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As Budgets Grow, Web Television Slowly Earns Attention
Final version published at Sparksheet. Americans have so many entertainment choices it’s remarkable anybody watches anything. Blockbuster ratings and opening weekends are fewer and farther between....
View Article‘Broad City’ Team Talks Transitioning From Web to Comedy Central
Posted at Tubefilter. When I first ran into Abbi Jacobson at the New York Television Festival last month, I didn’t know what to expect. Jacobson was unassuming and humble. You’d never know she and...
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Mapping the Video Market, and Where Crowdfunding Fits In
Published at Hacktivision. Below you’ll see a map of the digital video ecosystem, as created in a keynote conversation at the New York Television Festival, assembled by Paul Kontonis, head of the...
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YouTube’s Fading ‘Halo’
An edited version of this essay is published on Slate. Before I watched Machinima’s cinematic new series, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, I had to look it up on Wikipedia. Halo ranks among the most...
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Will YouTube Renew Its Most Ambitious Sitcom?
Remember when Arcade Fire nabbed the top Grammy last year and people, from everyday tweeters to Rosie O’Donnell, unleashed a collective “who is Arcade Fire” campaign? That incident started a lot of...
View ArticleYOMYOMF: The Web’s Most Diverse Channel
The final version of this post is on Slate‘s Future Tense blog. The LAPD has assigned Bobby, a rookie, to a new squad—a ragtag group of young-ish people who have time-traveled from the ’80s and are...
View ArticleCan My Damn Channel Grow Into YouTube’s Biggest Comedy Network?
Online video is comedy, and as the market grows, comedians and indie TV creators are getting more buyers for their shows and videos. Today comedy network My Damn Channel announced a big effort to buy...
View ArticleHow YouTube Plans to Fight the Netflix Wave
With Netflix dropping $4 million for each episode of House of Cards, YouTube is suddenly seeing a lot of well-heeled competition for original programming. Of course, through its premium channel...
View ArticleOpen TV: Rescue Pilots from Development Hell
Originally published in Flow TV journal. Hold your mouse over footnotes (#) for more information. The Avengers, franchise of franchises, has invaded television. Last year in late July Deadline reported...
View ArticleWhy “Views” Don’t Matter for Indie Web Series
You’ve probably never heard of “F to 7th.” A spin-off of “The Slope,” a Vimeo-based series about “homophobic lesbians,” “F to 7th” is a New York indie TV show from Ingrid Jungermann, who financed the...
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