who owns crunchyroll
Digital media company Ellation is announcing a big push into streaming video with Vrv, which will offer a variety of channels aimed at gamers and other geeks. Ellation is best known as the parent company of anime service Crunchryoll. Otter Media, the joint venture from Chernin Group and AT&T, acquired a majority stake in the company back in 2013 and invested another $22 million last year. Ellation CEO Tom Pickett (who was previously vice president of content at YouTube) said that one of the main reasons for raising the funding was to launch Vrv.