Welcome to Indie Spotlight, a new feature on Tubefilter . We receive a ton of tips every day from independent creators, unaffiliated with any major motion picture studios, television networks, new media studios, or other well-funded online video entities.
View article:Peanuts Worldwide, a new company that owns the rights to Charles Schultz's "Peanuts" comic strip, has signed Khoa Phan to create 12 "Peanuts" Vines as the company hopes to enter Charlie Brown and the gang back into public consciousness as a movie is planned for 2015.
March 28 marked the end of ground-breaking new media series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries ( LBD ). The brainchild of Bernie Su and Hank Green , the series was a modern interpretation of the Jane Austen classic Pride & Prejudice
It’s only May, but I’m ready to call Vine the breakout video platform of the year. Since debuting on Twitter in January , it has been the catalyst for innovative art projects and has served as the medium for a full-on film festival
YouTube has brought in some big names to help hawk its upcoming Comedy Week , but the real appeal will be some of the big names providing content as part of the event. One such name is Ricky Gervais ; the Office creator will launch a series centered around his David Brent character as part of the festivities.
More: Ricky Gervais To Teach Guitar As ‘Office’s David Brent For Comedy WeekABC is making their live broadcasts available through their "Watch ABC" app, which is being regarded as a move to combat embattled live-streaming service Aereo. ABC becomes the first major network to make an app available to broadcast all their shows live.
Jenna Mourey – aka Jenna Marbles , aka the individual the New York Times describes as “The Woman With a Billion Clicks”, aka the individual Good Morning America describes as “The Most Famous Person You’ve Never Heard Of” – just claimed the #2 spot on YouTube’s All-Time Most Subscribed List . Her YouTube channel, which houses a content library comprised of the 26-year-old’s irreverent rants about less-than-pleasant archetypes, candid and colorful relationship advice, and kinda serious, kinda silly how-to videos just hit more than 8.7 million subscribers.
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If you haven’t read or listened to David Foster Wallace ‘s commencement address to the 2006 graduating class of Kenyon College, usually referred to as ‘This is Water’ , I’d recommend getting right on it. The speech, which runs for about 23 minutes , is a frank, honest meditation on the frustration of daily life and the importance of perspective as explained from Wallace’s eloquent, detail-oriented, darkly humorous point-of-view. Luckily, if you’re the kind of person who absolutely needs flashy moving images to stimulate yourself, director Matthew Freidell has you covered.
In March, rumors hinted at the possibility that Yahoo would soon buy French video sharing site Dailymotion , which scores about 116 million uniques each month. However, that deal fell apart, and Yahoo has instead focused on another property: Hulu .
The online video ad industry finds itself in a very unique position in mid-2013; in some ways it is experiencing rapid growth while in others it is showing undeniable signs of maturity. This article summarizes the state of a very complex and exciting industry in five simple charts
