Smosh Hires Media Vet Daniel Tibbets As Its First CEO As YouTube Comedy Model Plots Expansion

EXCLUSIVE: Smosh, the longtime dealer of YouTube comedy movies, has employed its first CEO.

Daniel Tibbets, a media outmoded who most nowadays served as favorite manager for Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Community, will handbook the company as it appears to be like to be to enhance its attain.

Smosh, which has 45 million subscribers and 10 billion lifetime views on YouTube, came all over itself in limbo for a time in 2018 when its then-parent, Defy Media, shuttered. Soon in a while, it used to be purchased by successfully-established digital studio Mythical Leisure. Tibbets will yarn straight to Mythical’s founders, the comedy studio duo is knowing as Rhett & Link.

“I’m very angry for this next stage of Smosh’s development,” co-founder Ian Hecox said. “Sixteen years of work in Internet pages, main Smosh through so many modifications within the digital enterprise, has taught me a lot about what it takes to be a lasting mark on the Internet. Daniel is barely the actual person now we deserve to take us into the prolonged flee, and I will have the ability to’t wait to peep what we can produce collectively, in digital and past.”

Tibbets has held senior roles at unscripted production company Bunim-Murray and gaming entertainment studio Machinima. He used to be the head of Foxlab and the VP of Production at 20th Television, developed and sold the HBO sequence Rome, and used to be the COO.

On the helm of Smosh, Tibbets is anticipated to lengthen the mark into old vogue media, exploring television, dwell events, audio, publishing, and physical and digital video games. The corporate is bright later this descend into its first standalone production studio home, a newly constructed home in Burbank.

“We and Ian hang been determined to search out the finest govt to lead this wonderful mark and personnel accurate into a brand restful section of development, for the next decade and past,” Rhett & Link said. “Daniel is precisely that steward: a seasoned pro with a fluency in all formulation of entertainment, a history of partnering successfully with prime ingenious abilities, and a music file of success maximizing the value of favorite client brands.”

Tibbets said, “With the strength of the abilities in entrance and within the lend a hand of the digicam, and the solid foundation already constructed, Smosh is successfully positioned to be a world multi-platform comedy mark. I peep ahead to expanding its attain and target audience, and creating restful enterprise and relate material alternatives with partners at some level of the entertainment enterprise.”