At Next New Networks we’re all super busy throughout the week buried deep into our individual roles. Sometimes buried so deep in fact that we don’t get the chance to stop and admire all of the A+ work accomplished throughout the organization. Weekly I do an all call for submissions for “Good News Fridays.” Sometimes when reading the list even I stop to say whew!
Recently Fred Seibert suggested we’re doing so much so often we ought to share it more broadly with the Next New Networks community. Below is the first public installment of GNF. Eat it up! And thanks for the continued interest in the continued innovation of TV for the Internet.
- Amex Open Forum published the first episode (maybe 2 by now) of our new series, Small Business Rules, with Lindsay Campbell. Maybe you’ve seen the tweets or the posts about it around the Web…it has indeed been well received. First episode Gotham Dream Cars.
- Channel Frederator visited with Chris Miller and Phil Lord to talk about their new film from Sony Pictures Animation, “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.” We’ll be airing both of their college animations and interviews with the directors tomorrow. Incidentally, CF will be the only place on the Web, or anywhere else for that matter, for anyone to see these films.
- Officially passed the 600 million total views mark in August.
- Launched the new home for Next New Networks on the Web. Check out http://www.nextnewnetworks.com
- Launched our new player. This was a labor of love and tight budgets and took many people a great deal of work over a long period of time for a real triumph. We now have much more flexibility and easy access to catalog viewing.
- Last week we officially became the first company to use FreeWheel on YouTube!
- “The Real Sarah Palin” video we did for Lion’s Gate featuring Amber won the Adweek Buzz Award for “Best Viral Marketing” campaign
- Barely Arcade’s “Rush Limbaugh Punch Out” had over 500k views in first 5 days
Our next two posters:Proofs arrived today. Channel Frederator and Ultra Kawaii, designed by the one and only Frank Olinsky. Part of the Next New Networks poster series.
Nice!
moth:
moonwalk nbot:A little thing I sketched up on the plane, for the nextnewnetworks.com blog. It’s not done yet, but the idea’s there.
Tim’s good.
Like MTV in its heyday, Next New is proudly hit or miss. Viewers don’t go to it for any one video; they tune in for a sensibility, a lifestyle. The scene at Next New is techy, of course, but it’s also wholesome and nostalgic and low key and inventive and whimsical and frugal and enterprising.
The kids in the Next New universe — like kids of hipster scenes immemorial — dress a certain way, talk a certain way, manifest a certain cosmology. You have to watch many videos to get the hang of it. But if it’s escape you’re looking for, and you can handle lots of ads for little content, and you’re open to a brand-new summery fantasy of youth, the one presented on Next New Networks is pretty sweet.
moth:
This week we launched a brand new web platform for all of Next New Networks’ programming, and it sure is pretty. Please check out any of our sites, like Channel Frederator, ThreadBanger, Indy Mogul, Barely Political, TMI Weekly, Fast Lane Daily, Ultra Kawaii, and $99 Music Videos, sign up and give yourself a snazzy avatar, and let us know what you think. More cool things, like Tumblr integration, are on the way, but we needed to build a new foundation first.
The mission was simple.
Create an original promo video every single day in the month of May. Why? Because “day” and “May” rhyme. Also, we’ve got a lot of talented folks sitting around the office,…
nextnew: On Wednesday, we’ll be featured in the Digital Content Newfront, hosted by Digitas’ The Third Act, along with other leading online video and internet TV companies in the space.
