Kurzgesagt
 Kurzgesagt's logo, a minimalist representation of Earth | |||||||||||||
| Formation | 2013 | ||||||||||||
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| Founder | Philipp Dettmer | ||||||||||||
| Type | Privately held company | ||||||||||||
| Purpose | Animation studio | ||||||||||||
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| Owner | Philipp Dettmer | ||||||||||||
| Staff | 31[1] (2020) | ||||||||||||
| Website | kurzgesagt.org | ||||||||||||
YouTube information | |||||||||||||
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| Years active | 2013–present | ||||||||||||
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| Subscribers | 11.1+ million[2][3] | ||||||||||||
| Total views | 894+ million[2][3] | ||||||||||||
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Last updated: March 16, 2020 | |||||||||||||
Kurzgesagt (/ˌkʊərtsɡəˈzɑːkt/) (German for "in a nutshell") is a German animation studio founded by Philipp Dettmer. The studio's YouTube channel focuses on minimalist animated educational content, using the flat design style.
It discusses scientific, technological, political, philosophical and psychological subjects. Narrated by Steve Taylor, videos on the channel are typically 4–16 minutes in length, with many of them available in German through the channel Dinge Erklärt – Kurzgesagt.
Aside from their German channel they began creating videos for their Spanish channel En Pocas Palabras – Kurzgesagt near the end of 2019.[citation needed]
While their English channel mostly finances itself with donations from their viewers and individual sponsorships, the German channel is supported by funk, the online presence of German public broadcasting, and the Spanish channel is sponsored by wix.[citation needed]
With over 10 million subscribers, the studio's channel was ranked as the world's 465 (noxinfluencer.com) or 478th (socialblade.com) most subscribed in 2020.[4][5]
History
The Kurzgesagt YouTube channel was created on July 9, 2013, shortly after the founder, Philipp Dettmer, graduated from Munich University of Applied Sciences.[6]
The first video, which explained evolution, was published two days later. The videos were more popular than expected, and in six years the channel went from a project worked on during Dettmer's free time to a design studio with over twenty-five employees.[7]
In 2015, Kurzgesagt was commissioned to do a video on the end of disease for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Thereafter, it worked with the foundation on a number of other commissions, including videos about motherhood mortality.[8]
In 2019, Kurzgesagt became the first German channel to surpass 10 million subscribers on Youtube.[9]
Name
The name derives from the German kurz gesagt (IPA: [ˈkʊɐ̯ts gəˈzaːkt]),[10] which directly translates to "said in short".[11][12][circular reference] It has also been translated as 'in brief' or 'in a nutshell', the latter being used as an English subtitle for the channel's name.[13]
References
- ^ "About". Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
- ^ a b "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell". YouTube. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
- ^ a b "About Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell". YouTube.
- ^ "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell YouTube Channel Analytics and Report". www.noxinfluencer.com. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
- ^ "kurzgesagt YouTube Stats, Channel Statistics". socialblade.com. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Kurzgesagt". t3n.de. Retrieved November 3, 2019.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ "About". Kurzgesagt. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
- ^ "Kurzgesagt". facebook.com. Retrieved July 27, 2017.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ "YouTube's 2019 Rewind focuses on the basics after 2018 video fiasco". wusa9.com. Retrieved February 27, 2020.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ Kurzgesagt. "Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?". Retrieved March 12, 2019 – via YouTube.
- ^ "kurz – Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
- ^ "gesagt – Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
- ^ "In a Nutshell – Kurzgesagt – The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
