# Chris Antunes

> Chris Antunes is the co-founder and co-CEO of 3Play Media, where he leads operations and product innovation. He co-founded the company with MIT Sloan classmates in 2008, developing a captioning workflow that combined speech recognition and human editing. His work now spans video accessibility and localization, including AI-enabled dubbing. He is based in Winchester, Massachusetts, and is a father of three boys and a competitive distance runner.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Co-CEO at 3Play Media
- **Organizations:** 3Play Media, Cornerstone Research
- **Education:** MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management, BA in Economics, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and helped scale 3Play Media from its MIT captioning origins into a video accessibility and localization company., Named Top #1 Leadership in the Entertainment Globalization Association’s 2025 Top 100 Professionals in Content Localization., Named among the inventors on US9456170B1, Automated caption positioning systems and methods, granted September 27, 2016.

## Career timeline

- **2003-2006** — Worked as an analyst at Cornerstone Research.
- **2006-2008** — Studied for an MBA at MIT Sloan.
- **2008** — Co-founded 3Play Media with Josh Miller, C. J. Johnson and Jeremy Barron; the early system combined speech recognition with human editing for MIT OpenCourseWare captions.
- **2022** — 3Play Media acquired Captionmax and National Captioning Canada; the operations subsequently adopted the 3Play brand.
- **2025** — Ranked first in Leadership in EGA’s Top 100 Professionals in Content Localization.
- **2026** — Continued as co-CEO leading operations and product innovation as 3Play launched Pulse and a YouTube creator dubbing service.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and helped scale 3Play Media from its MIT captioning origins into a video accessibility and localization company.
- Named Top #1 Leadership in the Entertainment Globalization Association’s 2025 Top 100 Professionals in Content Localization.
- Named among the inventors on US9456170B1, Automated caption positioning systems and methods, granted September 27, 2016.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Commented on 3Play’s dubbing audience data, emphasizing that creators use language-level engagement to guide continued investment.
- **2026-04** — 3Play launched an AI-enabled dubbing service for YouTube creators, pairing human-reviewed production with channel analytics; Antunes emphasized human judgment and performance data.
- **2026-03** — Discussed the launch of Pulse, a product for auditing, scoring and remediating video accessibility across organizational libraries.
- **2025-12** — Joined Josh Miller and host Tucker Johnson on Nimdzi Live to discuss AI dubbing production and the role of human intervention.
- **2025-12** — Recognized as the first-ranked leadership honoree in EGA’s 2025 Top 100 Professionals in Content Localization.

## Links

- Website: https://www.3playmedia.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-antunes-6441b821/

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Last updated: 2026-10-23