Making the Jump From Web To TV

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @09:32AM from the cewebrities dept.

PreacherTom writes, "No stranger to the tech-savvy, video bloggers are the next phenomenon to go from online to the mainstream. For example, Internet celebrity Amanda Congdon just finished broadcasting her cross-country relocation from New York to L.A. on the Web. The former host of Rocketboom, one of the most popular of the video blogs, with roughly 211,000 daily viewers, has a new gig as a contributor for ABC. She's not alone. In fact, major movie and TV studios are increasingly looking to the Web for new talent for both on- and offline projects."

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This is new? by Overzeetop · 2006-11-14 09:34 · Score: 0, Troll

Wow. Hot young chick does a demo tape (video blog), and a network picks her up. This is new because...?

Oh, right..it's on the Internet (TM)

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How to get viewed by EmbeddedJanitor · 2006-11-14 10:07 · Score: 0, Troll

Old model: have sex with agent and hope he puts your name around. New model: have sex with /. editor, hope your site gets slashdotted.
You have to wonder where the 211k viewers come from. If we subtract the slashdotting then there are probably about 5 hits.

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