The Wachowski Brothers are working on a new 10-episode Netflix series called Sense8 set to premiere exclusively on Netflix.com in late 2014. The project is about the way technology simultaneously unites and divides humans, but many of the details are secret.

Common with Netflix' distribution strategy, all 10-episodes of the series will…

Web Originals Budget Reveal! These are estimates, not the final network spend. 

Hemlock Grove (Netflix) $4 million per episode. # of episodes 13. Estimated budget $52 million.…

New comedy YouTube Channel JASH created by comedian Sarah Silverman and actor Michael Cera will join the second wave of YouTube Original Channels Initiative funded by Google (YouTube's parent company). 

Google will fund 100% content production and marketing on JASH in hopes of selling advertising through the channel and its…

Comedy series 'Husbands' created by Jane Espenson (staff writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will take to the road starting at Wondercon in Anaheim, California March 29-31, 2013, becoming the first comedy web series to tour the United States and Europe.

The 7-month tour will stop in Anaheim, Chicago, Los Angeles,…

Popular music streaming service Spotify is expanding into the web series and online video market.

It plans to develop its own original serialized video content, competing with the likes of Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Yahoo, YouTube, Crackle and many other independent digital studios already in the crowded video marketplace. 

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You've got a better chance of pitching for the Yankees than have a web series funded through traditional channels and own the intellectual property. To get a web series produced and have 100% ownership you simply have to pay for it yourself... by any means possible, including crowd-funding which I never…

Under his production banner Platinum Dunes, Director Michael Bay reinvented the wheel by reviving cult classics such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Texas Chainsaw Massacre as profitable low-budget movies budgeted under $20 million with music video and commercials directors helming. 

Now Amazon Studios is looking to follow…

Sesame Street's YouTube channel has become the first non-profit organization and the first US children's company to reach a billion YouTube channel views.

For Sesame Street (Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster and co.), the sticking point in joining the billion-view club comes from those global dedicated viewers expanding content consumption to digital…

"Sometimes you need a break from TV... so you can go play on the interwebs," writes blogger Perez Hilton. "See which stars have shined in web series... some have even been turned into TV shows!"…

Did you know that Machinima.com is constantly looking for directors to join their team? Here's how to submit to their Director's Program!

First...…

The channels will make shows for the Web and offer them on demand. Online, companies can “tap into genres not currently serviced within the television world,” Mr. Seidel said in an email to…

Founder of WSN, Rich Mbariket reading the 4th issue of WSN magazine released January 2012…

Image via USA Today: Elizabeth Banks plays police negotiator to Sam Worthington's (Avatar, Terminator Salvation) suicidal character in 'Man on a Ledge' in theaters this Friday…

Producer-casting director Kim Williams (casting director of Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family and Diary of a Mad Black Woman) and Carlos Ramos, Jr. (prod./dir.) are casting 'The Hill,' a dramatic web series. Shoot starts mid-late February in L.A.…

"With YouTube and the platforms on the Internet, they're in every country and on every device. It means we are instantly global," Machinima Inc. Chief Executive Allen DeBevoise said.…

Is there a market for web series DVDs? Kiefer Sutherland's action-thriller web series 'The Confession' is coming to DVD January 24 on Amazon and other fine retailers. Will you buy? Tell us about your DVD prospects and what you think of…

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: What does a brand look for when hiring a digital production company to make a web series around their brand? Why was it important to make a web series instead of a traditional commercial? Find the answers and more in this…

In this awful economy, the most disrespectful part of this project's crowd-funding campaign is that they need $40,000 in 30 days or else...

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Check out the latest episode of Those Video Guys, a British video review show produced and starring Elisa Cabrera. In this episode Elisa and his guest talk about trending videos, review web series and yes... those IAWTV winners. Check out…