MTV began as a showcase for music videos, but the art form has slowly shifted almost exclusively to the web.  In turn, MTV has turned to the web for scripted series that were once the exclusive domain of television. This is the clearest example to date of the ways in which the internet is changing ...

Given the success of our Conversation with IFC, I’m ecstatic to announce our next event…. A Curated Screening with College Humor TV …featuring… Ricky Van Veen, Founder and Editor Sam Reich, Director of Original Programming Jake Hurwitz, Writer and Star Amir Blumenfield, Writer and St...

When I met Gary Vaynerchuck in April 2007 - just days after Tilzy.TV had launched - the wine-retailer-cum-video-star already known for erudite descriptions of flavor guaranteed me twenty-thousand hits the very next day. Indeed, the next day, Tilzy.TV was charmed by a mention on Wine Library TV. Gary...

“We like to call these Great and Telling Tales because they are,” historian narrator Timothy Dickinson quips quixotically at the head of each vignette. The History Channel’s first made-for-web series consists of twelve historical tidbits illustrated with a fanciful exuberance that ...

Music videos are perhaps the pinnacle commercial form of video art - forever testing boundaries and pushing cinematic techniques with always-distinctive styles and often obtuse symbolism. The democratization of the means of video production AND now the lines of distribution have opened the gates of ...

What’s better for some buzz about your new brand than a web series? A web series with Heidi Klum, of course. The uber-model-cum-internet-star takes on  Spiked Heel , in which an alter-world Fashion Week is threatened by imminent demise from a death-ray poised for destruction.  Only the su...

Prefer Hardly Working to Niel Diamond?  Me too.  If you’re not set on the livecast of the Grammys, there’s an old-TV event with a new-TV twist that may be worth watching tonight. As we’ve mentioned, The CollegeHumor Show begins tonight, Sunday March 8th at 9:30/8:30c on MTV. (The...

YouTube is close to a deal with The William Morris Agency (one of the oldest and most respected in Hollywood) reports Brian Stelter of The New York Times. The deal would purportedly “give William Morris clients an ownership stake in the videos they create” but, beyond that, we know very ...

Well-spoken, intelligent, fair-minded, fit, dapper…and now bullet proof? Can this guy be for real? You read right. The seemingly standard, conventional, conservative suit that President Obama donned before catapulting The United States into a new era was, in fact, bullet proof.  Though the se...

Grace Heilberg has been vlogging new developments on My Damn Channel since this past summer via The Daily Grace. Before that, she and Michelle Vargas had been plugging away on their own blog of vlogs. Now, the dynamic duo that jumpstarted Grace’s online career are back together at long last. ...