What do you get when you bring together eight popular comedy troupes with established YouTube presences and 12 consecutive weeks of thematic “sketches, pranks, music videos, parodies, spoofs, and more”? A pretty good idea.
Every Thursday for the next 11 or so Thursdays, the aforementioned comedy channels will upload their videos based on the theme of the week. Audiences get eight weekly videos to watch, the comedy troupes get cross-promotion from one another (which will hopefully increase every channel’s viewership and subscriber counts), Next New Networks gets a couple hundred thousand views a week on which it can try to sell sponsors, and everybody wins.
The eight Halloween-themed videos from the first week of Comedy Thunder have so far collected a total of 590,000+ views, due in large part to GoPotato TV’s contribution 13 Halloween Costumes You’ll See at Every Party.
“We had been thinking about doing a sketch comedy network for a long time,” Kathleen Grace, VP of Programming at Next New Networks explained. “So when we started to bring on a few sketch comedy channels into the Next New Creators it was the perfect reason to launch.”
After tapping Next New Creators (like GoPotato TV, Dr. Cool Sex, and Candy Slice Comedy), Grace reached out to familiar groups from YouTube (like Blame Society Productions) and New York’s sketch comedy scene (like Poykpac and Elephant Larry).
Grace said Next New Networks is talking to a few sponsors interested in making it rain on Comedy Thunder, but no deals have yet been signed.
Ultra Kawaii fans get pumped! Next week the Comedy Thunder theme is “cute animals.” Be sure to check them out at YouTube.com/ComedyThunder.
Microdramas aren't just a growing entertainment trend -- the short-form, serialized format is a hit…
A playable version of Rainrow Road has come to YouTube. The notable Mario Kart level is featured…
Google is sitting on a treasure trove of statistical data, and it's putting those data points…
After enduring multiple rounds of bankruptcy filings, Claire's could use a win, and it's hoping that…
'Tis the season for festive holiday beverages, and some of YouTube's biggest channels are raising…
Each week, we handpick a selection of stories to give you a snapshot of trends,…