Outlook Amusements was co-founded by Jason Freeland and Tim Youd, who met during a “junior year abroad” program at Oxford University and have been friends and business partners ever since. They both had a passion for films and movie making and in 1992 had the opportunity to produce the Psychic Friends Network infomercials.
By 1995, they started their own direct response company, in conjunction with Western International Media, the largest independent media buying agency in the world at that time. In 1997, Freeland and Youd bought out Western’s interest and soon thereafter developed the largest online live psychic and astrology network. They subsequently sold their business to Keen.com (currently owned by AT&T Interactive) in 2000. A few years after leaving Keen.com, they started Outlook Amusements and began selling psychic services under the California Psychics brand.