Everything that’s ever been posted on NewTeeVee Station.
Five minutes is a long time in online video — just long enough to tackle any subject.
These brave content creators are filtering something unspeakably vile for those of us too squeamish to directly interact with it.
2/8 Life, a spoof of the much-discussed quarterlife, is so smart and funny that it could easily render the target of its satire obsolete.
The online world of the film 2012 is depressingly out-of-step with the actual film.
An actor with a day job pushes himself to the limit for this personal challenge.
The CW’s revamp of the early 90s Fox series attempts to capitalize on new media with the character of videoblogger Silver.
The British reality show occasionally lives up to its title, and the entire planet occasionally notices.
Two intrepid web celebrities have adventures in various American cities with only AT&T phone service to guide them.
After a lengthy hiatus, the comic book review show relaunched with creator interviews and a firm release schedule.
The classic joke set-up is the basis for a crass holiday special.
ABC offers audiences a chance to catch up before the Fall 2008 season of drama starts.
A 13-year-old girl dishes about boys, her family, and suffering from a fictional genetic disorder in this daily vlog series.
A webseries covering the fan journey to see the band perform their first live show in five years.
Actors are crazy, but the ones who sign up for acting classes from Mr. Belding are the craziest.
In willful defiance of the tropes laid out both by contemporary genres and pretty much every other video on YouTube, the creators of Afterworld have dared to make a web series seemingly devoid of irony.
Andrew Goldenberg writes and performs Sondheim-esque lyrics to famous movie scores. It sounds hokey, but his take on Batman is funny, but also surprisingly dark and poignant.
An assassin struggles with missed targets, sleeping with her boss, and getting stabbed in the head with a six-inch knife.
Young lesbians navigate the oft murky waters of long distance relationships, high school, well-meaning but misguided adults, and life in a post-9-11 world. All at once.
A well-condensed five-minute talk show experiment, hosted by 18-year TV writing veteran Bob Kushell.
A comparison of two news organizations’ coverage of the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy and ensuing economic chaos.
Filmmaker and digital DIY evangelist Arin Crumley went to a party in Brooklyn, where his coat, wallet, passport, bike and video recorder were stolen.
One of the pioneers of online comedy, this series takes the reader mail format and adds ninjas, which we all know makes everything better.
Hosted and produced by Sara O’Donnell, this podcast has been sharing recipes through a sketch comedy/cooking show hybrid format since July 2006.
Avril Lavigne’s #1 single Girlfriend ousted the longtime most-viewed YouTube vid, but what does her success imply about YouTube’s policies?
To be a lipsyncing sensation: be Chinese, put on an Adidas tracksuit, and rock the cream cheese out of the Backstreet Boys’ As Long as You Love Me. ‘Cause then you’re the Back Dorm Boys. And then you’re awesome.
Sports-centered mockumentary about the fake heirs to a real sports trading card dynasty. Stars Jason and Randy Sklar and Brian Huskey; also features an exponential number of celeb athlete cameos.
The videos that helped make an one-term senator the leader of the free world.
Two college friends have created a whole brand with their college-humor-style pranks and short, zippy videos. The duo got lots of visibility when some of their videos were featured on the front page of YouTube and have since then leveraged their success into an oldteevee deal.
Poking smart fun at the political landscape and its players, this goes way beyond Obama Girl.
22-year-old Oscar Grant was shot and killed New Year’s Day by a Oakland BART cop, and bystanders’ YouTube clips caused a riot a week later.
The Battle at Kruger video proves that sometimes all it takes to become a massive viral video success is to be at the right place at the right time. David Budzinski caught a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence on video in South Africa’s Kruger National Park of the beast of Africa duking it out, circle or life style.
The third web series from the BSG franchise, inserted between Season 4.0 and 4.5.
Andy Plesser and his team cover the online video industry — includes lots of one-on-one interviews with key players.
Two not-so-similar men with a few key similarities passed away the weekend of August 9-10, 2008.
The pop diva not only trumped Britney Spears’s comeback, but has become a viral phenomenon.
Braxton Price stars creator Aaron Nauta as a young robo-Republican hired by the fictional National Federation of Young Republicans to host a web show-within-the-show.
The story of a screenwriter with a gun to his head, remembering the path that lead him through a strange satiric Hollywood to an untimely end.
YouTube superstar Bryony Matthewman — alias paperlilies — is making a zombie movie, and the whole world is watching… or at least the BBC hopes so.
A fake reality series following a pair of bumbling paranormal nuts, whose day job as pool-cleaners might be turn out to be the break they need.
The USA Networks spy series crosses over onto the web with helpful tips for daily life.
From Deca Studios comes this dude’s guide to everything dude. Video games, gadgets, porn — it’s all covered here.
The heirs to a carpet store empire discover that their business is vulnerable to take-over… by David Spade.
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane transfers his trademark cutaway jokes to Internet distribution.
Darth Vader’s younger brother works at a Wisconsin grocery store. You’d think with the Dark Side on his side, he could do better.
Directed by peripatetic funny man Rob Corddy, and written by Corddry and Wainy Days producer Jonathan Stern, and much more than derivative online Hollywood fare.
The southern belle (beau?) who used his gender-bending, attention-getting lifestyle to preach tolerance from the basement of his grandparents’ Tennessee home.
In the first U.S. presidential primary season to occur since the advent of ubiquitous web video, there were a whole lot of moments — both scripted and unscripted, and both controlled by the candidates and completely out of their control — that went viral. YouTube and CNN got together to make a more systematic change [...]
A collection of “zany” (their word, not ours) pick-up videos that the College Humor crew shoots around its offices, which have since been adapted as an MTV series.
Michael Madsen plays a mobster who slips into a coma, threatening to unravel corruption in his city’s mayoralty.
A quirky and surreal comedy set entirely within the white-walled abyss of Dan Humford’s comatose mind.
The co-creator of Channel 101 brings his distinctive, web-friendly flair to the upcoming NBC comedy.
Amusing Aussie Natalie Tran is racking up some serious view counts with her YouTube vlogs/one woman sketch shows. Is the hype justified?
A woman seeking the father of her baby son is how Denmark tried to sell itself as a tourist destination.
The anglophilic comedy duo David Beeler and Tom Konkle double your pleasure (and laughs) via literate Python-esque sketches and series.
During the six months between its announcement in January 2007 and its June release, the iPhone was the focus of technology rumors worldwide, and the New York Times’s technology columnist, David Pogue, got in on the action.
An SNL digital short aggressively memed on the Internets, this mock murder gunplay vid spoofs a ubiquitous dramatic trope and co-stars Shia LaBeouf.
The gamer sketch troupe Loading Ready Run used their nerd powers for good by playing the world’s worst video game for a multi-day live-streaming event.
A monster viral hit for Saturday Night Live, Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake performed this awesome spoof of early 90s R&B ballads to show guys what to get their girlfriends for X-mas.
Actor/hip hop mogul/chameleon of nomenclature Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ intimate, and often hilarious, webcam diary.
More than just a freshmaker: when added to soda, Mentos make a fizzy volcano — and made Eepybird’s Fritz Globe and Stephen Voltz Internet celebrities.
Doug “Doog” Bresler has won numerous awards for his animated shorts and has worked with some big stars online, like Ask a Ninja, and offline, like “Weird” Al Yankovic.
In a Kitchener, Ontario basement, a team of five or six put together a show about web startup employees with puppets that wouldn’t feel out of place in the Adult Swim lineup. Offbeat and a little randy, dotBoom has an undeniable Office Space or The In Crowd appeal. The key, of course, is [...]
It’s unclear exactly why a five-second clip of a rodent looking over its shoulder has shot to the top of the YouTube charts.
If you’re looking for a factually accurate retelling of the 1804 Alexander Hamilton-Aaron Burr duel, there’s a milk commercial you should check out. But if you’re looking for dudes in wigs, then Drunk History, Vol. 1’s got you covered.
Two guys and their love lives, hanging around Brooklyn and getting into hijinks with their friends — a fresh voice shines with a familiar premise.
IKEA sponsors Illeana Douglas’s re-imagining of her post-Hollywood career as a store co-worker.
A fake reality show made by a real couple about a fake couple who have trouble facing reality on their way to the altar.
Motivational speaker Judson Laipply’s one-man cruise through popular dance moves is currently the most-watched video of all time on YouTube. It even landed Laipply a spot on Oprah.
Videos capturing the epic fails that naturally occur in our chaotic world and the adorable cats who make it better.
Take one piece of music, several clips from your favorite piece of media — and you’ve got a new way of relating to a TV show or film.
The Taiwanese soap opera is a phenomenon not just in its home country, but on YouTube.
The inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center have gone viral with their pop dance tributes.
Stefan Nadelman’s epic short depicts the history of 20th-century American warfare with food.
A psychedelic, semi-regular comedy cooking show, full of recipes that are mostly impossible to try at home.
Self-described as “the ultimate mash-up of sketch comedy,” the show grafts a far-reaching, culture-jamming aesthetic onto well-worn subjects for YouTube parody.
Women in French maid costumes are the lynchpin of this series, groundbreaking in its implementation of product placement.
A supernatural crime drama in which both the cops and the villains have something to hide. (Hint: Humans 1.0 are so last season….)
Gabe Delahaye and Max Silvestri created this infomercial spoof to show you how you can use the Internet to fulfill all your dreams. Bing-bong, email.
Galacticast’s freeform approach to mocking everything geeky has translated into three seasons of borderline-fair-use sci-fi commentary and comedy.
Comedian Owen Benjamin is the only straight man in a town that’s, well, gay. The show just moves from one stereotype to the next, never delivering anything insightful (or funny).
Hosted by Irina Slutsky, Geek Entertainment is a video show that covers all the tech buzz words.
Rosario Dawson stars in the sci-fi thriller from Electric Farm and a million advertisers.
A daily Aussie vid series recently syndicated to Bebo, Girl Friday follows the workaday travails of a hard-partying twentysomething constantly in conflict with her office mates and supervisors.
James of Cinemassacre presents foul-mouthed commentary on the good, bad, and bizarre highlights from Godzilla, the world’s most epic monster movie franchise.
Thoughtful, entertaining news snacks, brought to you by the adorably animated Roger Numbers, GOOD Worldwide, and the folks at Lexus.
A play on wacky Japanese TV, wherein perky host Kiko (played by Kim Evey, who produces The Guild) “bewilders and abuses her guests.”
A mysterious big green gorilla helps a group of kids make a big green difference.
A woman who grew up during the Great Depression shares recipes for our new recession.
Isabella Rossellini dons a wide range of costumes to explain the science of sex in the natural world.
A new comedy series on Crackle starring the famous LA-based improv troupe of the same name.
A one-woman comedy show, production company and YouTube channel that, by May 2007, had made Christine Gambito one of the first creators tapped for YouTube’s revenue-sharing program.
A content rich, interactive “social show” designed as a companion to the CBS television event Harper’s Island.
The former used the latter’s music to speak out against illegal whale hunts.
Hot Hot Los Angeles is a spoof on Hollywood culture featuring good-looking guys and hot women doing deals and stabbing each other in the back. It’s trying to be a clever take on the steamy nighttime soaps, but it just falls flat and seems like it was created principally as a vehicle for the main [...]
The comedian makes use of his court-appointed time at home to make a talk show.
Radiohead’s new video uses 3D scanning technology, which drew the interest of Google.
With what he thought was the complete creative freedom of the online video world, animator Justin Roiland came up with what is still today one of the most bizarre premises for a web series: A man builds a cloning machine so that he can surround himself wi
A Babelgum-produced mash-up of sci-fi comedy and dude humor.
Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel express their love for each other in odd ways.
A single girl copes with singledom with the help of some imaginary… friends isn’t the right word.
Improbable Research Collections is a weekly series produced by The Improbable Researchers, a ragtag band of scientists with an unusual sense of humor.
Enterprising British students condensed recent Hollywood films to their roots.
An apartment complex-ful of West Hollywood gay men deal with issues like HIV prevention and broken hearts.
Starring thirty-something Playmate/sitcom star Jenny McCarthy, King of Queens‘ Leah Remini, and E!’s Chelsea Handler, the series’ 7-minute-ish vids recreates toddler-centric vignettes from stories submitted by real world moms.
Incognegro follows a light-skinned black man (The Colbert Report’s Jordan Carlos) on his journey to become “blacker.” The first episode has him seeking dog-buying advice in Harlem. Though it’s typical man-on-the-street stuff, Carlos is smart, pretty funny, and quick enough to keep up with the loopy answers thrown his way.
A film-industry spoof of the Mac vs. PC Apple campaign that ultimately acts a rallying cry, encouraging independent media producers to take advantage of the WGA strike to figure out new ways to work outside the system.
The Indy Mogul network tells you how to blow stuff up in your backyard, what short films are best, and what people think of Hollywood features.
This is a piece out to prove a point — that coalition forces are mired in Afghanistan, babysitting an inept army, and unable to make good on the original goal of eradicating the Taliban. No uplifting bromides here, move along.
Following the success of the first Internet Party, Cracked.com came back with this bit about the Internet holding an intervention for displaced MySpace.
The ironically-moniker-ed Rafi Kam and Dallas Penn have been exploring the New York urban scene together since July 2006.
124 interviews, 70 days and 20,000 miles later, Austin Lynch and Jason S. created 121 episodes spotlighting the “average American.”
A dark comedy about what happens when you have one-off sex with your (invisible) friend, wake up to find her (still invisible but) dead, and have to hide her (invisible) body.
Two different series take on the booming industry of downloadable apps for smart phones.
Verizon has harnessed the anti-Apple revolution with an effective series of viral ads this fall.
In near-future Chicago, Nate Palmer’s inventor father commits suicide, and a secret organization recruits Nate to search for his last experiment. But Nate soon discovers that he himself may be the real experiment.
YouTube gives the world an on-the-ground look at the unrest resulting.
Enterprising fans use online video to make the case that one artist might be stealing from another.
MTV’s Total Request Live replacement is all about the Internet and not so much about the music.
Jack and Hill strings together scenes from films starring on-the-record Hillary Clinton supporter Jack Nicholson, with titles that reflect the Clinton campaign’s typical “experience”-obsessed fear and loathing.
James Kotecki got his start in Internet video as a poli-sci undergrad at Georgetown with a webcam, pencil puppets and spitfire political commentary. Before he graduated he had interviewed not one but two presidential candidates for his web show in his dorm room. Impressive for a small-time video blogger. He now is a daily video [...]
Your favorite Judd Apatow players in the first spoof trailer to be adapted into a feature film.
By emulating Ze Frank, is the hip hop vlogger being sincere, or is he trying to get a “hit show” by mocking “hit shows”?
“Straight talk” from the Arizona senator’s bid for the Presidency.
Brothers Kevin, Joe, and Nick’s YouTube antics are far superior to their actual music.
The latest entry into the new frontier of semi-surreptitious online movie marketing, or legit fan fiction?
An all-access pass to the world of tech moguls and wannabes, coming straight to you from a funny, pushy, sharp, and short lady reporter and her Flip videocamera.
A spin-off of Lonelygirl15, this web series created in conjunction with social networking site Bebo is another drama that involves twentysomethings pulled into a world of secret organizations and intrigue.
Liam Kyle Sullivan’s unabashedly singleminded alter-ego, Kelly, is still bringing the fun two years after her debut.
The historic race embraces some new technology to replay races and share information about race culture.
Dior’s foray into web series production is slightly more than a hard sell for their handbag line.
The science behind the world’s most powerful particle accelerator is explained through the time-honored methodology of rap.
Former SNL-er Jimmy Fallon’s commitment to the interwebs is new for the late-night world.
A spoof of Chris Crocker, inspired by John McCain’s ad comparing Barack Obama to Britney Spears.
A fictional record producer interacts with real rising stars from the Los Angeles music scene.
The lonelygirl15 follow-up sequel is a bold new step for the franchise — and a big shift from its roots.
One of the few undisputed YouTube celebrities, her insanely popular videos led to a short-lived 2007 MadTV gig — as well as accusations of artificially inflating her numbers.
Some of the worst decisions people make involve when, where and why they take off their clothes.
The erstwhile assistant of Jeremy Piven’s super-agent turns to the web for the exposure he deserves.
Canadian sketch comedy team Loading Ready Run have found a niche in video game comedy and commentary.
Controversial and medium-defining, the interactive narrative phenomenon that began as a YouTube hoax gained more notoriety for being a fictional series than it did for its unique storytelling format.
This pitch-black thriller about an unstable self-help guru doesn’t have it all… so, are the gratuitous servings of sex, drugs and violence enough?
Human-edited web directory Mahalo.com increased its human presence in 2007 with this daily podcast.
A site bringing you a front row look behind the scenes. (Whatever that’s supposed to mean.)
Taking advantage of the Get a Mac ads template, Youtube user ItsJustSomeRandomGuy (real name Michael Agrusso) uses the incredibly goofy medium of talking action figures to poke fun at summer’s biggest blockbusters — from Iron Man to the Punisher to Hulk to Hellboy to the Fantastic Four.
A political music video series whose very badness had a rhythm to it that was clearly intentional.
Online romance blossoms between an institutionalized girl and a recovering alcoholic in a halfway house. But love hurts – especially when a suicide pact is involved.
Merlin Bronques returns to lower Manhattan, and this time his hipster exhibitionists are pretending to love an Austrian energy drink.
Dan Meth burst onto out with the viral hit Internet People, but the rest of his weekly animated series has revolved around a variety of recurring characters including a pair of hipster, music snob buds to an 8-bit Mike Tyson. The first original series on Channel Frederator, the show offers a weekly dose of the [...]
A webcam production that ostensibly takes place in the bedroom of tween phenom Miley Cyrus.
The adventures of a low-rent motion-capture studio are hilarious in web and TV formats alike.
The Ugly Betty web series takes its cue from the comedy soap drama, but without any of the soap or drama elements.
A colab between Vogue.tv and IMG modeling, this 12-part reality series follows three young models during their first time on the modeling circuit.
The Skinemaxical tale of Holly McBride, a model who plays softball in a men’s league with her cousin, Jake, a preternaturally gifted softballer so hounded by gambling debts he bets $50,000 that he can lead a team of professional female models to the league championship.
Monty Python’s new YouTube channel curates the best clips, and has apparently led to an almost 10,000% increase in sales on Amazon.com.
Three dudes resort to crude methods to figure out which one of them is secretly a robot.
A weekly series following the adventures of two guys named Michael who produce funny online videos for a company called (insert drumroll) Black20.
Working out, watching longer videos, and other resolutions we probably won’t keep.
Next New Networks, Starburst candy, and animator Dan Meth bring you a pair of adorkably cantankerous radio hosts.
That Guy With The Glasses has some thoughts to share on the shows and films you grew up watching.
Ostensibly about a married LA woman who finds similarly-minded, fun-loving friends at an otherwise stultifying book club, the show’s really about the car manufacturer Saturn.
Many others have followed, but there is only one Numa Numa kid. Gary Brolsma showed off his lip-syncing and nutty moves to the song “Dragostea din tei” as performed by the Moldovan pop group O-zone. The rest was numa numagic.
By combining two things the Internet’s obsessed with (pretty girls and politics), creator Ben Relles launched one of the major icons of the 2008 presidential primary — albeit one without any particular agenda or platform.
An unemployed buddy comedy in which a pink-slipped professional accompanies his hustler roommate in a series of for-hire adventures.
When OK Go hit those treadmills for a single-take aerobic explosion of goodness, they became bona fide stars.
Two old high school buddies run into each other — but turns out that they aren’t exactly buddies anymore.
A true-life tale of the CIA’s use of prostitutes to test LSD on the hooker-frequenting masses.
A show documenting the selection of the Oscars escort gown.
Comedic tale in which girl meets serial killer, girl falls in love with serial killer, girl marries serial killer……till death do them part? The bride wouldn’t have it any other way.
Former MTV VJ Pauly Shore (“The Weasel”) wants you to know that he’s really into the news, and he’ll track it down wherever it’s happening.
Perez, born Mario Lavandeira, has made a name for himself with his eponymous celebrity gossip blog.
Some of Pixar’s award-winning, side-splitting, heart-breaking short films.
The political commentary series ran from 2007-2009, and provided an independent look at the campaign trail.
Neil Cicierega’s animated and live-action puppet odes to the Harry Potter series.
YouTube teams up with the Pulitzer Center to find the best in five-minute journalism.
A high school drama told in 90-second bits from April to June 2007, with compelling writing and directing by creative producers Big Fantastic (the creators of Sam Has 7 Friends).
Creators describe Psycho Bob as “the video equivalent of a Sunday comic strip,” and while Charlie Brown never picked up hitchhikers with the intention of dismembering them, the comparison is not without merit.
Pushing Twilight carries the tagline, “Therapy without limits,” but the “treatment” depicted within looks more like a psychological S&M game show than any kind of sanctioned psychiatry.
quarterlife mostly uses videoblogging as a catalyst for violating the old show-don’t-tell rule through constant, literal narration.
A viral campaign for the game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, featuring the game’s eclectic cast.
From one of the early writers of Lonelygirl15 comes another story of a girl, a web cam and a government conspiracy.
Babelgum’s summer series travels to various music fests with frozen treats for the people.
The pioneering daily newstainment that continues on today. Check out our exclusive interview with creator Andrew Baron!
Josh Schwartz’s drama/comedy/live music hybrid series is catnip for the adolescent music fan.
A group of girls (often in bikinis) decide to move in together and put their lives on the Internet in this faux reality show.
The seminal web series that delivered on its promise: “Samantha Breslow had seven friends. On December 15, 2006, one of them killed her.”
Two slices of deadpan comedy plus a thin spread of horror makes for a tasty meal.
The former governor and vice-presidential candidate remains an iconic figure.
Mysterious trailers blow up on YouTube… and lead to the site of a singer whose rebel yell is a little weak.
An inspired vlog-style tale of the mundanity of office life, from the front lines.
It happens to everyone eventually. But it happens much faster when you’re a famous person constantly in front of cameras.
Hideous New York rents drive a dysfunctional couple to move in together. It goes about as well as you’d think.
A big-boobed, PG-13 soft core series slightly evocative of lonelygirl15 in its just-off-screen promise of titillation. Recently optioned as a pilot for Comedy Central.
When an advertiser decides to use sex inappropriately in an ad, we’ll be there to make fun of it.
When a small-town couple’s sex tape gets leaked, the pair find themselves newly-dubbed… you know.
The Phoenix Suns all-star rants at his former Lakers teammate, using freestyle rap to share sentiments like “Tell me how my ass tastes, Kobe.” Originally posted by TMZ.com.
A colab between Chuck Rosin (former producer for the original Beverly Hills 90210) and his daughter, Showbizzle’s a hybrid fictional vid series/UGC social network about “making it” as a struggling creative in Hollywood.
A content-heavy viral campaign for Activision’s new game Singularity, featuring spy org MIR-12.
The whimsical and the macabre meet at this delightfully disturbing indie portal for shorts, animation, and web series.
Equal parts animated Christmas special and horror genre lampoon, with an occasional nod to Star Wars, Wizard of Oz and other iconic flicks as well. A parody, wrapped in a spoof, inside a satire.
Intrigue lurks at the Phi Pi Kappa sorority house, and lonelygirl15’s Jessica Rose is at the heart of it.
Soulja Boy has cashed in on the new media hip-hop scene in a huge way and is making music moguls rethink how they manage and market artists.
Rock band from another galaxy chronicles their experiences on the road, and on Planet Earth in general. Much wry psychedelic transcendence — if not outright hilarity – ensues.
Elevated beyond pure experimentation by dynamic cinematography, the new Eepybird is a triumph of corporate-sponsored art.
A series of short videos starring A-list talent that was produced and conceived by B-list talent and designed to promote United Hollywood
Ten episodes of awkward conversation about the search for love, brought to you by Strike.TV.
There are certainly no shortage of Hills spoofs on YouTube, and many of them are a lot weirder, a lot scrappier — and thus a lot more interesting.
From the comedy troup Handsome Donkey comes this sit-com about a group of guys washing windows and the hi-jinx they get in. The web series originated on ABC.com.
Ah, Star Wars Kid. First we laughed at your antics. Then we felt a little guilty. Then a bunch of people made you even funnier. Then we laughed again.
Married with Children star David Faustino pokes fun at himself and Hollywood in a web series that pushes every envelope except the one with an award in it.
Twisted patient takes psychiatrist down with him in this slick motion comic series.
The quintessential underdog’s latest effort to break a world record score was live-streamed at the 2009 E3 conference.
Meet Billy Mires – designated (if fictional) driver for John McCain’s Straight Talk Express.
As a survey of spooky blue state streets — CT’s Beelzebub Road, PA’s Bloody Spring Road, etc — the show’s premise is entertaining, though the series stumbles with cheesy special effects and bloated delivery.
A mostly-improvised look at one Los Angeles apartment complex and its strange denziens.
A guy gets kidnapped and is replaced by an off-kilter double. Mystery and creepiness abound in this Twilight Zone-esque mystery.
Will Lil’ O’Reilly’s viral fans follow his itty-bitty fascist footsteps back to OldTeeVee and prop up the brilliant show that spawned him?
A heavily synthesized song about racism performed by a former grad student from Minnesota.
Yahoo launched a short-form tech finance show in February 2008 to accompany its Yahoo Finance portal. Hosted by Sarah Lacy, Aaron Task, and Henry Blodget, Tech Ticker is as blustery as cable news, but a lot more specific, which usually works in its favor. The show reportedly has 150,000 to 230,000 unique viewers per day.
A prequel to the upcoming blockbuster utilized the tie-in game’s graphics engine for hardcore action.
While a bit dated in terms of current video culture (fifteen minutes an episode? Seriously?), The ‘Burg represented huge strides for the web in terms of writing and acting — not to mention making fun of hipsters.
The producers of The ‘Burg work their magic again — this time, with Michael Eisner’s money and mockumentary coverage of one band rocking until they run out of gas.
An independent 10-part doc series about one of America’s last traveling family performance troupes struggling to get by.
A conspiracy thriller about a college student who must protect a mysterious box — written by Mormons, for Mormons, but worth watching for everyonew.
The first web series from writer David Berenbaum and Ben Weber, a TV actor perhaps best known for his commercial turn as a Geico cavemen.
Author, Club Kid, and overall sensation James St. James runs giddily amok through the freakish and fab Hollywood scene.
A Channel 101-esque cop spoof gets a major upgrade thanks to interactive storytelling.
Newsweek mashes up Obama’s first 100 days as President with the MTV faux-reality format.
Sci-fi softcore porn with a clever spin on the kind of schlocky, sleazy, not-quite-intentional comedy reminiscent of late-night TV.
A quirky, character-driven comedy about an online guild of MMORPG-ers who wind up meeting in meat space.
Tracie “Slut Machine” Egan and Moe Tkacik from Jezebel guest on “Thinking and Drinking,” hosted by Lizz Winstead. Cross-generational feminist chaos ensues.
It’s the web sensation that kick-started Funny or Die. Will Ferrell faces the verbal wrath of his surly, drunk, three year old landlord Pearl.
A video game parody that commits fully to its “real dude in a video game world” premise.
Web comedy pioneers Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer’s influence extends beyond Saturday Night Live.
A once-weekly series about an alternative comedian’s quest to date San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom.
Mortified mines the notebooks and dioramas of our youth for hilarious bits of embarrassing humor. The live shows are a cult favorite around the country, as people from all walks of life read journals, poetry or play songs written in their past.
Of all the shows in Crackle.com’s The C-Spot, The Roadents is the best. It’s an animated bit about two guinea pigs driving a Winnebago. The animation is top-notch and the voice acting is excellent. The jokes are a little stale, but the delivery more than makes up for it.
The long-running sponsored series populates the temping world with an eccentric crew of characters.
A Los Angeles sketch comedy group mines dark comedy gold out of Google’s Web 2.0 functionality.
The Writers Room “stars” comedian Kevin Pollak as the rude host of a late-night talk show who berates his writing staff, but so far Pollak only appears via speakerphone (it probably cost too much to have him in person). It feels like it’s trying to be a mix between The Larry Sanders Show via The [...]
Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks star in this super-arty quasi-promotion for the Kevin Smith comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
ThunderAnt’s hipster celeb credentials are impeccable, while the actual videos are both unassuming and highly conceptual.
Julia Allison, Meghan Asha, and Mary Ramblin provide three-minute insights into sex, tech, and fashion.
An obsessive film editor creates a favorites pastiche, inspiring criticism and sleuthing from viewers.
On Nov. 18th, Justin Johnson popped the question to his girlfriend with a little help from the tech community’s favorite blogging platform.
Two brothers decided to forgo all textual communication for a year and instead post video blogs to YouTube. The result was a Ze Frank-esque blog with songs, strange antics, nerdy jokes and lots of viewers.
Wallstrip’s great success is making news about a seemingly dry topic — the stock market — fun and engaging. Even for folks like myself, who glaze over at the phrase “interest rates.”
Watchmen, 2009’s most anticipated movie, uses a viral video to dole out some backstory.
Crime drama parody – complete with good cop/bad cop conflict - in which gratuitous appliance usage and loose spigots are a cold, hard fact of life.
Inspirations for the show include the hipsters of The Burg and the relationship hijinx of the boys on Entourage. Though the characters have a little more difficulty navigating relationships than Vincent Chase and friends, that’s by design.
The popular alt-rock band enlisted the Internet famous for the first single off their 2008 “Red” album.
This improbably insane slice of celebrity self-indulgence made it to YouTube, where it has since, predictably, become fodder for a number of takeoffs and parodies.
NTVS editor Liz Shannon Miller is here to make sure you feel right at home.
An original series of smarmily produced, short form featurettes on contemporary oddball sports, Wild Frontier of Sports is sponsored by athletic footwear co. Saucony and produced by the hipster moralists at Good Magazine.
Gary Vaynerchuk hosts this daily wine vlog that’s looking to reinvent the way people appreciate wine. With his NY Jets spittoon and bombastic personality, Gary V. brings the thunder that has landed him on Ellen and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Will soon be distributed in partnership with Revision3.
A drama from former lonelygirl15 writer Mary Feuer, set in the diverse community of Venice, CA.
The art of morphing has come a long way since the day of screensavers on our families’ first computers, and for Philip Scott Johnson, an artist out of St. Louis, the same technology was the perfect medium to cycle through 500 years of art and cinema in hi
Whedon fans get horrible — Dr. Horrible, that is — with tributes, music videos, and vlogtastic fanfiction.
Other peoples’ footage is ingeniously repurposed for Adam Quirk, Aaron Valdez, and Erik Nelson’s non-partisan purposes.
Donnie Hoyle guides you through despair as his marriage and work falls apart through informative Photoshop tutorials. Divorce (and clone stamping) was never this funny.
An unscripted, heavily improvised look at the intertwined sex lives of a group of Chicago 20-somethings.
The classic martial arts video game is converted into an interactive YouTube experience with clever screen-embedded buttons and motion-capture animation.
The latest show backed by Next New Networks, ZapRoot, kicks off Wednesday after a soft launch preview on ViroPOP, which claims to be a channel for the “new green generation.” The show is slick and entertaining, and the site follows the familiar template of Next New channels such as IndyMogul and Veracifer.
What isn’t there to like about a foul-mouthed Brit who has a axe to grind with the video game industry? Starting off with nothing more than some Photoshopped stills and a sharp wit, the show’s creator Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw has parlayed his show into a viral superhit with a lucrative home on The Escapist, a [...]
NewTeeVee’s latest project, launched in June 2008, is NewTeeVee Station, an editorially-driven guide to quality online video. Want to find something good to watch? Want to get the lowdown on something all the kids are talking about, like “Soulja Boy” or combining Mentos and Diet Coke? Want to meet the rising stars of the new age of television before they get huge? NewTeeVee Station is your cheat sheet, cataloging the world of web video with an engaging voice and a critical eye. It’s also a community site, giving you increased power to express what you like, what you don’t, and what else you want to watch.
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