CollegeHumor’s co-founder heads to Facebook to help build a media empire

CollegeHumor founder Ricky Van Veen.

Ricky Van Veen of CollegeHumor fame is headed to Facebook as Head of Global Creative Strategy. Veen is co-founder of CollegeHumor, a site that pumps out funny, original content in the form of sketches, animations, music videos and so on.

Facebook is obviously pushing its video and Facebook Live platform and they've been spending on celebrities and media companies in a bid to get them to generate content. Veen, who's been spent more than 10 years of his life on generating content seems like the perfect fit for the job.

In a Facebook post, Veen said, "I'll be working with all types of creators and organizations to figure out how best to use the biggest network in the world to better connect people with engaging and meaningful content."

He also added that "In terms of Facebook's opportunity to leverage great content (specifically video) to the right audiences, things are just getting started"

CollegeHumor's YouTube channel alone has a massive following with almost 11 million subscribers to its name. If Veen can bring some of the brilliance, that earned CollegeHumor such a following, to Facebook video, we might actually be looking at a platform that will surpass YouTube.

As a report on recode points out, Veen has been quoted as saying that Zuckerberg is the most "consequential person in the world."

Speaking of Zuckerberg and Facebook, he reportedly said that a single entity (Zuckerberg) had absolute control over the flow of information. That with a single piece of code, Facebook could ruin companies, they could "send an alert to every spouse in the world at once if a partner has actively been in touch with an ex."

And now he's partnered with that entity to build a media empire.

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