Tagged: video

April 6, 2015 @ 12:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

He made his hit web series Video Game High School come to life thanks to backers of its campaigns, and now Freddie Wong is ready to share his very own secrets to crowdfunding success. During his interview with Tubefilter, Wong discussed the key steps of creating a… Read More

April 4, 2015 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Back in February 2014, singer-songwriter Steve Grand took to Kickstarter with a mission to raise $81,000 for his first recorded album, All-American Boy. During its campaign run, the project captured over $326,000 from nearly 5,000. Now, not only has Grand successfully made the new album, it has also… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 1:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, Crowdfund Insider reported on Alchemiya, a premium online subscription-based video on demand platform for Muslim entertainment, which launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £60,000 so that it may expand its already growing services. It was known as the first Muslim media company… Read More

November 16, 2014 @ 6:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rooster Teeth, a mini – media empire founded in 2003, has been acquired by Fullscreen; a digital media company that describes itself as the “first media company for the connected generation”. Rooster Teeth, is well known for the highly popular series “Red vs. Blue,” “Achievement… Read More

June 7, 2014 @ 3:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

After a busy week hearing all about the future of wearable tech at Glazed, I am all geeked up about the  huge power of crowdfunding and how the hardware space is being transformed by the crowd.  Definitely a forthcoming article on this revolutionary shift that… Read More

March 4, 2014 @ 11:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Hey, this week we got through a whole episode of Inside Crowdfunding without any major glitches! Success! Alon and I had a great conversation with Nick Meehan of The Lobby. Nick’s project piqued our interest after he was profiled in a piece for Vice. It’s… Read More

February 25, 2014 @ 11:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Did you know Brian Meece was a mean ukelele player? RocketHub co-founder and CEO Meece sat down with AlleyWire as part of their “Where I’ve Been” series and briefly discussed how some of the fundraising techniques in the world of liberal arts helped him and… Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 1:13 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

In this video interview, The Crowd Cafe’s Jonathan Sandlund interviews Joachim Dupont, CEO and Founder of Anaxago. It’s a relatively deep dive into how Anaxago operates, including a look at where the platform sources dealflow and how they curate. Anaxago also divulges that the platform… Read More

February 18, 2014 @ 9:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

On this week’s episode of Inside Crowdfunding, we talk to Adam Draper of Boost.vc about his accelerator and the culture around accelerators in general. He shares some information about the cool stuff coming out of the companies in his portfolio. Of course, Draper is also bullish on… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 10:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Tomorrow YouTube content creator crowdfunding platform TubeStart will begin a new weekly tradition by holding a Google Hangout. It’s called the “Weekly Crowdfunding Crash Course for YouTube Creators,” which tells you just about all you need to know. If you’re on YouTube and you’re interested… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 12:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

On this week’s episode of Inside Crowdfunding, we interview Tubestart co-founder and CEO Josef Holm to get more information about his crowdfunding platform for YouTube content creators. We also discuss Tubestart’s new charity-related initiative and Holm’s recent ReelSEO article about MCNs participating in the crowdfunding… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 9:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

TubeStart is offering to help 501(c)(3) organizations by allowing charities and nonprofits to crowdfund on their platform for free. Any organizations interested in taking advantage of this offer are encouraged to contact TubeStart. More information on how to do so is available on TubeStart’s web… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 9:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Imagine netting over a million YouTube views in a month and getting paid as little as $50 for that accomplishment. That is the reality Jack Conte, half of the music group Pomplamoose, spelled out in a recent interview with Upstart Business Journal. Pomplamoose has over… Read More

January 7, 2014 @ 11:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Popular Mechanics has provided a short list of three upcoming products that will be looking to launch crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter in the coming weeks and months… Solar Cool Tech – A solar-powered cooler that will keep food and drinks (and Coronas!) cold at the… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 9:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Haytham Nasr is a co-founder of mygroup.me, an entertainment group based in Beirut, Lebanon. In an equity crowdfunding raise, he and his team crowdfunded a “million-dollar bar” in Lebanon called mybar. The bar was a huge success initially, and within a year of opening investors… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 9:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Young Turks is a long-running online news program that was launched in 2002 as a source of politically progressive news and commentary. The program and its team are currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo to build a new studio, and they can now begin to celebrate… Read More

November 23, 2013 @ 9:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Narrative (formerly Memoto) crowdfunded over $500,000 on Kickstarter for their small form factor life-logging camera last year. The campaign ended in November of 2012. The team is having production issues largely related to quality control in manufacturing. Narrative has been forced to benchmark each unit… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

LendAcademy publisher Peter Renton recently published two video primers on two of the largest P2P lending marketplaces in the world, those being Lending Club and Prosper. If you’re new to the world of P2P lending and want to get a sense of the basics quickly,… Read More

October 1, 2013 @ 9:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Backstage casting services has been around since 1960. Many big name actors utilized their casting services.  Robert Di Niro, Sandra Bullock and Scarlett Johansson is on the list of established alumni.  As the company has evolved the process has changed.  Now with Backstage.com a film… Read More

September 27, 2013 @ 10:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In May we tipped the start of Baratunde Thurston’s new crowdfunding-centric web series. Called Funded, the series is made up of five minute shorts that explore crowdfunding success stories. As of today there are five segments available. The five projects outlined are… Ouya: Ouya CEO Julie… Read More