Rafi Mamalian

Felicia Day on AOTS!

My favorite character from ‘Weeds’ on Showtime has his own web video series called “University of Andy”… Here, he gives us some tips on how to deal with Thanksgiving Festivities.

Making a Web Series: The Story, The Outline, The Script

Yuri Baranovsky is funny guy and I couldn’t resist quoting this passage.  Despite making with the jokes, this is a very useful post that should be read by anyone making a web series.  So useful that I’m going to link to it on blip.tv’s support page.

(via ericmortensen)

(via bliptv) (via evangotlib)

While the captioning is in its infancy, it’s already associated with National Geographic, providing an immediate educational resource. The speech recognition technology that can generate the captions will also improve video search capabilities, allowing educators to more quickly find relevant materials and discard the junk that also likes to inhabit YouTube.

xxxjustinralconxxx:

Wondering what to get Aunt Jenny for the Holidays this year?  Look no further, there are new Roku’s…. via USAToday

Many people are asking these days how to find Web Video shows.  Clicker is a company that is hoping to build a web-video-centric guide to programming.  You’ll be able to find shows on blip.tv, YouTube, Hulu, and more..

mikehudack:

adamiss:

Oooofff

(Found via newspaper man Ken Li)

mikehudack:

bliptv:

The blip.tv sales team has been crushing it. So much so that for the first time in our history we’re set to serve an ad for every single available impression on almost every show that’s opted into advertising on blip. The only exception? Postrolls. We’re not going to be serving very many postrolls. So you’ve got to be opted into preroll and overlay in order to take advantage of our sales team’s crushing it.

Advertisers include Best Buy, MetroPCS, Chili’s, Toyota Scion, Canon, Nikon, The History Channel and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. And more.

This means that it’s time for show creators to opt into more advertising formats and take other steps to maximize their revenue. Because there’s money to be had! There are shows on blip who are already using blip ad revenue to help pay the rent and even live on. Results will, of course, vary. Some shows make only a penny. Other shows make tens of thousands of dollars.

So read Optimizing your show’s revenue on the blip.tv support site. Then go and opt into preroll and overlay ads. There are high quality, high paying ads available for you.

VOTE FOR THE DECADE’S BEST IN 33 CATEGORIES

In December, the editors at AdweekMedia will select the best marketing, media and agency performances of the decade, covering 2000 through 2009, across the 33 categories below. These will be our choices for the people, companies, brands, products and creative work that most influenced the industry and came to define the era.

mikehudack:

katykelley:

fuckyeahads:

(submitted by neilywheely)

I admit, it took me a second…but loving this ad.

Sezmi aims to provide a more personalized, Net-savvy, inexpensive alternative to cable and satellite–complete with the real broadcast and cable channels you can’t get from Apple TV, Roku, or Vudu. It does so via a 1TB DVR/set-top box that provides access to three types of TV sources: broadcast stations, cable channels, and Internet content. (It snags the first two kinds over the air, via a powerful antenna in a box that looks like a loudspeaker: Sezmi simply grabs local broadcast channels as is, and the company is leasing spectrum from local broadcasters to transmit cable channels

yeah, it’s like that.

this is well done.. kinda reminds me of Project Rant, which i love.

mikehudack:

tomreynolds:

evangotlib:

Jared is building a new database server.  We needed more capacity for our ad stats package because these days we’re selling a lot of ads.  This is good.

I’ve also never seen someone build a database server before, so more win.

That’s what these boxes do. Man, I’ve got a lot to learn here still.

handstamp:

mikehudack:

Wouldn’t normally self-link, but come on… “The paradigm of network TV was set up in the ’30s and ’40s,” says Hudack, who oversees a New York staff of 20. “We’re taking it from a linear economy of scarcity to an Internet economy of plenty.”

I’ll stop being obnoxious now. Thanks, Hollywood Reporter!