Vice Media, Inc. is an American youth media company and digital content creation studio operating in 36 countries. It was started in 1994 by
Shane Smith,
Gavin McInnes and
Suroosh Alvi as a punk magazine titled
Voice of Montreal. Vice Media has recently expanded from its
Vice magazine, building out a multimedia network including the website
Vice.com as well as a network of nine other digital channels including
Vice News, a TV and feature film production studio, record label, and a book-publishing division.