Fund raising effort marks largest sum secured for film or TV property ever on Kickstarter.com.
While VGHS Season 2 is their latest and most ambitious project, Wong, Laatsch and Arnold, have already established themselves as pioneers in online video and filmmaking. Their website RocketJump.com features awe inspiring, professionally produced, mind-bending videos from a variety of the biggest YouTube Channels. This includes the FreddieW YouTube channel which is among the fastest growing on YouTube, with each episode averaging nearly five million views, and to date, the channel has received over 790 million views and 4.6 million subscribers.
Rocket Jump Studios in collaboration with Collective Digital Studio will debut the second season of Video Game High School later this year. The record-breaking crowd-fund total for VGHS Season 2 comes on the heels of the recent brand integration deal secured with Dodge by Collective Digital Studio, which will also support the series’ second season.
Collective Digital Studio (CDS) is the online content division of leading entertainment management company The Collective. An industry leader in the production and distribution of digital content, CDS offers artists a full range of creative solutions to help them identify, develop and maximize opportunities across multiple platforms, and boasts some of the top content channels on the Internet, including The Annoying Orange, FreddieW, Fred, iJustine and Megan and Liz. CDS produces the original Yahoo! Web series “In the Dressing Room” with Cat Deeley, the host of “So You Think You Can Dance,” and the celebrity talk show “Figgle Chat” featuring Lucas Cruikshank AKA Fred. CDS has most recently produced the hit television series "The High Frutose Adventures of Annoying Orange" airing on Cartoon Network, and the blockbuster feature length original web series "Video Game High School," from FreddieW creators Freddie Wong, Brandon Laatsch andRocketJump.com co-founder/producer Matt Arnold.
