For the third time in as many years, New Form Digital has shared a slate of pilots helmed by its partners in the online video space. The studio’s latest output represents the third wave of its “incubator series,” and it includes contributions from creators who are known for their work on YouTube and other digital platforms.
The creators who New Form tapped for its first two incubators waves included several of YouTube’s most popular personalities, including Joey Graceffa, Anna Akana, and Wong Fu Productions. This time, however, New Form has dug a little deeper. The creators featured in the studio’s third are a mix of mid-level YouTubers, digital media vets, and aspiring filmmakers, including Olan Rogers, Wilson Cleveland, and Elisha Yaffe. The genres those creators are similarly diverse, ranging from comedy to psychological thriller to sci-fi. As with the previous two incubator rounds, there is only one constant presence: Mitchell Davis,...
The creators who New Form tapped for its first two incubators waves included several of YouTube’s most popular personalities, including Joey Graceffa, Anna Akana, and Wong Fu Productions. This time, however, New Form has dug a little deeper. The creators featured in the studio’s third are a mix of mid-level YouTubers, digital media vets, and aspiring filmmakers, including Olan Rogers, Wilson Cleveland, and Elisha Yaffe. The genres those creators are similarly diverse, ranging from comedy to psychological thriller to sci-fi. As with the previous two incubator rounds, there is only one constant presence: Mitchell Davis,...
- 4/5/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
As Vox Media continues to devote more resources to its online video operations, it has launched a series that profiles creative, thoughtful individuals who have found success in the business world. The media company whose owned-and-operated sites include Curbed, The Verge, and Sb Nation has launched Courageous Leaders, a docu-series in which notable entrepreneurs share their secrets.
The six episodes released across Vox’s network profile the people behind successful ventures in fields like tech, marketing, and interior design. Here’s one of those installments, featuring a chat between series host Hartley Sawyer and Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer:
Hiscox, an insurance company that works with small businesses, sponsored the series. It enlisted Wilson Cleveland, with whom it has previously worked for projects like Leap Year, as the producer of Courageous Leaders. Cleveland in turn recruited Sawyer, a frequent collaborator of his over the past year, as host. “Creatively, I saw...
The six episodes released across Vox’s network profile the people behind successful ventures in fields like tech, marketing, and interior design. Here’s one of those installments, featuring a chat between series host Hartley Sawyer and Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer:
Hiscox, an insurance company that works with small businesses, sponsored the series. It enlisted Wilson Cleveland, with whom it has previously worked for projects like Leap Year, as the producer of Courageous Leaders. Cleveland in turn recruited Sawyer, a frequent collaborator of his over the past year, as host. “Creatively, I saw...
- 6/1/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Wall Street corruption is a well-tread topic on traditional media platforms, but it is still somewhat under-explored online. Enter SPiN. The 13-minute short film, helmed by online video vet Wilson Cleveland, takes place during a TV interview with an arrogant banker.
SPiN stars Cleveland and Hartley Sawyer; the two actors previous led Cleveland's previous short film, Kept Man. This time, instead of appearing as a psychotic lover, Sawyer is a Wall Street egomaniac who plays it cool during an interview with Cleveland's TV journalist. The result--which can be viewed on Cleveland's YouTube channel--is filled with Sorkin-esque banter, political intrigue, and just enough sexual tension.
Cleveland and Sawyer have become frequent collaborators, and SPiN represents the latest chapter in their "bromance." During the filming of SPiN, I joined the film's two stars on set to talk about their past, present, and future work
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SPiN stars Cleveland and Hartley Sawyer; the two actors previous led Cleveland's previous short film, Kept Man. This time, instead of appearing as a psychotic lover, Sawyer is a Wall Street egomaniac who plays it cool during an interview with Cleveland's TV journalist. The result--which can be viewed on Cleveland's YouTube channel--is filled with Sorkin-esque banter, political intrigue, and just enough sexual tension.
Cleveland and Sawyer have become frequent collaborators, and SPiN represents the latest chapter in their "bromance." During the filming of SPiN, I joined the film's two stars on set to talk about their past, present, and future work
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- 2/6/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
We've already noted seven Halloween videos to help get you into a festive mood. If you're looking for even more horror in your life, check out "Kept Man", a short film created by online video vet Wilson Cleveland. Cleveland stars in "Kept Man" as a man who meets a new boyfriend, played by Hartley Sawyer. Throughout the nine-minute film, Sawyer's character slowly becomes unhinged, which leads up to a violent denouement. "Kept Man" may seem like a romantic drama at first, though its dark tone foreshadows its bloody conclusion from the start. "Most people will (and should) see it's a twisty horror thriller," Cleveland told Tubefilter. As Cleveland explains, "Kept Man" was spun off from "How to Quit YouTube", a short he directed for BlackBoxTV. "I was in the throes of a fairly epic, angry, extended depression when I wrote this last year," he said
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- 10/31/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
BlackBoxTV has returned for a fifth series of horror and sci-fi shorts, and its first offering of the new season takes on a topic with which many YouTubers can sympathize. The episode, titled "How to quit YouTube", follows a down-on-his-luck vlogger whose life is dictated by his viewers. The episode is directed by BlackBoxTV founder Tony Valenzuela and stars Wilson Cleveland (the creator of web series like Leap Year and The Temp Life) as a YouTube vlogger who clings to a dream of stardom despite possessing only a few thousand subscribers. With such a small audience, Cleveland is beholden to the few fans he has, and he lets them dictate his life--even when it means a remote "Travel Tuesday" at Joshua Tree. The episode is particularly relevant given recent comments from YouTube personalities like Emily Graslie and Boogie2988 about the damaging effect of verbally abusive commenters. Both of those creators...
- 3/19/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Tune in alert for "Leap Year," as the episode will air on Hulu Monday morning. Craig Bierko, Steven Weber will guest star on the Leap Year season 2 finale this August 20 on Hulu and Hulu Plus. "How to Bite" The C3D team bands together to finally show the world what their 'Skype with holograms' technology is capable of, but not before showing Andy Corvell (guest star Craig Bierko, 'Elementary,' 'Necessary Roughness') who's boss, on the Season 2 Finale of "Leap Year" Monday, August 20 on Hulu and Hulu Plus (http://www.hulu.com/leap-year). "Leap Year" stars Yuri Baranovsky as Aaron Morrison, Alexis Boozer as Bryn Arbor, Emma Caulfield as .Smiley,. Wilson Cleveland as Derek Morrison, Daniela Diiorio as Olivia Reddox,...
- 8/17/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
I first met Joshua Malina, an actor I came to adore thanks to his role on Aaron Sorkin's still-genius 1998 series Sports Night, for an interview in support of his wickedly warped 2010 webseries, Backwash. So it's only appropriate that our second chat also be in support of a webseries I adore, Leap Year.
Josh is the third amazing actor I've profiled to cameo on the tech savvy series this season, and one equally enamored of the cast and crew that have ushered Leap Year to the small screen. And while Josh will be spending most of 2012 working on a slightly larger screen now that he's been upped to series regular on ABC's addictive Scandal, he eventually hopes to return to the world wide web since it's creativity's ultimate playground!
TheInsider.com: Both Eliza Dushku and Emma Caulfield told me they got involved with Leap Year through co-star/producer Wilson Cleveland. Same for you...
Josh is the third amazing actor I've profiled to cameo on the tech savvy series this season, and one equally enamored of the cast and crew that have ushered Leap Year to the small screen. And while Josh will be spending most of 2012 working on a slightly larger screen now that he's been upped to series regular on ABC's addictive Scandal, he eventually hopes to return to the world wide web since it's creativity's ultimate playground!
TheInsider.com: Both Eliza Dushku and Emma Caulfield told me they got involved with Leap Year through co-star/producer Wilson Cleveland. Same for you...
- 7/2/2012
- TheInsider.com
What the Buck? star Michael Buckley led the Web Series Spotlight panel featuring Leap Year this afternoon at VidCon, where series creators and cast members talked shop about the series’ renewal for a second season on Hulu. Fans as far away as Thailand flocked to see Wilson Cleveland (Derek), Yuri Baranovsky (Aaron), Daniela Diiorio (Olivia) discuss the pros and cons of
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- 6/30/2012
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
It’s important for proprietors of small business to have small business insurance. Especially if that small business is a startup in possession of $500,000 in seed capital, the technological knowhow to make the kinds of holographic images that brought Tupac back to life as commonplace in internet savvy households as webcams, and a handful of cutthroat entrepreneurial enemies that thrive in the seedy underbelly of Silicon Valley. At least that’s the sentiment - and the premise - of the sophomore season of the the original branded entertainment web series Leap Year. Presented and funded by Hiscox (“the first insurer in the Us to offer small business insurance direct, online, and in real time” that sponsored the program for a second season because the first season worked”), produced by Cjp Digital Media in association with Happy Little Guillotine Films (the outfit behind Streamys nom Break A Leg), and written by Vlad and & Yuri Baranovsky,...
- 6/18/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
The internet really loves Eliza Dushku. Simply Googling her name brings up a zillion gushy articles -- plus, a zillion and one pictures that cement said love. Turns out, the feeling is more than mutual.
After cutting her teeth with a cameo on The Guild, Eliza is now doing a proper guest star stint on the white hot webseries Leap Year as "hacker in heels" June Pepper. Additionally, she is drumming up support for her documentary on Albania with a Kickstarter campaign. Those are just a few of the things she discussed during our in-depth chat which revealed Eliza's penchant for red heels, her relationship with the webseries' unofficial father and how she keeps falling into pseudo Buffy reunion projects.
TheInsider.com: How did you come to star on Leap Year?
Eliza Dushku: Wilson Cleveland [Leap Year star/producer]. He is a very determined, persistent, passionate, smart and engaging man. Once I looked into the webseries, I was a fan...
After cutting her teeth with a cameo on The Guild, Eliza is now doing a proper guest star stint on the white hot webseries Leap Year as "hacker in heels" June Pepper. Additionally, she is drumming up support for her documentary on Albania with a Kickstarter campaign. Those are just a few of the things she discussed during our in-depth chat which revealed Eliza's penchant for red heels, her relationship with the webseries' unofficial father and how she keeps falling into pseudo Buffy reunion projects.
TheInsider.com: How did you come to star on Leap Year?
Eliza Dushku: Wilson Cleveland [Leap Year star/producer]. He is a very determined, persistent, passionate, smart and engaging man. Once I looked into the webseries, I was a fan...
- 6/18/2012
- TheInsider.com
The clever award-winning dramedy webseries "Leap Year" features special guest star Eliza Dushku on today's premiere of season two of the series. The highly-anticipated premiere of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, scripted original dramedy series about the founders of Silicon Valley.s hottest new tech startup continues the fast-paced entrepreneurial chaos of a group of go-getters, rich in situational comedy. The episodes are stretched to 20 minutes in length. New Season Premise Six months have passed since friends and former co-workers Aaron (Yuri Baranovsky), Bryn (Alexis Boozer), Derek (Wilson Cleveland), Olivia (Daniela Diiorio) and Jack (Drew Lanning) won half a million dollars to fund their "Skype with holograms" startup, C3D. While adapting to startup life in a new city and...
- 6/18/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Today the trailer for Leap Year - the startup-focused dramedy and example of branded entertainment that works - debuted at the Mashable Connect conference in Orlando, Florida. Mashable's Svp Content & Executive Editor Adam Ostrow sat down with Leap Year creator Wilson Cleveland, Founder of Cjp Digital and Hunter Hoffman, Head of Us Communications at Hiscox (Leap Year's underwriter, so to speak), to discuss what lies ahead for our friends at C3D. Season 2 boasts cameos by well-known entrepreneurs including TechStars' David Tisch from and Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian. (Ostrow also appeared in the first season of the series, playing himself in a critical role.) Upcoming episodes will feature guest stars Eliza Dushku, Craig Bierko, Joshua Malina, Julie Warner, Steven Weber, and former Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Emma Caulfield
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- 5/4/2012
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
One of the hottest web-series just got even more caliente, as Eliza Dushku is booked to guest star on dramedy Leap Year. Actress/Producer Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will guest star on three episodes of the upcoming second season of Leap Year, the award-winning online original series about the founders of Silicon Valley.s hottest startup, C3D. According to the producers, Dushku is set to recur throughout the season as 'June Pepper,' an eccentric computer hacker turned startup executive who has a history with C3D lead engineer Bryn (Alexis Boozer) and tangles with recruiter Derek (Wilson Cleveland) and ladykiller CEO Jack (Drew Lanning). Dushku joins previously-announced guest stars Craig Bierko, Joshua Malina, Julie Warner, Steven Weber...
- 4/11/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Leap Year fans are in for a surprise—Eliza Dushku, star of acclaimed fan favorite series Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, Tru Calling and films like Bring It On and City by the Sea, is guest starring in on the upcoming second season. Dushku will recur over three episodes as June Pepper, an eccentric computer hacker turned startup executive. "She manipulates, she steals things, she's kind of an overall wack-a-doodle corporate espionage chick," Dushku told Tubefilter in an exclusive interview on set. Dushku joins guest stars Craig Bierko, Joshua Malina, Julie Warner, Steven Weber, and former Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Emma Caulfield for Leap Year Season 2. "We hit the guest star jackpot hard this season," said Executive Producer Wilson Cleveland, who also plays the role of Derek. "All were generous with their time and talent, all came to work, and all of them just nailed it." According to Cleveland, the...
- 4/11/2012
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
Hiscox, the first insurer in the U.S. to offer small business insurance direct, online and in real time, today announced it has renewed Leap Year (http://www.hulu.com/leap-year), its award-winning original comedy about five friends founding a tech startup, for a second season. Press release: Filming of Leap Year's ten 22-minute-episode second season begins March 5th in San Francisco and will premiere this summer on Hulu, Hulu Plus, Mashable and a variety of online and mobile platforms. Created and produced for Hiscox in collaboration with Cjp Digital Media and Happy Little Guillotine Films, Leap Year co-stars series co-writer/director Yuri Baranovsky, Alexis Boozer, creator/executive producer Wilson Cleveland, Daniela Diiorio and Drew Lanning as downsized co-workers turned co-founders of a...
- 3/1/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Leap Year is a branded entertainment web series with a sizable budget funded by Hiscox, a London Stock Exchange-listed insurance provider that specializes in niche areas of the insurance market (including art collections and kidnapping/ransoms) that last year extended its offerings to provide small business insurance to companies in the Us. The show was created and executive produced by Wilson Cleveland and Cjp Digital (the individual and company behind other online branded programs including The Temp LIfe, The Webventures of Justin and Alden, Suite 7, and Bestsellers) and written and directed by the Baranovsky brothers under the banner of Happy Little Guillotine Films (the digital production shop behind titles like 7-Eleven’s Road Trip Rally and Break a Leg). It's comprised of a cast that fans of Cjp Digital and Happy Little Guillotine productions will find very familiar (including Yuri Baranovsky, Alexis Boozer, Cleveland, Daniela Diiorio, Drew Lanning, Rachel Risen,...
- 2/29/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
There’s a lively debate circulating around this week in online video circles, one that has been brewing for some time now. It’s all about names. Or, specifically, whether the term “web series” should still be used today. Credit to What’s Trending creator and host Shira Lazar for stoking the fire with her tweet. With that followed a post by producer Wilson Cleveland, who for the most part agreed with Shira, writing: Whenever possible, I avoid the term ‘web series.’ Sometimes a client will insist upon qualifying whatever we’re producing as such (typically a scripted, longer-form series) and I do my best to convince them we’re better off going with ‘original series’ and here’s why: The average media consumer judges their entertainment by the platform it’s released on. They just do. I’ve always believed one of the more obvious roadblocks online programming faces...
- 8/19/2011
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Jenna Marbles gained more subscribers this past month than any other YouTube channel, including the current overall top dog force that is Ray William Johnson. It’s Monday, and that means time for our weekly Tubefilter video blog—now in its third week—of online video new worth knowing. In it we cover the lighting rise of Boston-based Jenna Marbles into the Top 100 most subscribed channels, adding over 630,000 subscribers in just the past four months alone. She now sits at 63rd most subscribed (for now) with 843,127 subscribers. Our full interview with Jenna is coming out this week on Tubefilter’s YouTube channel, so be on the lookout for it. We also recap the sold out (and standing room only) Tubefilter Meetup with Dane Boedigheimer, Dan Weinstein, Wilson Cleveland, Barrett Garese and Jason Calacanis from last week—a thorough recap, including the full recording of the panel can be found here.
- 8/15/2011
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Well that was awesome. This past Wednesday over 400 online video enthusiasts packed the Ballroom at Busby's in Los Angeles for the most recent Tubefilter Hollywood Meetup, Beyond YouTube. So far this year, we've focused a lot of attention on the YouTube platform—from our CES Panel Secrets of YouTube Superstars Revealed, to You're a YouTube Partner—Now What?, and The Digitiour Debriefed—and we figured now it was time to see what other ways online video creators are reaching and building audiences, and how they're optimizing revenue. We pulled together a diverse panel of online video experts—Jason Calacanis, angel investor and CEO of Mahalo and This Week In; Dan Weinstein, Partner at the Collective Digital Studio (who manages the creators behind iJustine, Fred, and The Annoying Orange); Barrett Garese, Director of Content Partnerships at Blip.tv; Wilson Cleveland, Founder of Cjp Digital Media, and Dane Boedigheimer, creator of YouTube...
- 8/12/2011
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
And we’re Live from the Tubefilter Meetup in Hollywood, California. Earlier this year we brought you one helluva discussion about the ins and outs of making it on YouTube from some of the best YouTubers and former YouTubers in the business. And for the current installment of the Tubefilter Meetup we’re taking that conversation to its next logical step. We all know building an audience on YouTube is crucial to many successful online video businesses, but what’s beyond YouTube? How do successful online video creators leverage and exploit their creations outside of the world’s largest video sharing site? Per usual, we have a stellar lineup of online video professionals for our panel, dripping with new media experience and internet knowhow, to answer those questions. Our very own Drew Baldwin will be moderating a group of individuals who need no introduction. The Annoying Orange creator Dane Boedigheimer,...
- 8/11/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Announcing the August 2011 Tubefilter Hollywood Meetup! YouTube and its partner program have opened a clear path to online video monetization. And as we've learned from our panels this past year, building an audience on YouTube is crucial to a successful online video business. But is that all that it takes? Even for the top YouTubers—who pull in six figures in rev share—YouTube is just the tip of the iceberg. Successful video creators are using YouTube to engage and monetize audiences elsewhere—from other platforms, to apps, merch, licensing, and beyond. Entertainment management firm The Collective, whose digital clients like Fred, The Annoying Orange, and iJustine represent 200 million monthly views on YouTube, recently announced a distribution partnership with Blip.tv, which offers significantly higher CPMs to its partners. Cjp Digital Media's Wilson Cleveland has pioneered a business model that renders video rev share an afterthought. Join us as we...
- 7/25/2011
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
Being a startup entrepreneur is hard. First, you have to find and execute a great idea (or at least an idea). And second, you have to take care of all the businessy things that come along with creating and operating a company. Things like taxes, payroll, health insurance, incorporation documents, small business insurance, and other important minutia and mandatory idiosyncrasies that make the government make sure it’s okay with whatever it is you’re doing. But where’s a startup entrepreneur supposed to learn about and acquire all these stamps, documents, and seals of approval? I have no idea! Well, except if you’re a professional services startup with 10 employees or less. Then I have some idea where you can get small business insurance. You can go to Hiscox. The London Stock Exchange-listed insurance provider that specializes in niche areas of the insurance market (including art collections and kidnapping...
- 5/18/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Well, that was fun. For those of you who headed to Austin for South by Southwest, we hosted a little party with Jesse Draper and our friends at ValleyGirl.TV to kickoff SXSW Interactive and celebrate Tubefilter's panel Decision Trees: YouTube's New Breed of Interactive Storytellers. The turnout was spectacular. The best and brightest of online video filled the open air patio at the Cedar Door, an Austin classic just a block away from the Convention Center. Check-ins on Foursquare unlocked the "Valley Girl Margarita," a potent take on the Door's classic Mexican Martini. Free beer, great weather, and killer soft tacos made for a great evening enjoyed by all (free food Ftw). SXSW Keynote speaker Felicia Day stopped in along with new media uber-agent George Ruiz, Diggnation's Alex Albrecht and Zadi Diaz of Epic Fu. The omni-present Tim Street sported a new look, Shira Lazar and Julia Allison...
- 3/17/2011
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
Do you wish you slept better? The Better Sleep Council can help. Since 1979, this non-profit, consumer education arm of the International Sleep Products Association (a non-profit supported by America's mattress industry) has devoted itself to educating the public about how to improve upon what everyone spends one third of their lives doing. The Bsc produces Better Sleep Guides and disseminates research linking sufficient sleep to improved physical performance, work productivity, and more, all in the pursuit of teaching you and me how to have pleasant dreams (and helping quality mattress makers sell their products). Do you wish you knew more about The Better Sleep Council? Suite 7 can help with that. The branded entertainment web series from Cjp Digital Media (the same marketing and production house that created The Temp Life and The Webventures of Justin and Alden and helped Easy to Assemble become one of the most-watched branded web shows ever) is an anthology,...
- 11/29/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
To follow up the popular Tubefilter Pitch Camp at the Digital Hollywood Content Summit, we took the show on the road to the East Coast. Yesterday, at Digital Hollywood NYC, three independent content creators brought their best five-minute dog and pony show to a panel of established industry professionals who are in the business of buying and selling quality online entertainment every day. David Armour (Vice President, Development, Programming & Sales, Digital Media - Endemol USA), Wilson Cleveland (Svp, Producer - Cjp Digital Media), Paul Kontonis (VP, Group Director, Brand Content - The Third Act, Digitas), and Ryan Noggle (Supervising Producer - NBC Universal Digital Studio) evaluated pitches over four basic criteria: Originality — let’s not rehash failed TV pilots, but instead let’s see something new. Originality is always a good thing. Marketing Plan — make sure to think about not only the concept, but how you plan on reaching your audience.
- 11/11/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Hey New York, get your web video project pitches ready—we’re following up the highly-popular Tubefilter Pitch Camp at Digital Hollywood Content Summit in Los Angeles last month, with a whole new one on November 10th at Digital Hollywood New York. We had four impressive web series pitches step up with their best 5-minute presentations to our four panelists before getting some tough questions and priceless advice about how to polish their pitches. Now that we're in New York, we're taking a more brand and advertiser focus, hearing from content executives that both receive and give pitches every day, like Cjp Digital's Wilson Cleveland and Digitas' Paul Kontonis. Keynoting the opening day at the Content Summit in NYC will be Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, meaning you’ll want to get there early for the morning session. The Tubefilter Pitch Camp session will start at 1:15 Pm and is a...
- 11/1/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
What: The Wgae is holding the first “Web Series Summer Camp” - a day-long event featuring workshops, a screening, and networking opportunities for web series writers and producers. The event is open to experienced web series writers and producers and also novices serious about creating original, quality content for new media. When: Saturday, August 28, 2010 Where: Wgae, 250 Hudson Street, New York City Who: Leaders in digital media, the New York entertainment community, and the legal community will be among those leading the day’s workshops. Why: “Web Series Summer Camp” is part of the Wgae’s continuing Writers Guild 2.0 initiative, which includes seminars and events for current and prospective members, a job training program, and a sustained organizing effort in digital media. Register: “Web Series Summer Camp” is open to Wgae members, as well as non-members. For more information, contact Ursula Lawrence, Wgae strategic organizer, at ulawrence@wgaeast.org. Tentative Schedule...
- 8/18/2010
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
Back Stage is an entertainment-industry-oriented brand started in New York City in 1960. At its core, it's a robust resource for actors, helping them navigate the media landscape and find performing arts and casting information. The SAG Foundation is an offshoot of the Screen Actors Guild, the labor union which represents over tens of thousands of principle and background performers. Since its inception in 1985, the SAG Foundation's mission has been to "assist, educate, and inspire, actors." Tonight, in New York City, these two established organizations at the center of traditional media will host an exploration of the burgeoning industry that is new media. Net Gain: Creating, Marketing and Building an Audience for New Media is a panel discussion with industry professionals, aimed to give the audiences of both Back Stage and SAG a sound overview of current online video trends and the the myriad ways to get started in web TV.
- 8/3/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Today Sfn Group, Inc. (the parent company to Spherion and other professional staffing organizations) announced it has renewed Streamy Award-nominated comedy web series The Temp Life for a fifth season, establishing it as the longest-running brand-sponsored original web series top date. Production will begin this September in New York and is scheduled to premiere sometime in November. The Legend of Neil’s Tony Janning will be joining returning series regulars Wilson Cleveland, Rachel Risen, Mark Jude, Chris Stetson,Thom Woodley, Sandeep Parikh and Taryn Southern along with other guest stars to be announced in coming weeks. Related News:‘The Temp Life’ Returns, Stocked Up on Web Series Stars Spherion-backed ‘Temp Life’ Re-Staffs For New Season Illeana Douglas Drops Into ‘The Temp Life’...
- 7/29/2010
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
The Webventures of Justin & Alden might have one of the deepest casts of web series notables that we’ve seen to date. Fitting, since the new five-episode branded comedy web series from Cjp Digital Media and lead sponsor Trident Layers (disclosure: Trident is also a Streamy Awards sponsor) is all about two would-be internet-famos set to find web video glory by making “the greatest Web series Web show that’s ever been on the Web computer.” Justin Tyler and Alden Ford, both regulars at sketch comedy theater Ucb in New York, star as the hapless titular duo in this Bill and Ted’s-style (yes, there’s even some time travel) road trip. The destination of this road trip is the Streamy Awards in Los Angeles in hopes of finding the perfect web star. Guests of this year’s Streamys may have noticed these two crashing the red carpet and even...
- 4/24/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Illeana Douglas may be quite the name in web series circles now, especially after landing six Streamy nominations for her popular comedy Easy to Assemble, which just wrapped its second season earlier this year. It even spawned a spinoff series Sparhüsen, which nabbed its own Streamy nod. But aside from those two, the Emmy-nominated TV and film actress has yet to venture into a web series where she isn't the one calling the shots. Looks like that’s about to change. Douglas just wrapped shooting a two-episode guest starring arc on Spherion-sponsored office comedy The Temp Life in New York this week, playing cold hearted CEO Eve Randall. Also shooting a guest spot this week is Taryn Southern who brings back her gumpy midwest It tech Nancy Roder for a few more episodes. This isn’t the first we’ve written about the casting moves on The Temp Life this season,...
- 3/9/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Streamy-winning director Blake Calhoun (Pink) has announced his latest web series project today, a sci-fi drama set in space called Continuum. The series will star Harper's Globe and loneylgirl15 star Melanie Merkosky (left) as Reagen, a young woman who awakes on a space ship without any memory of what she is doing there. Her only companion on board is the ship's computer, a female spin on 2001's "Hal," voiced by Taryn O'Neill (Compulsions, After Judgment). Also announced for the cast is Brad Hawkins (Pink) as Tipton. Calhoun and co. are calling the project "a futuristic thriller in the noir-ish tradition of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien." Loud Pictures, Calhoun's production company is producing along with Alternative Fuel, a multiplatform company he co-founded with Pink producer Mike Maden. Also producing is Cjp Digital Media, with Wilson Cleveland involved on distribution and marketing of the series, as it does for The Fall of Kaden,...
- 2/4/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Not since the Streamy Awards have we seen this many web series stars in one place. Ok not really, but with the fourth season of The Temp Life, the Spherion-backed comedy about life inside a dreadful NY temp agency kicking off today, the cast is loaded up with notable web series stars. The casting moves are signs this four-year old web show is growing up with the medium in which it plays. Call it Web TV's version of keiretsu. Creator Wilson Cleveland, Cjp Communications' Head of Digital Media, built the show back in 2006 for the firm's client Spherion. Incidentally, Cleveland also stars in the The Temp Life, as Nick “Trouble” Chiapetta, the once-ceo of Commodity Staffing, the shoddy agency. This new season picks up with some major changes once Chiapetta returns to office after a 33-week Awol. Notable guest (web) stars: Thom Woodley — co-creator and star of All's Faire, The 'Burg and Vuguru's The All-for-Nots.
- 11/16/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
There's probably no bigger hot button issue right now in the web series world than view counts. After exposing MySpace's paid auto-plays (which were being reported as regular views) on their Bff series, we received numerous comments and emails on the subject. Emotions ran high on this as creators with decent views cried foul to cheaters trying to pass off paid impressions as actual intent-driven views. We listened to you and we're going to be taking a deeper look at the issue on Tubefilter News, including examples of those who are actually getting real viewers without cheating. Panelists on the gabby digital media conference circuit love to spew phrases like 'go to where your audience is', and even we have written on the benefits of finding your audience. There aren't however many examples to point to of those who have actually done that effectively. The Guild still stands as one...
- 10/28/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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