And it operates what’s known to YouTube video publishers as a multi-channel network, helping producers of food-related content to find audiences and monetize their videos on YouTube. Tastemade is also producing professional shows around food in its own studio, which are being distributed on Hulu, YouTube and elsewhere. The company’s mobile apps allow food bloggers and other foodies to record brief restaurant video reviews that are spiced up with thematic background music and a basic script that turns rants and raves into professional-looking clips. The launch of the Android app, which will exclusively available on Samsung phones for the first three months, comes after Tastemade debuted an iPhone app a little less than a year ago.
And to reach the other half of the mobile world, Tastemade is also launching its app on Android. Los Angeles-based online video startup Tastemade wants to become the digital Food Network, and it just got another major cash injection to make that happen: Tastemade raised a $25 million Series C from Scripps Networks Interactive and Liberty Media, with existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Raine Ventures and Comcast Ventures also chipping in, bringing the total amount raised to date to $40 million.
