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According to Ray William Johnson , it looks like the program he was showing to some television networks has been picked up by FX . Back in mid-March 2013, Ray's new channel Runaway Planet posted a video where Ray and his girlfriend, Anna Akana , discussed "pilot season" where actors and actresses go out for TV roles on new shows that are offered to the networks. Ray mentions having some disappointment with how he did last year and that he had a realization he should be pitching his own show. Which seems to have been successful with the recent announcement that it looks like Ray sold a comedy about his life to FX, a television channel available by cable and satellite owned by Fox Entertainment Group which is itself a division of News Corp. It may actually appear on a sub-channel of FX called FXX , which will be launched in early September 2013. FXX plans include featuring "original and acquired comedy series" of which Ray's comedy appears to be one. ...

themightythor1212 Visits Maker Studios In Los Angeles, California Maker Studios Tour! Special Partners Project Behind the Scenes Uploaded on Feb 17, 2011 From video pioneer to studio head, LisaNova gives us an exclusive tour of the groundbreaking Maker Studios. Click play for history in the making. Rise of the Tubers: Behind the Scenes at Maker Studios Maker Studios in Culver City, Calif., is the closest thing the world has to a viral video factory. The upstart studio produces content solely for YouTube and racks up hundreds of millions of views in the process. A cadre of the most successful personalities on YouTube, including ShayCarl, KassemG and Ray William Johnson, formed the collective in 2009 to pool production resources. What started in the living has moved beyond, and the company which once employed a handful of people now employs around 200. The studio operates at a breakneck pace, producing dozens of videos every month across 300 channels that rack up 500 million vie...

Maker Studios announced some changes at the top with Danny Zappin (aka Danny Diamond) leaving his CEO job and being replaced by Ynon Kreiz, who lends a more experienced hand to the rapidly growing company. Zappin has been at the helm of Maker since it morphed out of the partnership of Youtubers who joined up for The Station and became one of the largest of the Youtube networks that emerged lately. Kreiz joined Maker Studios as chairman in early 2012, leaving Endemol while the company was restructuring its debtload. Endemol has since been purchased by Apollo Global Management (a private equity company) and a Dutch company named Cyrte. Kreiz takes over the same job titles of Chairman and CEO at Maker Studios that he had at Endemol. Below is a video (posted by mipmarkets ) of Ynon Kreiz from early 2010 when he was chairman and CEO of Endemol. Although he is primarily discussing television, you can see he is also looking at online content. Kreiz joined Maker shortly after the network ...

Not a bad way to ring in the new year, 2012 with 5,000,000 subs right? If RayWilliamJohnson continues gettings subs like he has been doing all through 2011, he will hit the five million subscriber mark sometime before Christmas 2011 or New Years at the latest. You might have heard that Ray passed Nigahiga as the most subscribed channel on Youtube in late June 2011 (something I predicted would happen back in November 2010 in this blog post ) and two weeks alter his Equals 3 channel passed 4 million subs. Here he is along with a number of familiar faces celebrating at VidCon and going to a party put together in his honor by Maker Studios . So, now that he's number one and has 4,000,000 subscribers how long will it be before Ray hits the five million mark? He's already a third of the way there. At last count, his main channel has 4,376,533 subscribers. And that's not all. His two other channels, Yourfavoritemartian has 1,379,341 subs and his 3rd channel, Breaking...