Argosy New Media

Argosy New Media is an unit of ArgosyMTM Group which co-ordinates online properties and web animation. It is known for the Homestar Runner franchise, as well as its family of blog sites, some of which date back to the early days of the Internet. It is also known for being able to “revive” dying sites such as YTMND and MySpace.

Divisions

 * Argosy New Media Platforms - platforms including blog, meme, email, and search sites.
 * Literally Media Networks
 * Fark (acquired in 2006)
 * Cheezburger (acquired in 2009)
 * EBaum’s World (acquired in 2011; mostly folded into Cheezburger’s Memebase)
 * Cracked.com (acquired in 2013)
 * NotAlwaysRight and its sister sites (acquired in 2014)
 * CollegeHumor and Dorkly (acquired in 2016)
 * G/V Media
 * Gizmodo Media and its sites (acquired in 2011 as Gawker)
 * SB Nation and its sister sites, including Vox (acquired by Gawker Media in 2007)
 * AV Club
 * Quartz
 * Onion Media
 * The Onion (acquired in 2003)
 * ClickHole
 * The Hard Times
 * Hard Drive
 * The Babylon Bee
 * Reductress
 * Wikicities Limited
 * Wikicities (acquired in 2006 as Wikia; merged with Wikifoundry (acquired 2009 as WetPaint) in 2016 to form its current incarnation as Wikicities; forum features migrated to Tapatalk in 2017)
 * WikiAnswers (acquired in 2006 as part of Wikia; spun off from Wikia in 2011)
 * Uncyclopedia (acquired in 2006 as part of Wikia; spun off from Wikia in 2008; multilingual versions acquired from “CarlB” in 2009; 50% owned by AMTM, other 50% owned by consortium of notable users since 2013)
 * TV Tropes (acquired in 2009)
 * WikiHow (acquired in 2009)
 * Know Your Meme (acquired in 2011)
 * Fandom Inc.
 * Fandom (spun off from Wikicities in 2019)
 * Various gaming and TV properties acquired from CNET in 2022, including GameFAQs
 * MTM News (formerly Yahoo News; acquired in 2019)
 * MTM Sports
 * MTM Finance
 * Argosy Search and Social
 * YTMND (acquired in 2007)
 * AltaVista (formerly Yahoo Search)
 * Asterion (crowdfunding, merchandise sale, and subscription platform for independent creators)
 * CreaTV (acquired in 2016)
 * MySpace (acquired in 2005)
 * Discord (acquired in 2018 when it was starting to gain popularity)
 * Yahoo! (formerly Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail; merged in 2022, with the other remaining Yahoo services either shut down or renamed under the MTM name)
 * Reddit (acquired in 2008)
 * Tapatalk (acquired in 2011 as ZetaBoards/InvisionFree)
 * Aviary Labs
 * Worth1000 (acquired in 2009)
 * Imgur (acquired in 2012)
 * Wix (acquired in 2019)
 * DeviantArt (acquired in 2019 along with Wix)
 * Wattpad (acquired in 2020)
 * Webtoon (acquired in 2019 when ArgosyMTM Korea acquired NAVER)
 * Automattic (acquired in 2018)
 * WordPress
 * Tumblr
 * Wikidot (acquired by Automattic in 2012; being merged into Wikicities as of 2022)
 * Geeknet (acquired in 2011)
 * ThinkGeek
 * Slashdot
 * Sourceforge
 * Freecode
 * Argosy New Media Productions - produces web animation and some webcomics.
 * Harmless Junk, Inc. (the Brothers Chaps’ production company under ANM)
 * GreenyWorld Studios (Crystal Stainton’s production company under ANM)
 * Argosy New Media Infrastructure - ISP and domain registration services.
 * Cogent Communications (acquired in 2009)
 * Cogentsat (global satellite internet and phone services, formed in 2011)
 * Hurricane Electric (acquired in 2018)
 * WebTV (acquired in 1997)
 * ArgosyMTM Domains (domain registrar; also controls TLDs such as .meow and .exe)
 * Tucows (acquired in 2021)

Productions

 * Onion News Network (2008-present; originally a co-production with The Onion, which is now owned directly by ANM through AMOP)
 * Homestar Runner (1996-present; produced by ANM since 2002)
 * Mimsie 4ever (2016-present)
 * The Misadventures of Mitchell van Morgan (2018-present)
 * Greeny Phatom (2008-present; created by Crystal Stainton, daughter of AMTM alumni Robert Stainton, and based on a show from a weird dream she had, right down to the title and character names; known for its unconventional animation methods, random plots, and an urban legend that it drives people insane)
 * Wacky Movies and Wacky TV Shows (2015-present; based off the same pun-based humour as the Wacky Packages stickers by ArgosyMTM subsidiary Topps)