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There’s just not enough money to go around on the Web. That’s why the digital studios are tumbling down. The first to fall was Mania TV in March, followed by 60 Frames earlier this month. More will surely shutter in the coming months. The question is, who will be left standing? Digital studios like Deca...
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Television networks, Web shows and movie studios alike are rushing to develop iPhone applications, but could we be approaching app burnout? Daisy Whitney asks that question in the “New Media Minute.” This week alone iPhone users were treated to new apps from History Channel, “Dad Labs” and the movie...
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Multimedia production shop Generate is bucking the layoff trend, announcing several new hires today. The company added Chris Gwiazda as chief financial officer and Tim Stephen as executive vice president of business affairs. In addition, Generate said founding partner Pete Aronson will serve as president...
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New-media and traditional producers agree that they don’t want to create shows on spec anymore. That’s the word from the ground, as Daisy Whitney reports in this week’s New Media Minute. Distributors and studios such as Break Media, EQAL and Generate, in a sign of the times, say they won’t launch new...
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Standards are critical for the online video business to grow and attract more advertising dollars, but agencies and portals are cautious about pigeonholing online video into standard categories. That was the message from executives at Break Media, Generate, OMD and Quantcast speaking on a panel in Los...
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Can programming producers survive on revenues derived from Web distribution alone? The overwhelming evidence seems to say no. Last week production shop Generate struck a multiyear television development and production deal to create scripted broadcast and cable series for 20th Century Fox Television...
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The slumping economy is forcing the new-media business to grow up fast. New-media producers and creators at last week’s NATPE conference in Las Vegas said they’re shedding some of the more speculative financial practices that defined the early days of digital production. Translation: They’re not going...
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The National Association of Television Program Executives is providing live streaming of panels from the convention in Las Vegas this week. Today's panel being streamed via Stickam, "Digital Studios: Where's the $$$?," is moderated by TelevisionWeek contributing writer and new-media...
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Filed under: Digital, Syndication, Daisy Whitney, NATPE, Generate, Jordan Levin, Jonathan Prince, Electric Farm Entertainment, Anthony Soohoo, Albie Hecht, 60Frames, Brent Weinstein, 7 Robot, Brent Friedman, Worldwide Biggies, Sarah Szalavitz
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Online television studio Generate struck a multiyear television development and production deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television, one of a growing number of partnerships between a new-media shop and a traditional television studio or network. The companies announced the deal at the National Association...
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Independent production studio and management company Generate has added Chris Pollack and Will Lowery to its management division. Mr. Pollack comes to Generate from his own independent management firm, where he worked with television writers, reality producers and feature directors from shows such as...
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Digital studio Generate launched the third season of its popular Web series “Pink: The Series” today, the company announced. This season’s 15 hi-def episodes will be distributed on Blip.tv, Break, Crackle, DailyMotion, Hulu, iTunes, Joost, Metacafe, MSN, MySpace, Veoh, TheWB.com, Yahoo and YouTube, as...
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Web studio Generate struck an advertising deal with Unilever’s “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!” to sponsor this week’s episode of the political satire Web show “Republicrats.” The show is produced by Generate and runs on MSN . Under the deal, the brand’s spray animated character, Spraychel, was integrated...
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Indie Web studio Generate is launching its new scripted online series “Republicrats” on Tuesday through MSN. The 24-episode series will debut two new episodes per week leading up to this fall’s presidential elections. The program itself is a political satire that follows a former weather man who creates...