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CNN Acquires Social-Video Startup Beme, Co-Founded By YouTube Star Casey Neistat (variety.com)
CNN announced Monday that it has purchased video-sharing app Beme, and will work with its founder, Casey Neistat, to build a new media brand next year focused on storytelling for a younger audience. Casey Neistat is a YouTube celebrity and tech entrepreneur who launched Beme last year. Variety reports: CNN said the new venture that it's forming out of the acquisition -- aimed at reaching millennial viewers with the street cred of Neistat's reporting and commentary -- will launch in the summer of 2017. All 11 of Beme's employees will join CNN; the cable news network will be shutting down Beme, which had garnered more than 1 million downloads. New York-based filmmaker Neistat, who has more than 5.8 million subscribers on YouTube, announced earlier this month on his channel that he would be suspending his personal vlog to focus on new projects, one of which turns out is the pact with CNN. His daily vlog dispatches cover current political and news events as well as action sequences like his viral "Snowboarding With the NYPD" video last winter. Led by Hackett, formerly VP of engineering at Yahoo's Tumblr, Beme's development team will "build technology to enable the new company and also develop mobile video capabilities for CNN's portfolio of digital properties," according to the Turner-owned cable news network. Neistat, 35, will lead the new venture's "editorial vision" as executive producer. CNN said it will employ its global resources to launch the new media brand, and plans to hire dozens of producers, builders, developers, designers and content creators for the new company. CNN said the new Beme-based company will operate as a standalone business under the CNN Digital umbrella.
I don't know if Casey Netstat is really a star but his netstat program sure came handy to me many times.
https://linux.die.net/man/8/ne...
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
Fake news channel works together with youtube celebrity.
Well, CNN is already really good at telling stories to an audience of millennials who live in fantasyland, so this should be a raging success for them.
...reaching millennial viewers with the street cred of Neistat's reporting and commentary
Then you should have gone for someone like PewDiePie, Arin Hanson or Markiplier; youtube celebs with some actual pull amongst millennials. Neistat is popular with only one segment of the popularion: elitist pricks seeking to live vicariously through one of New Yorks globetrotting clickbait-pandering monied elite.
Caseys problems, ipod batteries that dont last long enough and wacky shit that happens on a chartered Gulfstream jet, arent relateable to any millenial stuck with 50k in college debt and a 20 year old car that doesnt start in cold weather. his "reporting and commentary" so far has been 2 videos whining about trumps election and a ringing endorsement of Hillary with no real reason or defence of the position. He once made a video solely about him buying a $21,000 airline ticket. not something a Millenial easily identifies with.
but sure, CNN, if segmenting the american populus into democrat and republican, conservative and liberal, elite and blue collar is the goal here then selecting a project from Caseys "poor mans vine" is a good start.. From here youre free to repeat the same mistakes that led you to vaingloriously confirm Hillaries ascension before the numbers ever came in.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Casey has one.
Youtube wants everyone to watch him really badly. They push him so hard. The corruption is obvious.
That's worse than the term "man-splaining". Here you have an entire site dedicated to media-splaining, from an already untrusted source. Their products look like supermarket tabloids. Why would anyone go to them for help understanding anything?
Not a metaphor. He literally gobbles cock.
Just what we need: another way for CNN to mislead its views with fake narrative-driven news that disdains facts.
It is strange to see a once powerful, now fading brand like CNN reach out to a never has been to try to reach an audience with no money for no reason other than the "gotta get the 18 - 25 year olds" that seems to be all the rage these days. I expect this to end the way these ventures usually do - it will either just die off or be sold off for a pittance. I wonder why the people involved can't see the futility / uselessness?
Aimed precisely at the lowest experience voters, right when they are most vulnerable. These socialists will not stop until we all live in mud huts.
Aimed precisely at the lowest experience voters, right when they are most vulnerable. These socialists will not stop until we all live in mud huts.
But we'll all be equal then - just like Castro did to Cuba.
Well, Cubans aren't ALL equal - Castro and his cronies are among the richest people in the world.
Cuban "health care"? Yeah, right. There's a reason why a sick Castro goes to Europe for treatment....
Get a job, snowflake
Of course so is most of the media nowdays
You've gone full moron.
the Fed reserve is being used to debt enslave you, while the choosen religion gets paper money to waste and buy things of value from others. Need to drain this swamp folks, its full of nasty goblins.
Umm, CNN is the reason that Millennials stayed home instead of voting for Hillary. CNN trashed Bernie throughout the entire campaign with lies and deception at the behest of the Clinton campaign. Unfortunately Millennials will believe anything they are told by "reputable" left-leaning journalism outfits like CNN.
You think I'm for Trump, and you're mistaken. Trump terrifies me, like he should terrify the legions of mouth-breathers who put him into office.
You are foolish to think that anyone who doesn't toe your particular line is necessarily against you. Your kneejerk reaction to my post, accusing me of being a Trump supporter, is ignorant, foolhardy, and outright stupid.
Have CNN upset your little Trumpums? Poor little Trumpy wumpy can't face the real world? I guess I'll go to CNN and see:
"President-elect Donald Trump fired off a series of tweets late Monday and early Tuesday criticizing CNN for reporting that his claims about voter fraud are baseless -- which they are."
Oh FFS, what a baby.
Trump lost the popular vote, Americans rejected him. He might seize power by the Electoral College, but for that he needs to sell the business that receive foreign income, and put the American ones in a blind trust. Article 1, section 9 of the constitution. Presidents cannot receive income streams from Putin & co.
Grow up man.
You're 71 years old, and still you're a fluffly little crybaby. Waa waaa waaa, nasty woman hurt your feelings. Waaaa waaaa waaaa, voter voted against you. Waaa waaa waaa, CNN said your claims that the voters really voted for you, if it wasn't for mexican in disguise was baseless, waaa waaa waaaaa..
Grow up.
How ironic that Trump is accused of needing to "grow up" as CNN reaches for a fucking award-winning narcissist for its next big thing.
Ignorance assumes the devolution of humanity is somehow bound by political stance.
Umm, CNN is the reason that Millennials stayed home instead of voting for Hillary. CNN trashed Bernie throughout the entire campaign with lies and deception at the behest of the Clinton campaign. Unfortunately Millennials will believe anything they are told by "reputable" left-leaning journalism outfits like CNN.
Hahaha! That's a very interesting rationalization you have there. The only part of it that makes sense is that yeah, a lot of millennials, after voting for Bernie in the primary despite all the lopsidedness in the lizard person moon matrix media, did stay home or else wrote in Bernie (or Vermin Supreme).
...then it will be a steaming pile right out of the gate. On the bright side the historic meltdown that occurred during election night is hilarious to watch. link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N1-aZMfS_c
Watch Mr. Neistat discuss Trump. I get the very strong impression that were he to be in a position to do it, he would gladly shame and censor opposing views, and create propaganda.
For about two and a half minutes he talks about Trump as a "tax avoiding, lying, racist misogynist". That may all be true, but he misses the very important point. As bad as Trump is, Trump may still be the better choice. (Or alternatively, as bad as Clinton is, Clinton may still be the better choice.)
It's fine to "have a backbone" and broadcast your opinion. It's also acceptable, although controversial, as a Youtuber, to go beyond to try to influence other voices.
What's very serious, however, would be to go beyond and influence other voices as a media owner. Given his display of passion on Trump, there is every reason to believe that Mr. Niestat will do exactly that, and no matter how convinced he is of his intentions, he will create propaganda. There is no reason to trust what he produces, and yet most people, sadly, will.
At the end of the day, however, this is really about CNN. If this is the integrity they have, then the whole show is alarming and disgusting.
The same as tech companies sometimes acquire a company to get its engineers rather than its failed products.
I can see you want to change the subject, and I can understand why. I wish his tweets were a joke and not a meltdown.
Mike Pence appears to be doing the actual transition hiring, but how long can he last? Trump already sacked Manafort, then Christie as transition head. Pence can't be far behind.
IMHO, Trump's not going to sell his foreign business interests clearly. He's not going to put his American business interests into a blind trust either. And you can't have a President paid in Rubles. Both are grounds for denying him the Electoral College votes. They could put Mike Pence in, whose doing the real hiring anyway. Maintain continuity of government and move on from buttercup before he embarrasses himself further.
Let's see.
CNN - Time Warner
MSNBC - NBC/Universal, a property of Comcast
Fox News - News Corp.
ABC - Disney
CBS News - CBS/Viacom (Owners of Star Trek)
In other words, Time Warner wants to branch out in to news for millenial hipsters. It is not much surprise that the new media is less trusted these days. I think the economics of talk radio are better for smaller, independent news anyways. Shame Air America went under.
I'm talking to you, pew-what-ever-the-fuck-your-name-is. Fuck you millennials. Scientifically proven in a laboratory to be the worst generation ever.
I don't think he engineered anything though. I'm pretty sure he just slapped his name on it and convinced his viewers to go there. They might be buying him as a way to try to connect to the millennials, but I don't think he has any software development skill.
that's a long shitty post, but the thought of you bawling your eyes out on election night made reading it enjoyable.