All,

Web Series Network is for sale (the site, url, facebook page etc).

I've moved on to other interests and don't have the time to spend on it anymore. If you're interested in buying the site, please email me at rich@richmbariket.com with an offer.

Thank you all for your support over the years and wishing you all much success.

Rich Mbariket

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. 

Per…

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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…

YouTube now has more than a billion people tuning into the video-sharing site every single month, according to YouTube's official blog, posted yesterday. YouTube.com is the #2 most visited website on the Internet after Google.com (which owns YouTube). The site is popular with web series creators and filmmakers on sharing content and connecting with a…

Nearly two years in the making, soap powerhouse 'All My Children' and One Life To Live' will return on the web as a web series starting April 25, 2013 on The Online Network available via Hulu and iTunes. All My Children will continue five years into the future and explain why certain characters are no longer on Pine Valley and others…

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Check out the newest trailer from Netlix's original horror/thriller series 'Hemlock Grove' from director Eli Roth. Just like House of Cards (also from…

Last week I wrote about magazine publisher Conde Nast launching a slate of original lifestyle and scripted web series for its consumer magazine titles including Glamour, Vanity Fair and GQ.

Now Reddit.com,…

Top magazine publisher Conde Nast (producer of consumer magazines including GQ, The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Glamour) is entering the web series space with a slate of original web series for its magazine titles. 

"This is by far one of the most exciting parts of what we're working on at CNE (Conde Nast Entertainment)…

World’s Worst Director does its best to entertain on familiar material

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World’s Worst Director | 2 Stars

Seth Chitwood, Mary C, Ferrara, Kristen Sargent Gorman. Created by Seth Chitwood. Directed by Sophie…

Six excerpted advice for web series creators from SXSW 2013 panel. 

1) Don't ask anyone's permission.

2) If you have an idea, make is as soon as you possibly can. Every minute, 72 hours of footage is uploaded to YouTube. If you’re waiting for someone to tap you on the back, it’s not going to happen. Someone else will beat you to the…

Movie ticket seller Fandango.com announced at the SXSW yesterday in Austin that it's launching a new movie-news web show called 'Weekend Ticket,' hosted by the company's chief correspondent Dave Karger. 

The pilot episode will be filmed at SXSW and will include interviews from Cowboys & Aliens star Olivia Wilde and Fast…

'Detroit Rubber,' the Eminem-financed web series documenting the day-to-day operations of Burn Rubber, a popular sneaker shop in Detroit will return for a second season, likely on television, according to executive producer Paul Rosenberg (who also manages rapper Eminem).  

"I'm really proud of it, and very happy…

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…

For those looking to optimize their business card for mobile, here's an example of a way to do it from Rich Mbariket. Search 'free QR code' to download your free QR code which points directly to the URL of your choosing when scanned on mobile devices (smartphones/tablets). I used…

Courtyard outside Rich Mbariket Las Vegas office on Tropicana Blvd, just 3 miles from the Las Vegas Strip.