Alloy Digital In Talks To Bring Smosh To Cable Television
Smosh may be headed for television as their parent company Alloy Digital is talking to cable networks on possibly creating a second home for Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, Variety reported today. Alloy Digital is planning on making either a scripted series or a non-scripted program, and the company has already hired writers for the [...]
3 Reasons Why You Should Be Using YouTube’s Slow Motion Editing Tool
By now you’ve heard that YouTube has officially added slomo capability to their built-in video editor. Now, no matter how mundane or anti-climactic your footage is, Michael Bay-esque slow motion glory is only a click away. While an overuse of slow motion will almost certainly send your time-crunched audience packing, the new enhancement does have [...]
Comedian Maria Bamford Gives Motherly Advice In My Damn Channel’s ‘Ask My Mom’
Comedian Maria Bamford is coming to My Damn Channel with her quirky web series “Ask My Mom!” She will play the roles of herself and her 72-year-old “heartfelt, absurd liberal Christian mom” Marilyn Bamford. The “Ask My Mom!” website describes Bamford’s role as her mother: “She has years of wisdom to tackle any query, question [...]
Cisco Report: Online Video Will Surpass Social Media By 2017
Online video is growing at a rapid pace and will surpass social media in popularity by 2017, according to the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index forecast. Residential internet users worldwide watching online video stood at a little more than 1 billion in 2012, or 58 percent of the world’s internet users. On the other hand, [...]
Google & Microsoft Bury The Hatchet, Begin Working On Windows Phone YouTube App
I like to imagine that Larry Page, Google co-founder and future asteroid miner, was quietly stewing in his Mountain View penthouse cursing Microsoft and that damned unauthorized YouTube app of theirs when he opened an email containing the following picture: To which Page said, “Goddammit, if they can get along so can we.” This strange [...]
A Desperate Plea For YouTubers To Not Do Live Sketch Comedy
Last week, the media was ablaze with “Saturday Night Live” coverage. In one fell swoop, the legendary sketch show lost two of its best cast members, Bill Hader and Fred Armisen, who have gone on to graze greener pastures. With the loss of Hader and Armisen, “SNL” finds itself with a drought of widely-loved sketch [...]
Canadian Student’s Viral Class Project Boosts His YouTube Career [VIDEO]
YouTube is not just a platform for vlogs and new media entertainment — it’s also a platform for students trying to work on their class projects. Canadian high school student Csaba Nagy’s social studies project video, however, is giving him more than just an excellent grade in class. Last year, the 15-year-old created a 30-second [...]
BuzzFeed Announces YouTube Expansion Initiative Starting With L.A. Production Studio
Since September, the BuzzFeed Video YouTube channel has received over 170 million views across more than 500 videos, but for the viral tastemakers, that’s not good enough. Launching today, BuzzFeed will begin massive expansion campaigns for their online video operations. In addition, BuzzFeed has announced plans for a Los Angeles-based digital video studio created solely [...]
YouTube Comedy Week Strangely Devoid of Laughter
I started out with a grand idea: watch every video from YouTube Comedy Week, pick the five best videos out of the hundreds and then rank them. After watching many of the videos, I then decided, you know what? I will just find one good one, just one that makes me laugh and crown [...]
Will YouTube Change How E3 Coverage Is Viewed This Year?
With E3, the game industry’s biggest trade show, weeks away, developers are racing to get their proverbial ducks in a row (real ducks in the case of Nintendo’s Duck Hunt reboot). With this mad scramble to the E3 finish line, some studios have started locking down the most important tool in their make-gamers-flip-out-arsenal — YouTube. [...]
