YouTube’s $100 million “NextGen TV” is Just TV

Convergences Worth Noting 30 October 2011 | 0 Comments

On Friday afternoon, YouTube quietly announced its new lineup of “original content” channels – meaning not the kind of channel you create for your skateboarding videos, but the kind of channel YouTube thinks will be able to compete with television. We all knew YouTube was headed into the pro-content biz, but until now the strategy has [...]

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Aina Media Inc Launches

Social Change,storytelling 15 June 2011 | 2 Comments

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Oprah: The Last Media Mega-Influencer?

Social Media and Art 15 November 2010 | 0 Comments

The New York Times just ran a piece called “Who Will Be Oprah’s Last Star?” on what has been called the “Oprah Effect”, complete with slideshow of the beneficiaries of the talk show hosts immense influence over the last 25-odd years. Oprah’s book club did wonders for authors and she became a fairy godmother to [...]

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NewTeeVee Live’s Crystal Ball: Predictions for Web/Video/TV

Future Predictions 13 November 2009 | 0 Comments

Extracted from the NewTeeVee Live archive of yesterday’s great 1 day conference, this video is long video but very worth worth watching if you’re curious what the folks in the new media video world think is coming next. Answers to the question: ”What’s The Next Big Thing” had experts weighing in on technologies, creative shifts, funding, [...]

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