Via TechCrunch, The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos, is a very interesting look into the techniques some folks are using to create hurricanes around online videos. You might read this and think it is kind of smarmy and way more underhanded than you want to be, but it strikes a cord as I think […]

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I think Revver is a great model for people who want to earn some cash off videos they upload to the web. YouTube has the advantage of being first in the online video game, and high traffic can follow, but the Revver model is about sharing videos and earning from it through advertising. Revver has […]

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Joel Heller of Docs That Inspire recorded a podcast of one of the many panels this week at the market called Digital Downloads. It’s a complete unedited recording of the one-hour panel discussion moderated by journalist Scott Kirsner. The panelists are Peter Broderick of Paradigm Consulting, Kathleen Powell of Jaman, Jana Augsberger of […]

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Andrew Grant (The Filmbrain) and Aaron Hillis (The Cinephiliac) are walking definitions of the cinephile. All you have to do is read their respective blogs (and other fare) to figure that out. Dedicated to their passion and obsession for great cinema, Grant and Hillis have recently partnered in a new business venture. The […]

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The opening night panel at this year’s Sundance Independent Producers Conference inaugurated a weekend-long exploration of what constitutes an “independent” film. There is a range of definitions, of course, but what really drives an independent artist is the creative impulse that takes precedence over financial considerations of the marketplace. As lines between global […]

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