Internet Broadcasting

Dick Figures: The Movie: From Stick-Figure Cartoon Series to Feature Film

It took a year for Zack Keller and Ed Skudder to make a 75-minute movie. For animation, ordinarily an arduously slow and complex process, they made good time. Keller and Skudder did this with a little more than a dozen people on their team. About half of those people worked as animators, churning ou ... More >>

#LAWebAwards: 'Shift It' Wins Funniest YouTube Video in L.A.

The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. What's the secret to turning a low-budget commercial into a YouTube phenomenon? Full-time YouTube producers and self-proclaimed "Internetainers" Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, better known as ... More >>

YouTube Fans Squee Over Stars at VidCon

Rochelle Hutchinson, 18, came to VidCon to cheat on her girlfriend. With permission, of course. The catch is that the only girl Hutchinson is allowed to cheat with is YouTube sensation Hannah Hart. Hutchinson discusses her strategies for getting Hart into bed with her friend and high school clas ... More >>

The Tangled Web We Watch: A Web Series Featuring Josh Gad's Borat-Like Creation

Why Grace Helbig Could Be the Next Big Star to Come From YouTube

If I hadn't had been scanning the entrance to Silver Lake's La Mill Coffee, searching for YouTube star Grace Helbig for our scheduled meeting, I never would have recognized her. Even though I'd been watching her award winning vlog Daily Grace constantly for the past few weeks, sharing such intimate ... More >>

How USC Grads Freddie Wong and Ryan Coogler Became the Future of Filmmaking, Via Two Very Different Paths

Fruitvale Station was a hit at Sundance, while Video Game High School has millions of teen fans

Spoken Reasons, the YouTube Poet, Jumps to Hollywood in The Heat

There are plenty of YouTube "stars" on the Internet -- written with quotation marks because they rarely are recognized by age groups outside their target audience of teenagers. But this past week, Spoken Reasons, born John A. Baker Jr., went beyond his subscribers' computer screens and onto the silv ... More >>

Please Subscribe: New Documentary Looks at What Makes a YouTube Star

See also: *Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera and Friends Create a YouTube Channel *Our Profile of YouTube Star Jenna Marbles *Our YouTube Issue Some people like to have only egg whites in their omelet," declares a tomboyish young woman as she weaves around a sparsely appointed L.A. apartment kitchen, h ... More >>

JASH: Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim & Eric and Reggie Watts Create a New YouTube Channel

It's 2 p.m. and I'm sitting on a blue exercise ball in an office at Culver City Studios, across from Emmy-nominated TV writer/producer Daniel Kellison. To the right are the essentials for a late night work-athon: stocked mini fridge, snacks, Bulleit Bourbon. Covering the walls, like the masterpiece ... More >>

The Tangled Web We Watch: A Bizarre Episode of Father-Son Bonding in the 21st Century

Streamy Awards: Online Video's Biggest Night Accepts Old Hollywood Into the Fold

See also: *Our Streamy Awards slideshow *Our profile of Jenna Marbles, from our People Issue The 3rd annual Streamy awards, honoring excellence in original online video, streamed live online (appropriately) Sunday night at the Hollywood Palladium. More than ever before, nominees ran the gamut of n ... More >>

BiteSize Studio Hits Hollywood

A Truman Show–like view into the world of online video creators

YouTube Wars: Readers Weigh In

Rainn Wilson's Website SoulPancake Gets Serious, With Web Series About Death and L.A.'s Homeless

In 2008, Actor Rainn Wilson (NBC's The Office) wanted to create a space on the internet where people could discuss life's big questions with total strangers. You know, what Socrates and Plato would have done if they had access to adequate bandwidth and a YouTube deal. Knowing nothing about building ... More >>

MOCAtv on YouTube: Museum Tries to Lure Online Art Lovers

How to Succeed on the Web: 4 Tips from This Week's Digital Hollywood Summit

Hashtags and Twitter handles were flying at this week's four-day Digital Hollywood conference. Executives and innovators in film, television, technology and new media came to speak at more than 50 panels held in the glitzy halls of the Ritz Carlton, Marina Del Rey. Attendees were split between youn ... More >>

LA Weekly Web Awards 2012: The Winners!

So the center of the tech universe is still in Northern California. Big deal. Facebook's in freefall; the iPhone 5 is a snooze. Yes, innovation continues to matter, but these days, it's less about the platform and more about the content. On that front, L.A. is king. The top YouTube stars live here. ... More >>

10 Bizarre Things We Saw at Vidcon, YouTube's Annual Convention

A barometer of YouTube's success is its fan convention Vidcon, which took place over the weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center. The location was a step up from last year's smaller Hyatt Century Plaza, as this year the event attracted a reported 7,000 attendees, about twice as much as last year. ... More >>

How to Succeed on YouTube: Goof Off in Your Basement ... Only Better

Issa Rae and Awkward Black Girl Fill a (Tiny) Niche

Check out our entire YouTube issue here. In front of the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf at the Grove, someone is scraping lightweight plastic chairs across the pavement instead of picking them up, and the sound is akin to fingernails being dragged down a chalkboard. Issa Rae, the 27-year-old writer, direct ... More >>

Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch Blow Things Up, for Cheap

Check out our entire YouTube issue here. Inside every marketing firm's boardroom and quadruple co-sponsored tech networking event are people squawking endlessly about the very thing that Freddie Wong does effortlessly: Tapping into the gamer-savvy market, blah blah, making your content "clickable," ... More >>

'Shit People Say in L.A.' Duo Hitched Their Wagon to a Meme

Check out our entire YouTube issue here. "Let's make a sketch and put it on YouTube!" Elena Crevello says excitedly to Heidi Niedermeyer, as they walk down a Los Angeles street. Cut. "I can't, I have improv," Niedermeyer, sitting alone on a ledge, says into a cellphone. Cut. These bits of dialogue ... More >>

Megan Lee Heart and Reply Girls Game the System, While YouTube Wants Our Eyeballs Pointed Elsewhere

Check out our entire YouTube issue here. Megan Lee Heart made tens of thousands of dollars in the last year -- and did it all from her home in suburban Sherman Oaks. No special effects. No fancy equipment. Just strategic positioning -- and as many as 10 videos each day. Her most popular YouTube cha ... More >>

30 Other Ways to Succeed on YouTube

After you've read our YouTube issue on the secrets to online video stardom, check out 30 other ways to succeed on YouTube:

Annoying Orange Creator Dane Boedigheimer Tells Us How His YouTube Series Made the Jump to Cartoon Network

Annoying Orange is one of the biggest successes of YouTube, as the series that started as a lying-in-bed revelation from creator Dane Boedigheimer eventually found 2.4 million subscribers and more than 1.2 billion views online. The series follows its title character as he interacts with other food i ... More >>

Dance Showdown on YouTube: A Reality Dance Competition That's Better Than What You See on TV

Take a look at Dance Showdown, the first original show created for the YouTube channel DanceOn. This is reality-style, competition dance crossing easily onto an online format -- and doing it better than network television, frankly. It's pretty hilarious. Launched in April, Dance Showdown is a cr ... More >>

Fred Karger, Gay Republican for President, Sees 'Sexy Frisbee' Campaign Vid Pulled From YouTube

Vimeo not only beats YouTube in film-school cred and picture quality -- it also wins for tolerance! Fred Karger, our favorite gay Republican for president (OK, our only gay Republican for president, and only gay person for president, in general), says his smokin' new Venice Beach campaign video, wh ... More >>

Jason Nash is Funny

Aurora Snow, L.A. Porn Star, Sees Her Fully Clothed 'How to Make a Banana Happy' Video Censored by YouTube

Update: Here's the original, uploaded to Snow's personal site. Just as tame as she described it. Wrong day to err on the conservative side of content regulation, YouTube. (See: #StopSopa.) Los Angeles porn star Aurora Snow -- a real fan favorite, best known for her inimitable deep-throating skills ... More >>

Dumbfoundead

Koreatown rapper inspires a tremendous following with his unlikely story

Sesame Street's YouTube Fans Treated to Porn Thanks to Hackers

Sesame StreetBig Bird, perplexed by the letter 'X.'​Poor kids who dialed up the YouTube channel of Sesame Street yesterday looking for their favorite Elmo and Big Bird videos were instead treated to content said to have been brought to them by the letter "X." As in porn, of the variety mostly ... More >>

How YouTube Turned My Home Video Into a Flight of the Conchords Ad

My YouTube video​Two years ago I assembled a crappy little birthday video montage for my friend, using a combination of Flip clips and ultra-lo-res digi-pics. My masterpiece was set to the tune of the Flight of the Conchords' "Foux Du Fafa" -- with iMovie's Ken Burns effect applied, of course. ... More >>

Which Is Better: Spotify or Grooveshark?

LJ WilliamsonWhich one gets your money?​The arrival of Google is forcing us to make some tough choices about Facebook -- what about the friends, carefully-curated photo albums, and goofy little notes you're not sure you want to pack along to the new place? And now there's Spotify, which is tr ... More >>

Vidcon 2011: YouTube Stars Invade the Hyatt Century Plaza for the Comic-Con of Online Video

Zachary Pincus-RothThe line to meet the online comedy duo Smosh​ An army of teens sporting Justin Bieber haircuts, donning animal hoods and wielding Flip cameras invaded the Hyatt Century Plaza in Century City Thursday through Saturday for the second annual Vidcon, which is making a push to be ... More >>

Donald Glover & Childish Gambino

Page Two: A Young Person's Guide to Odd Future

The Complete Discography (till this afternoon)

Eat The Weeds: Foraging (Literally) on YouTube

YouTube is a wild, woodsy park in the Internet outback: known, accessible, and yet rife with distractions buried amongst its overgrown nooks. From grainy Old Grey Whistle Test clips to vintage NBA highlight reels, it's easy to get lost in YouTube, clicking away at link after link, biting like dim ... More >>

L.A. Artist's 37-Year-Old Nudity Too Much For YouTube

susanmogul.com​By Tom Christie Susan Mogul's landmark 1973 video, "Dressing Up," has been taken down by YouTube censors. The video, which was posted on YouTube by Mogul's Chinatown gallery, Jancar Gallery, features a nude Mogul putting on underwear and clothing, while chewing on a carrot and ... More >>

This Week In: The Future of Web is Streaming Video, Jason Calacanis and Mark Jeffrey Explain Why

Buh-bye​Jason Calacanis, Internet entrepreneur and "L.A.'s brash tech superstar," thinks the future of the web is streaming video and he's willing to put his money where his mouth is. Literally, since his mouth is on "This Week In Startups," one of the shows featured on streaming video network ... More >>

Hitler Mounts Surprisingly Cogent Defense of Hitler Parody Videos

Yesterday we blogged about the push by the German distributor of Downfall to clear YouTube of the many Hitler parody videos making use of the same scene from that film. As I noted in that post, I love a meme as much as the next gal, but this one has long run it's course; if we need a shark jump mome ... More >>

Streamy Awards Red Carpet Video Interviews: Web TV Stars Give You Advice on How to Start Your Own Web Series

Prior to the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards on Sunday, April 11, L.A. Weekly camped out on the red carpet with a video camera and asked nominees, presenters and winners what best piece of advice they'd give to someone just starting out who wants to create their own web series. We figured you wouldn't w ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Golden Gods and Streamys

If you felt like giving or receiving an award this weekend, L.A. was the place to be. Metal magazine Revolver celebrated the best of the genre with their annual Golden Gods Awards. Meanwhile, the tech community selected the best in web television for this year's Streamy Awards. Revolver's Golden G ... More >>

What Do 'Bud Bundy' and the Streamy Awards Have in Common? Everything!

​Hi, I'm David Faustino, and this is what happens when I drink (so drunk right now): You may remember me from a little show STILL ON TELEVISION called Married... with Children. It's generated over a biiiiiiiillion dollars for... Well, I don't really know who gets all the money... But anywa ... More >>

Countdown to Web TV's 2010 Streamy Awards: Comedian Paul Scheer Confirmed as Host, Beatboxer Rahzel Says VOTE

When world renowned beatboxer Rahzel tells you to do something, you fucking do it. On March 29 after the 10 finalists were announced for this year's coveted 2010 Streamy Awards Audience Choice honor, the "Godfather of Noyze" and web TV enthusiast spit some beats and released this video encouraging ... More >>

SMOTHERS AND OTHER STRANGERS

Interview: Former Chameleons Frontman Mark Burgess on His Spontaneous US Comeback, YouTube and Pirate Bay

​ Mark Burgess, former frontman of cult-favorite The Chameleons, was simply taking a vacation. He had traveled to the US to meet a friend in Maine, ended up in Boston through a twist of events and was asked to play with some musicians who were also fans of his old band. Word spread and people ... More >>

Web TV's Streamy Awards: Next Year It Could Be You Up There

Alexia TsotsisNeil Patrick Harris on stage at the Streamy AwardsOn approach the Wadsworth Theatre looked like it'd been swarmed Saturday night. Upon closer inspection the over 1300 people in attendance were as glamorous as glam could get at a first annual award show, and the critical mass was indica ... More >>

Why to Love This Song: The Dodos "Fools"

How does Pitchfork.tv stack up against YouTube? ALSO, let's just talk about how rad this song is, okay?

Hollywood Schmoozer Meets Internet Geek

Agents 2.0: The new generation of dealmakers at UTA Online

Sonic Surfers

Web radio: Freedom of choice is just a keystroke away