2024 was a banner year for Portal A:
🎥 we published over 500 pieces of content
📺 our work reached more than 100 million viewers
💻 we sent 611,852 messages on Slack (😱)
📈 we recorded our highest revenue ever (again)
😴 now we have 2+ weeks of Winter Break to rest
Thank you to our community of friends and partners for your collaboration throughout 2024.
We wrote a piece in Advertising Week about the opportunity for brand marketers to tap into the creative potential of the Creator Economy.
Today is a big day for Fault Lines, the new documentary film from Nate Houghteling, Yoav Attias, and Portal A.
“F*** it, we’ll do it live.”
In the early days of Portal A, this line – borrowed from a first-ballot-hall-of-fame internet video (iykyk) – became a rallying cry.
With stadiums going dark, we teamed up with YouTube Originals to show that the spirit of competition is alive and well, in the first-ever Ultimate Home Championship.
This Juneteenth, our team tapped seven creators reaching 4m fans as part of The Collective PAC’s #VoteToLive effort to register 250,000 Black voters ahead of the 2020 elections.
Our first scripted show ACTION ROYALE was announced today by Snapchat as part of their new original content slate.
Blessed 🙏 that “5 Minutes From Home” is recognized as one of the “Best Video Series” of the year by The Webby Awards alongside titans of industry like James Corden, Samantha Bee, Hasan Minhaj…and Big Bird.
Ad Age covered (nay, featured) Portal A in a story about how agencies and content shops are adapting.
Read in Ad Age about how creative companies like Portal A are continuing to create during this period, and see the deck itself.
Our very own Kai Hasson was interviewed for Muse, covering all things creative, from Rewind to Jack Black to Calvin and Hobbes, Akira Kurosawa, to Indiana Jones. No stone left unturned.
Our Senior Copywriter, Sam Jackson, shared his wisdom on how to stay creative now that we’re all confined at home in this round up of creative leaders. Read their tips!
Shots. Fired. Zach Blume on why you shouldn’t trade quality for scale, and the value of investing in high quality content and long term partnerships.
Feeling ALL the feels as STATE OF PRIDE is a GLAAD Awards nominee for Outstanding Documentary along with 5 other incredible films.
Kicking off a new decade with this Business Insider profile of Portal A and our started-from-a-basement story. From White Collar Brawler, to Rewind, to Wheelhouse, to Stephen Curry, and much more.
Great piece on our partnership with the Comeback 👑, along with our general approach to, you know, slaying YouTube. Read the interview with Arif and Asani.
The Pixel x Pizza collab the internet was looking for: MUKBANG THE MOVIE! (Josh Peck), “THEY LAUGHED AT MY SUPERPOWERS” (King Vader), and TOO BIG TO EAT? (The Merrell Twins).