You are browsing the archive for Internet.

Google Video Shutting Down Uploads

Posted on January 16, 2009 in Internet | No Comments

Google’s Press Release:
“At Google, we like to launch early, launch often, and to iterate our products. Occasionally, this means we have to re-evaluate our efforts and make difficult decisions to be sure we focus on products that make the most sense for our users.
In a few months, we will discontinue support for uploads to Google [...]

Learn More

Video Embedding Comparison Tests

Posted on December 15, 2008 in Internet | No Comments

Filmmaker Karel Bata compares Video Hosting platforms head to head:
Vimeo.com

Teenage Zombie Movie 1 (teaser) from Karel Bata on Vimeo.
ExposureRoom.com

Teenage Zombie Movie (teaser) By Karel Bata
View in HD Download 380p Version Visit Karel Bata’s ExposureRoom Videos Page
YouTube.com

Virb.com

Shooting People.org

Blip.com

Dailymotion.com

Teenage Zombie Movie 1 – tease
by karelbata
MetaCafe

Tennage Zombie Movie 1 – Teaser – video powered by Metacafe
Decide for yourself. [...]

Learn More

Redefining Digital Content Distribution

Posted on November 10, 2008 in Internet | No Comments

Ross L. Pruden has republished his lecture “Redefining Digital Content Distribution, or
Why Apple is About To Get Its Ass Kicked” from The Conversation in Berkeley in October. It covers license-based digital content distribution and the possible downfall of Apple.
…I’m a filmmaker myself, and I’ve spent a long time studying movie distribution so I’m excited [...]

Learn More

Interview with the Director of Marketing at TurnHere

Posted on September 5, 2008 in Internet | No Comments

Recent interview with Morgan Brown, Director of Marketing at TurnHere, Inc., Drury Bynum discussed how TH has leveraged a worldwide network of filmmakers to provide one of the most successful online marketing platforms for small businesses to large brands.
THE VALUE OF VIDEO: HOW TO MARKET YOUR COMPANY ONLINE from drury bynum on Vimeo.
From TurnHere’s Website:
TurnHere, [...]

Learn More

Cult classics take on the blockbusters

Posted on July 29, 2008 in Internet | No Comments

Here is more evidence that Internet is becoming a viable distribution method for smaller films. Geoffrey Macnab from the Belfast Telegraph looks at how the web is shaking up Hollywood. Suggested by IQ Member Dark Water.
…Is the Hollywood blockbuster finally eating itself? As cult movies attract a new audience who download more obscure [...]

Learn More

Indie Film Vanishing From Theaters, Flourishing Online

Posted on July 28, 2008 in Internet | No Comments

The Internet means that plenty of movies that will never come to a theater near you are a mouse click away. But someone still has to prove that this business makes sense
Want to see a movie this summer? Head to the theaters if you want to see big and loud stuff like “The Dark Knight” [...]

Learn More

The Long Tail – Chris Anderson

Posted on July 27, 2008 in Internet | 1 Comment

You know something is up when an audience member is taking cell phone photos of the presenter’s slides for instant transmittal to a business partner.
Chris Anderson does have killer slides, full of exuberant detail, defining the exact shape of the still emerging opportunity space for finding and selling formerly infindable and unsellable items of every [...]

Learn More

Hollywood’s Digital Graduation

Posted on July 25, 2008 in Internet | No Comments

Click’s editor Richard Taylor investigates how Hollywood is beginning to change the way it distributes and allows people to watch its films.
Suggested by Member : Dark Water

…Hollywood’s still churning out mega-budget movies, and the fight between what they see as the forces of good and evil continues unabated.
Entertainment industry lobbyists are still aggressively pursuing freeloaders. [...]

Learn More

Navigating the Digital Divide

Posted on April 9, 2008 in Internet | No Comments

Lance Weiler at Filmmaker Magazine tells you how to distribute your independent film online.
…The promise of unlimited choice and shelf space due to an emerging on-demand universe of content has many in the industry struggling to figure out how new media revenue should be divided. This highly contentious issue is at the center of the [...]

Learn More