Thought YouTube was about passive video watching? Think again: YouTube producer Rutter Jared has put together an interactive Tic Tac Toe game by utilizing the site’s annotation feature. The game consists of 131 videos and more than 1000 annotations and producing it took an entire month. Read more »
YouTube is announcing the 45 winners of its NextUp and Creator Institute contests today. The former will get $35,000 in cash, the latter a month-long YouTube class at a top film school. The announcement made us wonder: What exactly do you learn in YouTube class? Read more »
After several years as partners, YouTube acquired Next New Networks, capping months of speculation that the startup would become a part of the video share site’s content machine. We take a look at how the companies got here and what YouTube gets through the deal. Read more »
It’s time to auto-tune the acquisition news: YouTube has sealed the deal today and officially announced that it is buying Next New Networks for an undisclosed amount. The Next New Networks team will become part of a new YouTube unit aimed at incubating new shows. Read more »
A filing with the SEC today indicates Next New Networks is on its way to being bought out by Google any day now — a deal that makes a lot more sense, thanks to reports that YouTube is looking to enlist name-brand celebrities for original content. Read more »
Rumors that Google may acquire Next New Networks heated up today, but if the deal goes through, the company won’t be getting the rights to many of Next New’s most popular shows, which belong to their creators. So what does it get instead? Read more »
During Bobby Miller’s tenure at Next New Networks, he won two Webbys for The Reel Good Show and The Best Short Films In the World. Today, he talks about his new show, his departure from NNN and what he loves about creating weekly web content. Read more »
Over the course of 2010, professionally produced content, not cats and stunts gone wrong, was what people were watching online. While the power of viral spread will never disappear, the decline of amateur found footage indicates that in 2011, sustainable brands will eclipse the viral video. Read more »
YouTube’s place in the online video ecosystem could change dramatically, if today’s rumors that it will acquire Next New Networks are true. The two companies already have a relationship beyond distribution, and if they were to merge, it would possibly have ramifications for other content providers. Read more »
Next New Networks’ Auto-Tune the News and Key of Awesome topped YouTube’s most watched list for 2010, but the company’s success goes well beyond the fact that it’s mastered the art of the parody viral video. The question is now: When will it reach profitability? Read more »
Over the last few weeks, AOL’s video strategy has blasted off, with new shows from Next New Networks and Vuguru being added. The new focus comes from this month’s complete redesign of the AOL.com home page, which emphasizes visual media and a more topical focus. Read more »
The live-stream video market is entering an upturn in the typical hockey stick growth chart. Tens of millions of desktop viewers use browser-based players to find live-streaming content on an ever-increasing number of web sites and mobile devices. Raw viewership will grow fastest in the consumer segment, where sites like Justin.tv and Qik are focused. Those like Kyte, Livestream, Ustream and BitGravity, meanwhile, primarily offer platforms to commercial content providers seeking a mass audience. And as the market grows, both in terms of viewers and of the number and type of content providers, it will support both those with a diverse, one-stop-shop approach and those who specialize in particular content and audiences. Additional companies mentioned in this report include YouTube/Google, Sony, HTC, Vivu, Facebook and Apple. To see a full list of companies and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Next New Networks has expanded its roster of distribution partners today with the launch of The One, a daily web series produced exclusively for AOL spotlights “the one thing we’re thinking about today.” The deal includes yet another home for some of NNN’s other shows. Read more »
A study commissioned by YouTube and Next New Networks suggests that a majority of viewers find original web videos to be as entertaining as broadcast TV. Perhaps more importantly, those viewers are typically more engaged when watching original web videos that their counterparts watching live TV. Read more »
White Collar Brawler‘s pitch — that it’s sort of real-life Fight Club — is one of the rare pitches that does, almost, match with the subject matter. Next New Networks and Blip.tv partnered to launch the Portal A-produced series this week. Read more »
Next New Networks announced CEO Lance Podell is stepping down, citing personal reasons. Podell will continue to oversee the broader strategic direction of the company as its chairman. Taking his place is Fred Seibert, current chairman of Next New, who co-founded the company back in 2007. Read more »
YouTube launched a new feature with select partners that will allow them to stream programming live online. Through a two-day alpha trial with Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood, YouTube and its partners will test the capabilities of the live streaming offering. Read more »
Next New Networks’ newest film-focused web series isn’t anywhere to be found on nextnewnetworks.com — or YouTube, or any of the site’s many other distribution partners. Instead, MSN Film Fan, hosted by Maribel Arber, is running exclusively on MSN.com. Read more »
$5 million sounds like a lot of money for YouTube to give away to its partners in grants. But given the success of Next New Networks’ Key of Awesome, which was an early recipient of a YouTube Partner Grant, it might be a safe bet. Read more »
There was too much news today in the web video world, but here are the highlights! Babelgum has acquired Chad Vader, Next New Networks is launching a health and fitness network, Revision3 is now available via iPhone app and Michael Buckley no longer needs glasses. Read more »
Next New Networks is getting closer to hitting a grand total of one billion video views — it could be a matter of days for the site to break the ten-figure barrier. However, it will take a little longer for the company to reach profitability. Read more »
Instead of producing web video on its own, Next New Networks now seeks to be an incubator of talent, striking rev share agreements with independent creators who can leverage its studio, brand and marketing muscle to increase audience awareness. Read more »
Next New Networks co-founder Herb Scannell is returning to the old media world as president of BBC Worldwide America. Scannell was NNN’s CEO of the company until stepping down in June 2008, and was known as “the old media guy who got it.” Read more »
The nominees for the 14th Annual Webby Awards were announced today, highlighting some of the best of the best on the web (including NewTeeVee parent site GigaOM, which was nominated in the “Blog – Business” category — way to go, guys!). This year, NYTimes.com leads all […] Read more »
We’re starting a new feature for NewTeeVee today, where every week we ask a noted figure from the online video world five questions about the industry and their work in it. First up is Ben Relles, founder and creative director of NextNewNetworks’ Barely Political. According to […] Read more »
Hulu Goes to the Movies (That You’ve Never Heard Of); Yesterday marked the first time a “feature film” appeared on Hulu before running anywhere else, but only because In The Darkness is hardly a feature film. (MediaMemo) Isohunt Ordered to Remove Infringing Content; a U.S. judge […] Read more »
Last night, my flight from SFO to LAX was stuck on the runway, and so I was channel-surfing the DirecTV provided by Virgin Airlines. It was an exercise in minimizing boredom, not to mention enjoying a few minutes off the clock — which is why I […] Read more »
It’s a quiet afternoon when my phone rings with an unknown number. I don’t get a lot of phone calls from unknown numbers, especially from people who have been the focus of both the New York Times and fierce reblogging sites, so it’s a bit surprising […] Read more »
The Internet is a place for reinvention, and there are few who understand that quite so well as Steve Woolf and Zadi Diaz, who last night relaunched their groundbreaking web series Epic Fu — making this the fourth iteration of the show since its launch in […] Read more »
It’s not clear where Conan O’Brien will end up when he finally departs NBC, but some have suggested he take his act online, where a number of people already watch his antics. Revision3 even issued an open letter to the late-night talk show host, promising him […] Read more »
The car-obsessed Fast Lane Daily and its sister shows have been a mainstay of Next New Networks since the very beginning of the online video company’s creation. But today NNN announced that production on the shows is being shifted to online automotive content producer Autostream. While […] Read more »
As producers of nonfiction content, Next New Networks has always been good about partnering with and nurturing previously known talent, from Ben Relles and his Obama Girl to more recent deals with Daniel Delaney of Vendr.tv and Grace Randolph of Beyond the Trailer. But while in […] Read more »
Blockbuster and Netflix Win a Patent Suit; a judge found that the DVD-by-mail services do not infringe on a patent owned by Oklahoma-based Media Queue. (Video Business) Next New Networks’ Bobby Miller Headed to Sundance; the Indy Mogul host’s short film TUB was accepted to the […] Read more »
HealthGuru Raises $3.2 Million; health site and provider of online health videos get Series C led by Castile Ventures. (emailed release) Mio.TV Files for Bankruptcy; online destination for Latinos to watch TV and interact ran out of cash. (Multichannel News) Best Buy Adds Netflix to Insignia; […] Read more »
14 Million Videos Uploaded to Facebook Each Month; up 40 percent from 10 million in July. (Inside Facebook) Microsoft and Intel Partner for Mobile Silverlight; Atom-based devices running Windows 7 or Moblin will support the video technology, and Silverlight will be part of Intel’s Atom Developer […] Read more »
Lindsay Campbell, one of the early faces of web video as the host of Wallstrip, which was bought by CBS in 2007 for $4 million, is back on the PC screen today with a new show, Small Business Rules for Next New Networks. The show is […] Read more »
Last month, groundbreaking production company EQAL (the creators of “lonelygirl15″) announced that it would no longer be producing scripted series, instead creating content to go along with previously established brands. It was a decision that disappointed many loyal fans, but it just might be the direction ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Online television studio Next New Networks today reorganized its staff, bringing on producer Kathleen Grace to head up programming. Grace, creator of The Burg and The All-for-Nots, had already been working closely with NNN as a producer on its TMI Weekly and 99 Dollar Music Videos. […] Read more »
The lines between old and newteevee blurred a little more today, as Clearleap announced that it will help make web-based content from blip.tv, Next New Networks and Revision3 accessible on TV sets. Programming from the trio of new media companies will be made available through cable, […] Read more »
ABC News Launches YouTube Channel; will feature short-form content from World News, Good Morning America, and Nightline. (YouTube) Elsewhere at ABC, The Unusuals used the video-sharing giant to build an audience before the ABC/YouTube deal was in place. (AdAge) Blackberry “PrimeTime2Go” Service Launches; mobile VOD service […] Read more »
