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A studio is an artist’s or worker’s workroom, or the catchall term for an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio. This can be for the purpose of architecture, painting, pottery (ceramics), sculpture, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, radio or television production broadcasting or the making of music. The term is also used for the workroom of dancers, often specified to dance studio.
The word studio is derived from the Ital...

Bids For Hulu Due Tomorrow, Google & Amazon Lead Suitors

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For a good few weeks there, the web media world was all abuzz with the news of the possible sale of Hulu. We speculated on who the potential buyers might be, with reports suggesting everyone from Google to Yahoo might be involved in negotiations. And ...

Fox To Enforce 8-Day Waiting Period For New Episodes On Hulu

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Well, well, well... this is going to get pretty interesting pretty quickly. One of the three television networks behind Hulu, Fox, has decided to end next-day access to episodes of their programs on Hulu and on the company's website. (and on DISH network). Moving forward, ...

iTunes Replay for Movies Held Up by HBO? No Studio Deals in Place Yet

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iTunes Replay has been the target of several reports claiming that it will be delayed. Few have said much outside of the fact that the whole cloud-based movie and TV streaming service seems to hinge on contracts with the six large Hollywood studios. Well, it ...

Crowdsourced Film "One Day On Earth" Hopes To Duplicate Success Of "Life In A Day"

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Life in a Day, the so-called 'YouTube movie' that was shot by amateurs around the world and then edited together by director Kevin MacDonald and producer Ridley Scott, has gotten a lot of press. With good reason. It's an inspiring project that sought to bring ...

YouTube Star, Freddiew, Takes Huge Step Toward Hollywood Stardom

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You've heard me talk about Freddie Wong before, and with good reason—his videos are excellent. Combining humor and impressive special effects skills, Freddie makes videos that entertain a wide spectrum of the viewing public. And this week something happened that may propel him to a ...

Even Politicians Can Create Online Videos That Suck

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My congressman, Representative Joe Walsh of Illinois, embarrasses me. His "Walsh to Obama: Quit Lying" YouTube video is painful to watch. Hey Joe, its one thing to be angry about raising the debt ceiling, but at least raise your audio quality – it totally sucks!

Best Branded Video Ad Campaign - Planet Of The Hoax Video

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If you hadn't heard, there's a new Planet of the Apes movie coming out this year. I know, I know... I'm just as surprised as you are that the studio went ahead with it after the debacle that was Tim Burton's version. And yet, it ...

The Silver Bullet of Original Web Series Video Content?

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In late 2009 I began a series of live webcast shows - six to be exact all using the same format (host / hostess, topical discussion, audience interaction, social networking components, etc.) – we had a show on Venture Capitol with people skyping in from ...

Netflix Opens Streaming Video Distribution Deal With Open Road Films

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Ring-a-ding-ding! Look who was right, sort of... Yeah, that's me, stop looking in the mirror. Netflix just signed a deal with a new production company, Open Road Films. What's that you say? You've read this news already today? Ahh, but you haven't read my almost ...

Netflix Competitor Zediva Blasts Movie Studios For Stifling Innovation

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Zediva is still making waves, and still streaming one DVD in one player to one customer. In recent court document filings, the streaming DVD rental service (for lack of a better description) blasted back at the MPAA, essentially telling them to take off the blinders ...

Sony Spat With Netflix Suggests Fragmentation Ahead In Streaming Video

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Netflix recently had to pull Sony films from the service that were provided to them by Starz. The reason is that Starz and Sony are renegotiating some contract and until it's sorted, Sony films are no longer to be shown on Netflix. Now this could be ...

Time Warner & Netflix Sued For Not Providing Captions On All Video Streams

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I have some pretty strong opinions about online video captions--in short, I think every video creator should be using them, and for a variety of reasons. I'm actually working on an entire article about that subject, but couldn't ignore the news announcement over the weekend ...

More Details On YouTube's Pursuit Of Celebrity Channels & Professional Content

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You know those rumors that went around a while back about YouTube courting celebrities and professional content creators to come create videos exclusively for the site? The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on it, and speculated that YouTube was willing to spend ...

Old Spice Man Campaigns For Movie Role With Online Video Trailer

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Let's say you're the star and the face of one of the most universally-praised online video campaigns in all of history. And suppose that, after that kind of success, you're interested in turning your new found fame into a more sustainable acting career... maybe you ...

New DLNA Guideline Could Mean Premium Content On All Connected Devices

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DLNA, The Digital Living Network Alliance, is all about getting your content from where it's stored to where you want to watch it. Now, they've teamed up with satellite, cable and telecommunications service providers on the Interoperability Guidelines to leverage DTCP-IP Protected Streaming to make ...

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