ABOUT US

Who ARE WE?

SPUD GUN STUDIOS IS A STORY DRIVEN INDEPENDENT ANIMATION STUDIO WITH AN UNMATCHED TRACK RECORD IN CREATING ONLINE ANIMATED CONTENT FOR YOUNG VIEWERS.

We are the creative force behind Mashed, one of the biggest online animation channels in the world. Our work has been showcased at major events across the globe, we’ve gone viral more times than we can count, and we’ve created official content for some of the most iconic games and IP around.

To date we’ve created hundreds of animated shorts with over 2 billion views across YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and more. We understand the hard to reach young male audience and what they want to watch, resulting in us building dedicated communities across the globe that love our content. Mashed combines genuine passion for what we do with high quality content and an instinctive understanding of what fans love.

Our ability to develop, produce and distribute content to an engaged young audience is a unique proposition that other studios cannot offer.

Based in the UK, with a diverse range of collaborators across all major territories, we are very comfortable with a huge range of visual styles and genres, allowing us to create killer content that is tailored to your needs.

Meet the Team

Tom Jenkins

Executive Producer & Director of Comedy and Animation
Ben Michael

Series Producer
Tom Payne

Executive Producer
Sophie Lanzetta-Ward

Production Manager
Liam McKeown

Animator
Jason Alan Dewey

Post-Production
Colm Ahern

Social Media Lead & Community Manager
Maddie Barnes

Production Coordinator

SPUD GUN STUDIOS TIMELINE

AUG 9th, 2013

We launched
the Mashed YouTube channel with Channel 4.

DEC 20th, 2013

40 Years of Gaming – originally produced for Charlie Brooker’s How Video Games Changed The World TV special on Channel 4, in November 2013 – is released on Mashed.

DEC 13th, 2014

Our collaboration with Flashgitz, Destiny Bro!, becomes the first video on Mashed to reach 1 million views.

Apr 25th, 2015

The Mashed YouTube channel surpasses 100,000 subscribers.

Mar 27th, 2017

Our animated music video for The Living Tombstone’s song, No Mercy, becomes the first video on Mashed to reach 10 million views, two months after its release. It would go onto become a viral sensation on TikTok.