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…actually 648% according to Andres Palmiter in his recent article for Comscore.  To further gild the lily, live streamed videos are holding on to their audiences 7% longer than traditional on demand video.

Why are live online broadcasts attracting and keeping an audience?

In a world with hundreds of thousands of videos on demand, live makes the viewer feel special. Today’s audience wants to feel a sense of ownership with the content they consume, and nothing creates a stronger sense of ownership than actually being there during a live webcast while your show is created.
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Online Video- I Clarify!

by kathryn on July 12, 2010

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Steve Garfield takes a picture of himself, his inimitable mother Millie Garfield and myself in a monitor at Video on the Net, Boston, 2007. Photo by SteveGarfield

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Arthur Aulisi as "Cal" in "35"

I’m Back!

Three years ago all my myriad passions, theater, film, online video social media, merged into the my proudest personal achievement “35″, the first scripted drama to stream live. Producing a multi-camera, 10 episode series, live, in New York on almost no money was impossible. It should never have happened. But I believed in that project. Finish Reading Post

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  1. There are no quality online video series.
  2. Online Video has no viable commercial future.

…or so Ari Rosenberg asserts in his April 29th Online Publishing Insider article, Online Video Has No Character .

In this post I’m focusing on Ari’s first premise- there is very little quality original content on the web.  (My focus here is original online video series- television content repurposed for the internet is, as Ari notes, an entirely different story).

When I first started working in online video almost four years ago I had the opportunity to hear the incredibly inspiring online video pioneer Fred Seibert speak.  Fred had recently launched  Next New Networks, and espoused his view that there, in the salad days of online video, we needn’t waste time and money striving for perfection because for now at least  ”good enough” was enough to be successful online.

Four years later “good enough” has produced thousands of hours of “who cares?”. Most video series are fine, sometimes well written sometimes well acted, sometimes well shot…in fact I would describe most video content as fine, but ”not good enough for tv”.

Now that’s depressing. For the first time in entertainment history, independent artists have the ability to green light their own passions, to have their work viewed by a global audience, to shape cultural history. Instead, collectively we have arrived at a paradigm of derivatism and mediocrity. In fact I think the notion of TV is indeed the very problem, right down to the .tv domain. The term “internet tv” implies TV budgets, TV stars, TV formats and a one way viewing experience.  Already we are doing ourselves a disservice.

Online video series may not offer big stars or big budgets, but online we have the opportunity to invent new creative paradigms.  No longer constrained by the 2 dimensional 4.3 screen, or FTC rules or 22 minute story arcs or corporate funders or expensive production that forces us to cater to the common denominator,  we have the occasion to expand our idea of visual storytelling, to build new and unimagined interactive storytelling experiences and to harness our  communities in ways bound only by current technology, which itself is constantly evolving and creating new creative possibilities.

Online video series and the artists that create them will thrive when we embrace the interactive properties that are inherent to the internet. This is where our creative strength lies. This is where they key to compelling story lines and original, memorable characters lie. And who knows, maybe we’ll even stumble upon a business model along the way.

I’ll address Ari’s second point about online videos long term commercial viability in a follow-up post.

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This week on The Crabbo and Jabbo show meet Emily Rubin from Wash and Dry Productions… Producers of “Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose”- poetry readings at the laundromat…yes…the laundromat! We will see some footage of their most recent laundromat reading and talk to Emily about why she thinks poetry and laundry soap are such a natural fit.

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The Crabbo and Jabbo Show- LIVE

April 17, 2008 jabbo and crabbo

In the past two years the web 2.0 community has unleashed a torrent of tools and sites that now make it possible for artists of all sorts to Green Light their own creative projects. To produce work on a scale which only months ago would have been deemed impossible, and to reach a global audience with our music, our sculpture, our crafts, our videos. We no longer have to wait for casting directors, for investors, for galleries or film festivals to deem us worthy… we can stand behind our own work, tell the world that we are passionate about what we do, we believe in ourselves and that is more than enough!

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Where am I?

August 23, 2007 live

I am over here! making my dreams come true!!!! Tweet This Post

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Live TV! Overcoming My biggest Fear!

June 16, 2007 internet tv

Well not the live part… that feels like second nature… In a post some weeks ago I wrote about the hardest thing I’ve had to overcome and that thing of course was my fear… lotsa varieties that manifest themselves in oh… quitting, failure, overeating, procrastinating… you know… but they all boil down to one thing… [...]

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If you had to choose a song that was autobiographical, what would it be?

June 7, 2007 internet tv

Featuring answers from some of our favorite indie bands, including Ediblered, Kyle Lardner, Phil Anastasia (formerly Il Phil Carnage), Emiko, Blood Red Sun, Lez Zeppelin and Strospheerius… this is one of our hardest questions… and one of the most fun… So! If you had to choose a song that was autobiograhical… what would it be????? [...]

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Are artists afraid of Success?- or why I have no artist of the week

April 24, 2007 artist of the week

My theory… our greatest fear is our own success

What’s yours?

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