Read more about Douchey McNitpick at: Wikipedia Official Site: That Guy With The Glasses Channel Awesome is an online media production company based in Naperville, Illinois. The company was created in 2008 by Mike Michaud (Chief executive officer), Mike Ellis (former Chief operating officer) and Bhargav Dronamraju (former Chief executive producer). Channel Awesome currently operates the That Guy with the Glasses website, joined by Bar Fiesta in November 2009, and Blistered Thumbs in November 2010. All of Channel Awesome's content is hosted by Blip.tv. The company is believed to have earned $150,000 in 2009, the majority of which came from advertising through their site and web series. Robert Walker, brother of Douglas Walker (That Guy with the Glasses), is the company's Creative Content Officer in charge of recruiting talent for the website. Mike Michaud created Channel Awesome with two others after they were laid off from Circuit City in 2007. The three discussed the idea of such a company while still employed, but their dismissal was the impetus to put their plans into action. Michaud has stated that "If we didn't lose our jobs, [the business] wouldn't have happened anytime soon." The company's first website is That Guy with the Glasses based on the characters created by Douglas Walker. Walker had previously hosted these through YouTube, but they were repeatedly removed under suspicion of copyright infringement. The site was launched in April 2008. The site was also featured in Entrepreneur magazine on December 2009 where the history of the site was discussed as well as the plans for the future. The site later expanded to feature content from various other contributors. Douglas Walker's The Nostalgia Critic show averages about 600,000 viewers per week and the That Guy with the Glasses site as a whole receives 18.5 million page views per month. This is expected to increase following content-provider Blip.tv's deal with YouTube in July 2009. CBUB Match Record:
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