Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips We’re big fans of online movie clips site Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009 as a search engine with over 20,000 different clips from thousands of titles from the libraries of 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures. Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $7 million in funding led by MK Capital (a founding investor in Machinima, a large gaming publisher on YouTube). Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, Richmond Park Partners, Jeff Clavier, Naval Ravikant, Jeff Kearl, Tom McInerney, Allen DeBevoise and Gordon Rubenstein also participated in the round. Co-founder Zach James tells me (checkout our TCTV interview with James on the news) that the goal was to sign a distribution deal to upload the clips to YouTube, with the blessing of the studios, which are notoriously protective with their movie content.
free online file converter and YouTube video downloader.Convert videos, audio files, documents and ebooks. Tout le cinéma de Steven Spielberg en un plan : la Spielberg Face 2011 aura été une année forte pour Steven Spielberg, auteur de deux films en tant que réalisateur Les Aventures de Tintin : le secret de la Licorne et Cheval de guerre. L'univers du cinéaste a également infusé dans l'oeuvre des autres. Super 8 de J.J. Abrams et Real Steel de Shawn Levy rendent ouvertement hommage à la période "Amblin" de Spielberg, avec une certaine nostalgie. De manière moins frontale, on a senti la patte du réalisateur sur les nombreux films qu'il a produits cette année, tels que Transformers 3 de Michael Bay, Au-delà de Clint Eastwood, ou encore, Cowboys et envahisseurs de Jon Favreau. Dans ce climat de réhabilitation, une vidéo intéressante vient de faire son apparition sur Internet. La suite du transcript est disponible ici, et la vidéo, visible ci-dessous, revient sur ce motif parcourant toute la filmographie de Spielberg, et une partie de celle de ses descendants. Par Eric VernayFollow @ericvernay
YouTube video-game channel Machinima aims for the next level - latimes.com With 125 million viewers watching more than 1 billion of its videos a month, Machinima may be the most-watched channel that's not on TV. The specialty channel devoted to video-game aficionados — which offers game walk-throughs, gaming news, exclusive trailers and original series — is the channel with the fourth most subscribers on YouTube, itself the world's third most popular website, according to online measurement firm ComScore Inc. Machinima may represent the next best hope of programming to the so-called Lost Boys, those young male consumers, once Hollywood's most dependable audience, who are increasingly reluctant to leave their video-game consoles and Facebook pages to watch movies and TV or listen to music. "You could argue that Machinima is to gaming what MTV was to music in its early days," said Michael E. The channel got its start in 2000 as a website for filmmakers using video-game environments and characters to create original stories.
Films Series Mangas en streaming THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Xfire Xfire is the leader in social gaming services for core gamers. In July of 2012, Xfire passed 22 million registered users. Xfire was founded in 2003 and acquired by Viacom in 2008 for $102 million. In August 2010 Xfire was spun out of Viacom by a private team of serial entrepreneurs and internet investors, including: Brock Pierce (IGE, Affinity Media), Mark Donovan (Titan Gaming), and William Quigley (Clearstone Venture Capital). The new team brings a wealth of experience, energy and focus that will further solidify Xfire’s leadership in the gaming space. Xfire has recently released a re-vamped website and new UI/UX on its desktop and in-game client. Further, it has launched a new competitive gaming service, Battleground into closed beta. Xfire continues to provide users social networking, group VOIP and chat, social sharing of in-game screen shots and videos, and live-streaming gameplay. To learn more about Xfire and to download the client, please go to www.xfire.com. Recent Milestones Videos
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters | Trailer & Movie Site | Coming Soon ABOUT | Maker Studios Macy's and Maker Studios, the world's largest producer and distributor of online video content for millennials, today announced a collaboration to launch an original fashion-lifestyle series--"The Next Style Star." This unique program will feature 16 up-and-coming stylists battling head-to-head for a $10,000 cash prize, a chance to serve as a guest stylist on an upcoming Macy's photo shoot, and have his or her winning look featured in the Impulse Department at Macy's Herald Square in New York City. Macy's "The Next Style Star" will debut April 3 on Maker's fashion and beauty network, The Platform, and macys.com/stylestar.
20th Century Fox MOVIECLIPS Announces Partnership With YouTube to Bring the Largest Collection of Licensed Movie Clips to YouTube VENICE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MOVIECLIPS today announced a partnership with Google to bring more than 20,000 licensed Hollywood HD movie clips to YouTube. The clips will be featured in the Movie Extras on the YouTube VOD platform (youtube.com/MOVIES) and will be accessible through the MOVIECLIPS YouTube channel (youtube.com/MOVIECLIPS). “We’re excited to be working with MOVIECLIPS.com to provide users with exactly what they're looking for when they want to get more into movies on YouTube.” “We are honored to partner with Google to bring the best movie moments to an avid movie audience on YouTube,” said Zach James, Co-Founder of MOVIECLIPS. MOVIECLIPS has the largest collection of licensed Hollywood movie scenes on the web. “Our goal is to promote the discovery of movies,” said MOVIECLIPS Co-Founder Richard Raddon. This growth is supported by Series B funding round led by MK Capital. “We are extremely excited to have a new funding partner in MK Capital. About MOVIECLIPS.com
Maker Studios Raises $1.5M For Creator-Founded YouTube Studio Maker Studios has been relatively quiet as it ramps up its staff in its new Venice, CA homebase, building out a veritable powerhouse of top YouTube creative talent. Now word comes that the studio has raised around $1.5 million in funding in a round led by Greycroft Partners and GRP partners. Mark Suster, a partner at GRP partners (and host of web show This Week in Venture Capital) is also listed as a Board member in a recent SEC filing for Maker Studios. The company confirmed the funding round to us, and it’s now already listed as an active part of Greycroft’s investment portfolio, alongside recent investments like Ad.ly, Klout and Vuze. The studio emerged out of The Station, a cooperative channel of top YouTube creators featuring the likes of ShayCarl, LisaNova, KassemG and others. Maker now firmly sits in the top spot of creative studios built around YouTube channels, especially after YouTube’s recent acquisition of Next New Networks earlier this year.
MovieClips now showing on YouTube | The Technology Chronicles For the past two years, MovieClips Inc. has been building a service aimed at movie buffs who love to watch their favorite scenes, whether it’s from “Scarface” (login required) or “Casablanca.” MovieClips Inc. Now the company hopes to build a bigger audience on YouTube. MovieClips and Mountain View’s Google Inc. announced a partnership Tuesday that will bring clips like this “Gut Reaction” scene from the hit comedy “Bridesmaids” to YouTube. MovieClips has a library of about 20,000 high-definition movie clips that can be shared. MovieClips has licensing deals with six of the seven major movie studios (Disney the big exception)and several smaller studios. The company has so far been more “focused on the product” than attracting eyeballs to its own website, said Zach James, co-founder of the Venice (Los Angeles County) firm. So the Google partnership lets MovieClips “take it to the next level,” he said. MovieClips also has trivia games and trailers. Remember How Cool Technology Used to Be? Mashups
VidCon revels in YouTube - Entertainment News, Technology News One by one, the top executives at YouTube took turns taking the stage Friday at Century City’s Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel to give an overview of their business. But this presentation wasn’t for entertainment execs or shareholders; it was made to a mostly teenage crowd of 2,500 who rarely let a minute go by without unleashing screams of delight. Though YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar might have hoped they were cheering him, the deafening peals were more likely directed at some of the site’s biggest draws, from Buck Hollywood to Mystery Guitar Man, who joined him to tout YouTube’s latest developments. Welcome to VidCon, a three-day convention that ended Saturday celebrating the raucous subculture surrounding YouTube, where the consumers and producers of the Web’s most popular videos are often one in the same. “You guys don’t just watch the news, you make the news,” Kamangar told the crowd, predicting they would give rise to the next CNN or MTV. Yet the YouTubers are still making money.