Working Your Way Up the New Media Pyramid
Thursday, November 20th, 2008NewTeeVee is covering a question I've been thinking about for a while now: do traditional celebrities help or hinder web series? Do you have to be (or have signed) a celebrity to make a web series work? Have ...
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Cable Nets Up Their Marketing Game
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008Multichannel news reports on three cable network shows benefiting from creative marketing strategies: A&E's Parking Wars has used a flash game and a Facebook app to boost its profile. A&E's Paranormal State combined building-covering billboards and focused speakers to make passers-by thinking ...
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Layering Your Art
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008One kid with a web cam created 64 video tracks where he sings, clicks, percussions, and synthesizes. All those videos come together to recreate Michael Jackson's Thriller. Check it out at College Humor. (or see below) Got me ...
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Top 10 Web Creators
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Daisy Whitney has a great examination of ten top web series creators. Some are backed by big media companies (Sony/Crackle, MSN), some are fiercely independent (Ask A Ninja's Kent Nichols and Doug Sarine, Felicia Day), and some came from the traditional ...
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Tivo’s Finally Had an Effect on TV Advertising: Product Placement Up Big Time
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Everyone has seen or talked about product placement making its way into TV shows. I have talked, at length about the genius work writers on 30 Rock have done with Verizon and Snapple. The LA Times reports that product placement ...
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Another Improvatory Alumni Gets Some ITV Fest Love
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Our friend Alex Enriquez was one of the original members of the Improvatory, and not only is he now performing with the Groundlings Sunday Company, his Web series at ICN, Annals, was selected as an entry into the Independent Television ...
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Will Ferrell at the WGA
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008The Groundlings hosted a Q&A with Will Ferrell last night. I had third-row tickets at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills. About 200 people in attendance (including both Will's dad and mom: Will's dad was in the first ...
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