[2] The company was founded in 2011 by Waheed Alli, Elizabeth Dampier and William Astor and was acquired by Sony Pictures Television in 2019.

Silvergate Media was created in 2011 as part of a management buyout, when Alli purchased the rights to Octonauts and The World of Beatrix Potter from Chorion, a company he was previously chair of.

[8] In 2016, the investment fund Shamrock Capital Advisors acquired a 51% equity of the company,[9] with the valuation reported to be "between £70 and £80 million".

[10] On December 10, 2019, Sony Pictures Television announced that it would acquire Silvergate Media for US$195 million.

[11] In February 2022, former Disney Junior Senior Vice President of original programming and Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group executive Joe D'Ambrosia was named Executive Vice President and General Manager of Silvergate Media, succeeding co-founder Waheed Alli, who stepped down as CEO the following summer.