Last night was special. When we wrote months ago about web television growing up this year we were serious. This isn't just a novelty or sideshow to real entertainment. Web television is entertainment. Last night was its coming out party. In front of a sold-out crowd of over 1300 guests at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles, the first ever Streamy Awards show honored 2008's best web series and the talented people behind them. Winners were selected by the International Academy of Web Television after a public submission process that saw tens of thousands of entries. The stars of web television turned out strong including Neil Patrick Harris, Joss Whedon, Felicia Day, Taryn Southern, David Faustino, Zoe Bell, Alex Albrecht, Zadi Diaz, Jessica Rose, Illeana Douglas, Rosairo Dawson, iJustine, Amber Lee Ettinger, Shira Lazar, Leah D'Emilio, The Sklar Brothers, Jeff MacPherson, Lisa Kudrow and many more. (For some photos of the...
- 3/30/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Um. Wow. That was one hell of a way to wrap up the Meetup—with 300 teenagers rushing the stage as "I-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-t" by Webbie featuring Lil' Boosie and Lil' Phat blasted the space. As Sean Percival of La-based tech gossip rag lalawag put it, what resulted was "an interesting mashup of Twittering geeks moshing with La hip-hop-artti." But perhaps we'd better start from the beginning. With an RSVP-list topping out at over 600, Cinespace was bursting at the seams with another massive turnout for the Hollywood Web Television Meetup. This month featured seasoned podcasters Tosca Musk and Jeff MacPherson of veteran series Tiki Bar TV who talked about distribution, merchandising, having fun, and receiving alarming phone calls from Steve Job's office.
- 1/19/2009
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
Every great adventure has a few select moments that its participants remember a little clearer than the rest. The transformational moments that shifted the journey along a slightly different path. For Jeff Macpherson, creator of the widely popular and long-running web series Tiki Bar TV, one such moment was an email that landed in his inbox one morning in the first week of October, 2005. It came from Apple. What followed was a somewhat cryptic phone call that essentially boiled down to this: "We can't tell you why, but you might want to make sure you have plenty of bandwidth for your web site next week." That following Wednesday Apple CEO Steve Jobs would introduce the video iPods in one of his famed keynote speeches, boasting about the introduction of video podcasts to iTunes. Luckily MacPherson was savvy enough grab an unlimited bandwidth plan from his hosting company, prepping for the...
- 1/13/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
It's Meetup time! If you're anywhere near the La area next Thursday and are interested in connecting with several hundred of the best and brightest in the web television world, then you need to come out to our January Hollywood Web Television Meetup at Cinespace. This month's meetup will feature: * Tosca Musk and Jeff MacPherson of Tiki Bar TV. Entering its fifth season, Tiki Bar TV is one of the most popular web series of all time and one of the leading video podcasts on Apple's iTunes with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. We'll screen a few episodes of the series and have an open chat and Q & A with Tosca and Jeff. Following that will be plenty of time for mixing and networking—so bring those business cards!
- 1/9/2009
- by Tubefilter News
- Tubefilter.com
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