Built for Real Outdoor Stories
GEN7 Outdoors is an independent outdoor streaming TV network built to give authentic outdoor creators another professional home and give viewers real outdoor programming across TV, mobile, and web.
An Independent Streaming Network for the Outdoor Lifestyle.
GEN7 Outdoors is an independent outdoor streaming TV network featuring authentic outdoor programming from creators who live the outdoor lifestyle.
GEN7 Outdoors is available across TV, mobile, and web. GEN7Outdoors.com is the business, brand, creator, news, sponsor, and company website. GEN7tv.com is the online web app where viewers watch GEN7 Outdoors.
GEN7 Outdoors brings together real outdoor shows from authentic creators across the woods, water, homestead, trail, range, garage, campfire, and open road.
A Founder-Led Outdoor Network Built from Industry Experience.
Jody Blackwelder has worked in the outdoor industry since 2002, with experience across manufacturing, retail, media, marketing, graphic design, web development, social media management, creator support, and business strategy.
Outdoor Industry Roots
Jody began working in the outdoor industry in 2002 and built hands-on experience across the business, media, marketing, and creator sides of the outdoor world.
Media and Marketing Direction
In 2012, Jody shifted deeper into media and marketing through G7 Life Media, his business solutions and media company.
GEN7 Outdoors TV Channel Begins
In 2015, Jody built GEN7 Outdoors TV Channel on Roku and officially launched it in 2016. The goal was simple: give independent outdoor creators a more accessible place to air their shows without the high costs and barriers of large traditional outdoor networks.
Expanded Distribution
The channel later expanded to Amazon Fire TV, giving GEN7 Outdoors another streaming destination for outdoor viewers.
Outdoor Creators Needed Another Option.
GEN7 Outdoors was created because independent outdoor creators needed another option. Large traditional media outlets were often expensive, difficult to access, and built around old models.
Social platforms gave creators reach, but also came with algorithm changes, platform restrictions, demonetization issues, and uncertainty around outdoor content.
GEN7 Outdoors was built to give creators another professional home. Outdoor creators need more than rented platforms. They need an independent place where real outdoor stories belong.
Real Outdoor Stories Belong Here
GEN7 Outdoors is a creator-first outdoor streaming network built to help authentic outdoor creators reach viewers across TV, mobile, and web.
The Mission Stayed Alive.
After several years of operation, GEN7 Outdoors entered a quiet season. The channel remained live, but active growth slowed for a period while life and business priorities shifted.
The Channel Remained Live
GEN7 Outdoors continued to exist, but active growth paused while attention was focused elsewhere.
Renewed Focus
In 2022, Jody began focusing on the channel again and started exploring new business models that would better serve creators in the modern streaming era.
Rebuilt for TV, Mobile, and Web.
In 2025, GIDEO, the company that originally helped build the channel in 2015, reached back out. They knew Jody was working on a new model for GEN7 Outdoors and offered to come onboard through a strategic partnership.
This partnership made it possible to rebuild GEN7 Outdoors as a modern FAST-style streaming platform across streaming TV, mobile devices, and web.
Over roughly eight months, the core channel was rebuilt and new apps were developed across streaming and mobile platforms. Everything went live in the last week of April 2026.
The mission that started in 2015 is alive again — stronger, wider, and built for creators, viewers, sponsors, and long-term outdoor media growth.
Creator-First Outdoor Distribution.
In the past, independent creators often faced high costs, limited access, and pressure to manage their own advertising if they wanted traditional TV exposure. The rebuilt GEN7 Outdoors model is different.
High Costs and Limited Access
Traditional outdoor TV models could make it difficult for independent creators to reach viewers without major costs, advertiser pressure, or gatekeeping.
Another Professional Home
Approved creators can submit GEN7-ready episodes that meet the network’s content standards. GEN7 Outdoors handles network distribution and advertising opportunities, then shares net ad revenue with eligible creators once monetization is active.
Creators keep ownership, participation is non-exclusive, creators can continue publishing on their own platforms, and GEN7 gives approved programming another professional home across TV, mobile, and web.
Five Pillars Behind the Network.
GEN7 Outdoors is built around a clear mission: support authentic outdoor creators, serve viewers with real outdoor programming, and grow independent outdoor media for the streaming era.
Creator-First
GEN7 Outdoors is built around creators, not gatekeeping.
Family-Friendly Outdoor Programming
GEN7 maintains network standards that help protect viewers, creators, and sponsors.
Independent Outdoor Media
A streaming network built outside traditional pay-to-air outdoor TV models.
Real Outdoor Stories
Hunting, fishing, homesteading, adventure, family, faith, motorsports, and outdoor lifestyle programming from real people.
Community Growth
Creators supporting creators, cross-promoting, referring, and growing together under the GEN7 Outdoors brand.
Creator Programs Built to Grow the Network.
GEN7 Outdoors is building a creator network where authentic outdoor creators can bring their shows into a professional streaming environment and help grow independent outdoor media together.
The Foundation of the Creator Network
The GEN7 Outdoors Founders Circle is for authentic outdoor creators who want another professional home for their shows while keeping ownership, staying non-exclusive, and becoming eligible for 20% of net ad revenue from approved content once monetization is active.
The Creator Leadership Group
The GEN7tv Vanguard Collective is the creator leadership group inside GEN7 Outdoors. It is for Founders Circle creators who want to help grow the network, promote the platform, refer qualified creators, support other shows, drive app downloads, and qualify for additional growth-based revenue share during qualifying months.
Outdoor Creators Need More Than Rented Platforms.
Outdoor creators face a different reality online. Algorithms shift. Platform rules change. Reach can disappear. Lawful, ethical, family-friendly outdoor programming can still be limited, flagged, demonetized, or buried by platforms that do not always understand hunting, firearms, trapping, survival, homesteading, or self-reliance content.
GEN7 Outdoors gives creators another professional home — one built specifically for real outdoor stories and the outdoor lifestyle.
Independent Outdoor Distribution
GEN7 Outdoors gives real outdoor creators another professional outlet while giving viewers a streaming destination for outdoor programming across TV, mobile, and web.
Building a Creator-First Outdoor Media Network.
GEN7 Outdoors is now focused on adding strong creators, growing the content library, increasing app downloads, building viewership, creating sponsor and advertiser value, and developing a real creator community where outdoor storytellers can support each other.
GEN7 Outdoors is not just building a channel. It is building a creator-first outdoor media network for long-term growth.
The next chapter of GEN7 Outdoors is about creators, viewers, partners, family-friendly programming, and real outdoor stories reaching more people across more devices.
Stream GEN7 Outdoors Across TV, Mobile, and Web.
Watch GEN7 Outdoors on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Google TV, iOS, Android, and online at GEN7tv.com.
Real Outdoor TV. Built for the Future.
GEN7 Outdoors was built to give authentic outdoor creators another home and give viewers real outdoor programming they can watch anywhere. The mission that started in 2015 is alive again — stronger, wider, and built for the new streaming era.