YouTube Reveals Original Channels Initiative for 2015
By Bree Brouwer for Tubefilter Back in the fall of 2014, YouTube announced it would bring back an incarnation of its $100+ million Original Channels initiative and fund originals once again from some of the site’s most prominent and promising creators. The video sharing platform then promptly reorganized its …
YouTube Reveals Its New Content Plan for 2015
By Bree Brouwer for Tubefilter Back in the fall of 2014, YouTube announced it would bring back an incarnation of its $100+ million Original Channels initiative and fund originals once again from some of the site’s most prominent and promising creators. The video …
FanTrust Top YouTube Picks: 2014
Watch FanTrust’s top YouTube picks from 2014 and see the year flash before your eyes in a good way. From science to comedy, zombies to drones, activism to branded entertainment, we break it down for you, the fans — and …
Google Play Reveals Your Favorite Apps, Games, Movies and More in 2014
Check out this very cool info graphic from Google Play that highlights some of the most popular apps, games, movies, music, news and books of 2014 on Google Play. Click on the image to view in full. Click here to …
Digital Entertainment Ventures to Invest in up to 400 Early-Stage Companies Through New Fund
Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV), an early-stage venture capital and advisory firm, today announced the launch of a new fund which will invest in as many as 400 early-stage companies through at least five accelerator programs over the next three years, …
DHX to Acquire Nerd Corps for $57M
By Jesse Whittock for TBI Vision The Nerd Corps deal is expected to close on December 24, DHX said in a statement. This gives DHX an extra 200 half-hours of children’s programming for its library, plus Nerd Corps’ animation studio …
Trends in Australian Online Video
Video on Demand gets to users through all sorts of platforms and business models. Here is a look at the VOD landscape in Australia, with a good breakdown of relevant terms, trends and viewing habits. …
Penultimate Films a Trend in Franchise Finales
By Robert Ito for The New York Times Welcome to the tricky world of penultimate films, those “so close, yet so far” movies that also must serve as a gateway to a franchise finale. Done well, they’re movies worth seeing in …
How Vancouver Tech Startup Shnarped Raised $1 Million Without Venture Capital
By Dustin Sproat for Techvibes Shnarped is a social platform that connects athletes to their fans across a youth-friendly social media platform. We started here in Vancouver almost three years ago and recently hit $1 million in total financings to date. Because …
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