About the Tubefilter Hollywood Meetup
With over 15,000 members on its roster, Tubefilter brings together the most dynamic group of online entertainment professionals in the industry.
Upcoming Meetup
Sh*t People Say—Formula for Success
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at Google LA
We’ve teamed up with the fantastic team at YouTube for an event at Google Los Angeles!
At the end of last year, Toronto-based filmmakers Graydon Sheppard and Kyle Humphrey, along with Juliette Lewis, debuted the first installment of the original web series Sh*t Girls Say, starring Sheppard in drag reciting the terribly ordinary things girls say in a perfect Kids-in-the-Hall-in-women’s-clothes impression.
What followed was a phenomenon.
Nearly 100 Sh*t Girls Say spin-offs, amassing over a quarter of a billion views, have used the formula to stereotype other groups, from large populations like Sh*t New Yorkers Say to the ultra-specific like Sh*t Southern Gay Guys Say—spawning “best of” blog posts and definitive collections.
Join Tubefilter and YouTube at Google Los Angeles as we sit down with the most popular and successful Sh*t People Say creators to find out how they applied the formula to make a video sensation.
Space is extremely limited, so apply to attend right away.
Sh*t People Say—Formula for Success
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at Google LA
Panelists:
Billy Sorrells
Channel: Billy Sorrells
Sh*t Black Girls Say
10.5+ MM Views
Tripp Crosby & Tyler Stanton
Channel: Tripp and Tyler
Sh*t Nobody Says
7.6+ MM Views
Heidi Nieds & Elena Crevello
Channel: The Trashy Class
Sh*t People Say in LA
1.8+ MM Views
Kelsey Darragh
Channel: Shit Girlfriends Say
Sh*t Girlfriends Say
5.1+ MM Views
Moderator: Drew Baldwin, Tubefilter
Drew is the Founder of Tubefilter and Executive Producer of the Streamy Awards.
Sh*t People Say—Formula for Success
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at Google LA
Special thanks our Meetup Sponsor YouTube, Community Sponsors Chill, PlaceVine and SAG New Media, and Media Partners NATPE, the PGA New Media Council, and WGA New Media.
Our Spring 2012 Meetup, Creative Marketing in Social Video, turned to the experts to continue the conversation of our contentious Cheaters panel. From small companies trying to break through the noise to global brands vying to edge out their competitors, getting noticed online is what its all about, and our panelists have turned video marketing into an art form.
Our Winter 2012 Meetup, Do Cheaters Never Prosper?, took a hard look at the controversial topic of “cheating” in which marketers game the system to maximize viewership. We explored the most ingenious—and most unscrupulous—techniques in practice.
Our Fall 2011 Meetup, Social Video on Steroids, our panel of experts from Klout, EQAL, and Attention Span Media shared how to engage and drive audiences using best practices in social media marketing and promotion.
Our Summer 2011 Meetup, Beyond YouTube, set out to discover what other ways online video creators are reaching and building audiences, and how they’re optimizing revenue. We asked the panelists whether YouTube is the be-all-end-all in online video, or rather an important component in a more complete online video business strategy—and it turned out to be quite a hot topic.
Panelists included Dane Boedigheimer of The Annoying Orange, Wilson Cleveland of CJP Digital Media, Barrett Garese of Blip.tv, Dan Weinstein of the Collective Digital Studio, and Jason Calacanis of Mahalo and This Week In.
Our Spring 2011 Meetup, The Digitour Debriefed, was the last stop on The Digitour 2011, a 27-city national tour of top web stars with over one billion combined views and more than six million subscribers on YouTube.
The Digitour revealed a new way for online talent to connect with, engage, and monetize fans—and proves that web celebrity translates to live audiences, just as “real” Hollywood stars and musicians do. The success of The Digitour indicates the beginning of something big—really big—a major paradigm shift in the way studios, advertisers, networks, and investors will regard the online video industry going forward.
Panelists included Sarah Evershed, Executive Producer of The Digitour and President of The Cloud Media, along with Digitour performers Dave Days, DeStorm, and MysteryGuitarMan.
Our Winter 2011 Meetup, You’re A YouTube Partner—Now What?, was also a great success. Panelists included Reckless Tortuga, The Fine Brothers, Barely Political and Co-Developer of the YouTube Partner Program, George Strompolos. The event was sold out, filling the Mile High Ballroom at Busby’s to capacity, and tens of thousands tuned into the Stickam live stream.
Check out a short recap put together by Peter Bragiel from In Transit:
With over 15,000 members on its roster, Tubefilter events bring together the most dynamic group of online entertainment professionals in the industry.
Our events feature the top creators, producers, talent, executives, agents, distributors, and technologists in online entertainment today.
With presentations, panels, and lectures from the top individuals and companies shaping the future of our industry, the Hollywood Web Television Meetup provides an unrivaled opportunity to bring together this powerful community to share resources, collaborate, and determine together who we are and where we are headed.
About the Meetup
- Alex Albrecht: Creator and host of Diggnation, the most popular running web series of all time. Alex is also the star of the cult classic cooking show Ctrl+Alt+Chicken, creator of The Totally Rad Show and the Streamy Award winning host of Project Lore.
- Hayden Black: Creator, writer, and producer and star of Goodnight Burbank, Abigail’s Teen Diary, and most recently The Cabonauts, the first original US commission from Dailymotion.
- Big Fantastic: This web television powerhouse first caught the eye of former Disney Chariman Michael Eisner’s web production studio Vuguru with their debut independent series Sam Has 7 Friends, the first daily scripted dramatic web series. Together Big Fantastic and Vuguru created Prom Queen, which drew over 20 Million views during its initial run, and has since spawned two sequels and a Japanese remake.
- Eric Berger: Senior Vice President of Digital Networks at Sony Pictures Television
- Larry Tanz: Larry is the newly-minted President of Vuguru, the digital studio founded by Michael Eisner that recently received financing from Canada’s Rogers Media.
- Jesse Warren and Mark Gantt: Executive Producers of Sony Crackle’s The Bannen Way
- Tubefilter Picks: A selection of six web series produced and created by members of the Tubefilter Hollywood Web Television Meetup
- Tosca Musk and Jeff MacPherson of Tiki Bar TV. Entering its fifth season, Tiki Bar TV is one of the most popular web series of all time and one of the leading video podcasts on Apple’s iTunes with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
- Felicia Day: Creator of the hit series The Guild and star of web phenom Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
- Cristian Cussen: Director of Content and Marketing at MySpaceTV
- George Ruiz: Head of New Media and Senior Vice President of International Creative Management (ICM)
- Sandeep Parikh: CEO, effinfunny.com and creator of The Legend of Neil on Comedy Central and Atom.com
- Kim Evey: Producer of the web hits The Guild and Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show
- Greg Benson: President of Mediocre Films, the #27 All-Time Most Subscribed channel at YouTube whose edgy, decidedly un-PC comedy shorts and series combine great laughs with high production values.
- Bismarck Lepe, Founder, Ooyala
- Hailey Bright, Co-Host, Coin-Op TV Live
- Brian Gramo, Founder theStream.tv
- Tyler Crowley, Executive Producer, Mahalo Daily, This Week in Startups, Kevin Pollak Chat Show
- Screen Actors Guild Department of New Media: Todd Amorde, National Director of Organizing; Bob Jensen, Manager; Nayla Wren, Lead Organizer; and Steve Graham, Director of Online Casting
- Rob Jones, VP Gaming Programming, Machinima.com
- Jeremy Azevedo, Director of Entertainment Programming, Machimina.com
- John Yniguez, Editor, Inside Gaming
- Seananners, YouTube Top 100 Most Subscribed
- Ben Relles, barelypolitical and VP Programming, Next New Networks
- Rafi Fine, TheFineBros
- George Strompolos, CEO, Fullscreen and Co-Developer of the YouTube Partner Program
- Jason Schnell, Reckless Tortuga
