EQAL confirmed that it has raised some cash in an effort to bolster its sales and business development teams while trying to grow its platform for social publishing. According to an SEC filing, the company raised $650,000 of a $3.5 million round, but investors weren’t disclosed.
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Ryan Lawler
May 24, 2011 - 10:00 AM PST
UPDATED: The Producer’s Guild of America announced last night the creation of a new title for producers who work in the increasingly…
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Liz Shannon Miller
Apr 6, 2010 - 2:37 PM PST
EQAL has bought out investor Spark Capital, just has the company has stepped away from its original strategy of becoming a web video production house to pursue a strategy around helping others create and distribute their own web videos.
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Ryan Lawler
Mar 29, 2010 - 4:30 PM PST
Paula Deen fans take note — the domestic goddess with an EQAL-run umbrella site wants to give you a taste of the…
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Liz Shannon Miller
Mar 23, 2010 - 9:30 AM PST
[show=voltaggiobrothers size=large]As a fan of the reality series Top Chef (I like beautiful food and people with tattoos cursing each other out,…
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Liz Shannon Miller
Feb 25, 2010 - 5:00 PM PST
Another change in tack for digital content company EQAL — which recently shifted its focus from investing in its own original series, to pr…
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Tameka Kee
Jul 31, 2009 - 1:10 AM PST
For something that is supposed to be two tons of fun, Comic-Con appears to have been a source of crushing self doubt…
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Chris Albrecht
Jul 28, 2009 - 1:30 PM PST
Here a Fred, there a Fred, everywhere a Fred-Fred. The specter of 15-year-old Lucas Cruikshank has seemed to haunt NATPE’s LA TV…
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Liz Gannes
Jul 9, 2009 - 9:09 AM PST
The weak ad market is forcing breakout online video studio EQAL out of the original content business, and into the arms of old-school media…
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Tameka Kee
Jun 11, 2009 - 8:29 PM PST
The folks at EQAL, who practically put the concept of newteevee on the map with lonelygirl15, are foregoing original content to focus…
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Chris Albrecht
Jun 11, 2009 - 11:30 AM PST
Harper’s Island, the 13-episode “mystery event,” debuts tonight on CBS (s cbs), where it will spin a gory yarn about a wedding…
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Jill Weinberger
Apr 9, 2009 - 9:56 AM PST
[show=harpersglobe size=large]Creating newteevee to supplement oldteevee is a tricky thing. How do you tie your online content to your TV show in…
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Jill Weinberger
Mar 18, 2009 - 10:07 AM PST
Zumobi Introduces American Idol App for iPhone; app gives users bios, pictures, news and 78 original videos from the remaining contestants. (Seattle…
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Chris Albrecht
Mar 10, 2009 - 10:01 AM PST
Last week, the creators of lonelygirl15 after running a contest to open up a two-month programming slot to fan creators, selected a…
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Liz Shannon Miller
Feb 6, 2009 - 12:58 PM PST
The partnership between EQAL and CBS is starting to bear fruit, as the two media companies announced their new upcoming multi-platform “social…
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Chris Albrecht
Jan 13, 2009 - 12:46 PM PST
Addressing a crowd at the Mixx Conference in New York yesterday, CBS president and CEO Les Moonves said that the Internet was…
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Chris Albrecht
Sep 24, 2008 - 10:00 AM PST
Web video is starting to mirror traditional TV, like it or not. Case in point: the distribution strategy and release schedule of…
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daisywhitney
Aug 30, 2008 - 12:00 AM PST
Pioneering web series lonelygirl15 will draw to a close today. The online show that proved the Internet could launch compelling visual entertainment…
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Chris Albrecht
Aug 1, 2008 - 8:39 AM PST
lonelygirl15, the pioneering online video series, will conclude on Aug. 1 to make way for a new show from its creators and…
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Liz Gannes
Jul 14, 2008 - 8:43 AM PST
EQAL, the new startup formed by the creators of lonelygirl15, is following up on its promise to expand the LG15 “universe” to…
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Liz Gannes
Jun 3, 2008 - 11:24 PM PST
NewTeeVee: The men behind Obama Girl are going to the movies. NewTeeVee: Quincy Smith Q&A: CNET, EQAL and embeds. WebWorkerDaily: Do apps…
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Edit Staff
May 16, 2008 - 11:11 AM PST
Fox has announced that its upcoming shows Dollhouse and Fringe will air with reduced commercial breaks. Each break will be shorter and…
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Chris Albrecht
May 16, 2008 - 8:29 AM PST
Wow, just when we question those EQAL guys’ reasoning for doing something dumb by pulling a hit series, they show they have…
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Liz Gannes
May 14, 2008 - 2:32 PM PST
And yet, the funding keeps flowing in: EQAL, the new name of the production company behind the pioneering online video series Lonelygirl15,…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 17, 2008 - 2:18 AM PST