Sony Pictures Digital, first known as Columbia TriStar Interactive, then Sony Pictures Interactive Network (or SPiN), is an operating unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (SPE). It oversees the digital production and online entertainment assets of SPE, consists of Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Online Entertainment, Sony Pictures Mobile, Sony Pictures Digital Networks and others. It is known as the digital website interactive creator for SPE. Sony Pictures Digital designed websites for Sony Pictures, Screen Gems Network, SoapCity, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Game Show Network, among others for SPE.
In 2005 the group's name was changed to Sony Pictures Digital Sales and Marketing and encompassed all areas of interactive media creation and marketing for SPE, including gaming, mobile, websites, design and sales.
The company is also a co-producer along with Shadow Machine Films, Seth Green's Stoopid Monkey production company, Williams Street ,and Cartoon Network for the show, Robot Chicken.
Its visual effects division Sony Pictures Imageworks provides VFX for filmes produced not only by Columbia TriStar Pictures but also by other non-SPE studios.
