CollegeHumor also occasionally holds photo-based contests for its users. Like the site's videos, CollegeHumor's pictures are of a humorous or bizarre nature. In addition, the site hosts a large collection of user-submitted viral videos, encompassing home movies, bizarre sports highlights, sketches, and the like.ĬollegeHumor's Pictures section features user-submitted photographs.
TĬollegeHumor produces original comedy videos under the CH Originals (formerly known as CHTV) banner. Their videos Awkward Rap and Hand Vagina were nominated for the Webby Award for Best Comedy: Individual Short or Episode in 20, respectively. In 2008, CollegeHumor was nominated for a Webby Award in the Humor category. In recent years, the site has become known for its original comedy content. CollegeHumor, along with its parent company, Connected Ventures, was acquired by Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in August 2006. According to Fox News, " an advertisement-based business," Abramson said, "because at the time the advertising market was pretty hot and we’d seen other people develop Web sites that were popular making a lot of money." Their aim was to create a humor site that would appeal to the advertiser-friendly college-aged demographic. Site traffic averages over 7 million monthly unique visitors, according to Quantcast direct measurement. Abramson and Van Veen were high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland. The site was created in 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen.
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