Come on Down to South Park and Watch the Shows Online
The web just got a whole lot funnier as the guys behind South Park have made every episode of their hit show available for free online. That’s right — every. episode. (Take that Hulu, and your five weeks’ worth of shows window). South Park Digital Studios will house everything South Park including all the episodes (not embeddable — boo!), 3,000 video clips (embeddable — yay!) and spearhead other digital initiatives.
The studio is part of a joint venture between creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker and Comedy Central, with the two splitting ad revenue 50/50. The site continues with MTV Networks’ strategy of launching many vertical sites around individual brands. (Disclosure: I used to work for Viacom).
In addition to housing South Park content, the Digital Studios will also serve as a launchpad for other animated projects Stone and Parker come up with.
See our previous South Park-goes-online coverage here and here.
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While this is very cool conceptually, why isn’t this accessible outside of the states? I understand the rights issues around paid content, but if they’re giving it away for free, why does it matter where the person who’s giving it away for free is living?
@Brian Hogg, have you been able to figure out the answer to your question? What does it look like when you try to access it from out of the states? Does it give you a notice or something?
Had no problems watching the clip above and on the SouthParkStudios.com website from the UK.
Ads and all.
The videos are not available to Canadians yet. Typical.
@Gary,
Maybe we should “blame Canada?”
Boy I hate pre-roll ads. It’s so “bait and switch.”
This type of site is the future though. Content is king.
Not available in NZ either. Please get your reporting right – “have made every episode of their hit show available for free online. – BUT ONLY IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES”
the ads are pissing me off.. especially that fuktard with screwed up eyes.. souhtparkzone.com offers all the episodes, with a little lower picture quality, but how good is picture quality if you have to be interrupted 4 times per episode by some jerkoff guy rolling around his fuked up eye while some psycho tune plays in the background..
You mean, all these commercial-free episodes of SP that I have downloaded from the Internet since 1998 aren’t the actual show? They sure had me fooled!
I love that the makers of South Park have realized that people ARE going to watch it online, and they can either embrace that and make some money off of it or fight it and lose money in the lawsuits.