Fox wants to quietly program your YouTube algorithm. Today, it added more firepower.
Fox Entertainment’s Fox Creator Studios has beefed up its roster with Josh Richards (42 million followers), Emelia Hartford (8.2 million), Speeed Co (2.5 million), Sorted Food (3.4 million), MyHealthyDish (13 million), Mad Realities, and Christina Richardson, the company announced on Thursday. They join previously announced partnerships with Gordon Ramsay and comedian Tom Segura.
Billy Parks, the head of Fox Creator Studios, is on the hunt for the hottest new YouTube, Instagram and TikTok talent and formats. If you’ve got an audience and an idea, he’s got the cash — and a pretty experienced team behind him.
Parks is open for the pitching, so long as your pitch is data-backed and repeatable over eight to 20 episodes, he told The Hollywood Reporter. He’s not trying to take your stuff and throw it on Fox or Tubi — your existing channels will do just fine. As a matter of fact, Parks says he hasn’t even “really contemplated” that.
“We don’t develop them in the way that you might typically think a studio would develop a project,” Parks said. “We just say, ‘Great, go make it,’ and we finance them… we’re not a deep development shop.”
