The Definitive YouTube Guide
Building an Audience, Optimizing for Search, and Making Money The title to this post is fairly tongue-in-cheek. The reality is that if you catch any well-known so-called “you-tubers” off-the-record,...
View ArticleWebseries: Periodic Release vs. All-at-Once
As a webseries creator, I have had the opportunity to release shows over time and had shows syndicated through various online platforms. In all of these cases, there was a natural logic to releasing...
View ArticleWhat about the Writer’s Guild of America?
Webseries creators have long had questions about unions. As a group, many of us write, direct, produce, some of us star in our works, run camera, and do all the editing. So the question many creators...
View ArticleTrend-Setter Gets Invited to YouTube Partner Program
Melissa Gonzalez doesn’t let the dust settle under her feet. She is co-founder of RS Pop-Up Shop, which blends online video, with fashion, branding, and a hot store front location in mid-town Manhattan...
View ArticleIAWTV and Streamys Move To Separate Awards Shows
Disclosure: J. Sibley Law is a member of the IAWTV and its Awards Committee. Today the International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) announced that it was breaking off negotiations with Tubefilter...
View ArticleIAWTV Opens Award Submissions
The following was released today by the IAWTV: Recognizing content creators driving today’s Web television industry, the International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) announced a call for submissions...
View ArticleSteeping Success in Online Video
Blip.tv asked one of the world’s leading research firms to find out more about web series audience behaviors by surveying 1,500 of its users. Then they shared the information with the public. Sweet!...
View ArticleWhy I Love Politicians and What We Can Learn from Them
We are headlong into the silly season of presidential campaign politics. If you doubt it, it’s time to crawl out from under that rock you’ve been sleeping under. Then, once you plop down on the sofa...
View ArticleTHE STATE OF SEXY: Nudity, Expletives, and Other Stuff YouTube Finds...
Recently, Brendan Bradley (Squatters) started posting a new series (Brief Coverage) on his channel. Of the six videos currently posted, thumbnails show the female host in various sexy underwear. Two of...
View ArticleLaunching an A-Lister’s Web Series – Bryan Singer’s H+
Yesterday Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men) released the first two of forty-eight episodes of his dystopian near-future thriller, “H+”. Basic premise is that people now get chips implanted in...
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