Crunchyroll Launches Content Partnership Program

You might remember Crunchyroll from their funding announcement last month and the discussion about copyright issues earlier this month. Tony Hung had a good overview of the copyright issue with regards to Crunchyroll.

Today Crunchyroll is back in the news, this time they have launched a content partnership program. The first batch of partners include: Akibanana, DLE, GDH, and GTChannel. These companies are based in the U.S. and in Japan.

While Crunchyroll has removed ads on the site, there is word that advertising might begin to appear in the videos themselves and that revenue will be shared between Crunchyroll and the content provider. Crunchyroll currently self-reports over four million unique visitors a month.