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CHANNEL FREDERATOR NETWORK ADDS 192 NEW CHANNELS AND EXPANDS SUBSCRIBER BASE TO 11.6 MILLION DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER

As its Audience Numbers Continue to Balloon, Channel Frederator Network Establishes Itself as the Go-To Destination for Online Animation Across the Globe

NEW YORK—October XX, 2014—It’s been another stellar month! During the month of September, Channel Frederator Network continued its domination of the online animation space, bringing 190 new channels to its network. This continued expansion further establishes Channel Frederator Network as the undisputed digital leader in delivering the world’s freshest and most cutting-edge line up of animated content. With the recent signing of new channels such as The Animation Workshop, Channel Frederator now boasts 880 channels in its networks representing popular animated programming from across the globe, with a combined subscriber base of 11.6 million and 430 million views of their content.

On the heels of this rapid growth, Channel Frederator Network, which includes its enormously popular flagship Cartoon Hangover channel featuring signature franchise Bravest Warriors, will be debuting the highly anticipated first season of Bee & PuppyCat on November 6th. The eagerly awaited series follows a two part pilot episode that sparked the highest ever Kickstarter campaign for an animated program, raising more than $800,000. Meanwhile other blockbuster channels that recently joined the network including Filmcow (Charlie the Unicorn) and Simon’s Cat continue to thrive and grow as part of Channel Frederator Network.

Animation luminary Fred Seibert created Channel Frederator Network with a “Declaration of Cartoon Independents” as its foundation, making it the home to creative and disparate visions for all styles of animators. Designed as a collaborative forum through which independent voices can be heard, seen, and supported by one of the foremost pioneers in animation, Seibert himself, Channel Frederator Network is the premier network for animators. The network continues to attract red hot animated channels including David Firth’s Salad Fingers, FlashFacilitoChips, FlyingPanda1990, Sam Green Media, and RageNineteen which just signed on with the network this past summer.

About Frederator

Frederator operates Frederator Studios and Frederator Networks. Frederator Studios makes cartoons for television, movies and the Internet and was founded by serial media entrepreneur and former Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert in 1998 as a unique incubator for big animation ideas by producing original cartoons. More than 200 short films have resulted in 16 hit series for television and the Internet, including Butch Hartman's The Fairly OddParents on Nickelodeon and Pendleton Ward's Adventure Time on Cartoon Network. Frederator is in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation to develop and produce animated feature films, and with YouTube to create television-quality cartoons on the Internet.

Frederator Networks programs the online channels Channel Frederator and Cartoon Hangover as well as manages the Channel Frederator Network, a YouTube based animation and entertainment multi-channel network. Launched in late 2012, Frederator’s Cartoon Hangover channel includes the hit series Bravest Warriors created by Pendleton Ward, Natasha Allegri’s Bee and PuppyCat, which has gone to series funded by the biggest animation or web series Kickstarter campaign ever, as well as many new shorts from the world's future animation superstars. Frederator has offices in Burbank, CA and New York, NY.

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For More Information Contact:

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SONY PICTURES ANIMATION PARTNERING WITH

FRED SEIBERT’S CARTOON HANGOVER YOUTUBE CHANNEL

TO FIND NEW WAVE OF ANIMATION TALENT

New Animation Incubator Project, GO! Cartoons,

Now Accepting Submissions

Culver City, CA, November 3, 2014 – Sony Pictures Animation today announced it would partner with animation pacesetter Fred Seibert to forge GO! Cartoons, a new idea incubator project that will provide emerging artists an incredible opportunity: a chance to turn their ideas into animated shorts that will debut on Seibert’s Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel, with its more than 1.3 million subscribers. Sony Pictures Animation will fund 12 five-minute animated shorts, with one premiering every month on Cartoon Hangover’s YouTube channel. One of those shorts will then become a limited series for the channel. This, in turn, will bring promising talent and animated content to the attention of Sony Pictures Animation through an alternative development method.

Bob Osher, President of Sony Pictures Digital Productions, states, “Fred Seibert is a force of nature in animation, and we are thrilled to expand our current relationship with him by partnering on this. This is a great opportunity for Sony Pictures Animation to find new talent that might not emerge from more traditional platforms. Fred has a proven track record with this type of incubator project, with series after series launched from them, including The Powerpuff Girls, The Fairly OddParents and Adventure Time. Hotel Transylvania director Genndy Tartakovsky was also an incubator find—Fred and I were in the first meeting where he pitched the idea for the hit series Dexter’s Laboratory.”

Fred Seibert—whose boundless creativity has given rise to multiple networks like MTV, pioneered the reinvention of TV animation and helped establish tumblr—explains, “We’ve discovered amazing young talent through these unique incubators, and for the artists, this is an easier way to be seen. For Sony Pictures Animation, it provides different methods to develop projects. And for Cartoon Hangover, it’s a great way to shake the trees for new talent thanks to the involvement of a major animation studio like Sony Pictures Animation—and we’ll continue to fund and produce content our own unique way.”

Seibert and his team at Frederator Studios, his independent animation studio, have successfully expanded the appeal of new animation beyond the expected demographics. Cartoon Hangover’s most recent incubator lab, Too Cool! Cartoons, has brought “cartoons from new and innovative creators all over the world, right to your eyeballs,” including Bee & PuppyCat, from Natasha Allegri—which garnered more than 4 million views, with 50% female viewers. Frederator Studios went directly to viewers via Kickstarter, and more than 18,000 fans ponied up in excess of $850,000 to bankroll the series, a record-breaking amount for any animation project start-up.

Sony Pictures Animation is the Academy Award® nominated studio responsible for blockbuster comedy hits such as Open Season, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Hotel Transylvania, and The Smurfs. The animation studio will be releasing Hotel Transylvania 2 next Fall, once again directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, and a fully animated, as yet untitled Smurfs feature in summer 2016.

To pitch a cartoon, please read the GO! Cartoons FAQ -

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ABOUT SONY PICTURES ANIMATION

Sony Pictures Animation produces a variety of animated and family entertainment for audiences around the world. The studio is following its worldwide comedy hits—the 2012 monster hit comedy Hotel Transylvania, the hybrid live action/animated blockbusters The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, and the mouth-watering Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movies—with the family comedies Hotel Transylvania 2 scheduled in September 2015 and Untitled Smurfs Movie in August 2016. Sony Pictures Animation also released a critically acclaimed, brand new mini-movie on DVD and television last Fall, The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow. The studio, in conjunction with Aardman Animations, has produced two critically acclaimed feature films: the CG-animated family comedy Arthur Christmas; and the Academy Award® nominated stop-frame animated high-seas adventure, The Pirates! Band of Misfits. In 2007, Surf's Up also received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. The division, whose first feature film Open Season led to a very successful movie franchise, turned 10 in 2012. Sony Pictures Animation is an operating unit of Sony Pictures Digital Productions

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· YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SonyAnimation

ABOUT FREDERATOR

Frederator operates Frederator Networks and Frederator Studios. Frederator Networks programs the online channels Channel Frederator and Cartoon Hangover as well as manages the Channel Frederator Network, a YouTube based animation and entertainment multi-channel network. The Channel Frederator Network is the largest animation network on YouTube with over 1000 channels doing 70+ million views/month and growing. Launched in late 2012, Frederator’s Cartoon Hangover channel includes the hit series Bravest Warriors created by Pendleton Ward, Natasha Allegri’s Bee and PuppyCat, which has gone to series funded by the biggest animation or web series Kickstarter campaign ever, as well as many new shorts from the world's future animation superstars. Frederator has offices in Burbank, CA and New York, NY.

Frederator Studios makes cartoons for television, movies and the Internet and was founded by serial media entrepreneur and former Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert in 1998 as a unique incubator for big animation ideas by producing original cartoons. More than 200 short films have resulted in 16 hit series for television and the Internet, including Butch Hartman's The Fairly OddParents on Nickelodeon and Pendleton Ward's Adventure Time on Cartoon Network. Frederator is in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation to develop and produce animated feature films, and with YouTube to create television-quality cartoons on the Internet.

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http://cartoonhangover.com/gocartoons

http://frederator.com

http://channelfrederatornetwork.com

CONTACTS:

Frederator Studios

Jeffrey Klein, Brian Reinert, Beth Mellow

DKC

212-685-4300

[email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected]

Sony Pictures Animation

Olivier Mouroux

Vice President, Publicity & Corporate Communications

310-840-8230

[email protected]

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BEE & PUPPYCAT HITS 1.6 MILLION VIEWS IN UNDER 72 HOURS

Most Successfully Funded Animation Project in Kickstarter History, Bee & PuppyCat, Created by Adventure Time Artist Natasha Allegri, Becomes Instant Mega Hit Following November 6th Launch

Bee & PuppyCat Debut Comes on the Heels of Another Winning Month for Channel Frederator Network Signing 158 New Channels and Expanding Subscribership by More than 600,000 in October

November XX, 2014—Everyone’s abuzz about one little bee-rific series! The highly anticipated debut of Bee & PuppyCat on Channel Frederator’s Cartoon Hangover has resulted in both critical and mass acclaim with the first two episodes accruing more than 1.6 million views in under 72 hours. Created by Adventure Time artist Natasha Allegri, one of the freshest new voices in animation, and produced by Frederator Studios, the studio headed by animation icon Fred Seibert (Adventure Time, The Fairly OddParents, Powerpuff Girls), Bee & PuppyCat was a “must list” pick by Entertainment Weekly and a top “TV on the Web” pick by USA Today. Cartoon Hangover originally debuted Bee & PuppyCat as a 2-part 10-minute short in July 2013, which went on to amass more than 7 million views and inspire a record breaking Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $900,000 to fund the first season of the hit show. The successful debut follows what has been another amazing month for Channel Frederator Network, which added 607,000 new subscribers and 158 new animation channels including JessTheDragoon and Mamshmam in October.

Fred Seibert, head of Frederator Studios, said, “It’s clear from the momentum behind the Bee & PuppyCat launch that we are witnessing a defining moment in animation. Here is a series that has struck a cord outside the traditional animation fan base, attracting a huge female audience alongside male viewers. It’s the type of series we would have never seen on traditional broadcast previously, yet given its wide appeal, it might just end up being a game changer for the animation industry.”

With its distinct look and feel, stylistically unlike anything currently seen on the animation landscape, and outlandishly original characters and storytelling, Bee & PuppyCat is poised to become the series that defines a new breed of animation. With women between the ages of 18-24 comprising more than 60 percent of the program’s viewership, the series is clearly attracting a whole new audience to the realm of animated programming. Bee & PuppyCat follows Bee, an out-of-work twenty-something, who has a life changing collision with a mysterious creature that she refers to as PuppyCat, because she is not sure if it is a dog, cat, or both. Between space and time, Bee & PuppyCat take intergalactic temping gigs to pay another month’s rent, and embark on adventures that include betrayal, intrigue, and magical transformations. As a “traditionally animated” series, all elements of Bee & PuppyCat are drawn by hand. The new season will feature 10-six minute episodes with several animation and YouTube stars providing guest voices including Hannah Hart (My Drunk Kitchen, I Heart Harto), Stephen Root (The Office, Finding Nemo), Kent Osborne (Adventure Time, SpongeBob SquarePants).

Bee & PuppyCat made its seminal debut as Channel Frederator Network continued to expand the online destination’s dominance in the animation space. With the signing of new channels in October such as JessTheDragoon, Mamshman, Mashed, Grickle, and Grobisam, Channel Frederator now boasts 1,048 channels in its networks representing popular animated programming across the globe, 510 million views of their content to date, and 13 million subscribers. Animation luminary Fred Seibert created Channel Frederator Network with a “Declaration of Cartoon Independents” as its foundation, making it the home to creative and disparate visions for all styles of animators. Designed as a collaborative forum through which independent voices can be heard, seen, and supported by one of the foremost pioneers in animation, Seibert himself, Channel Frederator Network is the premier network for animators.

ABOUT FREDERATOR Frederator operates Frederator Networks and Frederator Studios. Frederator Networks programs the online channels Channel Frederator and Cartoon Hangover as well as manages the Channel Frederator Network, a YouTube based animation and entertainment multi-channel network. The Channel Frederator Network is the largest animation network on YouTube with over 1000 channels doing 70+ million views/month and growing. Launched in late 2012, Frederator’s Cartoon Hangover channel includes the hit series Bravest Warriors created by Pendleton Ward, Natasha Allegri’s Bee and PuppyCat, which has gone to series funded by the biggest animation or web series Kickstarter campaign ever, as well as many new shorts from the world's future animation superstars. Frederator has offices in Burbank, CA and New York, NY.

http://youtube.com/cartoonhangover

http://cartoonhangover.com/gocartoons

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