Odd Projects, the Los Angeles-based talent management company founded in 2020 by former Anonymous Content and WME manager Nate Ruff, has brought in Brian Sokolik as managing partner and Joshua Cohen (no relation to our Tubefilter co-founder) as talent manager.
Sokolik started his career in the mailroom at 3 Arts Entertainment and became a talent manager at Fullscreen before rising to Head of Digital at Authentic Talent. Cohen, meanwhile, was with Authentic Talent for 11 years, working first in unscripted and endorsements, and then moving into digital.
Both Sokolik and Cohen have “first-class relationships” in the industry, Ruff told Deadline.
They’re bringing their talent rosters with them to Odd Projects, including clients like chef/creator/Nyt bestselling author Joshua Weissman, musician Alex Warren (who has 20 million followers on TikTok), and adventurous YouTuber Mike Corey, the host of channel Fearless & Far.
Odd Projects tells Tubefilter that collectively, Sokolik and Cohen’s rosters...
Sokolik started his career in the mailroom at 3 Arts Entertainment and became a talent manager at Fullscreen before rising to Head of Digital at Authentic Talent. Cohen, meanwhile, was with Authentic Talent for 11 years, working first in unscripted and endorsements, and then moving into digital.
Both Sokolik and Cohen have “first-class relationships” in the industry, Ruff told Deadline.
They’re bringing their talent rosters with them to Odd Projects, including clients like chef/creator/Nyt bestselling author Joshua Weissman, musician Alex Warren (who has 20 million followers on TikTok), and adventurous YouTuber Mike Corey, the host of channel Fearless & Far.
Odd Projects tells Tubefilter that collectively, Sokolik and Cohen’s rosters...
- 4/12/2024
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
Exclusive: Odd Projects, the management company that represents a number of digital stars, has added two Authentic Talent execs.
Brian Sokolik joins as Managing Partner and Joshua Cohen joins as Talent Manager. Sokolik was most recently Head of Digital at Authentic Talent and Cohen was a manager.
Sokolik started his career in the mailroom at 3 Arts Entertainment before becoming a talent manager at Fullscreen Media and then joining Authentic. Cohen spent 11 years at Authentic
They bring over clients including chef, and content creator Joshua Weissman, singer-songwriter Alex Warren, who has over 20 million followers across TikTok, and adventure YouTuber and host Mike Corey.
Odd Projects was founded by former WME and Anonymous Content exec Nate Ruff in 2020. Ruff began his career in the Digital division at WME, brokering deals for Donald Glover and Robert Rodriguez before joining Anonymous Content’s new Emerging Platforms division where he continued to manage digital...
Brian Sokolik joins as Managing Partner and Joshua Cohen joins as Talent Manager. Sokolik was most recently Head of Digital at Authentic Talent and Cohen was a manager.
Sokolik started his career in the mailroom at 3 Arts Entertainment before becoming a talent manager at Fullscreen Media and then joining Authentic. Cohen spent 11 years at Authentic
They bring over clients including chef, and content creator Joshua Weissman, singer-songwriter Alex Warren, who has over 20 million followers across TikTok, and adventure YouTuber and host Mike Corey.
Odd Projects was founded by former WME and Anonymous Content exec Nate Ruff in 2020. Ruff began his career in the Digital division at WME, brokering deals for Donald Glover and Robert Rodriguez before joining Anonymous Content’s new Emerging Platforms division where he continued to manage digital...
- 3/29/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s that time of year again. While some directors annually share their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh lists everything he consumed, media-wise. For 2023––another year in which he not only Magic Mike’s Last Dance Review: Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum Take a Familiar, Gentle Bow”>released a new film, but dropped two TV series (Full Circle and Command Z“>Command Z) and shot another film (the Sundance-bound Presence)––he still got plenty of watching in.
Along with catching up on 2023’s new releases, Ferrari, Anatomy of a Fall, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Air, Reality, Dead Reckoning, among others), he took in plenty of classics, including Eyes Wide Shut, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Casablanca, Out of the Past, The Shining, the epic War and Peace, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and, following Tom Wilkinson’s passing, Michael Clayton. He also got an early look at Pussy Island,...
Along with catching up on 2023’s new releases, Ferrari, Anatomy of a Fall, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Air, Reality, Dead Reckoning, among others), he took in plenty of classics, including Eyes Wide Shut, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Casablanca, Out of the Past, The Shining, the epic War and Peace, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and, following Tom Wilkinson’s passing, Michael Clayton. He also got an early look at Pussy Island,...
- 1/4/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Last week, Whalar introduced a plan to build sprawling, members-only campuses dedicated to content creation. And, for just a second, it was 2012 again, and YouTube was getting ready to launch its first Space in London.
There’s a lot about Whalar’s initiative (called Lighthouse) that’s similar to Spaces. It too offers state-of-the-art production facilities–everything from soundproof video and podcast studios to editing bays–where creators and their teams can come and make high-quality content. This was the original idea for YouTube Spaces: that it would provide Hollywood-level sets and equipment for creators to upscale their content.
But it turned out the majority of creators didn’t want Hollywood programming on their YouTube channels. So, while...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Last week, Whalar introduced a plan to build sprawling, members-only campuses dedicated to content creation. And, for just a second, it was 2012 again, and YouTube was getting ready to launch its first Space in London.
There’s a lot about Whalar’s initiative (called Lighthouse) that’s similar to Spaces. It too offers state-of-the-art production facilities–everything from soundproof video and podcast studios to editing bays–where creators and their teams can come and make high-quality content. This was the original idea for YouTube Spaces: that it would provide Hollywood-level sets and equipment for creators to upscale their content.
But it turned out the majority of creators didn’t want Hollywood programming on their YouTube channels. So, while...
- 12/19/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by link in bio service Bio Sites from Squarespace.
TikTok is thinking inside the box on ways to monetize its ginormous user base beyond ad revenue.
And by inside the box, I mean inside the increasing number of shipping boxes TikTok’s ecommerce hub, TikTok Shop, is sending out to buyers in the U.S.
TikTok Shop has been around in the U.K. since 2021, but we just got it stateside in September, and sales are growing (but so are complaints about less-than-ideal seller-side experiences and reports of potentially dangerous “wellness” products being listed).
To help boost those sales even further, TikTok held a “Bfcm” campaign, where it...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by link in bio service Bio Sites from Squarespace.
TikTok is thinking inside the box on ways to monetize its ginormous user base beyond ad revenue.
And by inside the box, I mean inside the increasing number of shipping boxes TikTok’s ecommerce hub, TikTok Shop, is sending out to buyers in the U.S.
TikTok Shop has been around in the U.K. since 2021, but we just got it stateside in September, and sales are growing (but so are complaints about less-than-ideal seller-side experiences and reports of potentially dangerous “wellness” products being listed).
To help boost those sales even further, TikTok held a “Bfcm” campaign, where it...
- 12/12/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by link in bio service Bio Sites from Squarespace.
A24 has been doing cool stuff in Hollywood for almost a decade. It’s been responsible for distributing lots of offbeat (and hella good) projects across genres, from Everything Everywhere All at Once to Ex Machina to The VVitch, Hereditary, and Midsommar.
But in the last couple years, A24 has also been doing something else: getting more and more involved with the digital content space.
In 2020, it picked up Hazbin Hotel, the animated series created by YouTuber VivziePop and originally posted on her channel. Then, earlier this year, it signed on to distribute Talk to Me, the horror debut...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by link in bio service Bio Sites from Squarespace.
A24 has been doing cool stuff in Hollywood for almost a decade. It’s been responsible for distributing lots of offbeat (and hella good) projects across genres, from Everything Everywhere All at Once to Ex Machina to The VVitch, Hereditary, and Midsommar.
But in the last couple years, A24 has also been doing something else: getting more and more involved with the digital content space.
In 2020, it picked up Hazbin Hotel, the animated series created by YouTuber VivziePop and originally posted on her channel. Then, earlier this year, it signed on to distribute Talk to Me, the horror debut...
- 12/6/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by link in bio service Bio Sites from Squarespace.
Earlier this month, Rhett & Link went somewhere few (or maybe no?) creators have gone before: the breakfast table.
They got together with creator-focused brand development and merchandising firm Warren James to make MishMash, a 90s nostalgia cereal brand that seems like it’s begging for shelf space at Walmart under an “As seen on YouTube” sign.
MishMash isn’t in stores yet, but Warren James CEO Saurabh Shah told my co-host Lauren Schnipper and I that it’s “looking at some retail plays.” He also says the firm has three or four more food & bev projects in development...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by link in bio service Bio Sites from Squarespace.
Earlier this month, Rhett & Link went somewhere few (or maybe no?) creators have gone before: the breakfast table.
They got together with creator-focused brand development and merchandising firm Warren James to make MishMash, a 90s nostalgia cereal brand that seems like it’s begging for shelf space at Walmart under an “As seen on YouTube” sign.
MishMash isn’t in stores yet, but Warren James CEO Saurabh Shah told my co-host Lauren Schnipper and I that it’s “looking at some retail plays.” He also says the firm has three or four more food & bev projects in development...
- 11/28/2023
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by link in bio service Bio Sites from Squarespace.
Tis the season: my nephew, like thousands of other grade schoolers, just brought home the annual school fundraising kit.
And that had me remembering–earlier this year, YouTube‘s favorite Texan trickshotters, Dude Perfect, partnered with school fundraising company Booster to become part of the whole shebang.
The deal was a smart one for rigorously family-friendly Dude Perfect. They offered up the chance to win tickets to its then-upcoming “Panda-Monium” tour, plus some other branded prizes, all of which had them front and center in fundraising materials for screen-savvy kids who might give watching their videos a chance.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by link in bio service Bio Sites from Squarespace.
Tis the season: my nephew, like thousands of other grade schoolers, just brought home the annual school fundraising kit.
And that had me remembering–earlier this year, YouTube‘s favorite Texan trickshotters, Dude Perfect, partnered with school fundraising company Booster to become part of the whole shebang.
The deal was a smart one for rigorously family-friendly Dude Perfect. They offered up the chance to win tickets to its then-upcoming “Panda-Monium” tour, plus some other branded prizes, all of which had them front and center in fundraising materials for screen-savvy kids who might give watching their videos a chance.
- 11/21/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by Nikon.
For the past few years, direct response marketing has ruled podcasts.
But there’s a new king in town.
The Iab just released its eighth annual podcast report, and for the first time, brand spending beat out direct response. And when I say beat, I mean beat: brand spending now accounts for 61% of all podcast marketing, while direct response is down to 39%. That’s a big shift from 2016-2017, when direct response was the undisputed champ, and from 2018-2021, when it and brand advertising were a somewhat even split.
This means when you tune into a podcast, you’re way more likely to hear general, broad-targeting...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by Nikon.
For the past few years, direct response marketing has ruled podcasts.
But there’s a new king in town.
The Iab just released its eighth annual podcast report, and for the first time, brand spending beat out direct response. And when I say beat, I mean beat: brand spending now accounts for 61% of all podcast marketing, while direct response is down to 39%. That’s a big shift from 2016-2017, when direct response was the undisputed champ, and from 2018-2021, when it and brand advertising were a somewhat even split.
This means when you tune into a podcast, you’re way more likely to hear general, broad-targeting...
- 11/7/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by Nikon.
Reese Witherspoon‘s Hello Sunshine says it’s pouring “rocket fuel” on creator careers with its new incubator program.
But I think a little of that rocket fuel might spill over to her, too.
In case you haven’t heard, Hello Sunshine (the media brand Witherspoon co-founded in 2012 and sold to Candle Media for $900 million in 2021) just launched the Hello Sunshine Collective, a program exclusive to female digital content creators and entrepreneurs.
The inaugural class tapped 15 creators, including Valkyrae, Yolanda Gampp of How To Cake It, and Joanne Molinaro aka The Korean Vegan. All 15 participants will get support in areas like marketing, strategic partnerships, and Dtc retail,...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by Nikon.
Reese Witherspoon‘s Hello Sunshine says it’s pouring “rocket fuel” on creator careers with its new incubator program.
But I think a little of that rocket fuel might spill over to her, too.
In case you haven’t heard, Hello Sunshine (the media brand Witherspoon co-founded in 2012 and sold to Candle Media for $900 million in 2021) just launched the Hello Sunshine Collective, a program exclusive to female digital content creators and entrepreneurs.
The inaugural class tapped 15 creators, including Valkyrae, Yolanda Gampp of How To Cake It, and Joanne Molinaro aka The Korean Vegan. All 15 participants will get support in areas like marketing, strategic partnerships, and Dtc retail,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by Nikon.
When you think of places with baller PR strategies, the White House probably isn’t the first that comes to mind.
But it’s trying to change that–and Christian Tom, President Biden‘s Director of the White House Office of Digital Strategy, thinks content creators are the key.
Tom was a Biden campaign staffer during the 2020 election, and was responsible for the campaign’s digital strategy, which included things like giving hundreds of content creators access to the White House for filming opps and info briefs, a partnership with Portal A to deploy a pro-Biden “#ImVotingFor” sweep on Instagram and Twitter (with upward of 100 creators...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by Nikon.
When you think of places with baller PR strategies, the White House probably isn’t the first that comes to mind.
But it’s trying to change that–and Christian Tom, President Biden‘s Director of the White House Office of Digital Strategy, thinks content creators are the key.
Tom was a Biden campaign staffer during the 2020 election, and was responsible for the campaign’s digital strategy, which included things like giving hundreds of content creators access to the White House for filming opps and info briefs, a partnership with Portal A to deploy a pro-Biden “#ImVotingFor” sweep on Instagram and Twitter (with upward of 100 creators...
- 10/4/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by Nikon.
YouTube made some very big announcements at its now-annual Made on YouTube press event. Here they are in my order of importance:
AI-generated insights – Starting next year, AI-generated video suggestions will be integrated into the YouTube Studio, where they will provide relief for creators who are suffering from writer’s block. “AI Insights is designed to help spark your next idea and outline suggestions based on what your audience is already watching on YouTube,” reads a post summarizing this year’s Made On announcements. “In our initial test, more than 70 percent of those surveyed said it’s helped them develop and test ideas for videos.”
Everything...
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And we’re now also brought to you in part by Nikon.
YouTube made some very big announcements at its now-annual Made on YouTube press event. Here they are in my order of importance:
AI-generated insights – Starting next year, AI-generated video suggestions will be integrated into the YouTube Studio, where they will provide relief for creators who are suffering from writer’s block. “AI Insights is designed to help spark your next idea and outline suggestions based on what your audience is already watching on YouTube,” reads a post summarizing this year’s Made On announcements. “In our initial test, more than 70 percent of those surveyed said it’s helped them develop and test ideas for videos.”
Everything...
- 9/28/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by Nikon.
Snapchat’s pull on American adolescents is gravitationally intense.
My niece got an iPhone from her parents when she turned 13. There were no social media apps on it. Now – after relentless teenage determination and several debates – there’s one. But Snapchat doesn’t “count” because it’s the way she “stays in touch with her friends.”
This is a case study of one , but looking at the data it can’t possibly be unique .
Snapchat currently has 397 million daily active users and says 90% of 13-to-24-year-olds in 20+ countries are active at least monthly on the app. Here are a few other curated stats from their marketing...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And we’re now also brought to you in part by Nikon.
Snapchat’s pull on American adolescents is gravitationally intense.
My niece got an iPhone from her parents when she turned 13. There were no social media apps on it. Now – after relentless teenage determination and several debates – there’s one. But Snapchat doesn’t “count” because it’s the way she “stays in touch with her friends.”
This is a case study of one , but looking at the data it can’t possibly be unique .
Snapchat currently has 397 million daily active users and says 90% of 13-to-24-year-olds in 20+ countries are active at least monthly on the app. Here are a few other curated stats from their marketing...
- 9/11/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
New creators are going to strike while the industry’s hot.
65,000 Hollywood actors took up picket signs during the first week of the SAG-AFTRA strike. They joined thousands of Hollywood writers who first took up picket signs in May for the WGA strike. There are lotsa nuances, but both organizations are primarily negotiating for their members to 1) receive higher residual payments on streaming platforms, and 2) future protection from artificial intelligence making their likenesses and jobs obsolete (at least in the eyes of studio execs).
There’s a lot to unpack, but here are the three main takeaways:
1️⃣This thing is going to last way longer than you think.
A studio executive reportedly told Deadline,...
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New creators are going to strike while the industry’s hot.
65,000 Hollywood actors took up picket signs during the first week of the SAG-AFTRA strike. They joined thousands of Hollywood writers who first took up picket signs in May for the WGA strike. There are lotsa nuances, but both organizations are primarily negotiating for their members to 1) receive higher residual payments on streaming platforms, and 2) future protection from artificial intelligence making their likenesses and jobs obsolete (at least in the eyes of studio execs).
There’s a lot to unpack, but here are the three main takeaways:
1️⃣This thing is going to last way longer than you think.
A studio executive reportedly told Deadline,...
- 7/31/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
If you ask Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson or Google’s Senior Director of Product Management, Todd Beaupré (who may even know more about YouTube than Donaldson ) any questions about the algorithm, they’ll both respond with the same answer.
Replace the word algorithm with audience.
“Jimmy and/or Todd!! How do I make content the algorithm is going to like?” becomes a much more straightforward question when you change it to “Jimmy and/or Todd!! How do I make content my audience is going to like?” The rule of success on the platform isn’t to feed the algorithm, it’s to provide compelling content to your audience.
It turns out platforms need to follow the same rule.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
If you ask Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson or Google’s Senior Director of Product Management, Todd Beaupré (who may even know more about YouTube than Donaldson ) any questions about the algorithm, they’ll both respond with the same answer.
Replace the word algorithm with audience.
“Jimmy and/or Todd!! How do I make content the algorithm is going to like?” becomes a much more straightforward question when you change it to “Jimmy and/or Todd!! How do I make content my audience is going to like?” The rule of success on the platform isn’t to feed the algorithm, it’s to provide compelling content to your audience.
It turns out platforms need to follow the same rule.
- 7/20/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
I recently hung out with a lot of kids at a family wedding in Austin. Specifically, there was a 6-year-old boy, an 8-year-old boy, a 10-year-old girl, and an 11-year-old boy. We went to McKinney Falls, tried to see a couple million Mexican free-tailed bats, and made more than one trip to whatever big box store was nearby in an attempt to get some more Prime.
Prime is the sports drink promoted and co-owned by Logan Paul and Ksi, first released in January 2022. Paul says its retail sales for that year topped $250 million. Reporter Darren Rovell says it did something like $51.7 million in sales in March of 2023.
On the second trip to a...
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I recently hung out with a lot of kids at a family wedding in Austin. Specifically, there was a 6-year-old boy, an 8-year-old boy, a 10-year-old girl, and an 11-year-old boy. We went to McKinney Falls, tried to see a couple million Mexican free-tailed bats, and made more than one trip to whatever big box store was nearby in an attempt to get some more Prime.
Prime is the sports drink promoted and co-owned by Logan Paul and Ksi, first released in January 2022. Paul says its retail sales for that year topped $250 million. Reporter Darren Rovell says it did something like $51.7 million in sales in March of 2023.
On the second trip to a...
- 6/16/2023
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
At YouTube Brandcast–from the Lincoln Center in New York City and in front of 1,000 or so advertisers, marketers, creators, and peers–Google’s President of Americas and Global Partners Sean Downey announced 30-second, non-skippable ads were coming to YouTube on connected TVs.
The crowd audibly gasped before cheering.
It was the second most raucous moment of the evening. (The first was when YouTube’s Chief Business Officer Mary Ellen Coe announced all the attendees would be getting a free subscription to NFL Sunday Ticket.) I think it’s indicative of at least two main things:
Main thing #1 is YouTube’s continued dedication to, and increasing dominance of, the living room. A favorably...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
At YouTube Brandcast–from the Lincoln Center in New York City and in front of 1,000 or so advertisers, marketers, creators, and peers–Google’s President of Americas and Global Partners Sean Downey announced 30-second, non-skippable ads were coming to YouTube on connected TVs.
The crowd audibly gasped before cheering.
It was the second most raucous moment of the evening. (The first was when YouTube’s Chief Business Officer Mary Ellen Coe announced all the attendees would be getting a free subscription to NFL Sunday Ticket.) I think it’s indicative of at least two main things:
Main thing #1 is YouTube’s continued dedication to, and increasing dominance of, the living room. A favorably...
- 5/25/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
Fox News dismissed Tucker Carlson on April 24. Fifteen days later, on May 9, in what I imagine is a location for Yellowstone, the newly ex-Fox News host posted a video to his 7.5 million Twitter followers announcing that he’s “back” and bringing a “new version” of his program to “the last big” platform in the world that allows free speech–Twitter.
We’re back. pic.twitter.com/sG5t9gr60O
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 9, 2023
It’s not an official partnership. At least not yet.
Twitter owner Elon Musk clarified Carlson’s announcement, tweeting, “I also want to be clear that we have not signed a deal of any kind whatsoever. Tucker is subject...
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Fox News dismissed Tucker Carlson on April 24. Fifteen days later, on May 9, in what I imagine is a location for Yellowstone, the newly ex-Fox News host posted a video to his 7.5 million Twitter followers announcing that he’s “back” and bringing a “new version” of his program to “the last big” platform in the world that allows free speech–Twitter.
We’re back. pic.twitter.com/sG5t9gr60O
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 9, 2023
It’s not an official partnership. At least not yet.
Twitter owner Elon Musk clarified Carlson’s announcement, tweeting, “I also want to be clear that we have not signed a deal of any kind whatsoever. Tucker is subject...
- 5/18/2023
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
When social platforms reach a certain size, there’s something akin to a gravitational pull compelling individuals in charge to want to produce original programming.
It makes sense on paper: You’re an online video sharing site or a social media network that’s basically 100% composed of user-generated and professional content that’s coming from individuals and entities outside of your organization. Those users and professionals could go to many other places to upload their content. They often do! And entire businesses have been built to facilitate them doing so.
But you get jealous easily and you don’t want viewers doing things on other platforms. You want the viewers to watch all the things on your platform.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
When social platforms reach a certain size, there’s something akin to a gravitational pull compelling individuals in charge to want to produce original programming.
It makes sense on paper: You’re an online video sharing site or a social media network that’s basically 100% composed of user-generated and professional content that’s coming from individuals and entities outside of your organization. Those users and professionals could go to many other places to upload their content. They often do! And entire businesses have been built to facilitate them doing so.
But you get jealous easily and you don’t want viewers doing things on other platforms. You want the viewers to watch all the things on your platform.
- 5/2/2023
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
I don’t think the lay public would ever consider corporate lawyers for major music publishers or tech corporations particularly innovative or catalysts for massive technological change. I mean, I didn’t. You have these very well-paid attorneys working very long hours to sue companies big and small for some sort of infringement or copyright violation that then seemingly hamstrings the recipient company’s ingenuity, ability to conduct business, and grow.
But the quagmire of corporate litigation can spawn solid new foundations, as a recent conversation with my friend Avi Gandhi led me to realize. Desperation breeds ingenuity, after all. And an entity can get pretty desperate when it’s being sued for a lot of money.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com.
I don’t think the lay public would ever consider corporate lawyers for major music publishers or tech corporations particularly innovative or catalysts for massive technological change. I mean, I didn’t. You have these very well-paid attorneys working very long hours to sue companies big and small for some sort of infringement or copyright violation that then seemingly hamstrings the recipient company’s ingenuity, ability to conduct business, and grow.
But the quagmire of corporate litigation can spawn solid new foundations, as a recent conversation with my friend Avi Gandhi led me to realize. Desperation breeds ingenuity, after all. And an entity can get pretty desperate when it’s being sued for a lot of money.
- 4/26/2023
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com. And we’re now also brought to you in part by the global creator company Jellysmack.
Yes. 100. Full stop. No questions asked. Or at least that’s what I used to think. Now, it’s more nuanced.
Kids want to, that’s for sure. A Harris Poll study found that almost 30 of the eight to 12-year-olds of America and the United Kingdom want to be YouTubers when they grow up.
Adults want to, too. A poll from Morning Consult found that 54 of Americans from the ages 13 to 38 would become an influencer if given the opportunity.
Both those studies were done almost 3 years ago. I’m guessing the inclinations for individuals to want to make a living from YouTube,...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com. And we’re now also brought to you in part by the global creator company Jellysmack.
Yes. 100. Full stop. No questions asked. Or at least that’s what I used to think. Now, it’s more nuanced.
Kids want to, that’s for sure. A Harris Poll study found that almost 30 of the eight to 12-year-olds of America and the United Kingdom want to be YouTubers when they grow up.
Adults want to, too. A poll from Morning Consult found that 54 of Americans from the ages 13 to 38 would become an influencer if given the opportunity.
Both those studies were done almost 3 years ago. I’m guessing the inclinations for individuals to want to make a living from YouTube,...
- 1/13/2023
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com. And we’re now also brought to you in part by the global creator company Jellysmack.
“Yo! That’s a great pic.” “Thanks! My oven took it.”
This isn’t a conversation any human has had just yet, but it will be a conversation millions of humans will have in the not-so-distant future. I give it two to five years before a lot of us are all commenting on, asking questions about, and looking at Mkhbd video reviews for ovens with cameras.
The first one was just announced at CES. It’s Samsung’s Bespoke AI, and it’s set to come out in the U.S. and EU in Q3 2023.
If Instagram photos of well-plated,...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com. And we’re now also brought to you in part by the global creator company Jellysmack.
“Yo! That’s a great pic.” “Thanks! My oven took it.”
This isn’t a conversation any human has had just yet, but it will be a conversation millions of humans will have in the not-so-distant future. I give it two to five years before a lot of us are all commenting on, asking questions about, and looking at Mkhbd video reviews for ovens with cameras.
The first one was just announced at CES. It’s Samsung’s Bespoke AI, and it’s set to come out in the U.S. and EU in Q3 2023.
If Instagram photos of well-plated,...
- 1/6/2023
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Pushkin Industries, the audio company co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg, announced today a partnership with the Los Angeles-based production house Little Everywhere. Little Everywhere’s hit show The Dream has joined the Pushkin network. Pushkin Industries and Little Everywhere will co-produce the highly anticipated third season of the investigative series next year. Additionally, the two companies will jointly launch a finance show called Other People’s Pockets, which is expected to premiere in February 2023 and are developing further collaborative projects.
“We’ve long admired the small but mighty team at Little Everywhere from their work on The Dream and beyond,” said Leital Molad, Pushkin’s VP of Content Development, “Their production chops and creative spirit are a great match for Pushkin, and we look forward to collaborating with them for years to come.”
“We are thrilled to be working with Pushkin. From our first meeting, we have felt...
“We’ve long admired the small but mighty team at Little Everywhere from their work on The Dream and beyond,” said Leital Molad, Pushkin’s VP of Content Development, “Their production chops and creative spirit are a great match for Pushkin, and we look forward to collaborating with them for years to come.”
“We are thrilled to be working with Pushkin. From our first meeting, we have felt...
- 11/30/2022
- Podnews.net
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com. And we’re now also brought to you in part by the global creator company Jellysmack.
Ludwig Ahgren is an incredibly popular streamer. He’s been exclusive to YouTube since December 2021 and is currently pulling in anywhere from 25 to 50 million views a month and over a million views per video on his VOD content. In terms of streaming, the latest stats I could easily find are from May 2022 and put his average concurrent viewers anywhere from 15K to 25K with peaks bumping all the way up to 87K. Those numbers regularly put him in the Top 10 for streamers with the Most Hours Watched on YouTube. The guy’s also got 1.6 million followers on TikTok,...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com. And we’re now also brought to you in part by the global creator company Jellysmack.
Ludwig Ahgren is an incredibly popular streamer. He’s been exclusive to YouTube since December 2021 and is currently pulling in anywhere from 25 to 50 million views a month and over a million views per video on his VOD content. In terms of streaming, the latest stats I could easily find are from May 2022 and put his average concurrent viewers anywhere from 15K to 25K with peaks bumping all the way up to 87K. Those numbers regularly put him in the Top 10 for streamers with the Most Hours Watched on YouTube. The guy’s also got 1.6 million followers on TikTok,...
- 11/3/2022
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Fyi, Tubefilter has a podcast.
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com. And we’re now also brought to you in part by the global creator company Jellysmack.
YouTube’s ad sales business is in a transitional phase.
The company’s Q3 2022 saw 7.071 billion in advertising revenue. That’s down 1.8 from the 7.205 billion in ad revenue in Q3 2021. Not a steep decline, yet it’s YouTube’s first ever year-over-year quarterly decrease since Alphabet started breaking out the metric for the company. Here’s a look at how every quarter has stacked up since then, courtesy of Rich Greenfeld at Lightshed.
You could blame the cause of the dip on a few factors:
The overall economic environment and a “pullback in spend by some advertisers,...
It’s hosted by our very own Joshua Cohen (that’s me) and Lauren Schnipper. Subscribe to Creator Upload on Apple Podcasts. We’re everywhere else, too. Just go to CreatorUpload.com. And we’re now also brought to you in part by the global creator company Jellysmack.
YouTube’s ad sales business is in a transitional phase.
The company’s Q3 2022 saw 7.071 billion in advertising revenue. That’s down 1.8 from the 7.205 billion in ad revenue in Q3 2021. Not a steep decline, yet it’s YouTube’s first ever year-over-year quarterly decrease since Alphabet started breaking out the metric for the company. Here’s a look at how every quarter has stacked up since then, courtesy of Rich Greenfeld at Lightshed.
You could blame the cause of the dip on a few factors:
The overall economic environment and a “pullback in spend by some advertisers,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Paris, Oct 6 (Ians) Erling Haaland continued his remarkable start to life at Manchester City with a brace of goals, helping the English side to a third win from three Group G matches in the UEFA Champions League.
Haaland scored with his first touch as City cruised to another thumping home win, beating Fc Copenhagen 5-0 at the City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester on Wednesday night.
Haaland buried a Joao Cancelo pass in the 7th minute before tapping in a second in the 32nd min to move to 28 goals in just 22 Champions League appearances. He is now level with Ryan Giggs on 28 UEFA Champions League goals.
David Khocholava turned in an own goal, Riyad Mahrez scored a penalty after Haaland was withdrawn at the break and Julián Alvarez tapped in a fifth after a great run from Jack Grealish.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was elated with the way his...
Haaland scored with his first touch as City cruised to another thumping home win, beating Fc Copenhagen 5-0 at the City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester on Wednesday night.
Haaland buried a Joao Cancelo pass in the 7th minute before tapping in a second in the 32nd min to move to 28 goals in just 22 Champions League appearances. He is now level with Ryan Giggs on 28 UEFA Champions League goals.
David Khocholava turned in an own goal, Riyad Mahrez scored a penalty after Haaland was withdrawn at the break and Julián Alvarez tapped in a fifth after a great run from Jack Grealish.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was elated with the way his...
- 10/6/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
The 2020 YouTube Streamy Awards honored the best of online entertainment Saturday night with its virtual ceremony. While the annual ceremony seeks to honor accomplishments in the realm of digital entertainment, Hollywood’s own Will Smith received a prize in the crossover category.
Among the evening’s winners of the evening, hosted by RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni and UNHhhh hosts Katya and Trixie Mattel, were Charli D’Amelio and David Dobrik. Also taking home Streamy Awards on Saturday were Marques Brownlee, James Charles, Hasan Piker and Sarah Cooper.
In addition to major wins for MrBeast, the 10th annual Streamy Awards featured a number of performances and appearances by Lilly Singh, Lewis Capaldi and Patrick Starrr. Highlights included a round up of videos and creators inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and a performance of Doja Cat’s “Say So.”
The 2020 YouTube Streamy Awards is executive produced by dick clark productions’ Ariel Elazar,...
Among the evening’s winners of the evening, hosted by RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni and UNHhhh hosts Katya and Trixie Mattel, were Charli D’Amelio and David Dobrik. Also taking home Streamy Awards on Saturday were Marques Brownlee, James Charles, Hasan Piker and Sarah Cooper.
In addition to major wins for MrBeast, the 10th annual Streamy Awards featured a number of performances and appearances by Lilly Singh, Lewis Capaldi and Patrick Starrr. Highlights included a round up of videos and creators inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and a performance of Doja Cat’s “Say So.”
The 2020 YouTube Streamy Awards is executive produced by dick clark productions’ Ariel Elazar,...
- 12/13/2020
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas ChauvinIn an earlier dispatch I wrote on the extraordinary documentary Pharos of Chaos, a captivating long-form interview with actor Sterling Hayden that came about when the West German critic and filmmaker, Wolf-Eckart Bühler, tracked him down to get permission to adapt his 1963 memoir, Wanderer. The film that resulted is Der Havarist (1984), and reading about both films in the festival catalog, I assumed that the documentary would be a mere supplement to this feature adaptation, yet the opposite turned out to be true. Pharos of Chaos ranges widely without a lot of historical detail and is reliant—but thereby thrives—on the screen presence of Hayden and bountiful detail of character. Der Havarist, far from a straight staging or telling of Hayden’s life, is more multi-form and Brechtian, using several actors (including Rüdiger Vogler and musician Hannes Waader) to play Hayden by reciting passages from the book,...
- 8/10/2018
- MUBI
Since launching its YouTube channel in 2007, WatchMojo has posted more than 12,700 videos, which have collectively brought in over 8.2 billion views. Now, the prolific content producer known for its top ten lists is expanding its brand offline with a foray into the world of live events. It has announced its plan to host a gathering at YouTube Space NY on May 31st, with a series of panels, addresses, and performances on the docket.
The theme of WatchMojo’s upcoming event is “Creativity Travels: Media in the Age of the Global Stage,” and the presentation attendees will share their thoughts on how creators can stay relevant as online video expands worldwide. Panelists and speakers will include Anthony Batt of Vr company Wevr, who will deliver a keynote address, as well as Rich Antoniello of Complex Networks. Tubefilter’s own Joshua Cohen will serve as one of the panel moderators.
Tickets to the...
The theme of WatchMojo’s upcoming event is “Creativity Travels: Media in the Age of the Global Stage,” and the presentation attendees will share their thoughts on how creators can stay relevant as online video expands worldwide. Panelists and speakers will include Anthony Batt of Vr company Wevr, who will deliver a keynote address, as well as Rich Antoniello of Complex Networks. Tubefilter’s own Joshua Cohen will serve as one of the panel moderators.
Tickets to the...
- 5/23/2017
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Displaying a transparency that few filmmakers of his fame and / or caliber would even bother with, Steven Soderbergh has, for a couple of years, been keen on releasing lists of what he watched and read during the previous twelve months. If you’re at all interested in this sort of thing — and why not? what else are you even doing with your day? — the 2015 selection should be of strong interest, this being a time when he was fully enmeshed in the world of creating television.
He’s clearly observing the medium with a close eye, be it what’s on air or what his friends (specifically David Fincher and his stillborn projects) show him, and how that might relate to his apparent love of 48 Hours Mystery or approach to a comparatively light slate of cinematic assignments — specifically: it seems odd that the last time he watched Magic Mike Xxl, a...
He’s clearly observing the medium with a close eye, be it what’s on air or what his friends (specifically David Fincher and his stillborn projects) show him, and how that might relate to his apparent love of 48 Hours Mystery or approach to a comparatively light slate of cinematic assignments — specifically: it seems odd that the last time he watched Magic Mike Xxl, a...
- 1/6/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Read More: 'The Eric Andre Show' Getting Weird With Chris Rock, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Rogen and more in Season 3 (Exclusive) In this interview with the site "Hopes&Fears," "The Eric Andre Show" supervising producer Joshua Cohen talks candidly about the ins-and-outs of one of the craziest shows on TV. Adult Swim has brought us some of the most talked about absurd, anti-comedy series like "Too Many Cooks" and "Children's Hospital", but rarely do we ever catch a glimpse of the mechanisms behind seemingly chaotic and unplanned shows. Cohen helps mend that gap, and we've picked out some of the most intriguing, sometimes disturbing, tidbits from his interview. "Typically, we take about $10,000 and we all go to the Commerce Casino... We see how much money we walk away with at the casino and that's typically how much we'll put into one season's worth of set destruction." "I would say Lauren Conrad.
- 5/26/2015
- by Sarah Choi
- Indiewire
The Streamy Awards are going 2.0. The fourth installment of the proverbial online Oscars will allow fans to nominate their favorite creators or programs in all the categories except the craft categories. The entrant in each category with the most fan submissions will automatically become one of the five official nominees. “YouTube’s mega-influencers are now becoming household names, and audience engagement plays a critical role in their success,” Joshua Cohen, the show’s executive producer, said in a statement. “Fans are a major component of the Streamys nominations process because they are part of online video’s DNA.” New award categories include gaming, beauty, sports, pranks, science and education, and kids and family, among others. Three awards will be devoted to Vine: comedian, creativity, and Viner of the year. Moreover, there are new award categories that reflect emerging YouTube trends: collaboration, public service, cover song, indie and first-person series. And...
- 7/9/2014
- backstage.com
Philip Roth turns 80 next month, with 27 novels behind him, but when he announced his retirement last November, it felt like he was actually cutting something short—possibly the most prolific, probably the most distinguished, and certainly the most debated career in postwar American fiction. Roth was never just a novelist to readers but an iconoclast and narcissist, a Jewish cultural hero (villain to some), a (probable) misogynist, a literary celebrity who folded his own life into novels like they were tabloids (or metafictions?) and, after Toni Morrison, our great American hope, The Man Who Should Win the Nobel Prize (If Any Man Should). Just ahead of Philip Roth: Unmasked, an intimate documentary airing on PBS next month, we asked a panel of 30 literati to assess his oeuvre.Participants: Steven Amsterdam, Sam Anderson, Rosecrans Baldwin, Elif Batuman, Christopher Beha, David Bezmozgis, Charles Bock, Nic Brown, Joshua Cohen, Siddhartha Deb, Bret...
- 2/25/2013
- Vulture
While Occupy Wall Street goes global, Martha Colburn has made two short films documenting the movement and Cinefoundation launches #OccupyCinema. One of the more popular recent Ows speakers has, of course, been Slavoj Žižek, and Anne Thompson reports that he and Sophie Fiennes have just completed shooting on their followup to The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, the timely Pervert's Guide to Ideology.
Even as This Is Not a Film runs a sort of victory lap through the festival circuit since its triumphant premiere in Cannes, an appeals court in Tehran has upheld the sentence against Jafar Panahi many of those same festivals have been protesting for practically a year now. Laurent Maillard, reporting for the Afp, turns to a government-run newspaper in Iran for confirmation: "The charges he was sentenced for are acting against national security and propaganda against the regime." Maillard: "Panahi was convicted in December last year over...
Even as This Is Not a Film runs a sort of victory lap through the festival circuit since its triumphant premiere in Cannes, an appeals court in Tehran has upheld the sentence against Jafar Panahi many of those same festivals have been protesting for practically a year now. Laurent Maillard, reporting for the Afp, turns to a government-run newspaper in Iran for confirmation: "The charges he was sentenced for are acting against national security and propaganda against the regime." Maillard: "Panahi was convicted in December last year over...
- 10/16/2011
- MUBI
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