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What a week! Monday kicked off another installment of Web Television Week out here in Los Angeles, a full week of web television and digital entertainment related events like the IAWTV Prospective Member Meeting, Digital Hollywood Fall, and of course, Going LIVE! presented by the Hollywood Web Television Meetup. We made a little announcement as well about our friends over at Tilzy.tv.

And speaking of going live, Sandeep Parikh’s comedy The Legend of Neil followed up its Season 2 finale with a live chat on UStream with the cast.

The big news of the week was the breaking story of Rob Corddry’s Streamys-nominated comedy web series Childrens’ Hospital heading to able network Adult Swim after negotiations broke down between Warner Brothers and Comedy Central.

And Roku might be pulling off a sneak-around with its next rollout bringing on a whole new crop of streaming original web content.

What a night last night—thank you to everyone who made it out to the sold out Tubefilter Hollywood Web TV Meetup, the night was teeming with creative energy. It started off with a packed panel session, “Going LIVE!” where we got into the nuts and bolts of live streaming web series. The entire panel, which can be watched now on demand (above), reached over 700 concurrent viewers on the live stream through Stickam.com and here on Tubefilter News. A higher-res version of the panel will be available soon.

We took a clue from panelist Tyler Crowley’s live web series, This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis, and did what Jason calls “making love to the sponsors.” So you might catch a few shout-outs to our sensational sponsors—Ooyala, AMD, Sony Creative Software, Showbiz Software, and Blip.tv. As fellow panelist Brian Gramo of TheStream.TV quipped, “you can’t TiVo past that” when we showed the sponsors some love.

In all over 550 attendees made it out to the Meetup, all buzzing with a renewed energy that brighter times are here for web series. You could feel it and see it in the faces of creators and enthusiasts in the room. Rob Welkner of Coin-Op TV Live made a nice writeup of the Meetup, with his co-host Hailey Bright on the panel. As Welkner concluded,

We’re live streaming, right now, from the October Tubefilter Hollywood Web TV Meetup from Busby’s East! Time to get down and dirty about the future of live streaming web television. Watch as we talk to our panel of live streaming experts, cut through the hype, and drill down on what could be next big trend in web series. We’ll cover:

Tools, tech and platforms – which one is best?
Engaging and interacting with a live audience
What content is best for live streaming
Making money on live streaming shows
Production tips from the pros
Going LIVE! Panel:

Hailey Bright, Co-Host, Coin-Op TV Live
Drew Baldwin, Producer, The Streamy Awards (and Tubefilter co-founder)
Brian Gramo, Founder, theStream.tv
Tyler Crowley, Executive Producer, Mahalo Daily, This Week in Startups
Bismarck Lepe, Founder, Ooyala
Moderator: Marc Hustvedt, Editor-in-Chief, Tubefilter News

Fall Web TV Week is finally here! It kicks off tonight with the October edition of the Tubefilter Hollywood Web Television Meetup in Los Angeles at 7:00 PM. The night gets under way with a special sold-out “Going LIVE!” panel all about live streaming web series streamed LIVE at 7:20 on Stickam and right here on Tubefilter.

Going LIVE! Panel:

Hailey Bright, Co-Host, Coin-Op TV Live
Drew Baldwin, Producer, The Streamy Awards (and Tubefilter co-founder)
Brian Gramo, Founder, theStream.tv
Tyler Crowley, Exec. Producer, Mahalo Daily, This Week in Startups, Kevin Pollack’s Chat Show
Bismarck Lepe, Founder, Ooyala
Moderator: Marc Hustvedt, Editor-in-Chief, Tubefilter News

Spotted on the Meetup RSVP list…

Private High Musical’s Taryn Southern..The Guild’s Felicia Day, Jeff Lewis, Sandeep Parikh, Sean Becker and Kim Evey…The Bannen Way creators Mark Gantt and Jesse Warren….Blip.tv founders Mike Hudack and Dina Kaplan…lonelygirl15’s Jessica Rose and Yousef Abu-Taleb…Legend of Neil’s Tony Janning…The Crew’s Brett Register, Craig Frank, Angie Cole and Cathy Baron…EPIC-FU’s Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf….Prom Queen creators Chris McCaleb, Ryan Wise and Douglas Cheney…Saftey Geeks’ Dave Beeler and Tom Konkle…Coin-Op TV’s Robert Welkner and Hailey Bright…EQAL co-founders Greg Goodfried and Miles Beckett…A Comicbook Orange’s Casey McKinnon and Rudy Jahchan…The Fine Brothers…This Week in YouTube’s Lon Harris..Next New Networks’ co-founder Tim Shey…The Burg’s Matt Yaeger…Elevator’s Woody Tondorf…Harper’s Globe’s Melanie Merkosky…With the Angels’ Carly Jones….and many, many more!

Hey there web television fans—there’s a lot going on next week! Last Spring, before the Streamy Awards, we brought you a full week of web television events. This coming week, in celebration of the tremendous growth our industry has seen in the last six months, Tubefilter is proud to announce four days full of web television and digital entertainment related events from right here in Los Angeles.

The meetup is only four days away — and we’re getting excited. We can’t tell you all of the reasons why we’re jazzed, but we can tell you that we’ve got four of the coolest sponsors in Web Television helping us to make the meetup a night to remember. Not only are they throwing their support behind the content community, but they’re also giving away tons of really cool stuff! So, acquaint yourself with the sponsors who are making all of this possible, find out more about the cool stuff you could could walk away with at the end of the night, and discover a little more about our mystery Monday announcement.

Regular readers will remember back in July when we spelled out 4 Ways to Make the Most of the Tubefilter Web TV Meetup. It’s worth dusting off and reading again if you’re even thinking about attending. (And if you’re in LA next week, you better have a good excuse if we don’t see you there.) Number 1 on that list was “Do Your Homework!” and that means finding out more about our stellar panelists. Today we’re taking a closer look at Coin-Op TV Live, who’s co-host Hailey Bright will be on the Going LIVE! panel. (RSVP here)

Coin-Op TV Live

The hour-long live video gamer series, hosted and created by Robert Welkner dates all the way back to 2004 when it launched as a video podcast. In fall of 2006 the series became one of the first shows on the all-live web TV network, TheStream.tv which gave it a new home and larger set.

Like most live shows on TheStream.tv, including Streamy-nominated Monkey News Source, the hosts interview guests and make heavy use of the live chatroom audience that accompanies the live stream. For Coin-Op TV, it’s all about interviewing top game creators, luminaries, designers and yes, even some hardcore gamers like Project Lore host Alex Albrecht, The Guild’s Sandeep Parikh and Legend of Neil star Tony Janning. Not all of their guests can make it to their LA-based studio, so Welkner and Bright are known to setup live video interviews across the world via Skype, working in real-time trivia with viewers using Twitter and the chatrooms.

And we now have Reason #127 Why you need to come to the Tubefilter Hollywood Web Television Meetup on the 19th: Free high-end gear giveaways from our new sponsor, AMD! (We can’t reveal exactly what the giveaways are just yet, but trust us, you’ll want to win these.)

Going LIVE! is the theme this month—we’re talking to some of the top LIVE streaming experts on the web—the brains behind (COIN-OP TV, TheStream.TV, This Week in YouTube, The Streamy Awards). More and more web series are realizing that live streaming isn’t as hard as it seems and that it actually works in terms of growing an interactive and engaged audience. If you’re even thinking about live streaming a web show – you need to be there.

This month’s Meetup is the first time we’re breaking out the panel and mixer into two separate tickets. So you can RSVP for both or come a little later (you rowdy ones) and just hit up the mixer. Naturally, we’re going to be live streaming this panel for those not in Los Angeles.