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17-532: BBTV completed an initial public offering of its subordinate voting stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange on October 28, 2020, valuing the Company's shares at C$ 16.00 per share. On January 10, 2024 the Company completed a "going-private" transaction whereby insiders of BBTV, including the Company's CEO Shahrzad Rafati , acquired the outstanding subordinate voting shares at a price of C$ 0.375 per share, representing

34-832: A 98% decline in value from the Company's IPO. BBTV was founded as an OTT set-top box company in 2005, but the company soon turned to the digital video space. Rafati's idea was to create software which would change how companies approached piracy, resulting in technology which enabled companies to claim and monetize content uploaded by fans. In 2009, the NBA became a client of BBTV's and success monetizing NBA footage in fan videos led to organizations like Sony Pictures quickly signing up. BBTV expanded to work with individual YouTube channels who also wanted to monetize their content. European media group RTL bought 51% of BBTV in 2013 for $ 36M USD. In fall 2014, BBTV opened offices in New York City , to host

51-585: A February 2019 comScore study. In June 2013, BroadbandTV received a $ 36 million private placement from RTL Group . At the time, this marked the largest private placement into an internet media company in Canada since 2007. In April 2014, TV production firm FremantleMedia partnered with BroadbandTV to identify and manage user-uploaded content on YouTube for more than 200 shows, including American Idol , The Price Is Right , America's Got Talent , Baywatch , and The X Factor . In September 2014, BBTV signed

68-723: A board member of the Vancouver Economic Commission, and the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs. In September 2018, it was announced that Shahrzad was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to represent Canada on the Business Women Leaders task force, which was formed to advise global leaders on issues of women's economic empowerment as part of the G20 Summit. She was later appointed as Canada's representative for G20 EMPOWER,

85-570: A multi-year original content agreement with FremantleMedia North America 's digital studio, Tiny Riot "to produce original programming in the entertainment, gaming, and music genres." In August 2014, BBTV renewed its existing YouTube rights-management deal with the National Basketball Association to manage fan-uploaded content on the site. The NBA channel is the largest professional sports channel on YouTube, boasting over 5.6 million subscribers and more than 2.2 billion page views at

102-590: A private sector alliance with the goal of advancing women's representation at leadership levels in the private sector. In 2019 she was also appointed as the Vice Chair of Invest in Canada, a federal agency that aims to create jobs in Canada by facilitating foreign business investment by highlighting Canada's talent pool, economic growth across multiple industries, and geographic advantage as a hub for global trade. Iranian Canadians Iranian Canadians or Persian Canadians are Canadians of Iranian origin. From

119-638: A variety of similar and overlapping definitions for the terms "Persian" and "Iranian". In 2021, there were 213,160 individuals in Canada who had been born in Iran, of which 70,395 had immigrated to Canada since 2011. Among all Iranian-Canadians, 103,560 (49%) identified as Muslim. Among immigrants since 2011, about 39,860 (57%) identified as Muslim while most of the rest did not identify with any religion. Canada in 2022 banned ten thousand IRGC seniors and officers from entry. Iranian celebrities and government former ministers and officials are often mentioned in

136-467: Is still debated today . While the majority of Iranian-Canadians come from Persian backgrounds, there is a significant number of non-Persian Iranians such as Azeris and Kurds within the Iranian-Canadian community, leading some scholars to believe that the label "Iranian" is more inclusive, since the label "Persian" excludes non-Persian minorities. The Collins English Dictionary uses

153-531: Is a graduate of the Young Global Leaders Oxford Module: Transformational Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford . Shahrzad also received her Honorary Doctorate from University Canada West in 2020. Separate from her role as a CEO of RHEI, Rafati is also a board member for Bjarke Ingels Group , an architecture firm, and was named Vice Chair of the board for Invest in Canada in 2019. She has been

170-634: Is an Iranian-Canadian chairwoman and CEO of RHEI, formerly BBTV, – a global media company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, which provides services to content creators and media companies. Rafati was born 1979 in Tehran , Iran and immigrated to Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada as a teenager. In 2005, she completed her BSc in computer science at the University of British Columbia . Rafati also studied French at Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV) , and

187-653: The 2016 Canadian census, the main communities can be found in Southern Ontario , British Columbia , and Quebec . As of 2016 a total of 97,110 Iranians reside in the Greater Toronto Area , 46,255 in the Greater Vancouver Area , and 23,410 in the Greater Montreal Area , with the remainder spread out in the other major cities of Canada, based on the 2016 Canadian Census. These numbers represent

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204-415: The company's branded entertainment division, which brokers deals between content creators and brands. By December 2015 BBTV had become the number one MCN globally, outperforming Disney's Maker Studios. After that, the company began creating more content in-house. In 2016, BBTV moved its Vancouver office to a bigger space. It expanded on its working relationship with Sony Pictures in 2018 by co-releasing

221-423: The official Breaking Bad YouTube channel. In the same year, BBTV also launched its Interactive division, devoted to original games and mobile apps built around digital IP and audiences, as well as its Distribution and Label services for artists. In 2019, BBTV announced that its content garnered 575 million unique viewers each month, making it second only to Google in terms of all monthly internet viewership, per

238-597: The people who stated "Iranian" as their single or joint ethnic origin in the census survey. Iranian-Canadian is used interchangeably with Persian-Canadian , partly due to the fact that, in the Western world , Iran was known as "Persia". On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran , the endonym of the country used since the Sasanian Empire , in formal correspondence. Since then

255-890: The time of the renewal. In 2016, BBTV and The NBA also launched NBA Playmakers, a new digital entertainment brand focused around basketball culture. In April 2015, BroadbandTV acquired YoBoHo, which operates the HooplaKidz children's brand on YouTube. HooplaKidz is the largest preschool and K-12 educational digital-first producer on YouTube. In summer 2015, BroadbandTV partnered with leading YouTube analytics website SocialBlade "to supply data and services to its community of users". SocialBlade previously offered partnership through Maker Studios' entry-level partnership program, Maker Gen. In August 2020, Jukin Media announced partnerships with BroadbandTV and Fullscreen . Its technology brands include VISO Catalyst, VISO NOVI, and VISO Prism. In 2023, BBTV

272-452: The use of the word "Iran" has become more common in the Western countries. This also changed the usage of the terms for Iranian nationality, and the common adjective for citizens of Iran changed from "Persian" to "Iranian". In 1959, the government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , Reza Shah Pahlavi's son, announced that both "Persia" and "Iran" could officially be used interchangeably. However the issue

289-497: Was accused of withholding revenue from content creators on its networks, including YouTubers Ethan Klein , Pierce Alexander Kavanagh (Kavos), and Zack James (Yo Mama). Klein repeatedly threatened legal action. Following backlash, the Twitter accounts for both the company and CEO Shahrzad Rafati were made private. Klein and Kavanagh later confirmed that the owed revenue had eventually been paid. Shahrzad Rafati Shahrzad Rafati

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