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Today the company is one of the most successful media and content creation and distribution companies. It is currently valued at 100 billion SHD. It employs approximately 20,000 people and it has 1 billion registered accounts. It operates in most countries in the world.
== History ==
Veronica North, Gigi Hamed and Sapphira Leslie were studying at the University of Matthews, one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning and education in the world. Gigi Hamed and Veronica North were studying their PhD in computer engineering while Sapphira Leslie was studying her PhD in electronic engineering. The three met through a dinner party hosted by Sapphira Leslie's supervisor, Prof Whitley Gomez. The three became friends and began collaborating on research.
Gigi Hamed, originally from Packilvania, said that she found comfort in North and Leslie, who despite being Concordians welcomed her as one of their own. The three competed in the Cafe Vibes International Hackathon hosted in Matthews. They presented a website for streaming pre-recorded videos. The idea won 300,000 kiribs in seed funding. The idea was further fleshed out and attracted 8 million Kiribs of venture capital funding with the help of the University of Matthews Investment Office which helped the three women to patent and develop their ideas and establish their first business. The three ladies mostly worked out of Leslie's parent's garage.
The product was launched to the public in 2007. It attracted 1.45 million users in its first month and featured reruns of old movies. The University of Matthews Investment Office sold its stake back to the three women. The Investment Banking Division of SNB gave the women 100 million Kiribs in funding. The business quickly rose up the ranks of the corporate world through purchases of not only shows and movies that had already been aired on cable and satellite television, but future seasons and remakes of existing shows, as well as sole licenses to entirely new shows.
The service was launched across the world, securing access to most regions of the planet. The business partnered with local content creators and production companies to support the creation of shows and films that appealed to local audiences. The company had a massive break through over 6 years after its founding after developing an algorithm that was able to cater its recommendations to users based on their viewing history and personal taste. The site ballooned in popularity and became one of the main streaming sites. It acquired startups and began to vertically integrated through the acquisition of licensing and publishing businesses and investments into production studios.
The business began to consolidate its disparate ventures and began producing shows under its own name in 2014. The shows were characterised by their high quality of writing, and cinematography in the context of mobile and online video streaming services. The company was a pioneer in developing protocols and software that allowed shows to be streamed in extremely high quality. Through the release of ''Where's Rick?'' to critical and commercial success, the company legitimized its place as a major business. It soon recognised that its strengths lay in series instead of movies after the sci-fi horror ''Vacuum Seal'' tanked at the box office and was lambasted by movie critics.
The show went on to produce series such as ''Romilda's Reckoning'', a romantic period piece set in enlightenment-era [[Great Morstaybishlia]] telling the life of Queen Romilda. The success of series was surpassed by the blockbuster performance of ''A Crown of Gold,'' a series on the life, reign and overthrow of Sultana [[Zerah Demir IV]] of [[Packilvania]] and Great Morstaybishlia. The company established Halo Dream Studio to produce series for the company. Its first work was ''Desert Landing'', a series about the invasion of Southeast Yasteria by the Imperial Powers during the [[Great War]] and its liberation told through the eyes of Colonel Yukai Uxemun and his wife Riola. The series was followed by the success of ''Nowhere to Run'', a cerebral show examining to life of a fictional psychiatrist who performed experiments on Kemonomimi and [[Akuanism|Akuanists]] during their [[Akuan Atrocities]].
The number of projects under the studio's belt increased significantly. Standout projects include ''Third King'', a period piece set in the [[Elishan Empire]], ''His Name in my Heart'', a romantic tragedy about two queer lovers, ''Ether'', based on the eponymous book by [[Volscina|Volscine]] author Luigi Castanello about a space adventure that radically changes two brothers, and ''Solinoid'', an action adventure series featuring the machismo characteristic of Concordian film in the 1960s but retold for the modern audience. The company also produced foreign language series such as the [[W: Norwegian language|Norgsveltian]] ''Si navnet mitt'' about a father suffering from [[W: Alzheimer's disease|cognodegenerative disease]] and his relationship with his daughter, ''Das Königreich unseres Vaters'', an [[Ethalrian language|Ethalrian]] series about three brother's battle for control over their father's fortune, ''Trovare casa'', a [[W:Italian language|Norvian]] mixed medium series about the loss of a parent, ''Indóvir Érfir'', a [[Cukish language|Cukish]] comedy about four pilots who go on misadventures, and ''weluLayla luBarad'', a [[Packilvanian language|Packilvanian]] film about General Khumandeer Bansayam, a [[Paxism|Paxist]] [[Martyrdom in Paxism|martyr]] during the rule of the [[Packilvanian Communist Party]].
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