In May 2008, Mevio claimed to have reached 9 million unique visitors. In 2005, Curry founded a video-sharing site called PodShow, which later changed its name to Mevio, with Ron Bloom. It subsequently grew to employ over 7,400 people, with offices in seven countries, and was absorbed into Answerthink Inc. In 1996, as the Internet was undergoing its " bubble", the company made an initial public offering on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol THNK. OnRamp eventually grew to 4,000 employees and was sold to Think New Ideas Inc., another company that he co-founded, becoming Chief Technology Officer of Think. Although this move was sanctioned by his superiors at MTV Networks at the time, when Curry left to start his own web-portal design and hosting company, OnRamp Inc, MTV subsequently sued him for the domain name. Web and MTV.com Ĭurry registered the then-unclaimed domain name "mtv.com" in 1993 with the idea of being MTV's unofficial new voice on the Internet. Host for the New York City radio station WHTZ, and host of the national program HitLine USA.Ĭurry hosted the radio countdown show "Adam Curry's Top 30 Hitlist" for Entertainment Radio Networks from November 1991 to June 1994. While working for MTV, he also did radio work, including drive-time Besides making spot appearances between music videos, he was also host of the programs Headbangers Ball and MTV Top 20 Video Countdown in which he interviewed stars like Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney.
Aside from Countdown, in the Netherlands Adam Curry is mostly known for his part in the Curry and Van Inkel radioshow (together with Dutch DJ Jeroen van Inkel), broadcast on Radio 3 for Veronica between 19:00 and 22:00 on Friday.
He also hosted several other radio and television programs for the Dutch broadcast station Veronica. After a time working in Dutch pirate radio at Radio Picasso in Amstelveen and Radio Decibel in Amsterdam in the early 1980s under the pseudonym "John Holden", he got a break in broadcasting as the host of the Dutch weekly pop-music television program Countdown, and the English version of the same show, which was broadcast on pan-European music channel Music Box. Early broadcast career Adam Curry in 1984.Ĭurry was born in Arlington, Virginia, but lived in Amstelveen, Netherlands, from 1972 to 1987. Also known for co-hosting the No Agenda show, in the 2000s, he first became involved in podcasting, and has been called the 'Podfather' because of his efforts. Adam Clark Curry (born September 3, 1964) is an American podcaster, announcer, Internet entrepreneur and media personality, known for his stint as a VJ on MTV and being one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer Web sites.
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