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'''mitú''' is a Latinx digital media company, Multichannel Network (MCN) and boutique publisher.<ref name="Spangler Spangler 2014"/> Founded in 2012 by Beatriz Acevedo, Roy Burstin and Doug GreiffIn 2016, the company's YouTube achieved 40 million subscribers in 2014, across its 1200 MCN partner channels.<ref name="Spangler Spangler 2014 10 million"/> The company's YouTube network became the largest Hispanic focused digital channel is called, we are mitú, with 373,000 direct subscribers as of 2020.<ref name="YouTube about"/> mitú is located in Los Angeles and Mexico City,<ref name="Spangler Spangler 2014 10 million"/> with production studios in Baja California.<ref name="Fernandez 2020"/> By 2016, was serving 2 billion combined monthly video views on Facebook and YouTube, Series C funding, which included Verizon, brought the venture funding to a total of $43 millionper month.<ref name="Spangler Spangler 2016"/>
Founded in 2012 by Beatriz Acevedo, Roy Burstin and Doug Greiff, the company's YouTube conglomerate achieved 40 million subscribers in 2014, across its 1200 MCN partner channels.<ref name="Spangler Spangler 2014 10 million"/> The company's YouTube channel is called, we are mitú, with 373,000 direct subscribers as of 2020.<ref name="YouTube about"/> mitú is located in Los Angeles and Mexico City,<ref name="Spangler Spangler 2014 10 million"/> with production studios in Baja California.<ref name="Fernandez 2020"/> Founded in 2012 by Emmy award winning Beatriz Acevedo, her husband Doug Greiff, and Roy Burstin,<ref name="NBC News 2015"/> mitú features non-career entertainers to create affordable episodic content in their Baja California studios.<ref name="Fernandez 2020"/> In 2012, [[Wikipedia:Peter Chernin|Peter Chernin]] put together a $3 million investment vehicle to initially fund mitú<ref name="Fernandez 2020"/> and in 2014, Disney's [[Wikipedia:Disney Digital Network|Maker Studios]] followed with second round funding of $10 million.<ref name="Spangler Spangler 2014 10 million"/> By 2016, the network was serving 2 billion video views per month on Facebook and YouTube, Series C fuding, which included Verizon, brought venture funding levels to $43 million. <ref name="Spangler Spangler 2016"/>
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<ref name="Spangler Spangler 2016">{{cite web | last=Spangler | first=Todd | last2=Spangler | first2=Todd | title=Mitú Raises $27 Million From AwesomenessTV, Verizon and WPP | website=Variety | date=2016-01-13 | url=https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/mitu-awesomenesstv-verizon-wpp-27-million-1201678812/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629000157/https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/mitu-awesomenesstv-verizon-wpp-27-million-1201678812/ | archive-date=2019-06-29 | access-date=2020-05-31 | quote = Mitú, founded in 2012, delivers some 2 billion monthly video views across platforms including Facebook and YouTube, with a community of 6,000-plus Latino creators. That gives the company the largest global digital reach of any company targeting young Hispanics, according to Burstin.}}</ref>
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