About VBS TV
VBS TV is a website that can be found at VBS.TV and provides free original video content online. VBS stands for Vice Broadcasting System, and the site is the video platform of Vice, a magazine based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a focus on underground culture and an offbeat take on news and culture.
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Content
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VBS TV streams content that covers a wide range of tastes, interests and topics. The site has feature pieces, including cultural, extreme sports and entertainment coverage, and hard news reports based in the U.S. and abroad. Because VBS TV extols an underground culture and approach, some of its journalism has a muckraking focus on uncovering corruption and social injustice and its feature pieces provide an eclectic, off-center presentation.
Platforms
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The bulk of VBS TV offerings are available only through its website, where videos are organized into topical categories. Like other video-focused sites, it also allows users to rate videos, and it organizes videos into a Most Popular category. It also has a Staff Picks category. VBS TV clips are shared on social networking sites, and some VBS content is also shown through traditional television broadcasting. The most prominent example is the VBS Show, which runs some of the best content shown already on the VBS TV website on various MTV channels.
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Company
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The company was founded in 2006 and features approximately 100 employees, according to a CrunchBase profile. Vice Magazine owns VBS TV, but Viacom, the large company that owns MTV, among other properties, has supplied funding for the site. VBS TV is only one of several Vice efforts beyond the magazine that includes a record label, book publishing and marketing services.
Leadership
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Spike Jonze, who has directed films, music videos and commercials, is the company's creative director and contributes content to the site. Other founding members include Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi, the co-founders of Vice Magazine, and Eddy Moretti, who has written screenplays and directed commercials. Alvi and Moretti co-directed "Heavy Metal in Baghdad," a documentary that was the first feature film produced through VBS TV.
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