Tagged: video

September 24, 2013 @ 9:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

TubeStart is a crowdfunding platform dedicated exclusively to to online video creators officially launched this past August.   The company announced this week their intent to roll out royalty-based crowdfunding to its users pending implementation of Title III (i.e., unaccredited) crowdfunding rules by the Securities and Exchange… Read More

September 20, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Imagine a world in which the great inventors of our day were forced to seek funding from venture capitalists and angel groups. Would Edison, Tesla, Ford and others have been successful in just such a climate? Northern Imagination would likely answer no. The YouTube user… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 2:03 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter has announced that they are moving to HTML5 video and the accompanying <video> tag as a primary means of serving video on their crowdfunding platform. This is in contrast to their previous approach of relying mainly on Flash video and relying on HTML5 as… Read More

August 20, 2013 @ 10:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently brought you the story of TubeStart, an innovative crowdfunding platform with four funding models available for YouTube content creators. The platform officially launched from beta today. The platform has a host of campaigns in the early stages of seeking funding. The two to… Read More

August 19, 2013 @ 9:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Spike Lee recently posted the following video thanking Jesus and thanking the supporters of his now fully-funded Kickstarter campaign. A word of advice from Spike: Bet on the mule. It’s an obvious reference to some of his campaign’s detractors. He goes on to say that any… Read More

August 15, 2013 @ 11:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Subscription-based & pledge-based crowdfunding models could provide a new & exciting means of monetizing video content for YouTubers YouTube is a disruptive force in the world of video content and has long provided a means by which video content creators can monetize their hard work…. Read More

August 14, 2013 @ 12:53 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

I’m an unabashed fan of some of the satirical crowdfunding content that floats around the Internet. It provides a healthy opportunity to laugh at ourselves from time to time. Let’s face it, the crowdfunding space does occasionally get a little ridiculous! The Above Average YouTube… Read More

August 13, 2013 @ 12:37 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Despite being razzed by Trish Regan on live TV and catching flack from others, Spike Lee has successfully raised over $1 million on Kickstarter for his new film. His campaign seems on track to hit his $1.25 million goal by the time the campaign ends in… Read More

August 6, 2013 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Registering 11,715,712 subscribers and 2,547,428,423 views and counting (yes 2.5 Billion views) YouTube channel Smosh is the most popular channel by subscribers on the entire YouTube platform.  As a matter of fact this competes with most broadcast networks today.  This video company started back in… Read More

August 5, 2013 @ 9:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Spike Lee is quickly becoming one of the most outspoken advocates of crowdfunding in recent memory, lambasting any reporter or pundit that dares to heap criticism on the director for using Kickstarter to fund his next feature film. The latest to draw Lee’s ire? Trish… Read More

August 5, 2013 @ 8:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo has announced creation of a YouTube partner page in recognition of the growing number of YouTubers crowdfunding their YouTube channels.  The guide is designed to help YouTubers leverage the Indiegogo platform to finance their their channels and hopefully take them to the next level…. Read More

August 2, 2013 @ 9:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

HealthiosXchange is a crowdfunding platform launching this month that focuses on the health care industry. It’s no secret that the health care industry is an important one here in the states. According to the US Census, the US health care sector as a whole garnered… Read More

July 31, 2013 @ 10:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Real estate news provider Inman News posted video of a recent panel where four real estate crowdfunding industry stakeholders discussed their platforms, the real estate niche and the power crowdfunding has to drive capital toward real estate investments. The four participants are: Jilliene Helman, founder… Read More

July 28, 2013 @ 11:12 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It has become a rite of passage: celebrities that use Kickstarter  and crowdfunding in general will eventually be the subject of some number of articles asking if they’re ruining the platform, and then those same celebrities will be asked to offer their opinion on the matter…. Read More

July 9, 2013 @ 10:59 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Vourno now allows Canadian project creators and backers to fund projects and ideas. Vourno is a crowdfunding platform for funding video journalism projects. Project creators, or “Vournos” as they’re called, can run campaigns in Canadian dollars (CAD) and accept Visa, MasterCard and American Express credit card payments… Read More

June 28, 2013 @ 10:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rewards-based crowdfunding and the celebrity-driven campaigns that go with it are providing plenty of cannon fodder for US comedians. Cracked recently posted this video of a would-be actor creating a pitch video to fund a pitch video for his Kickstarter campaign. Sure, we all love… Read More

June 26, 2013 @ 9:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

During the NYT Global Forum, PBS MediaShift sat down with Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin to discuss Indiegogo’s place in the market and how journalists are using crowdfunding to their advantage, among other things. “For us, it’s a completely open platform, where it’s what the funders… Read More

June 25, 2013 @ 9:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Richard Bliss is a well-known figure in the crowdfunding world and hosts the “Funding The Dream” podcast on iTunes. Devin Thorpe of Forbes interviewed Bliss about crowdfunding strategy, his podcast and more. It’s a very interesting interview that manages to hit on pretty much every… Read More

June 23, 2013 @ 2:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kings of online satire The Onion have released a video detailing a (fake) Kickstarter campaign in which Brendan Fraser asks his fans for money so he can make a movie. He even says please! Watch below… Brendan Fraser: ‘I Would Like To Apply For One Kickstarter,… Read More

June 19, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

“Last year 18,000 projects were funded on Kickstarter. How many should have been? Maybe a dozen.” The Official Comedy channel on YouTube posted this satirical video on Kickstarter, taking a jab at Kickstarter project creators and the people who back crowdfunding projects. Watch below…