Can you believe it's been 11 years (I missed the boat on the 10 year anniversary) since the start of Ask A Ninja?! Think of what a different place the world was back in 2005. First off, I remember first watching his videos on my friend's iPod because subscribing to iTunes videos was a thing. I also remember Naruto was hitting its American spike in popularity, which is why we were so obsessed with ninja stuff to begin with.
Ask A Ninja had relatively little to do with ninja culture. It was comedian Douglas Sarine dressed as a ninja and making waves in the new genre of "vodcasting" with the help of his friend Kent Nichols. At the height of their popularity in 2007, the two were making $100,000 a month in ad revenue!
The show was known for its quick biting humor, erratic camera angles, and that ridiculously catchy song:
They even did a collaboration with Mythbusters!
Ask A Ninja had relatively little to do with ninja culture. It was comedian Douglas Sarine dressed as a ninja and making waves in the new genre of "vodcasting" with the help of his friend Kent Nichols. At the height of their popularity in 2007, the two were making $100,000 a month in ad revenue!
The show was known for its quick biting humor, erratic camera angles, and that ridiculously catchy song:
They even did a collaboration with Mythbusters!
- 7/27/2016
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
Justine Ezarik, whose 1.5 million subscribers on her iJustine channel make her one of the most popular personalities on YouTube, is partnering up with a new talent agency. The top vlogger, formerly a member of The Collective, has moved to United Talent Agency, a move she hopes will optimize her standing both online and in the TV world. UTA was one of the first talent agencies to recognize the potential of the digital space. Back in the day, its clients included Fred, Ask a Ninja, and Smosh, the latter of which is now comfortably in front as the most popular channel on YouTube. Though the agency hasn't signed quite as much YouTube talent of late, it still retains a remarkably long list of film and TV talent. In the latter category, which is more currently relevant to Ezarik's career, the agency represents such clients as Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch,...
- 4/16/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
When you’re a video game developer and one of your titles has attracted such a massive fan base that its latest iteration drew over 10 million downloads within three days after its launch, it makes sense for you to leverage that popularity and expand that title into things other than video games. That’s why Rovio created a fuzzy line of Angry Birds plush toys and other branded, kid-friendly accoutrements, is developing a feature-length Angry Birds film with the help of former Marvel Entertainment exec David Maisel, and just recently announced plans to create a 52-episode, weekly, animated series based on the strategy puzzle game featuring some ominous pigs and a variety of birds who can’t fly without slingshot propulsion. Rovio Head of Animation, Nick Dorra told attendees at Miptv in Cannes earlier this month about the company’s intent to expand upon its wildly popular in-game and special...
- 4/9/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Ask A Ninja co-creator Kent Nichols spoke this past Monday at the monthly TransmediaLA event. He shared his knowledge about cultivating a core audience of true fans as well as changing modes of distribution by drawing on his knowledge gained from both creating a hit web show and working for Partner Outreach at Blip.tv. Consistency. A key piece of advice that Kent stressed over the course of the evening was that in order to become a success and grow a large audience there is a need for a consistent and constant flow of content. “If you are not producing at least 20 episodes of your narrative show that is probably not going to be enough. You need a certain mass of content to find that audience, and that needs to be put out there,” Kent said. “And that is just narrative content … you need bonus content, reward content that will...
- 10/8/2011
- by Angelique Toschi
- Tubefilter.com
When we look back years from now, Ask A Ninja will no doubt be part of that “greatest generation” of web shows—one of the early pioneering YouTube channels that created something so bizarre, delightfully interactive and inherently original that it stuck out of the onslaught of would-be video stars becoming a (digital) household name in the process. Kent Nichols and Doug Sarine are the creative duo behind the series, which has charted the ever-changing waters of online video to carve out a not-so-shabby business for themselves that bring in revenue not only from ad revenues on their videos, but merchandising, touring and even a book and an iPhone game. On October 4—just a month before the show’s five year anniversary— the Ninja is returning with new episodes five times a week. That by the way, is no easy feat, and Nichols and Sarine are veteran enough not to...
- 9/2/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
After their pilot episode snagged the Grand Prize at the 2009 Escapist Film Festival, creator Brett Register and his producing team of Rick Rey and Paula Rhodes knew they were on to something. At that point the show was called Dorian's Quest, but after a name change to A Good Knight's Quest, the team set out to shoot a 24-episode gamer comedy web series that would run on The Escapist Magazine's site in weekly installments. "I'm a huge fan of the Escapist, I have been for years, ever since I was in college," said Register. "I always wanted to do an 80's style show, like my own Masters of the Universe web series—the bad movie not the cartoon TV show." To launch the series, the team hosted a well-attended La premiere at the Capitol City Hollywood on Monday night. When a video game princess crosses over into the real world,...
- 3/4/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
It's kind of surprising that it took this long actually. Hosted web series are everywhere these days, reviewing everything from comicbooks, movies, video games and even street food vendors. So it's only fitting that the this month has seen the launch of two new smart phone application review web series—Revision3's new series, AppJudgment, and indie entry iPhun. AppJudgment is an in-house creation that will rotate hosts through known Rev3 personalities like co-founder David Prager, iFanBoy host Ron Richards, and TekZilla and HD Nation host Patrick Norton. The new series joins the network's growing slate of tech and internet friendly hosted web series which includes standout hit Diggnation. Cranking out about 6 million views per month, Revision3 as a network has the edge here in terms of reach. But don't rule out the iPhun.tv series which has its own heavyweight team behind it—internet 'troublemaker' Sean Bonner hosting, web series vet Rudy Jahchan (Galacticast,...
- 8/13/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
YouTube is close to a deal with The William Morris Agency (one of the oldest and most respected in Hollywood) reports Brian Stelter of The New York Times. The deal would purportedly “give William Morris clients an ownership stake in the videos they create” but, beyond that, we know very little about it. Though Google has attempted to extract meaningful ad revenue from its $1.65B acquisition with everything from partner programs to overlays to premium content from from CBS to MGM to Lionsgate, most big-name content owners have played rather wearily with the internet giant. Kent Nichols, creator of pioneering webshow Ask A Ninja, calls the deal “just an easy way for famous people to join the partner program” for a “better deal than the scummy amateurs of the world that join the rev share program.” Nichols believes that without production financing, deals like this one are meaningless. But Google...
- 1/29/2009
- by Jamison Tilsner
- Tilzy.tv
Comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine are penning a remake of cult 1978 movie Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes.
The pair, who created hit Internet series Ask A Ninja, are working on an adaptation of the sci-fi horror film, which centres on a genetically-modified strain of the fruit terrorising the public.
Nichols, who will make his directorial debut with the picture, says, "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes is the masterwork of a generation. We can only aspire to recapture that magic."
Despite often being named the worst movie of all time, Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes spawned a 1990 sequel and a spin-off TV series.
The pair, who created hit Internet series Ask A Ninja, are working on an adaptation of the sci-fi horror film, which centres on a genetically-modified strain of the fruit terrorising the public.
Nichols, who will make his directorial debut with the picture, says, "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes is the masterwork of a generation. We can only aspire to recapture that magic."
Despite often being named the worst movie of all time, Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes spawned a 1990 sequel and a spin-off TV series.
- 3/13/2008
- WENN
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