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Katy Perry Gets Intimate With Lisa Nova (And 2 Million Viewers)

by Drew Baldwin on July 30th, 2010

YouTube star Lisa Nova sat down with "California Gurls" Katy Perry for an exclusive 30-minute interview that featured questions submitted by text and video form the YouTube community through the newly-launched Moderator tool. Over 20,500 text and video questions like “Did you really kiss a girl?” “Do you ever laugh at the parody videos making fun of you?” “Are[...]

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LOLCat Fans Love ‘Simon’s Cat’

by Alex Crowley on July 30th, 2010

It is going to be difficult to say anything negative about Simon Tofield’s animated shorts, Simon’s Cat. For starters, they’re cute and inoffensive sketches about a guy’s cat. Small children will likely watch these and giggle, as will folks who like adorable kitties, as will 71 million viewers on YouTube, as will the entire feline-obsessed inte[...]

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Black Crowes Celebrate 20 Years with ‘Tall Tales’

by Joshua Cohen on July 29th, 2010

In terms of new media savvy, The Black Crowes fall somewhere in between the heavy metal litigiousness of Metallica and the alternative, post-record label embrace of Radiohead. Which basically means Steve Gorman, the band's drummer, has a Q&A blog for fans and a podcast about sports, and the band itself just announced it has a web series that will soon debut. The Black C[...]

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Steve Carell Pwns Zach Galifianakis on ‘Between Two Ferns’

by Marc Hustvedt on July 29th, 2010

It’s become a right of passage for A-listers pitching their latest movies. Ben Stiller, Charlize Theron and Michael Cera have all sat down Between with Zach Galifianakis on his public access set—complete with two faux ferns—for the web’s most awkward interview. It’s the internet’s Colbert Report, a painfully uncomfortable, yet utterly hilarious defaming of top [...]

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My Damn Channel Announces Biggest Slate Yet

by Marc Hustvedt on July 29th, 2010

Online comedy network My Damn Channel has quite the reputation for picking up some of the best web series on the market—not to mention a few shelves worth of awards for it stable of hit series like Wainy Days, You Suck at Photoshop, and Easy to Assemble. But now as the New York-based network celebrates its third birthday, it’s looking ahead. Today the network unveil[...]

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‘Temp Life’ To Return With Record-Breaking Fifth Season

by Drew Baldwin on July 29th, 2010

Today SFN Group, Inc. (the parent company to Spherion and other professional staffing organizations) announced it has renewed Streamy Award-nominated comedy web series The Temp Life for a fifth season, establishing it as the longest-running brand-sponsored original web series top date. Production will begin this September in New York and is scheduled to premiere sometime i[...]

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Doubling Down on Awesome: ‘Rated Awesome’ is NNN’s Latest Parody Series

by Marc Hustvedt on July 28th, 2010

Even the folks at Next New Networks were surprised just how big a hit they had on their hands just 9 months after launching their pop music parody web series The Key of Awesome. The show has now grossed over 150 million views since launching last October, with over 30 Million in just the past month. Who knew topical pop culture references with heavy teen influences woul[...]

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Parikh Talks ‘Neil,’ Writing for TV and Entering His ‘Twenty-Teens’

There aren’t too many other people who embody the spirit of web entertainment as well as Sandeep Parikh. Parikh is all over the web: as an actor on [...] Read Article

‘Ark’ Hits Hulu, Sci-Fi Gem Rolls Out All at Once
July 26th, 2010
Live Streaming Networks Flourish: ‘The Room Live’ Steps Up
June 22nd, 2010
‘Miss Behave’ Is Coming, Created For Teens, By Teens
June 10th, 2010

LOLCat Fans Love ‘Simon’s Cat’

Even the folks at Next New Networks were surprised just how big a hit they had on their hands just 9 months after launching their pop music parody we[...] Read Article

Felicia Day, Alanis Morissette Get Embarrassed, ‘Mortified’
July 26th, 2010
‘Hamilton Carver: Zombie PI’ Should Investigate Pacing, Polish
July 20th, 2010
Stella’s Michael Showalter Presents ‘The Making of…’
July 16th, 2010

Ask the New Media Attorney: Model Releases and Privacy

[This is the latest column from Tubefilter News' resident new media legal expert, James C. Roberts. Last time he tackled reader questions on whether D[...] Read Article