Video hosting service DailyMotion has selected a new science fiction web series, The Cabonauts, as its first-ever US video commision. “The Cabonauts” is set in the year 2183, when “humans have finally conquered the stars,” but still need a cab to get from one spot to another. Cabonauts, Inc., is that intergalactic cab company. An [...]

Social media guru JD Lasica interviewed Hayden Black, the creator and star of the Internet video hits Goodnight Burbank and Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary, at the recent Digital Hollywood conference. Black offers some background on his shows, but also touches on things anyone should consider when creating an Internet video series. It seems that Hayden [...]

This is the second part of our look at The Secrets Of Viral Video Hits. The articles provide an alternative to the view, promoted by Dan Ackerman Greenberg at TechCrunch, that the secret to success with Internet videos is “clandestine marketing.” In part one, Kent Nichols from Ask A Ninja and Andrew Michael Baron of [...]

Hayden Black, creator of the wry video podcast “Goodnight Burbank,” has launched a new video podcast that is completely different and even more irreverent. “Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary is about a 13 year old girl’s videoblog and her unique take on life,”¬† explains Hayden, “school, friends, parents and living with Bloomberger’s Disease. That’s a genetic [...]

Hayden Black, Executive Producer of the video podcast Goodnight Burbank (sample below), is creating a pilot for HBO Online, according to a source close to the project. “Hayden’s just been greenlit by HBO Online to produce a pilot for a possible new series for their website,” said the source. “The website is launching in Feb, [...]