Wow, NewTeeVee’s Chris Albrecht is on a tear. First, he has this rather tongue-in-cheek guide for those looking to make their own funny web videos:
“1. Use Webcams
Your show is online, and so is your character, thanks to your webcam! So meta. Sure, this method of storytelling has lost all its novelty, but what better [...]
NewTeeVee has an interview with John Herman, the creator of the new web series Gravityland.
“With Gravityland there are so many ways for viewers to get involved that it recreates that feeling for me. It is a new level of intimacy that I don’t think is representative in a lot of entertainment.”
The idea is to [...]
NewTeeVee is reporting about another entrant into the web video metrics game. If web video is going to become a serious advertising venue than the metrics have to improve.
“…a raft of new companies like TubeMogul and Visible Measures have launched in the past few months, joining companies like Brightcove, which has been providing this with [...]
Chris Albrecht over at NewTeeVee noticed that Eisner is trying to limit the distribution to his PromQueen follow-up, The All-for-Nots, to the United States, allowing him to better control later worldwide distribution.
This clearly flies in the face of the nature of the internet and leads Chris to say:
“It would just be nice if new media [...]
William Morris is one of the oldest talent agencies in the land so the fact that they’ve set up a multi-million-dollar fund to invest in online companies is a small sign that this isn’t another bubble.
According to the NYT:
“On Monday, the William Morris Agency, the Hollywood talent shop, will announce that it is teaming [...]
So, news all over about NBC pulling quarterlife after one episode and bumping it to Bravo.
You can read a number of takes on the demise here, here, here and here.
It seems to me that only Mashable is cutting to the chase:
“While online videocasters that aspire to mainstream stardom may take the news as a bit [...]
Disney/ABC is getting into the rather crowded field of sites claiming that they will be developing and producing a sorts of short-form original content with their site Stage9 (warning: autoplays). From LATimes:
“Pedowitz said Stage 9 would make it possible to experiment with new forms of storytelling, cultivate young talent and incubate franchises that might someday [...]
NewTeeVee, among plenty of others, has noted that last night’s network TV premier (yes, it had already aired on MTV and MySpace) of perhaps the most over-hyped, under-loved web series so far, quarterlife.
“In a development that could kill the network dreams of other fledgling web series, quarterlife’s premiere on NBC last night bombed. TV [...]
NewTeeVee has a look at the new partnership between MySpace and GOOD, a print and online media company.
“Online video is perfectly suited for investigative journalism pieces. It’s just as easy to go out into the field with camera in hand as it is with a tape recorder, and now the final product is no longer [...]
NewTeeVee has a really interesting look at the path of NYU-student created UNDER THE ARCH - a web video which caused a fair amount of buzz when it was first released last year.
“The YouTube version has since been taken down, and now that Murray has changed his privacy settings on Facebook, it’s no longer available [...]
