Disney Buys YouTube Network Maker Studios for $500M
The Walt Disney Company pays $500 million for Maker Studios, one of YouTube’s largest multi-channel networks.
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Machinima Raises $18 Million in Financing Deal
Led by Warner Bros. Entertainment and existing investors MK Capital, Redpoint Ventures and Google Capital, Machinima secures $18 million in financing.
Henson Signs Base79 to Optimize YouTube Offerings
The Jim Henson Company forms a partnership with Los Angeles-based digital video company Base79 to help boost the company’s original content presence on YouTube.
DreamWorks Animation, YouTube Launch New Series
DreamWorks Animation expands its partnership with YouTube to produce a series of daily shows highlighting some of the most compelling entertainment on the video-sharing website.
Frederator’s Cartoon Hangover Reaches YouTube Milestone
Frederator Studios’ Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel surpasses one million subscribers, becoming the second-fastest original funded YouTube channel to do so in its first 12 months.
Dick Figures The Movie on DVD is Finally Here!
Bigger, better, with more mayhem and varied bodily fluid discharges, our plucky Red and Blue travel the world on an epic and perilous quest.
Coolabi, Little Dot Studios Form Online Partnership
Clangers, Bagpuss, Purple Ronnie and more join the dots with YouTube partner Little Dot Studios.
‘Om Nom Stories’ Premieres on CITV
Om Nom Stories, the animated short films based on the award winning game Cut the Rope, heads to CITV.
Blue Ant & Mondo Media Launch $3 Million Animated Comedy Program
Blue Ant Media and Mondo Media team with YouTube to announce ‘Bite on Mondo,’ an animated comedy shorts pitch for content targeted at teens and young adults.
'The Hive' Hits 10M Views on YouTube
Animated preschool series The Hive hits an Internet milestone with 10 million views on YouTube.
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BRB Named YouTube's Newest Global Animation Aggregator
BRB announces that it has become the newest global animation aggregator on YouTube.
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YouTube Offering Sundance Film Festival Shorts Online
Launching in conjunction with the start of the festival, the Screening Room YouTube channel will showcase 12 short films from the 2013 Sundance Short Film program.
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Disney Interactive to Bring Content to YouTube
Disney Interactive Studios has partnered with Google to provide family-friendly content to YouTube, reports Deadline.com.
Robot Chicken Crew Launch Stoopid Monkey on YouTube
Emmy-winning ROBOT CHICKEN team of Seth Green and Matthew Senreich are launching a live-action/stop-motion YouTube series titled STOOPID MONKEY, reports Deadline.com.
When Art Lives With Dancing Cats
There's been a lot of response to my last article. This really interesting challenge just arrived in my inbox. In fact, it’s so strong that I’m publishing it in full. It’s from Janet Blatter, a cognitive scientist, author, and film script and development consultant.
But Is It Art?
Two billion videos are viewed daily on YouTube. Is any of it art? And does it matter?
YouTube Play - Where Popular Culture Meets Art
A close encounter with the five more YouTube Play award winners, L through N.
Presenting Five More YouTube Play Winners
So you wanna watch movies, eh? (Is my Canadian accent showing?) Well, pull up your potato chips and have a sit down...
YouTube Play - The Winning Entries Part 1
The YouTube Play winning entries all have at least some form of animation content. Which tells me that animation's star is rising in the art world.
YouTube Play - Presenting The Jury
The YouTube Play jury list is out and it's mostly made up of hard driving experimental artists.
YouTube Play: Corralling Wild Cattle
Since 2005 YouTube has given us a prime venue for quick and dirty moving images. And now the powers that be in the ART world are going to use that forum to judge us filmmakers!
Not To Scale’s Birdy Nam Nam Animated Video Part of YouTube Play
Announced last night in New York from the infamous Guggenheim Museum, Steve Scott's 'Parachute Endings' for Birdy Nam Nam is to be shown at the Guggenheim Museums around the globe (New York, Bilbao, Berlin, Venice & Abu Dhabi) as part of YouTube Play.
MAXON's YouTube Channel Tops One Million Video Views
MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation, and rendering solutions, today announced that videos on its channel on the popular online video site YouTube have now been viewed more than 1,000,000 times.
Annecy Festival Competition Call for Submissions
For its anniversary, the Festival is teaming up with YouTube to organise an original competition.
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Darker Side Of Aardman Now On YouTube Channel
Aardman Animations has joined forces with YouTube to launch another Aardman branded channel, Aardman's Darkside. The channel will offer a selection of some of the company's more surreal comedies and shorts including REX THE RUNT, THE ADVENTURES OF JEFFREY, A TOWN CALLED PANIC and ANGRY KID.
