Two of the funniest women in comedy today. A channel that brought together cop show parodies and sci-fi drama. A series that created a community. And a brand that pushed the boundaries of serialized content. For those who like web video, 2012 was a great year. Read more »
Revision3 teamed up with a serious player in the arts and entertainment space to produce its new weekly A.V. Talk show: The movie-focused show comes straight from the Onion’s AV Club, which has been producing a popular audio podcast by the same name for years. Read more »
While The Onion News Network, delivering the Onion’s skewed POV on news, is typically free to watch, this month the network is experimenting with a premium offering available for $1.99. The justification for charging is this: This news broadcast comes from the future. Read more »
“‘I’d like nothing more than to apologize in person to everyone we’ve let down, but as you can see, many of our users are rarely home at this hour,’ said Google cofounder and president Sergey Brin,” in a spot-on spoof from The Onion. Read more »
I’m going to say a small prayer now. Dear Lord, please please please make the upcoming pilot from Comedy Central and The Onion as awesome as it sounds, so it can be picked up for a full season. Amen. Comedy Central announced today that it is […] Read more »
Winners of the 13th Annual Webby Awards were announced today, and recipients in the Online Film & Video category were a nice mix of old and new media. We’ve been following the Don’t Let Jimmy Win campaign here at NewTeeVee, and it looks like those efforts […] Read more »
Google Turning to Brain Science for Ads; company is hooking up with NeuroFocus to test brain responses to InVideo Ads. (AdWeek) Howcast Gets $2 Million; how-to video company had kept a $2 million allocation in the first round open for individual investors, total raised now $10 […] Read more »
Virginia Heffernan, the normally-astute media writer for the New York Times, wrote a bewildering piece that appeared in the paper’s magazine on Sunday. “Serial Killers” took web video series to task, albeit in a pretty confusing manner. My main issues with Heffernan’s story are classification, timeliness […] Read more »
The unplanned concurrence of NewTeeVee Station‘s launch and the first-ever New York Internet Week made for a pretty hectic few days, but I was still able to partake in some of the week’s festivities. Consider this Vid Picks a travel document of what you missed. The […] Read more »
NPR’s The Bryant Park Project was kind enough to bring me back on the air today to talk about the Webby nominees. Topics we touched on included SuperDeluxe vs. College Humor, how The Onion News Network treats fat kids and the web opening up opportunities for […] Read more »