List of press mentions

Newest first, grouped by project. Each entry has a short excerpt so I can find the original again if the link dies. Talks and panels are at the bottom. Exhibitions and awards are on their own page.

Glif (2022–present)

• Andreessen Horowitz: Investing in Glif (Justine Moore, April 23, 2026)

  “Jamie Wilkinson co-founded Know Your Meme, won a Primetime Emmy for the crowdsourced Star Wars Uncut project, and built VHX, a direct-to-fan video platform acquired by Vimeo.”

• Union Square Ventures: Glif (Andy Weissman, April 23, 2026)

  “Fabian and Jamie are long-experienced hackers, engineers, entrepreneurs, graphic designers and filmmakers.”

• Two Small Fish Ventures: Announcing Our Investment in Glif: Claude Code for AI Creatives (Brandon Zhao, April 23, 2026)

  “What stood out was that they seemed to understand where the category was likely going.”

• StartupHub.ai: Glif Raises Seed Funding (Daniel Singer, April 23, 2026)

  “The team, comprising Fabian Stelzer (former CEO of AI attention company EyeQuant and AI film producer) and Jamie Wilkinson (co-founder of Know Your Meme and Emmy winner), brings a blend of AI expertise and experience in building community-driven creative platforms.”

• Dealroom: a16z leads Glif seed round to unify fragmented AI creative tools with super agent platform (April 2026). Names the $17.5M round size.

• Tasteland podcast: Ep. 72: Minimum viable meme ft. Jamie Wilkinson (December 10, 2025)

  “This week on Tasteland we’re joined by Jamie Wilkinson, co-founder of Know Your Meme, VHX, and most recently, Glif.”

• Know Your Meme: Glif site entry (Aidan Walker, June 28, 2024)

  “Submission Type: Generator. Year: 2022. Origin: Fabian Steltzer, Jamie Wilkinson.”

• Know Your Meme: What’s With All The AI-Generated Wojaks? Here’s How You Can Make An AI Wojak Using Glif.app (Sakshi Sanjeevkumar, June 27, 2024)

  “Glif is an AI sandbox tool that was created by Fabian Stelzer and Jamie Wilkinson back in 2022, but the tool did not launch its Wojak generator until 2024.”

• Know Your Meme: Glif AI Wojaks meme entry (June 26, 2024)

  “On June 25th, 2024, American businessman Marc Andreessen posted a Wojak made using Glif, gathering over 3,000 likes in a day.”

Helium Foundation, formerly DeWi (2020–2025)

• Helium Foundation: Announcing Leadership Changes at the Helium Foundation (February 28, 2023)

  “He joins Jamie Wilkinson who, to date, has focused on scaling Network governance, facilitating public data resources, and has been an active Board Director since the inception of the Foundation.”

Kickstarter (2017–2018)

• BuzzFeed News: Perry Chen Says He Wants To Revitalize Kickstarter. Employees Say He’s Doing the Opposite. (Davey Alba, April 17, 2018)

  “To fill the holes left by executive departures, Chen hired Sarah Hromack to be Kickstarter’s first ‘chief culture officer’ and Jamie Wilkinson as its chief product officer.”

• BackerKit: Bond Welcomes Kickstarter’s Jamie Wilkinson (Jason Furie, January 30, 2018)

  “Jamie Wilkinson, already having a distinguished career working in service to creators, has recently been hired as Kickstarter’s Chief Product Officer.”

• Crowdfund Insider: Kickstarter Appoints First-Ever Chief Product & Chief Culture Officers (Samantha Hurst, November 7, 2017)

  “The reward-based crowdfunding giant revealed that Hromack joined its team six weeks ago while Wilkinson joined two weeks ago.”

• Kickstarter blog: Welcoming Sarah Hromack and Jamie Wilkinson to Kickstarter (Perry Chen, November 7, 2017)

  “Jamie Wilkinson joined us two weeks ago as our first-ever Chief Product Officer.”

Vimeo (2016–2017)

• Marketplace Tech: July 10, 2017 episode on the net neutrality day of action

  “We’ll hear from one company — Vimeo — about how they’re preparing for this day of action.”

• FierceVideo: Vimeo’s Jamie Wilkinson talks originals, SVOD, next evolution of service: video (Daniel Frankel, May 10, 2017, from NAB)

  “If it were a decade ago, Jamie Wilkinson might have found himself in the business of peddling DVDs.”

VHX (2010–2016)

Press about the original 2011 social video site is on the VHX Classic page.

• Technical.ly Brooklyn: Vimeo acquires Brooklyn’s VHX to bulk up on content (Tyler Woods, May 12, 2016)

  “In the deal, Vimeo will maintain all 22 of VHX’s employees and allow it to maintain its own goals, founders Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh wrote on the VHX blog.”

• Variety: Vimeo Acquires VHX, Bolstering Subscription VOD Tools (Todd Spangler, May 2, 2016)

  “VHX was founded in 2011 by Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh, who are both joining Vimeo with the acquisition.”

• TechCrunch: Vimeo acquires VHX to boost its video-on-demand business (Sarah Perez, May 2, 2016)

  “VHX was founded by Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh in 2010, according to CrunchBase, and had raised $10.25 million from investors including Comcast Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and others.”

• Tubefilter: Vimeo Acquires Digital Distribution Platform VHX To Help Indie Creators Offer SVOD Channels (Geoff Weiss, May 2, 2016)

  “Wilkinson — and VHX’s 25 employees — will now report to Trainor.”

• TechCrunch: Video Distribution Startup VHX Is Now Building Apps For Phones, Tablets And Internet-Connected TVs (Anthony Ha, January 6, 2016)

  “CEO Jamie Wilkinson said that’s particularly important if a business wants to move to a subscription model … he suggested that subscriptions are ‘sort of an inevitable user experience optimization.’”

• Variety: Comcast Leads $5 Million Round in Digital-Video Startup VHX (Todd Spangler, January 7, 2015)

  “New York-based VHX was founded in 2011 by CEO Jamie Wilkinson and former Vimeo exec Casey Pugh.”

• TechCrunch: VHX Introduces An iPhone App And Library So You Can View Your Whole Video Collection In One Place (Ryan Lawler, December 18, 2014)

  “VHX now has more than 3,000 titles on the service, according to co-founder Jamie Wilkinson, and more than a million customers have purchased something sold through its service.”

• Filmmaker Magazine: “You May Have Made the Most Amazing Film in the World, But You Have Zero Followers on Twitter”: VHX’s Jamie Wilkinson on Building Film Communities (Scott Macaulay, October 26, 2014)

  “Jamie Wilkinson, CEO of the direct-to-fan online video platform VHX, had some words to filmmakers on Peter Katz’s Hollywood 2.0 podcast.”

• Hollywood 2.0 podcast: Jamie Wilkinson, co-founder and CEO of VHX, a direct-to-fan video distribution platform (Peter Katz, October 20, 2014)

• Indiewire: Attention, Filmmakers: Here’s How to Design a Web Site for Your Film (Eric Hynes, September 23, 2014)

  “Wilkinson said the look and feel of VHX templates were inspired by the elegant and fluid approaches of Squarespace and Tumblr, and can be similarly direct.”

• TechCrunch: VHX Updates Its Admin Panel To Make Do-It-Yourself Videos Sales Even Easier (Ryan Lawler, August 28, 2014)

  “VHX was founded by Casey Pugh and Jamie Wilkinson and is based in New York City.”

• Indiewire: VHX Marks New Model Website for Filmmakers, Reveals Stats (Anne Thompson, May 29, 2014). VHX made Indiewire’s first Influencers list.

  “Founded in 2010 by early Boxee and Vimeo engineer Casey Pugh and developer Jamie Wilkinson, who worked together on ‘Star Wars Uncut’ … When they won an Emmy, Pugh and Wilkinson launched VHX, without knowing exactly what it would be.”

• Craft Truck, Business of Film podcast: BoF #29: VHX Co-Founder, Jamie Wilkinson (May 13, 2014)

  “This week we are joined by the Co-Founder and CEO of VHX, Jamie Wilkinson.”

• Filmmaker Magazine: Should You Stream Your Festival Premiere on VHX? (Scott Macaulay, March 25, 2014)

  “According to Wilkinson, the years of beta-testing have helped them develop the tools necessary to make VHX scalable.”

• Deadline: SXSW: VHX Offers DIY Distribution For All Content Creators (Jen Yamato, March 16, 2014)

  “The start-up founded in 2011 by Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh had been in private beta for two years building a library of over 300 select titles from indie filmmakers and film companies including Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me, and Oscar nominated docu The Act of Killing.”

• No Film School: Indie-Friendly Direct Distribution Platform VHX Now Open to Everyone (March 11, 2014)

  “Indiewire caught up with VHX co-founder Jamie Wilkinson at SXSW, and there, Wilkinson explained that their goal at VHX is, ‘to make it super easy for anybody to sell video content on the web directly to their fans.’”

• Gigaom: VHX goes big with public launch of distribution service (Liz Shannon Miller, March 10, 2014)

  “… a ‘video locker’ that, in CEO Jamie Wilkinson’s words via phone, will ‘operate the way Ultraviolet is supposed to.’”

• Justin Hall, links.net: an interview with Jamie Wilkinson: Internet Love, Viral Videos and VHX.tv (October 23, 2013, video)

  “Jamie is a provocative internet lover. From Free Art & Technology Lab work, to Know Your Meme, Jamie has explored the internet and worked to evolve its culture in the public domain.”

• AllThingsD: VHX Raises $3 Million from Union Square, William Morris for DIY Video (Peter Kafka, August 29, 2013)

  “No problem, said VHX co-founder Jamie Wilkinson, who said VHX can prosper by servicing ‘tail’ content.”

• Union Square Ventures: VHX (Andy Weissman, August 29, 2013), the Series A announcement

  “Content distribution has traditionally been defined by scarcity … The Internet, however, fundamentally alters this dynamic.”

• No Film School: Disrupt and Distribute: VHX Helps ‘Internet Revolutionaries’ Self-Release Their Films (Dave Kendricken, February 13, 2013)

  “… the previously shared presentation by co-founder Jamie Wilkinson about the future of independent distro.”

• Laughing Squid: Innovators on the Move: Casey Pugh & Jamie Wilkinson of VHX (E.D.W. Lynch, January 9, 2013), a short doc by Unpakt

  “Co-founders Casey Pugh and Jamie Wilkinson (who previously helped build sites like Vimeo and produced internet favorite ‘Star Wars Uncut’) reflect on the rapid pace of technology and the doors that online video distribution can open for their users.”

• New York Times, Bits: XOXO: A Festival of Indie Internet Creativity (Jenna Wortham and David F. Gallagher, September 18, 2012)

  “Jamie Wilkinson is one of the founders of VHX.tv, a video site that lets artists sell their work directly to fans, including the latest comedy special from Aziz Ansari. He used his talk to dispel myths that keep creative types and entrepreneurs from releasing professional content through the Web.”

• TechCrunch: VHX Raises $1.25 Million From Lerer Ventures And Angels To Democratize Video Distribution Online (Ryan Lawler, June 19, 2012)

  “Early last year, longtime collaborators Casey Pugh and Jamie Wilkinson launched VHX.tv, a site for discovering cool new videos online and sharing them with friends.”

• TechCrunch: VHX Wants To Be Your Video Dashboard For The Entire Internet (Alexia Tsotsis, April 11, 2011)

  “Launching in private beta today and founded by Casey Pugh, part of the original Vimeo team and Know Your Meme co-founder Jamie Wilkinson is VHX.tv, a site that aims to ‘combine the best parts of the TV experience with the best of the web.’”

Star Wars Uncut (2010, 2022)

• Peabody Awards: The Peabody Awards Announce Winners for Digital and Interactive Storytelling (March 24, 2022), plus the award profile

  “Star Wars Uncut (2010). Fields & Forms: Co-Creation. Primary Credits: Casey Pugh. Additional Production Credits & Partners: Jamie Wilkinson, Chad Pugh, Annelise Pruitt, Bryan Pugh, Aaron Valdez, KK Apple, Todd Roman, Ivan Askwith.”

• Television Academy: Star Wars: Uncut, Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media – Fiction, 2010

  “Casey Pugh, Producer. Annelise Pruitt, Producer. Jamie Wilkinson, Producer. Chad Pugh, Producer.”

• New York Times: An Emmy for Rebuilding a Galaxy (Brian Stelter, August 27, 2010)

  “From left, Casey Pugh, Annelise Pruitt, Jamie Wilkinson and Chad Pugh with their Emmys for ‘Star Wars Uncut.’”

Know Your Meme (2007–2018)

• The Verge: The story of the internet, as told by Know Your Meme (Kaitlyn Tiffany, March 6, 2018)

  “In 2008, developer Jamie Wilkinson (now head of product at Kickstarter) built an online companion database. That’s Know Your Meme as we know it today.”

• The Daily Dot: A day in the office with Know Your Meme, the Web’s “Britannica” (Kevin Morris, November 30, 2012)

  “At the same time, Wilkinson, on his own, had been building a database of every meme he’d ever found as a personal reference tool.”

• TechCrunch: ‘Know Your Meme’ On What It’s Like To Be An Internet Folklorist (Alexia Tsotsis, March 31, 2011)

  “The Know Your Meme crew, Internet folklorists Elspeth Rountree, Kenyatta Cheese, Jamie Wilkinson, Patrick Davison and Mike Rugnetta actually performed an episode of their heralded show live on stage today at Web 2.0 Expo.”

• Tubefilter: ‘Know Your Meme’ Acquired By Cheezburger in Seven-Figure Deal (Marc Hustvedt, March 28, 2011)

  “The series’ hosts Elspeth Rountree, Kenyatta Cheese, Jamie ‘Dubs’ Wilkinson took a plausi-scientific approach to tracing memes in a series that blossomed in popularity even landing a Streamy Award-winning guest appearance by Weird Al Yankovic.”

• TechCrunch: When LOLs Collide: Cheezburger Network Buys Know Your Meme (Alexia Tsotsis, March 28, 2011)

  “Today at Rocketboom we announce the sale of Know Your Meme to The Cheezburger Network.”

• NBC News: SXSW: Can the Internet and popular culture be friends? (Helen A.S. Popkin, March 12, 2011)

  “The panel, all young guys who have Internet culture — and I hate to use this word but it’s totally apt — literally down to a science.”

• BBC Focus: Internet Memes (JV Chamary, August 25, 2010)

  “‘The technical definition is something that has a reproduction rate greater than one, which means that every person who sees it gives it to more than one other person,’ says Jamie Wilkinson, co-founder of Know Your Meme.”

• NPR, All Things Considered: Do Youz Knowz What I Meme? (August 30, 2010), Know Your Meme’s Mike Rugnetta with Richard Dawkins

• NewTeeVee (Gigaom): Jamie Wilkinson, Know Your Meme (Janko Roettgers, March 30, 2010), video interview

  “Janko finds out what it takes to make a video go viral.”

• Streamy Awards: 2nd annual Streamys (2010). Know Your Meme was nominated for Best Hosted Web Series; “Weird Al” Yankovic won Best Guest Star in a Web Series for his Know Your Meme episode.

• Wired: Will Auto-Tune Die? Ask Know Your Meme and ‘Weird Al’ (Scott Thill, November 16, 2009). I hosted this episode.

  “It’s still not too tired to deserve an online mock-doc, courtesy of Rocketboom’s mad scientists at Know Your Meme, and visiting professor ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic.”

• Tubefilter: ‘Know Your Meme’ Schools Net Newbies, AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! (Tim Saccardo, September 25, 2009)

  “Each episode of Know Your Meme is hosted by Rocketboom correspondents, like Elspeth Rountree, Kenyatta Cheese, Jamie ‘Dubs’ Wilkinson and new Rocketboom NY host mememolly, in white coats on a laboratory set as if they are scientists who have painstakingly researched meme data.”

• TIME: 50 Best Websites 2009: Know Your Meme (Adam Fisher, August 24, 2009)

FAT Lab, Google Alarm, GML and the Internet Famous class (2007–2013)

• Motherboard (Vice): For The Open Source Graffiti Movement, Digitized Tags Are Just The Beginning (John Paul Titlow, April 24, 2013)

  “Wilkinson, a software engineer and Internet culture researcher, is the technical brains behind #000000Book, an open repository of files coded in Graffiti Markup Language (GML), a file format that stores a sort of digital recording of graffiti tags being written out.”

• Tokyo Type Directors Club: 2011 RGB Prize: Graffiti Markup Language (GML)

  “Graffiti Markup Language was originally created by Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue, Theo Watson and Jamie Wilkinson, all members of the Free Art and Technology Lab.”

• Mozilla blog: First Transmediale Open Web Award (February 7, 2011)

  “The winner – Graffiti Markup Language – enables the capture of graffiti motion data and turns it into something that can be shared and manipulated indefinitely.”

• Gizmodo: Google Alarm for Firefox Screams Every Time Google Spies You (Jesus Diaz, August 11, 2010)

  “The Google Alarm Firefox add-on will scream and show an alert every time your personal information is sent to Google servers.”

• CNN: ‘Google Alarm’ plug-in tries to wake the world up to privacy issues (August 6, 2010), plus a CNN TV segment

  “Jamie Wilkinson, a technology entrepreneur unaffiliated with Google, created the ‘Google Alarm’ plug-in in an attempt to clear up any confusion … more than 15,000 downloads of the Google Alarm plug-in were recorded in its first week on the Web, according to Wilkinson.”

• NPR, All Tech Considered: Google, Everywhere, Or How Privacy Is The Net’s Biggest Quagmire (Eyder Peralta, July 28, 2010)

  “Jamie Wilkinson, a technologist and artist based in San Francisco, has been trying to bring this issue into public discussion for a while now. Today, he released a plugin for Firefox called the Google Alarm.”

• Marketplace: Firefox add-on sounds alarm when you use Google (July 2010). Link is dead, needs an archive copy.

• Rhizome: Graffiti Markup Language Gets An Upgrade (Ceci Moss, January 8, 2010)

• Newsweek: Learning How to Get ‘Internet Famous’ (Jessica Bennett, August 11, 2009)

  “Professors Evan Roth and James Powderly, both artists, along with software developer Jamie Wilkinson, believed that learning how to spread your work on the Web could be almost as important as creating it in the first place.”

• NBC New York: TV segment on the Internet Famous class (2008)

• Adweek: Internet Famous Class Gets An A+ (Alissa Walker, December 26, 2007)

  “But for the 15 students in Jamie Wilkinson’s Internet Famous class at Parsons, the effect on their GPA, if any, was rather anti-climactic.”

• TIME: Googling for Your Grade (S. James Snyder, December 20, 2007)

  “It’s the week before finals, and Jamie Wilkinson’s students are getting nervous … ‘Actually, we don’t call it being online famous; we call it “famo,”’ says Wilkinson, who conceived the ‘Internet Famous’ course along with friends.”

Talks and panels

Videos of these, plus interviews and TV segments, are on the talks and TV page.

• Promptopia at Union Square Ventures, New York, October 19, 2022. A day of AI demos I organized with Andy Weissman at USV.

• Bond, BackerKit’s conference on making a living as a creator, March 9, 2018. Speaker.

• Streaming Media East, New York, May 10–11, 2016. Speaker.

• XOXO Festival, Portland, September 2012. Talk on VHX and self-distribution, 15 minutes. Written up by Jon Lax and in the New York Times (above).

• ROFLCon Summit, Portland, October 1, 2011. Speaker, with Christopher Poole and Ben Huh.

• youPIX, São Paulo, 2011. Speaker.

• Web 2.0 Expo SF, San Francisco, March 2011. Keynote with the cast of Know Your Meme, performed as a live episode.

• SXSW 2011, Austin. Panelist, “Star Wars Uncut: The Force of Crowdsourcing.”

• SF New Media Film Festival, San Francisco. Panelist.

• Vimeo Festival & Awards, New York, October 8–9, 2010. Panelist on Star Wars Uncut and speaker, “Internet Fame: Easy As 1,2,3.”

• Open Video Conference, New York, October 2–3, 2010. Panelist on Star Wars Uncut and speaker on Graffiti Markup Language.

• TEDxSOMA, San Francisco, September 24, 2010. “Google Alarm.”

• TELE-INTERNET at Ars Electronica, Linz, September 2–6, 2010, curated by Aram Bartholl. FATCloud was in the program; I took part remotely. See exhibitions.

• Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, July 11, 2010. “Viral Videos in the Redwoods.”

• Web 2.0 Expo SF, San Francisco, May 5, 2010. “Internet Famous” panel with Ben Huh.

• ROFLCon II, MIT, Cambridge, May 1, 2010. Keynote panel, Mainstreaming the Web, with moot, Ben Huh, Kenyatta Cheese and Greg Rutter.

• transmediale.10, Berlin, February 4, 2010. Talk, “Art 2.0.”