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Leading Online Television Company Launches Program to Support Emerging Creative Talent

NEW YORK, NY—(Marketwire - December 16, 2009) - Next New Networks, the leading online television company, today announced the formal launch of Next New Creators, a program designed to discover and foster talent from across the Web. Through the program, Next New Networks will partner with up-and-coming independent creators to distribute, promote, package and monetize their shows.

The Next New Creators program, which has been in the works since early 2009, has already proven to be a successful venture for Next New Networks, helping increase the popularity and viewership of its first slate of participants. Initial partners have included Grace Randolph’s “Beyond the Trailer,” Gregory Brothers’ “Auto-Tune the News,” Daniel Delaney’s “Vendr.TV,” Max and Rebecca Lando’s “Working Class Foodies” and LushLife NY’s “12 Second Cocktails.”

As part of the Next New Creators program, creators will gain access to Next New Networks’ extensive resources including their publishing and technology platform and increased distribution through relationships with major partners such as YouTube and iTunes, as well as promotional support, editorial outreach and a dedicated sales team. Through Next New Networks, creators will also gain access to production facilities, staff, best practices for growing their viewership, and opportunities for collaboration with many of the most creative talents in online video.

“Next New Creators’ mission is to provide both resources and support to the Web’s rising stars,” said Lance Podell, CEO of Next New Networks. “This past year, successful collaborations with creators like Daniel Delaney and Grace Randolph allowed us to fine-tune Next New Creators to provide real and tangible value to take our producers to the next level. We look forward to many successful partnerships with producers in the years to come.”

Highlights from initial partnerships include the Gregory Brothers’ “Auto-Tune the News,” an online video sensation and one of the most talked about video series of the year. The series, which can be seen on both Barely Political and the Gregory Brothers’ YouTube channel, has been viewed over 35 million times and featured on national television programs including the “CBS Evening News” and MTV’s “It’s On with Alexa Chung.” Next New Networks’ filmmaking networkIndy Mogul, which averages three million views a month, partnered with Grace Randolph to produce “Beyond the Trailer.” Through this partnership “Beyond the Trailer’s” viewership grew to over half a million views per month, and also benefited from inclusion in several Fortune 500 advertising buys across the network. As part of the program’s official launch, Peter Rallis of MovieBuzz will join Next New Creators, working with the Indy Mogul network.

“Next New Networks is an important partner of YouTube, and we are excited to see their success and expertise in online video begin to drive a new wave of high-quality, high-viewership content for our site,” said Kevin Yen, director of strategic partnerships at YouTube. “Next New Networks will play a key role in incubating new talent on YouTube and bringing these talented creators into the spotlight through their Next New Creators partnership program. ‘Auto-Tune the News’ has been a great hit in 2009, and we’re looking forward to the new successes the future holds.”

Next New Networks is looking for the next great Web series! If you’re a producer who’d like to speak to someone at Next New Networks or to find out more information, please visit: http://www.nextnewnetworks.com/creators.

About Next New Networks

Next New Networks is TV for the Internet. As the leading independent producer of online television networks Next New Networks creates, packages, brands, markets and syndicates some of the Web’s most popular regularly scheduled and episodic programming. Since its inception in March 2007, the company has launched sixteen networks, and its programming has been viewed more than 650 million times. Hit programming from Next New Networks includes Channel Frederator (home of the popular series “Nite Fite”), Barely Political (the creators of Obama Girl), food network for the people Hungry Nation, daily auto news network Fast Lane Daily, DIY filmmaking network Indy Mogul, lifestyle network ThreadBanger, tech comedy network Barely Digital and your one-stop showcase of the cutest pets across the globe, Ultra Kawaii. The company, headquartered in New York, is privately owned, with investors including Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Saban Capital and Fuse Capital. For more information, please visit www.nextnewnetworks.com.

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moth:

[Originally posted on the Next New Networks blog.]

We’re happy to be debuting our first series dedicated to the business community: Small Business Rules, with Lindsay Campbell.

The first two episodes will be available shortly on the Open Forum, a new site from American Express dedicated to small business owners and managers, and every week, Lindsay and our team are going to meet and profile some of the most innovative small businesses in the U.S., and get them to share the rules that they’ve learned to live by in order to grow and succeed.

We’re especially excited to be working with Lindsay Campbell, whose work we’ve long been a fan of, including the pioneering web series Wallstrip and Moblogic. As a producer and host on the show, she brings an experience reporting on businesses and producing in the field that few people in online TV have, and she’s working with an all-star team of Next New Networks producers who have worked with us over the past few years to deliver one of our highest production quality series to date.

First up this week on the series: Thrillist, a daily newsletter for men serving nine cities and hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and Gotham Dream Cars, a company that lets people rent super-exotic luxury cars by the day. In the coming weeks, some of the businesses we’ll be profiling include CafeMom, Etsy, and the Myriad Restaurant Group, and we’ve got lots more to come.

We’re excited to be launching the first web video series dedicated to small businesses, which is a subject near and dear to our hearts as entrepreneurs, and we’re always excited and inspired to hear how other business owners and managers deal with common challenges we share.  Serving underserved audiences is the core of what we set out to do at Next New Networks — in that way, it’s in keeping with past networks we’ve launched like ThreadBanger, Indy Mogul or Fast Lane Daily.  And we’re learning that the business stories that we love to read about really come to life in web video in a way we’ve never seen before, and that every business owner we’ve met so far has had valuable and original rules to share.

I hope you’ll enjoy the series as much as we’ve enjoyed making it, and if you’re an entrepreneur yourself, you’ll get involved in the conversation with us and tell us about your small business rules. You can follow the series for updates at twitter.com/smallbrules.

wooo! Lindsay Campbell is back! :)

Ha, I just joked with Bill Cammack that her job is open… I was gonna shoot a resume over… but I never got a call back for the first job or internship…..

Sigh, I wished fuse threw parties! :)

lindsey:

Just posted my job description this morning and I’ve received over 150 emails and resumes. Holy wow. Though its a slightly different title, I should have figured my job was at such a high demand!