# VICE Media

> VICE Media is a privately held entertainment and production company that grew from a free Montreal punk magazine into a globe-spanning news, television, film and advertising business. After a $5.7 billion peak valuation, years of missed targets and a 2023 bankruptcy, its lender-owners rebuilt the company around studios, licensing, joint ventures and the Virtue agency rather than an expensive, ad-dependent publishing operation.

- **Founded:** 1994
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Shane Smith (Co-founder; former CEO; VICE News editor-in-chief), Suroosh Alvi (Co-founder), Gavin McInnes (Co-founder; departed 2008)
- **Team size:** LinkedIn lists a 1,001-5,000 employee band and about 1,748 associated profiles; actual current headcount is not publicly confirmed after several hundred roles were cut in 2024.
- **Products:** VICE Studios, VICE News, VICE TV, VICE Sports, Virtue
- **Notable:** Turned a free Montreal counterculture magazine into an international media and production brand., VICE and VICE News work has received multiple Peabody Awards and News & Documentary Emmys., Its 2020 collaboration on This American Life's The Out Crowd shared the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting.

## Products & services

- **VICE Studios** — Develops, finances and produces scripted and unscripted television, documentaries and films for global buyers.
- **VICE News** — Produces long-form documentaries, video podcasts and social-first reporting, including Shane Smith Has Questions.
- **VICE TV** — A cable television network operated as a joint venture with A+E Networks, focused on documentary, sports and entertainment series.
- **VICE Sports** — Develops original sports series and podcasts and programs sports content for VICE TV.
- **Virtue** — A full-service creative agency offering cultural intelligence, strategy, design, production, talent and live experiences.
- **VICE Commercials and Branded Entertainment** — Commercial and music-video production combining Pulse Films and London Alley capabilities.
- **VICE Digital** — VICE.com, Munchies, Motherboard, Noisey and related social channels operated through a joint venture with Savage Ventures.

## Achievements

- Turned a free Montreal counterculture magazine into an international media and production brand.
- VICE and VICE News work has received multiple Peabody Awards and News & Documentary Emmys.
- Its 2020 collaboration on This American Life's The Out Crowd shared the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting.
- Built enduring television franchises including Gangs of London and Dark Side of the Ring.
- Created a branded-content agency, Virtue, that has served global clients including Google, Nike, Samsung and LVMH.
- Relaunched its digital brands through a capital-light joint venture after closing the old owned-publishing operation.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — VICE acquired music-video and commercial production company London Alley and later combined capabilities with Pulse Films.
- **2025-04** — VICE Studios acquired UK production company Cuba Pictures from Curtis Brown and UTA.
- **2025-06** — Adam Stotsky became CEO, replacing Bruce Dixon.
- **2025-08** — VICE secured a $75 million Western Alliance Bank credit facility to expand VICE Studios and help finance a planned $500 million production slate over three to five years.
- **2026-01** — VICE appointed Joseph Friedman CFO and Devak Shah EVP of Strategy.
- **2026-03** — VICE Studios expanded its leadership team and secured adaptation rights to the PAYDAY video-game franchise with Starbreeze Entertainment.
- **2026-05** — VICE News announced an Adobe Acrobat partnership and VICE TV renewed Dark Side of the Ring for a seventh season.

## Links

- Website: https://www.vicemedia.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vice-media
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/VICE
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vice/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vice
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vice

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Last updated: 2026-08-21