Have you ever found yourself faking a trip to the restroom to check your email on your phone or slept with your laptop? Tiffany Shlain’s documentary, “Connected,” explores this phenomenon and what it means to be connected in the 21st century.
We had the opportunity to ask Dan Goodman and Bill Masterson, co-founders of digital entertainment company Believe Entertainment, about their take on the appeal web video and what they think is in store for the future of web series. Find out what they had to say after the jump.
I had the opportunity to ask YouTube sensation Denny Blaze, aka The Average Homeboy, a few questions about his rapping, his life, and what it was like to become a viral sensation on YouTube. Find out what he had to say after the jump!
Shahed Khan is CEO and Co-founder of Viatask, a pre-launch startup called Viatask. He’s been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Tech Cocktail and more, has been attending every networking event he can, pitching to VCs and—get this—he’s only 16!
“Wow! That’s like…a video!” If you’ve spent any time watching viral videos on YouTube in the last two weeks then you may have happened across a video of someone saying these five words. YouTuber itsaninterimweb has been tacking these words, in the form of video comments, onto virtually every YouTube video to go viral over the past couple of weeks.
Six years ago, at age 15, Catherine Cook and her brother Dave came up with the idea for myYearbook—a new way to meet classmates at her new high school. Today Catherine is 21 years old, recently graduated from Georgetown and just sold her company for $100 million! I had the opportunity to ask Catherine a few questions about myYearbook, her success, and the advantage and disadvantages that young entrepreneurs have to deal with.
Web series pioneer Yuri Baranovsky talks about how he broke into the industry, his path to success and what advice he has to offer to others looking to follow in his footsteps.
Once, YouTube was ruled by individuals, conversing and sharing their opinions via video. Today the vlogger community has been overtaken by what Zennie Abraham refers to as the “lowest common denominator”—videos of dancing gorillas and other mindless content with no real intelligent substance. And who does he blame? Oprah!
“With the penetration of smart phones and tablets, users watching TV while holding a second screen has become nearly ubiquitous.” SecondScreen Networks CEO Seth Tapper discusses how his company is approaching advertising on these “second screens.”
Interactive video fanatics—prepare to be wowed! Digital media startup Interlude is revolutionizing the world of interactive video with their choose-your-own-adventure-esque online video technology.
