ONE LINERS Competitors

The Onion is the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events. Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1756, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history.

Founded in 2007, Funny Or Die (FOD) is a premier entertainment brand and independent studio that creates award-winning, premium comedy with today’s biggest stars and tomorrow’s freshest voices. With over 1000ish hours of original content spanning almost two decades, FOD lives at the nexus of comedy, pop culture, and politics. Our global audience reaches more than 50 million people across all our social platforms, and we are pioneers in branded content, creating and producing videos for many Fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Kroger, Lyft, H&R Block, HBO, and T-Mobile. Starting with the infamous viral video and dorm room staple THE LANDLORD, we have a long history of delivering award-winning and critically acclaimed laughs across all mediums. You’ve seen our hit digital series like BILLY ON THE STREET and BETWEEN TWO FERNS, plus TV shows like IFC’s BROCKMIRE and the Peabody Award-winning AMERICAN VANDAL on Netflix. Most recently, we’ve begun production on the second season of the hit late night show AFTER MIDNIGHT starring Taylor Tomlinson on CBS. This follows on the heels of WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC starring Daniel Radcliffe, which won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. We’ve also created a number of original podcasts, including THE LAST DEGREE OF KEVIN BACON, BLESS THESE BRACES, and INSIDE THE FOD VAULT, and produced a variety of events ranging from live comedy shows for charity to HBO specials. And now we’re using our production expertise to open Posterized, a boutique, state of the art stage and post production facility in the heart of Hollywood. In 2021, Funny Or Die was acquired by the designer and activist Henry R. Muñoz III, becoming one of the only Latino-owned companies in entertainment. In purchasing FOD, Muñoz rededicated the company to an even stronger mission of inclusivity and activism, focusing on a broad range of content that’s Funny, Original and Diverse.

9GAG makes content and videos viral. We are a global cross-platform digital and social media network of 150 million global audiences, predominantly Gen Y & Z: - 40 million followers on Facebook, 49 million on Instagram and 15 million on Twitter. - #1 entertainment brand, #6 most followed brand page on Instagram globally - #1 ranked global social media platform in entertainment & gaming, #1 ranked US's cross-platform video creators - distribute 2.2 billion social video views on a monthly basis (source: tubular labs). - top 300 websites worldwide Our mission is to make the world happier. We are backed by: Freestyle Capital, True Ventures, First Round Capital, Greycroft Partners, 500 Startups, Y Combinator and a group of great angel investors in the United States. eg Anthony Soohoo, Benjamin Ling, BoxGroup, Gary Vaynerchuk, James Hong, Kevin Rose, Karl Jacob, Lowercase Capital, Maneesh Arora, Naval Ravikant, Othman Laraki, Philip Kaplan, Rich Chen, Rich Lefurgy, Scott and Cyan Banister, Tim Ferriss.