Simon Cowell is no stranger to the power of YouTube when it comes to making his artists famous. It was pretty much responsible for making global superstars out of One Direction and Susan Boyle and now he's launching a talent content to find the next big act to take the world by storm.

"Between Two Ferns" is one of the biggest success stories on Funny or Die.

The 3rd Annual Streamy Awards will be taking place at the Hollywood Palladium on February 17 and will be streamed live courtesy of Coca-Cola.

Have you ever noticed some videos manage to captivate pop-culture more than Hollywood movies? So why don't they receive the poster treatment? Behold! A handful of legendary viral videos and web series have been given the minimalist poster treatment

So another month is upon us and that means more cool new content for you to check out and maybe advertise against or, in some cases, perhaps even sponsor as a brand. With it being December I imagine that production is probably wrapping up on most things for the year and everything will probably be on the quiet side.

We heard about it for months: Machinima was going to spend a ton of money to get a Halo 4 web series/video game tie-in after a round of funding, led by Google, rewarded the channel with $35 million to spend awhile back.

While the rate of quality content being produced solely for the web has steadily increased over the past few years, the biggest challenge remains getting discovered and finding an audience. The Man Teen web series went the route of self distribution when it first was released online and got some good feedback, but limited numbers. Creator Andy Lazarus knew that their must be a better way to go about doing this and sought out help

I know, the word branding brings to mind red hot steel and the smell of burning cowhide, but I assure you, the branding of online video is, generally, less painful or gross smelling. This type of branding can help you make that original web series you have been writing. Branding Original Web Series Now, to some, it might sound like selling out, while to others it sounds like the economics of business

I was perusing the internet, looking for something entertaining to watch, when I ran across this article from Whitney Matheson at USA Today talking about "Up to Speed," a new travel documentary series from Dazed & Confused/School of Rock/A Scanner Darkly director Richard Linklater.

I've been doing a lot of online video viewing lately as I cut the cord a handful of months ago ( 60 hours in July) . I started thinking that what I needed to do, aside from shining the spotlight on great shows, was to also shine a spotlight on the places where I cruise for my content.