The Next New Reblog
Alan Kaufman has seen it all. From production on the film sets of the 1970s, to the video heyday of Nickelodeon, to an original hire of Next New Networks, Alan has spent the past 30 years saving images to film - tape - DVD - and file servers.
When we first met at Next New Networks nearly four years ago, Alan was a never-ending fount of knowledge and a teller of entertaining tales. When crafting the populace of a start-up, it’s important to have fresh young minds, excited for a bleeding-edge medium … and though Alan eclipsed many of us in years, the excitement and “let’s go out and make some magic!” enthusiasm he had was unmatched. When I was feeling tired and beat-down, I’d look to Alan to give me that creative kick in the pants I needed.
It’s this same spirit that infuses “Ultra Fur” with it’s special brand of home-brewed, DIY goodness. With over 40 episodes, and typically several weeks of episodes already created in advance, it’s clear Alan loves his quiet safari into the untamed reaches of his front (and back) yards.
Get to know him in this weeks Creators Spotlight.
Meme Remix of the Day: Paramore’s Hayley Williams, New Found Glory’s Jordan Pundik, and Relient K’s Ethan Luck cover the Greogory Brothers’ Billboard-approved “Bed Intruder Song.”
[thanks dustin!]
Absolute EPIC.
With all the talent in the Next New Creators program it’s tough to keep up with all the amazing things they are doing. Here’s a little snapshot of what our extraordinary producers have been up to the last few weeks!
Food Wishes’ Chef John wins the Next Food Network Star YouTube Challenge
Huge Congrats to Chef John, we can’t wait to cheer you on during the next part of the audition process!
CNN (among MANY others) picks up “The Twit Network,” Rated Awesome’s “The Social Network” spoof & gives a shout out to DrCoolSex’s eBay version.
Its best lines include, “I need to create a way to blog that is as random and incoherent as writing on a bathroom wall,” “If Twitter was as useless and as boring as you say, someone would have tweeted it” and “What is the fail whale? Why does it keep appearing?”
Also picked up by Slashfilm, CBS News, TechCrunch, Mashable, L.A. Times, Alyssa Milano, Buzzfeed, NY Mag, Giga Om, The Head of Product @Twitter, @Shivar
And BEST OF ALL:
Erik Beck, Mark Douglas, Ben Relles, and the Rated Awesome team WON THE INTERNET with that one.
The Gregory Brothers’ Bed Intruder Song hits the Billboard & iTunes charts
Coverage in Wired
Keep the Heat surpassed 300,000 YouTube Subscribers!
Congrats Alex!!
Black Nerd Comedy was nominated for a 2010 Black Weblog Award for Best Comics or Gaming Blog
Polls are open till Aug 31. Go vote for Andre!!
Justin “Superstar” Johnson’s Indy Mogul show, Film Fights, just hit 7,000 subscribers.
Check out Film Fights on Indy Mogul.
Beyond the Trailer was spotlighted on the iTunes Podcast Store homepage the week of 8/10/10!
Our new gaming network, VSauce, got some serious love from the YouTube Gaming editors. <3 you back YouTube!!
Fast Company gushes on Freezer Burns, Wacky Gamer, Tara Stiles, and Indy Mogul
You can check them out for yourself:
After signing with the NNC program, The Wing Girls’ monthly views have gone from 300,000 a month to over 1,000,000 a month and swiftly approaching 2,000,000! We’d like to credit their dedication and hard work. They are rocking it!
Your Daily Thread mentioned on Huffington Post!
“The New Power Girls: How Today’s Women in Business are Making Money and Change”
Empower Your Body has surpassed 1,000,000 views!
Alycia and team also released four downloadable workouts. Get them here.
SnakeBytesTV hit 25,000 subscribers and surpassed 6 million views!
You can follow Brian and the SnakeBytes team on twitter!
Dan McNamara’s The Bear, The Cloud and God was shown on Comedy Central on Atom TV on June 15th.
And it’s also an official selection at the 2010 New York Television Festival in September, and will be screened twice at the Tribeca Film Theater.
Next New Networks launches shows and networks about twice a month. In July, we launched a total of nine shows and our food network, Hungry Nation, especially swelled with talent this time around.
Next New Networks has been working with a growing roster of talented producer in our Next New Creators program and each of the shows launched in July and listed below are part of the program.
As manager of the program, I’ll be introducing each new show and the producers here on the NNN blog twice a month. We’ll also be posting frequent NNC Stories highlighting episodes, milestones, and other successes from producers and shows working in the program.
To start it off, here’s a look back at the busy month we had in July.
July 2010 Show Launches:
Keep the Heat
Keep The Heat is a musical comedy show focusing on all aspects of pop culture and the entertainment industry. From pop music to top movies to popular celebrities, Alex Negrete (host) creates musical parodies and hilarious spoofs for everyone to enjoy. Ranked #159 in all of YouTube, Keep The Heat allows you to control the content by submitting challenges in the form of text comments. Negrete takes your challenges and he will turn them into pure amusement.
Candy Slice Comedy
Candy Slice Comedy is a collective of lady writers, performers and crack-
up artists based in New York City. They met while honing their improv and sketch
chops at NYC’s Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre and have been making beautiful
comedy together ever since. While they first made their name with uber-current pop
culture spoofs, spot-on celebrity impressions and geeky gangsta rap videos, they’ll
do pretty much anything to make you laugh. Their first “viral” video, a behind-the-
scenes send-up of Beyonce and Lady Gaga’s Videophone, has racked up nearly 3
million YouTube views, and the hits just keep on coming. If you want to hear them talk
for hours without stopping, just ask them about unicorns. Or their moms.
Food Wishes
on Hungry Nation
Chef John Mitzewich shows you how to make all different kinds of food that are really fun, easy to follow, and will improve your culinary skills. From breakfast dishes to light appetizers to main course meals to scrumptious desserts, Chef John will take you through the recipe step by step. He knows everything there is to know about food and he is ready to share it with you!
Average Betty
on Hungry Nation
Not anyone would make BBQ Chicken Mac n’ Cheese Pizza, or ask the legendary Wolfgang Puck, “if I were on your menu, how would you prepare me?” Such lapses in better judgment by host, Sara O’Donnell, are precisely what make Average Betty an original, exciting and award-winning web series. Average Betty will inspire you with new, creative recipes; inform you with celebrity chef interviews; and entertain you with crazy culinary satire.
Mmm Me Gusta
on Hungry Nation
Mmm, Me Gusta is a DIY cooking show where you, the viewers, drive the content. It’s a spicy cooking show by home cook, Claudia Yuskoff and her uppity cat, Missile. Since 2009, Mmm Me Gusta has blended cooking with storytelling, pop culture, cat randomness, and most importantly, good noms! Watch for yourself because Claudia (and the rest of her giant family) wants to feed you.
Stupidly Simple Snacks
on Hungry Nation
Cooking no longer needs to be a survival tactic! Stupidly Simple Snacks is a comical cooking show for non-cooks, snackers, and food lovers alike. Amy Cao (host) uses basic kitchen equipment and simple ingredients to make snacks that everyone can enjoy. Cao takes simple recipes and demonstrates to her audience how to make the food in an effort to make cooking less daunting for the inexperienced cooks like herself.
Follow Andrea as the comedy continues on her three new shows: Z-List, Hot Mess, and Accent Goggles. Z-List is a mockumentary of Andrea’s journey toward Internet stardom using the advice from The Hills’ Spencer Pratt & Heidi Montag’s How To Be Famous book. Hot Mess is a fun, light comedy show where Andrea counts down the top 3 celebrity hot messes of the week. Accent Goggles is an exclusive series of Andrea Feczko’s wild and exotic global travels that showcases more than just the sites.
Jet Set Zero is the belief that the adventures, experiences, and awe of a jet set life are possible for anyone willing to take risks and follow a dream with passion and dedication. This is the story of 4 travelers who start with almost nothing in a foreign country and have 90 days to find housing, work, relationships and earn enough to do it all over again in the next country.
Your Daily Thread’s EcoCurious
on ThreadBanger
Eco-Curious is a new DIY inspired show that shares fun was to add a little bit of eco-flair into your life. From DIY tips and recipes like make your own organic skin scrubs to instructionals like “how to take the bus” you’ll see how entertaining it can be to add a little shade of green to your everyday routine.
Posted by Ryan Nugent
