As CBS Digital Media and CBS Interactive The company was founded in 2005 as CBS Digital Media. In 2007, CBS Digital Media rebranded as CBS Interactive. On May 30, 2007, CBS Interactive acquired
Last.fm for £140 million (US$280 million). On June 30, 2008,
CNET Networks was acquired by CBS and the assets were merged into CBS Interactive, including
Metacritic,
GameSpot,
TV.com, and
Movietome. On March 15, 2012, it was announced that CBS Interactive acquired
video game-based website
Giant Bomb and
comic book-based website
Comic Vine from
Whiskey Media, who sold off their other remaining websites to
BermanBraun. This occasion marked the return of
video game journalist Jeff Gerstmann to the CBS Interactive division of video game websites, which includes
GameSpot and
GameFAQs, and has Gerstmann once again working directly with some of his former peers at GameSpot within the same building at the CBS Interactive headquarters. On April 17, 2012, it was announced that
Major League Gaming and CBS Interactive would be entering a partnership alongside
Twitch to be the only exclusive online broadcaster of their Pro Circuit competitions, as well as for advertising representation.
CBS Corp./Viacom re-merger and afterwards On November 4, 2019,
Variety reported that
Jim Lanzone would be leaving the company after nine years to become an executive in residence at
Benchmark Capital and would be succeeded by Marc DeBevoise. CBS Interactive's parent
CBS Corporation merged with sister company
Viacom on December 4, 2019, forming
ViacomCBS. On September 14, 2020, it was announced that
Red Ventures would acquire the "CNET Media Group" from ViacomCBS for $500 million, which was finalized on October 30, 2020. After the divestment of the "CNET Media Group", CBS Interactive was dissolved after an organizational restructuring and renamed
ViacomCBS Streaming in order to accelerate
ViacomCBS direct-to-consumer streaming strategies. In late 2021,
Comcast and ViacomCBS announced a partnership to launch a new streaming service in more than 20 European territories.
SkyShowtime would replace already existing Paramount+ in the Nordics, Hungary, and Poland while launching a fully new service in Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. ViacomCBS Streaming was renamed as
Paramount Streaming, in-line with the rebranding of parent company ViacomCBS to Paramount Global in February 2022. == Properties ==