Blip.TV Raises $10 Million for More Web Video You (Probably) Won’t See on Hulu
It's no YouTube, but Blip.TV is turning five, too. That's impressive enough for any Web video outfit, but CEO Mike Hudack also has a good story to tell: He's figuring out how to make money from the clips small-time producers make--and how to get the producers enough money to make more clips. Repeat.
Star Wait Strikes Back From 2002
Those who observe the holiday known as Star Wars Day tend to do so in their own individual ways. Some spend May 4th rewatching the films, others simply use it as an opportunity to say “may the fourth be with you” a whole bunch. Stupid for Movies and Kevin Pollak Chat Show director Mike Rotman...
Reservation Brings an Intimate Touch to Superheroics
Comparing a web series to a TV show isn’t something I love to do, because the playing field is pretty uneven. But in the case of the indie series Reservation, when compared to the NBC drama Heroes, I don’t mind doing so because Reservation wins. Directed by Matthew Balthrop of g14 Productions and distributed via...
Viral Hitmakers Team With Indie Doc About…Grocery Baggers?
Last fall, I interviewed Pixar CTO/indie film producer Oren Jacob for a GigaOm Pro piece about using online data in the offline world. At the time, Jacob was considering the idea of putting his latest project, the Spellbound-esque documentary Ready Set Bag!, online in full for free, as a means of figuring out how...
