Critic's Notebook: Web TV is just waiting to click

Big-time entertainment companies want a piece of it, hoping to dominate an emerging market that none of them really understands.....

Read the full post:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-ca-web-tv-20110626,0,159877.story

The Koldcast.TV debate...

A simple question on Web Series Network has led to a fairly extensive discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of making distribution deals with sites like Vimeo, FunnyOrDie, EbaumsWorld, Babelgum, Facebook, Blip.tv, DailyMotion, theWB, Crackle, IGN and YouTube. There are some passionate arguments made which you can read for yourself:
http://www.webseriesnetwork.com/forum/topics/koldkast-distribution-good-bad

While that particular discussion thread has been closed you can join the ongoing discussion at:
http://www.webseriesnetwork.com/profiles/blogs/rich-mbariket-vs-koldcast-tv

5 Questions With…Babelgum’s Amber J. Lawson

BY LIZ SHANNON MILLER

But the closer studios hold onto windowing the IP, the more the audience will find ways around it that the studios won’t be able to monetize.

http://newteevee.com/2010/07/11/5-questions-with-babelgums-amber-j-lawson

‘Sex and the Austen Girl’ Finds Original Twist, and Babelgum

Sex and the Austen Girl launched today on Babelgum, a twenty-episode web series based on the best-selling Penguin novels, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, by Laurie Viera Rigler.

http://news.tubefilter.tv/2010/05/17/sex-and-the-austen-girl-finds-original-twist-and-babelgum

The 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival

"This year's festival will feature simultaneous mobile and online viewing and voting by the global public in four categories."

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"Submissions will be accepted from March 11 through March 28. The Babelgum audience will be able to start voting online and via mobile devices between March 29 and April 3. The voting period will continue for at least 15 days until a date to be announced on the Babelgum website."

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"If you are the 1st Place winner of a Jury Award, you will receive a cash prize of US $3,000 (three thousand dollars). If you are a runner-up, you will receive US $1,000 (one thousand dollars). The winner of the Best Viral Short Award will receive US $2,000 (two thousand dollars). If you are the winner of an Audience Award, you will receive a prize to be determined by Babel and announced on the Babelgum website. If you are the winner of the Stoli Emerging Filmmaker Award, your film will be screened along with other winners and honored at a reception during the Tribeca Film Festival."


http://www.babelgum.com/online-film-festival