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Will My Damn Channel Grow Into YouTube's Biggest Comedy Network?
The viewcounts don't lie. Online video overwhelming means comedy, and as the market grows, comedians and indie TV creators are getting more buyers for their shows and videos. In this environment, can My Damn Channel become the biggest comedy network on YouTube?
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Are YouTube's Premium Partners the Studios of the Future? Behind the Scenes at Mahalo
For a little over a year now, YouTube has tried to get behind original content, working with premium partners to produce original digital video on a wide variety of topics. As we know well, they aren't alone; Amazon, Blip, Crackle, Hulu, and Netflix have all begun creating original series....
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How the Ambitious Pilot for Web Series 'Agent 88' Raised Over $100,000 on Kickstarter
Digger T. Mesch spent 10 years in China working on a variety of film projects. He'd been trying to get a film off the ground there, a horror western called "Fist Full of Blood," with a creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Watch: The Best of Web Video! The 2012 Vimeo Award Winners
Last week at NYU's Skirball Center, web video platform Vimeo hosted an awards show honoring the best in web-native video. The platform, known for no ads and an interface that puts the spotlight on filmmaking craft, gave its awards to a series of videos that are bringing innovation to the o...
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Five Reasons the Internet is Blowing Up Over the "KONY 2012" Clicktivism Sensation
The Internet is abuzz -- 8.8 million views and counting -- with praising and criticizing a huge viral hit: a thirty minute film about an war criminal on the run who has been on the run since being indicted for war crimes by the Hague in 2005. Joseph Kony was a leader of the Lord's Resistan...
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Watch Macbeth Lose His Head in New Spike Jonze Short
In Spike Jonze’s inspired new stop-motion short, the felt figures on the covers of old books come to life after hours in Paris’s historic and beloved Shakespeare and Co. bookshop. In Mourir Aupres de Toi (To Die By Your Side) Macbeth’s skeleton falls for one of Dracula’s beautiful victims, but true ...
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New Streaming Site: Jeremy Irons, Others in British Mysteries and Classic TV (Free for Now)
Acorn Media, which releases DVDs of many British mysteries and miniseries, has just launched the streaming site Acorn TV, and because it’s so new you can watch some of the best of its classic series for free. There’s Michael Kitchen (photo above) as the World War II era detective in the addictive Fo...
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Watch Lady Gaga's "Judas" Video
Not in time for Easter, here's Lady Gaga's much-hyped "Judas" video, which casts her as a biker-chick Mary Magdalene torn between Judas and a Jesus who wears a golden crown of thorns. Directed by Gaga and her creative director, Laurieann Gibson, it's visually flashy (points for costume and makeup) w...
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Will Ferrell as George W. Bush: Best Bin Laden Satire Yet (Video)
Just when it seems like the Bin Laden jokes are slowing down, here comes the best yet: Will Ferrell as George W. Bush reacting to the news in this Funny or Die video.
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Video: Justin Bieber, Zach Galifianakis and Other Webby Nominees
The Webby Awards are given out to everything from serious news sites to viral videos, but the most entertaining nominees are in the comedy categories (web dramas haven't come close yet). Nominations were announced today, and you can see the full list and vote at the Webby site.
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