Coolfire Media and Coolfire Originals Merge to Form Coolfire Studios, a More Complete Content Creation Studio
St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) December 19, 2013 -- Coolfire Media and Coolfire Originals today announced their merger, along with the Digital Marketing division from Coolfire Solutions, creating a more competitive, more efficient and more complete content creation studio. The combined company will use the name Coolfire Studios, LLC and will begin operations January 1st, 2014.
Coolfire Studios is a content creation studio that produces content for brands as well as broadcast and digital networks. With a strong DNA for storytelling, Coolfire Studios goes beyond the traditional production company by using digital marketing to drive awareness and social engagement to help ensure the content’s success.
“Coolfire Originals was incubated out of Coolfire Media more than four years ago to focus on the television production side of the business,” said Jeff Keane, Coolfire Studio’s CEO. “Over the past 18 months, the industries have shifted and more and more we see the worlds overlapping. We believe we are well positioned to capitalize on the changing landscape in content creation and distribution and we’re very excited to pull these three groups together as one team. We look forward to continuing to serve our customers with expanded resources.”
The new Coolfire Studios would have had combined revenue of $10M for the calendar year 2013 and will now employ more than 60 employees. The company will remain headquartered in downtown St. Louis, MO, on Washington Avenue.
Coolfire Studios also announced a new senior leadership team. Jeff Keane, Coolfire Media and Coolfire Originals’ founder and CEO, will serve as CEO of the new company. David Johnson, previously Coolfire Media’s President, will serve as Coolfire Studios’s President. Dan Wacker will be the company’s CFO. Steve Luebbert and Tim Breitbach are transitioning over from Coolfire Originals as the Senior VP of Development and VP of Story Development, respectively. Jenny Dibble will transition from Coolfire Solutions as the new VP of Digital Engagement and Pete Halliday transitions from Coolfire Media as the VP of Commercial Production and Post. Jeremy Corray will join the team as the new VP of Digital Entertainment.
“The timing has never been better to leverage the success we've had in entertainment and merge that with the relationships we have built with agencies and brands over the years,” said David Johnson, President of Coolfire Studios. “Additionally, the infrastructure we have built to foster audience develop and engagement puts us in a unique position to not only develop amazing content, but audiences as well. Coolfire Studios is storytelling driven by data insights.”
About Coolfire Studios, LLC
Formed by the merger of Coolfire Originals and Coolfire Media, Coolfire Studios, LLC is a content creation studio that produces content for brands as well as broadcast and digital networks. With a strong DNA for storytelling, Coolfire Studios goes beyond the traditional production company by using digital marketing to drive awareness and social engagement to help ensure the content’s success.
Julia Pitlyk, Coolfire Studios, LLC, +1 (636) 485-0946, [email protected]
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