Maker Studios and social platform Wikia partnered to create The 2014 Year in Fandom, a video series celebrating the year’s top trends. Wikia combined highlights from its fan base with other factors such as total audience, volume of content and the “momentum” around the major moments in the last twelve months. Wikia’s Maker Gen creators, […]
Netflix subscribers are tuning into originals like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black more than ever, according to a new study from Centris Marketing Science. In Q3 of this year, 72 percent of U.S. subscribers watched original programming compared to the 57 percent in just Q1. Variety reports the dramatic increase was […]
Endemol Beyond USA will launch the original series The #Muthaship, starring Emmy winner Drea de Matteo (Sons of Anarchy), on Dec. 1. In the series, which premieres on Endemol’s BEYONDreality channel on YouTube, viewers will be introduced to the entertaining characters of de Matteo’s unconventional family. Original episodes will post every Monday on the channel.
Recently cancelled ABC series Selfie was picked up by Hulu for its remaining six episodes. The streaming service will not create any more eps (the series is still cancelled), but the last unaired eps will debut every week. Selfie starred Karen Gillian and John Cho, and averaged 4.7 million viewers, 1.5 rating among adults 18-49.
Amazon may take a note from Hulu, and launch an ad-supported free service in 2015. TechCrunch reports the additional service would give Amazon more ad inventory, and act as a way to promote its own devices and services (hint: Amazon Prime). The Amazon spokesperson Sally Fouts told TC: “We currently offer the first episode of […]
Discovery’s Many vs. Wild main guy Bear Grylls is developing a new YouTube channel with Barcroft Media. The Bear Grylls Adventure will launch on Nov. 28 and include short original content featuring the adrenaline-seeker. Three new videos are expected to hit the channel every week, with Barcroft promoting the content across Barcroft TV and Barcroft […]
Fox ordered a new series based on YouTube channel Fail Army, called World’s Funniest Fails (wt), and set to debut on Jan. 16 at 8p ET. The Jukin Media YT channel boasts six million subscribers, and the show will pull clips from Fail Army and feature a panel of comedians to analyze the stunt.
Unruly named this year’s Top 20 Global Social Video Ads Chart, with one-fifth listed coming from World Cup sponsors or created with the theme of the event. The top 20 countdown include: 20. KLM: Lost And Found Service – 670,401 shares 19. P&G: Pick Them Back Up – 688,364 shares 18. BBC: God Only Knows […]
Despite previous reports, Facebook is not listed as a presenter on the preliminary schedule for the 2015 Digital Content NewFronts this year. The IAB released the program for the NewFronts yesterday, a showcase similar to the annual TV Upfronts, to take place between April 27 and May 6, 2015. Newcomers include Discovery Digital Networks and […]
Alec Baldwin has some words of advice when it comes to love, and he’s dishing it in the back of New York City cabs in his new Above Average series Alec Balwin’s Love Ride. The series follow’s the actor has he picks up unsuspecting couples, along with his famous friends, to learn their stories and […]
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