Temple Street Unveils Boat Rocker Studios

TORONTO: The newly formed Temple Street Media Ventures has established an original digital content studio, Boat Rocker Studios.

The studio will be housed in a newly acquired building that is in Toronto’s downtown King St. East area. Revitalizing what was once a CBC production facility, Boat Rocker Studios will aim to foster a campus-like environment for online creators to collaborate, gain expertise, receive business support and produce original digital content. The outfit will be working with YouTube to support these efforts. Boat Rocker Studios is open for business immediately, though the actual production facility will open its doors in the first quarter of 2014.

“Temple Street was built on fostering strong relationships with writers and showrunners and providing them with the best creative and business environment possible,” commented David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, co-presidents of Temple Street Productions. “We are now very excited to be forging similar collaborative partnerships with next-generation creators and to be working with YouTube to support the creation of great new content and to expand ever-growing online audiences.”
 
"This is great news for the entertainment industry," commented Jeremy Butteriss, the director of partnerships for Google Canada. "Temple Street has a long track-record of developing premium content. Their commitment to establishing a first class digital studio in Canada will present exciting new opportunities for the broader creator community. This will create tremendous benefits for Canadian content creators on their quest to make even better videos and build even bigger global audiences on YouTube."