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Congrats to Zadi and Steve for their Streamy win: well deserved as pioneers who continue to innovate and inspire us.
In L.A.? Come join us for the blip.tv official Streamy Awards kickoff party at the Biltmore tonight (Saturday) at 8pm.
The official list is closed, but if you’re able to join us last minute send me an email at dinaATblip.tv by 6:30pm (pacific), and I’ll make sure you’re on the list.
Mike is flying in right now, and we look forward to seeing you tonight!
Q1 2010 payouts: done
The payouts for advertising revenue earned by shows in January, February and March of this year are now complete.
Checks (check out the picture below) for folks who earned over $600 were mailed Thursday (so, yes, the checks are in the mail, and we’re not just saying that). Paypal payments for shows that earned $25-$600 were just made a few minutes ago.
It feels great to send out hundreds of thousands of dollars to talented independent content creators around the world. And we can’t wait to send out even more payments - to more shows - next quarter.
This week is Check Week at blip.tv. We’re sending out hundreds of thousands of dollars to independent show creators. And this is one heck of a check week. Our last check week — for fourth quarter of last year — was a huge record for us. We sent out more money to show creators in January than we had sent in the previous six months combined. This check week beats that record. We’re sending 25% more money to show creators this week than we did last time. 39% more shows are receiving payments. A full 30% more shows are receiving checks worth more than $1,000.
Here at blip.tv we’re building the next-generation television network. Our mission is to make independently produced shows sustainable. It’s thrilling — unbelievably exciting — to be sending these checks and PayPal payments out. These payments are going to help people pay their rent, upgrade their equipment, go full-time. These checks are going to put food on the table for show creators. These checks prove that it’s possible to start your own show, to bootstrap, to have full creative control, to own your show and still make money.
We’re creating a new industry here. Together. Show creators, advertisers, distribution partners and the team here at blip.tv. We’re changing the way that media is produced and consumed. We’re making it possible for people to pursue their passions. To turn hobbies into careers.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our sales team — Evan, Rafi, Phil, Katie, Liz and Andrea — and to thank our advertisers. General Motors, AT&T, Samsung, Scion, Starbucks, PepsiCo, Chili’s, Nikon, Canon, MetroPCS and more. Thank you for supporting independent Web shows.
And thank you, show creators. Thank you for taking your dreams into your hands. Thank you for creating your own media. Thank you for moving outside the studio and network system that’s dominated the industry for sixty years. Thank you for taking a risk. Thank you for making great shows. Thank you for giving us an opportunity to help.
The photo above features, left to right, Katie, Aaron, Tom and Eric. Evan, our VP of Sales, is up front. They’re holding the checks we’re sending out this check week. Not shown: the tons of PayPal payments that we’re sending out.
This is just the beginning. Check week in fourth quarter was awesome. Check week in first quarter is better. Check week in second quarter is going to be huge. Twice as big. We have some big new software releases coming out soon. We’re building our team. Together, we’re building an industry.
Let’s party together in L.A.!
Blip.tv is proud to announce that we’re partnering with Tubefilter to throw the official pre-Streamy Awards party at the Biltmore Hotel (506 South Grand Avenue) this Saturday, April 10th at 8pm.
Please join us by registering here: http://2010streamys-launch.eventbrite.com/.
Look forward to a fun night before the super-uber-serious Awards the following night. Hope to see you Saturday night if you’ll be in L.A.!
The Ballad of Mary and Ernie - Episode 1
A full-sized sheriff in a miniature town. All of his friends are 8” high, including the woman he’s going to marry. Then he meets a full-sized woman…
iPad support mostly better now
So we’ve fixed up the biggest problems with the iPad support. It still gets a little sluggish once you’ve browsed several pages, but we’ll address that early next week.
It appears that developing for a device you’ve never used can lead to problems. Now that we have an iPad of our very own, we’ve discovered a few bugs and we’re working hard to resolve them. For now, reloading the page should solve any playback issues. We’ll have a revised version ready for you early next week.
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Additional screenshots of blip.tv on the iPad.
Got an iPad? Not yet? Tomorrow maybe? If so, head over to blip.tv when you get it into your hot little hands and waste the day away with some of our HTML5-powered web series goodness. If blip.tv alone isn’t enough to feed your burgeoning iPad addiction, we’ve included a curated channel with nothing but app reviews and news. Let the madness begin!
Enjoy. And please let us know what you think.
UPDATE: We posted more screenshots.
Driving Sports TV - 2011 WRX+STI, Zenvo ST1, 2010 Acura RDX
Driving Sports TV is an automotive series that informs and entertains through a variety of exclusive programs. DSTV’s weekly Extra! report keeps viewers up-to-date with the latest from the automotive world. Special Features take viewers along for the ride in the hottest cars and to spectacular events. DSTV is the only channel necessary for the true automotive enthusiast!
(via todayonbliptv)
Today we officially announced doubling video views in the past year, and that major advertisers running campaigns on blip.tv include PepsiCo, Chevrolet, Samsung, AT&T, Scion, Starbucks and MetroPCS. In the past year we’ve worked on campaigns with Chilis, Best Buy, Warner Brothers, Puma, Starburst, TJ Maxx, Cannon, Nikon, the Las Vegas Board of Tourism and others.
Each of these advertisers is helping to support a new form of media: original, independent Web shows.
(And thanks to our friends at drop.io for the cool form of this release, using PressLift.)
Thanks to Will Richmond of VideoNuze, who just wrote about blip.tv doubling video views from last year to 85 million a month and announced that 85% of blip.tv views are monetizable.
Will highlights new interactive ads we’re running (check out the share unit we built for Samsung, which really does work) and closes the piece by writing: A key part of the story here is that video advertising is getting both more targeted and more customizable by viewers, leading to better results and improved satisfaction. I’ve always been a believer that viewers don’t hate ads so much as they hate irrelevant ads. That’s what’s so exciting about online video - it combines the relevance and targeting of Internet advertising with the emotional impact of TV advertising.
Cheers to that, Will, to a great piece and to Web video ads that works - for content creators and for advertisers looking to prove a ROI.
Is Stupid For Movies the next Siskel & Ebert At The Movies? (via todayonbliptv)
Liz Shannon Miller of NewTeeVee says Stupid For Movies has “a very distinctive point-of-view about the film world, one that has no patience for video game movies and dismisses the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films out of hand — but does genuinely love film. The audience attracted to such a perspective is thus pretty specific, but with real potential for loyalty.”
(via justinday)
Centerpieces for the SXSW blip.tv AnyClip Pepsico party tonight at 10pm at Cedar Street Courtyard. Hope to see you there!
