Aniboom

---

title: "Aniboom" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["american-film-websites", "websites-about-animation", "internet-properties-established-in-2006", "israeli-film-websites", "defunct-websites"] description: "Animation studio" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniboom" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Animation studio ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox website"]

Field	Value
name	Aniboom
caption	AniboomLogo
url	Aniboom Facebook page
registration	Optional
(required to upload, rate, and comment on videos)
company_type	Limited liability company
foundation	January 2006
location_city	Tel Aviv, Israel
San Francisco, California
key_people	Uri Shinar, Founder & CEO
launch_date
current_status	Defunct
website_type	Animation studio
::

| name = Aniboom | logo = | caption = AniboomLogo | url = Aniboom Facebook page | registration = Optional (required to upload, rate, and comment on videos) | company_type = Limited liability company | foundation = January 2006 | location_city = Tel Aviv, Israel San Francisco, California | key_people = Uri Shinar, Founder & CEO | launch_date = | current_status = Defunct | website_type = Animation studio Aniboom was an online animation studio which distributed independent animated short films and occasionally co-produced them. It was founded in 2006 by former Israeli television executive Uri Shinar. Within three years, over 13,000 clips were released through the studio, at which point The New York Times described Aniboom's business structure as perhaps the largest example of crowdsourcing in the entertainment industry.

The studio's website went live in late September, 2006. Its official launch was not announced however, until November 24 of that year. The launch was accompanied by a contest, running through January 30 of the following year, in which the creators of the website's most highly rated films up to that point received monetary prizes. Over the following years, similar contests were held, and Aniboom expanded its online presence to include channels on Joost and YouTube. In 2008, the studio raised $10 million in investor funding.

The Aniboom short "Live Music" was picked up by Sony for theatrical distribution in 2009, as an opener for Planet 51. The same year, Aniboom ran a competition in partnership with the Fox Broadcasting Company – the best holiday themed short film, as chosen by Fox executives, would win $15,000 and the possibility of a development deal. The contest was won by Jay Malone for the short film Santa Intervention.

References

References

1. Roi Carthy. (January 11, 2008). "AniBoom's Animation-Studio Ambitions". [[TechCrunch]].
2. Michele Gershberg. (August 20, 2007). "Animation site Animboom launches YouTube channel". [[Reuters]].
3. Barnes, Brooks. (2009-07-16). "An Animated Film Is Created Through Internet Consensus". The New York Times.
4. Michael Arrington. (November 23, 2006). "Animated Short Films on AniBoom". TechCrunch.
5. aniBoom staff. "aniBoom Awards 2006". AniBoom.
6. Erick Schonfeld. (October 10, 2007). "AniBoom Gets Its Own Channel on Joost". TechCrunch.
7. Annemarie Moody. (September 18, 2008). "Third Annual Aniboom Awards Open For Submissions". [[Animation World Network]].
8. Erick Schonfeld. "Aniboom Believed to Raise $10 Million from DFJ".
9. Erick Schonfeld. (May 18, 2009). "Fox Television Tries To Crowdsource Cartoons Through Aniboom". TechCrunch.
10. Tom McLean. (May 18, 2009). "Fox, Aniboom Seek Holiday Special Ideas". [[Animation Magazine]].
11. aniBoom staff. "FOX-Aniboom Holiday Animation Challenge: Grand Prize Winner – Jay Malone". aniBoom.
12. Matt Kapko. (November 23, 2009). "Fox to Award Development Deal to Winner of Fox-Aniboom Holiday Animation Challenge". Animation World Network.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::