AOL announced a strategic partnership with Discovery Communications to bring short-form videos from Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Science Channel, Military Channel to The AOL On Network’s library of more than 470,000 premium videos.
Content will be programmed into The AOL On Network’s 14 channels and shared across the AOL On video hub, AOL’s O&O properties and publisher partners, bolstering the company’s science, technology, lifestyle and history offerings.
Fans on these sites will be able to enjoy excerpts from their favorite shows and series, like Discovery Channel’s MythBusters and annual Shark Week to TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress and Animal Planet’s River Monsters as well as other titles from Discovery’s rich programming library. Additionally, The AOL On Network and Discovery will offer content from Discovery and Revision3’s recently launched online video series, DNews.
Launched in April 2012, The AOL On Network brings AOL’s entire video offering under one umbrella and reaches more than 68 million unique visitors per month. It is one of the top 10 video platforms on the web according to comScore and is number one in content-only categories including TV, Lifestyle, Home, Beauty/Fashion/Style, Food, Education, Travel Information, Autos, Health, Maps, and Technology. The network attracts nearly 700M video streams per month.
