Rooster Teeth

About

Rooster Teeth is a production company centered in Austin, Texas, and in Los Angeles, California that specializes in creating live action shorts, animated productions and machinima. Since its founding by Burnie Burns, Gustavo (Gus) Sorola, and Geoff Ramsey originally as drunkgamers.com, the company has gain international fame with a massive following online.

History

Rooster Teeth was originally founded by Burnie Burns, Gustavo Sorola and Geoff Ramsey in the spring of 2000^[3] under the name drunkgamers.com, a site dedicated to reviewing video games while drunk. The name was later changed to Rooster Teeth and officially relaunched on April 1st, 2003, because the original name was consider too "unprofessional" by sponsors and video game companies^[1]. The company rose in popularity with the release of Red vs Blue on April 1st, 2003, which was downloaded 20.000 times on its first day and by 2004 would gathered a million views per week. Rooster Teeth would upload videos covering gameplays, reviews, machinimas, live action shorts, etc on their website.
On May 26th, 2008, the Rooster Teeth Youtube Channel^[4] was officially launched, with its early uploads focusing on Red vs Blue content. The channel would later upload other content from the main website.

By 2014, the company has grown to have over 90 employees and is located at Austin Studios. On November, 2014, the company was bought by Fullscreen for an undisclosed amount^[2].

Rooster Teeth Branches

Achievement Hunter

Achievement Hunter is a Rooster Teeth division created by Rooster Teeth Co-Founder Geoff Ramsey which focuses on demonstrating how to earn achievements in various video games. Since its launch on July 28th, 2008, the site has gain a massive online following with its official Youtube channel gaining more than 3 million subscribers as of 2015.

Funhaus

Funhaus is a videogame Youtube Channel and Rooster Teeth division comprised of former members of Inside Gaming from Machinima. After leaving Machinima on late January, 2015, the group form a partnership with Rooster Teeth as part of the newly formed west Coast branch of the company located in Los Angeles, California. Similar to their earlier works on Inside Gaming, Funhaus covers video game news, gameplays, live action skits, Q&As, and podcasts on their channel.

The Know

The Know^[5] is a multimedia news Channel that was launched on March 5th, 2014. The channel focuses on informing the latest news in the entertainment and technology industry.

Related Series

Red vs Blue

Red vs. Blue is a Halo series made by Rooster Teeth Productions about two opposing teams, Red and Blue, fighting a supposed civil war against each other. Though they are in conflict, they don’t take much of their work

RWBY

RWBY is a MMD-stylish web animation series about a group of teenage monster hunters created by Monty Oum of Rooster Teeth Productions which premiered in July 2013. The show details the lives of four teenage girls studying to become monster hunters in the fictional world of Remnant.

Online Pressence

According to Alexa.com, The Rooster Teeth website is one of top 10.000 most viewed websites as of April, 2015, with 75% of their views coming from the USA^[6]. The Rooster Teeth Youtube Channel^[4] has gathered over 8 million subscribers and over 3 billion views in the 7 years after its inception. The RT Facebook page^[7] has gathered more than 769.000 likes since 2011. The RT Twitter Page^[8] was created on May, 2008, and has since gathered more than 615.000 followers by April, 2015. The Rooster Teeth Subreddit^[9] currently has more than 116.000 readers as of April, 2015. The Rooster Teeth Wiki, which was created on May, 2013, currently has 553 entries as of April, 2015^[10].

Search Interest

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