FishBowl Worldwide Media utilizes partnerships with other entertainment companies as well as its own internal creative teams to create original content for film, television, digital platforms, and several brands. FishBowl operates by turning each of its projects into specific brands through a variety of platforms aimed at engaging its audience. In January 2012, Fishbowl launched a YouTube channel called designed "for pets, by pets". In February 2012, FishBowl announced a partnership with the internettelevision network, Revision3. Through this agreement, Revision3 distributes FishBowl's popular YouTube series CuteWinFail, which is now in its fourth season.
Sexual Harassment Lawsuits
In March 2019, DiBona's two production companies, Vin Di Bona Entertainment, Inc. and Fishbowl Worldwide Media, Inc., along with individual defendant Phil Shafran, were sued for sexual harassment, sexual assault, and retaliation by three former female employees. The lawsuit, Case No. 19STCV09487 is pending in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Television
FishBowl produces several scripted and unscripted programs that utilize alternative methods of financial strategies. One of the latest projects, Beyond Repair, has FishBowl partnering with 20th Century Fox Television. It is a comedy about a family business run by its dysfunctional family members. It is written and co-executive produced by Sameer Asad Gardezi of "Modern Family" and "Mr. Sunshine". With Bruce Gersh producing; Vin Di Bona, Bruce Gersh, Susan Levison, Beth Greenwald, and Shaq Entertainment’s Perry Rogers, Colin Smeeton, Mike Parris and Mike Gibbons as executive producers, Vin Di Bona is Executive Producer of Upload with Shaquille O'Neal, about the basketball superstar and TNT NBA analyst Shaquille O'Neal. O'Neal and friends will round up the week's online video clips, as well as create their own viral videos and comment on and parody current pop culture stories on TruTV. With Executive Producers, Bruce Gersh, Susan Levison, attorney-executive producer Ellen Stiefler, and writer-executive producer Yahlin Chang. Vin Di Bona is bringing Dr. Mimi Guarneri's Simon & Schuster book, The Heart Speaks, to television at ABC as a weekly medical television drama with Sony Pictures Television. for TruTV.
In addition to creating content for original productions, FishBowl also manages the world's largest curated library of cleared, user-generated content, offering a white-label clearance management service used by advertisers, television shows, and other major brands. Most recently, Comedy Central's South Park used one of FishBowl's clips in episode three of season sixteen.
