Digital Foundry , a massively popular tech and gaming YouTube channel which we feature regularly on this site, has announced today that it is 100% independent.

Founded by industry veteran Richard Leadbetter – who has worked on magazines such as CVG, Mean Machines , Maximum and PlayStation World during a career which spans several decades – in 2004, Digital Foundry entered into a deal in 2015 with Gamer Network that would see the latter acquire a 50% shareholding in the business.

When Gamer Network was purchased by ReedPop in 2018, this shareholding was passed to the new owner – and likewise, when ReedPop sold Gamer Network to IGN parent company Ziff Davis last year, it inherited half of Digital Foundry (for full transparency, Ziff Davis also inherited a minor shareholding in Hookshot

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