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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.
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?
Following several weeks of rumors, webisode syndicator Next New Networks has been sold to YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), co-founder and CEO Fred Seib…
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.
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.
Next New Networks is seeking $19.5 million through an equity financing, according to an SEC filing (via TechCrunch), as the sale of the webi…
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lance Podell is resigning from his post as CEO of webisode syndicator Next New Networks, citing personal reasons, the company said. He will…
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.
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.
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.
$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.
Webisode syndicator Next New Networks celebrated its one-billionth pageview last week — three years after opening its doors. The New York c…
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.
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.
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.
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.”
The nominees for the 14th Annual Webby Awards were announced today, highlighting some of the best of the best on the web…
We’re starting a new feature for NewTeeVee today, where every week we ask a noted figure from the online video world five…
Last night, my flight from SFO to LAX was stuck on the runway, and so I was channel-surfing the DirecTV (s dtv)…
It’s a quiet afternoon when my phone rings with an unknown number. I don’t get a lot of phone calls from unknown…
[show=epic-fu size=large]The Internet is a place for reinvention, and there are few who understand that quite so well as Steve Woolf and…
It’s not clear where Conan O’Brien will end up when he finally departs NBC (s GE), but some have suggested he take…
The car-obsessed Fast Lane Daily and its sister shows have been a mainstay of Next New Networks since the very beginning of…
As producers of nonfiction content, Next New Networks has always been good about partnering with and nurturing previously known talent, from Ben…
HealthGuru Raises $3.2 Million; health site and provider of online health videos get Series C led by Castile Ventures. (emailed release) Mio.TV…
Lindsay Campbell, one of the early faces of web video as the host of Wallstrip, which was bought by CBS (s CBS)…
Online television studio Next New Networks today reorganized its staff, bringing on producer Kathleen Grace to head up programming. Grace, creator of…
The lines between old and newteevee blurred a little more today, as Clearleap announced that it will help make web-based content from…
ABC News Launches YouTube Channel; will feature short-form content from World News, Good Morning America, and Nightline. (YouTube) Elsewhere at ABC, The…
Winners of the 13th Annual Webby Awards were announced today, and recipients in the Online Film & Video category were a nice…
French Government Rejects Internet Piracy Law; the proposed legislation would have given music and movie companies the ability to analyze downloads of…
Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf, who ditched web studio Next New Networks for competitor Revision3 last year but then got dropped by…
Next New Networks is seeking to tap into its music DNA with the launch of a new video site with a funny name: $99 Music Videos. The idea is…
Online studios Next New Networks and Revision3 are both launching music shows. But rather than confront the labels on their own turf…
Next New Networks’ Barely Political, which struck online video gold with Obama Girl, is hoping it can mine technology for an equally…
The Wall Street Journal reports tonight on “The Pool,” a group of video-serving web sites and advertisers brought together by Publicis Groupe’s…
Online video studio Next New Networks says that it tripled views of its programming in 2008, breaking 300 million total video plays,…
Mindy Kaling or Michael Buckley? Jessica Alba or Jessica Rose? Of course it helps to have well-known faces attached to your web…
Lots of great stuff in the viral world today (see our video ribbon above for more), but here’s my favorite so far:…
Get a bunch of video creators into a room, with beer, and the conversation won’t ever stop. That fact was well-demonstrated at…
Both “Veracifier” and “The Stack” have left the new media network right as the company brings on its new CEO. Add in “Epic-Fu” and the total number of shows gone is now three.
Left-leaning political news blog Talking Points Memo and NextNew Networks are severing their ties, a rep for the online video aggregator con…
After five years as head of the company that eventually became Seevast, CEO Lance Podell is leaving his post to become the head of online vi…
Next New Networks, which in June announced it was looking for a new CEO after raising a $15 million Series B round in March, has found its pick: Lance Podell, formerly CEO of the search marketing and ad network firm Seevast.
Look, it’s Friday, it’s been a crazy week, you don’t want to think about anything serious right now. You want to watch…
Running a video startup isn’t a cakewalk. Despite its rising impact on the media business in particular and the population in general, the sector has few exit trophies on its shelf. Turning profits remains a distant dream and even investors are reluctant to open their check books any further. No surprise we are seeing some chief executives move on from their current gigs. Continue Reading.
Online video production and distribution service NextNew Networks’s CEO Herb Scannell is stepping down…he is becoming executive chairman,…
Some How-To Videos are Making Money; instructional videos on stuff like turning a flashlight into a laser earned Kip Kedersha $102,000 from…
Hulu Heading for Mobile? During NAB keynote, CEO Jason Kilar says mobile phones are “ripe for the Hulu experience”; also says Arrested…
Online video production and distribution service NextNew Networks has received $15 million in a new second round of funding…the round was…
* FoundRead: To Flip or Build, that is The Question. Its an age old question, which is being asked again. My preference…
