There’s a secret to building a hit web series; to writing the perfect story or cultural commentary that people can’t help but share. It’s elusive and the people who accidentally stumble upon it grow fewer with each passing year. Today, the overnight viral sensations (like Shit Girls Say) tend to be intentional and cautiously developed over time (Sgs creator, Graydon Sheppard, built a 54,000 person twitter following before creating a corresponding online series). Still, idiotic, super-cute, and extreme videos keep landing in my Inbox. It may be because we humans have a difficult time turning away from spectacle. But more than that, those videos might possess the elements that web series producer and show runner, Tim Street (VP of Mobile Video at mDialog and creator of French Maid TV) frequently and publicly proclaims to be the key to engaging an audience: Activate two or more emotions at the same time.
- 2/2/2012
- by J. Sibley Law
- Tubefilter.com
NEW YORK -- Former Rocketboom.com host Amanda Congdon is joining ABC News Digital Media as a contributor, the network is expected to announce today.
Congdon is a co-founder of Rocketboom, a daily video blog that she used to host. She has recently begun another videoblog, AmandaAcrossAmerica, and recently began developing a comedy program for HBO.
For ABC News Digital Media, she will create a video blog that will appear weekly on ABCNews.com and she is also scheduled to appear regularly on ABC's digital news channel, ABC News Now.
Congdon is a co-founder of Rocketboom, a daily video blog that she used to host. She has recently begun another videoblog, AmandaAcrossAmerica, and recently began developing a comedy program for HBO.
For ABC News Digital Media, she will create a video blog that will appear weekly on ABCNews.com and she is also scheduled to appear regularly on ABC's digital news channel, ABC News Now.
- 11/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Former Rocketboom.com host Amanda Congdon is joining ABC News Digital Media as a contributor, the network is expected to announce Tuesday.
Congdon is a co-founder of Rocketboom, a daily video blog that she used to host. She has recently begun another videoblog, AmandaAcrossAmerica, and recently began developing a comedy program for HBO.
For ABC News Digital Media, she will create a video blog that will appear weekly on ABCNews.com and she is also scheduled to appear regularly on ABC's digital news channel, ABC News Now.
Congdon is a co-founder of Rocketboom, a daily video blog that she used to host. She has recently begun another videoblog, AmandaAcrossAmerica, and recently began developing a comedy program for HBO.
For ABC News Digital Media, she will create a video blog that will appear weekly on ABCNews.com and she is also scheduled to appear regularly on ABC's digital news channel, ABC News Now.
- 11/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amanda Congdon, co-founder and former host of the comedy video blog Rocketboom.com, is developing a comedy program for HBO.
Details of the project are still being hammered out, but Congdon said she's aiming for a multiplatform property that will be integrated with original video content online. She intends to write and star in the series.
"HBO is exactly the place where I want to be," Congdon said. "I'm most interested in playing in that new dimension with two parallel levels of programming, online and on TV."
Congdon has worked as an actor onstage and in commercials. She remains an owner of Rocketboom but is now concentrating on the HBO project and her www.amandaacrossamerica.com video blog. That project, chronicling her cross-country trek, revolves around environmental issues and is sponsored by the National Resources Defense Council, Environmental Countdown and Ford Motor Co. She recently signed with Endeavor for representation.
Details of the project are still being hammered out, but Congdon said she's aiming for a multiplatform property that will be integrated with original video content online. She intends to write and star in the series.
"HBO is exactly the place where I want to be," Congdon said. "I'm most interested in playing in that new dimension with two parallel levels of programming, online and on TV."
Congdon has worked as an actor onstage and in commercials. She remains an owner of Rocketboom but is now concentrating on the HBO project and her www.amandaacrossamerica.com video blog. That project, chronicling her cross-country trek, revolves around environmental issues and is sponsored by the National Resources Defense Council, Environmental Countdown and Ford Motor Co. She recently signed with Endeavor for representation.
- 11/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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