VigLink CEO Oliver Roup founded the company in March 2009. Heritable property may also be sold at an auction, called a "roup" in Scots law. In 2005, weatherman Danny Roup announced his move to Channel 10. Jonas Roup McClintock was born in Pennsylvania in 1808. Channel 1 weatherman Danny Deutch moved to Channel 2 to replace Roup. Oliver Roup is an entrepreneur and computer scientist originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2012, Oliver Roup reported VigLink was working on 5 billion pages per month. Roup is the founder and CEO of the content monetization service VigLink. Roup has commented that he believes the area of affiliate marketing has become more mainstream.