and young adults. The company was founded in 1988 in San Francisco, California. The company produces ad-supported, internet-based animated segments called Mondo Mini Shows.
Mondo's most successful shows are Happy Tree Friends, which has since spawned a multimedia franchise, and Dick Figures, which was adapted into a feature-length film and was nominated for an Annie Award. Other series distributed by Mondo Media feature notable writers and voice actors. Short running series Off The Curb stars voice actors Carlos Alazraqui, Cedric Yarbrough, John DiMaggio, Fred Tatasciore, and Gary Anthony Williams. Mr. Wong was created and voiced by South Park writers Pam Brady and Kyle McCulloch.
According to AdAge Magazine in January 2013, Mondo Media was the top-ranked and all-time most popular YouTube channel, with 1.3 billion views and 1.3 million subscribers.

Tenth Annual Industries

Tenth Annual Industries was a former name of the company until 1998. It produced commercials, an MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head and music videos.

Television

Mondo Media has produced animation for Fusion, MTV and Adult Swim.
The Happy Tree Friends television series was the company's first full-length television production. It premiered in the United States on September 25, 2006 on G4 and ran for only one season of 13 episodes.
In 2013, Canadian channel Bite teamed up with Mondo Media and YouTube to create Bite on Mondo, a program in which content creators pitched ideas for new shows. The pitches are funded through Mondo and use YouTube's popularity to decide whether or not they will be picked up. The winning pitches were broadcast on Bite on August 29, 2014. In October 2014, parent company Blue Ant Media, Mondo Media, and Corus Entertainment announced that Teletoon would air a new series featuring shorts from the program. It was expected to premiere in 2016 on Teletoon at Night, but instead premiered on September 4, 2015 as Night Sweats on Adult Swim Canada.
In 2015, Mondo Media produced the animated sketch comedy series Like, Share, Die on Fusion. Each 15-minute episode of the series consists of several short segments and episodes of Mondo-produced web series.
In May 2019, El Rey Network began airing an anthology of Mondo series called the Mondo Animation Hour.

List of series

Failed pilots