The app is called Action Movie FX and it gives users the ability to insert special effects into any video they take with Apple’s smartphone. Watch the video. Read the full story on LA Times. Personally, I wouldn't use this app. What do you…

Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that we need to perform some simple but necessary maintenance on WSN this coming Friday, December 2nd. We’ll need to take the site down from 10-midnight PT. During these 2 hours, we’ll simply show a message asking folks to check back later. Thanks in advance for your patience while we tune up the…

Check out more photos from the inaugural Marseille Web Fest, a yearly festival celebrating web series creators, fans and enthusiasts. The event, which took place in Marseille, France on October 14-15, 2011 was organized by Jean Michel Albert, in partnership with the French government and LAWEBFEST executive director Michael Ajakwe.…

Luxury automaker Lexus has picked up Red Band Trailer, taking the web series, from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno, Young Adult, United States of Tara) for its digital network LStudio.com, home to Lisa Kudrow's 'Web Therapy' and other high profile web shows.

Red Band…

WSN founder Rich Mbariket has touched on numerous WSN forum topics and blog post on how brands are creating their own web series instead of advertising in independent web shows.

Check out this video on how beer giant Budweiser is transitioning from advertising on television to producing their own shows for the Internet and other digital platforms.…

GBTV.com, the subscription-based web TV network launched this summer by former FOX News pundit Glenn Beck is estimated to generate $27 million a year from subscription fees, Forbes is…

On Monday, Web Series Network received email from a producer stating that the branded entertainment web series he produced is being deleted from the Internet (including Youtube) because their buy-out period with the…

Billionaire Richard Branson is profiled in this original web series from Hulu called 'A Day in the Life' created and directed by Morgan Spurlock. Watch, comment, and share.…

Hulu.com has hired Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker behind 'POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold' and 'Super Size Me' to produce a six-part, half-hour documentary web series called 'A Day in the Life.'

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Toshiba, Intel, 'Disturbia' director D.J. Caruso and actress Emmy Rossum have teamed up on a branded entertainment web series about a tough and resilient 24 year old girl named Christina (Rossum), who is trapped in a room with a Toshiba laptop powered by Intel…

Check out the new trailer from the 'Dragon Age Redemption' web series starring Felicia Day.…

From San Diego Comic Con 2011: Check out the trailer from 'H+,' a new web series from film producer and director Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns, Valkyrie, The Usual Suspects) about an innovative piece of technology that leads to the death of billions of…

Check out the trailer from 'Life in a Day,' a user-generated content film from Youtube, National Geographic, Ridley Scott and Scott Macdonald.

On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in 'Life in a Day,' a historic…

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Today, Warner Bros. released the first trailer from 'Aim High,' a new action web series produced by 'Terminator Salvation' director McG, and starring 'Twilight's' Jackson Rathbone who plays a high schooler, Nick Green, who moonlights as a U.S spy when he's not hitting the books.

Series premiers August 1 on Facebook. Watch the exclusive trailer on…