It’s fairly obvious that web producers have less money to work with than television producers. And less money often means less time (since they’re often busy working on other projects that actually make money), less access to top equipment (though this is steadily changing as cameras a nd mics get cheaper), fewer talented actors [...]
Aaron Krane is the mostly hip, but part geeked-out host of Technorati’s Buzz TV. Originally dubbed the Technorati Daily Vlog, the show first aired in October 2006 as a rundown of hot topics on the web.
Technorati catalogues literally millions of blogs (currently they claim over 89 million) for quick and easy searches, so it’s only [...]
Days after ManiaTV made the surprising announcement that it plans to phase out “user-generated” video, NBC’s DotComedy swung the other way, encouraging users to submit “Viewer Made” videos that, if featured, will be licensed for cash. Meanwhile, at the User Generated TV summit panelists distinguished between professional content, user generated content and SPUG (semi-professional user [...]
Amidst announcements and rumblings about its shared, YouTube-killing video venture with NBC – tentatively named NewCo – NewsCorp also recently announced its intent to focus MySpaceTV on professionally produced content.
What’s going on here? The muscle of NewCo rests on the vast vaults of content owned by its parents, but it looks to me like [...]
This past April 1st marked the four-year anniversary of the premiere of the machinima series that brought massive attention to the genre – Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles. It was also the day that series creator, Michael “Burnie” Burns announced to fans everywhere, “Episode 100 is going to be the last installment…100 is [...]
Yahoo is teaming up with Hellmann’s (yep, the mayonaise-maker) to create an online cooking show hosted by Dave Leiberman, the former host of another show, (the now defunct) Good Deal on the Food Network.
Dave’s life mission is “to teach people how to live, eat and entertain like a king or queen, even if they have [...]
Turn your meta-meters up to 11 because this is about as self-referential it gets.
A week after the Prom Queen’s First Season Finale and the announcement of a Summer Heat spin-off, the Michael Eisner backed Vuguru production company is starting another online series. The producers of the teen hit will partner with Thom Woodley and [...]
A friend of mine recently asked me to “program” an hour of Internet-TV for him.
“I already have,” I said. “You can browse our listing and discover what YOU’LL like. When there are millions of options, everyone’s programming will be unique.” I told him that he could start by clicking on my name to see [...]
