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It’s another installment of the weekly Tubefilter Chart of the Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide and you can’t stop, won’t stop Indian entertainment online.

Chart Toppers

T-Series‘ held onto its #1 spot on the top of the charts for the eighth week in a row. The YouTube outpost of the largest music label and movie studio in India lost 4% of its week-over-week view count, but still racked up nearly 287.8 million views on the week. Far off in second place is Ryan ToysReview. The preadolescent known for his toy unboxings and playtime footage was up 2% to top out at just about 189.9 million views.

Still in the #3 spot is Canal KondZilla. YouTube’s destination for Brazilian pop music hits dipped 7% to bottom out at over 158.2 million views. Next up in fourth place is SET India. Sony Entertainment Television’s Indian entity’s YouTube channel fell 6% to take home over 155.2 million views throughout the week.

And rounding out the Top 5 is Luis Fonsi. The Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, and actor is having a moment on the world’s largest video sharing site, where his channel scored more than 154.8 million views during the week.

Top Gainers

The honor of one of the Top Gainers on the chart this week goes to DJ Khaled.

The YouTube home of the American record producer, radio personality, DJ, executive, author, and social media positivity guru had a great week thanks to its first upload in more than five months. “I’m the One ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne” was blessed with an easy eight-figure view count almost immediately after upload. Couple that with Khaled’s music video library and you get a 1,191% week-over-week increase in views, nearly 52.3 million views on the week, and the #48 spot on the worldwide chart.

Channel Distribution

The top 50 most viewed YouTube channels worldwide this week amassed a total of 4,665,908,668 views. Here’s the distribution of a few of those channels by multi-channel network:

• VEVO: 10 channels in the U.S. Top 50, with Luis Fonsi the highest-ranked channel of the network at #5.
• WMG, XMediaDigital: 2 channels each in the Top 50, with WMG’s Ed Sheeran at #7 and XMediaDigital’s Get Movies at #23.

And here’s the distribution of the this week’s Top 50 YouTube channels by country of origin:

• United States: 23 channels in the Top 50.
• India: 7 channels in the Top 50.
• Great Britain: 5 channels in the Top 50.
• Brazil, South Korea, Philippines, Russia, Thailand: 2 channels each in the Top 50.
• Argentina, Canada, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Turkey: 1 channel each in the Top 50.

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We receive a ton of tips every day from independent creators, unaffiliated with any major motion picture studios, television networks, new media studios, or other well-funded online video entities. The Indie Spotlight is where we’ll write about and shout out to a select few of them and bring you up to speed on the great (and sometimes not-so-great) attention-grabbing series you probably haven’t heard about until now. Read previous installments here.

In this week’s Indie Spotlight column, we’re talking about a series that observes a young man’s personal transformation — and plays it for laughs. The show is called Ding Dongs, and it stars its creator, Joseph Baken, as a Mormon who grapples with his gay identity during a missionary trip to Los Angeles.

The arc of Ding Dongs — at least in its first episode, which is now available on Baken’s YouTube channel — centers around its young protagonist, Elder Clark. While he is committed to God and his faith, his trip to the big city also ignites a personal journey within him. At the same time, Elder Clark plays straight man (no pun intended) to a slew of offbeat supporting characters. Ding Dongs‘ excellent casts includes well-traveled actor Drew Droege and drag queen Willam Belli.

As Baken explained in an article he penned for Advocate, Ding Dongs draws from his own tryst with a Mormon during his teenage years. “Anyone who follows their heart and leaves home will ultimately have to ask themselves if everything they grew up believing was a complete and utter fantasy,” he wrote. “With dreams and religion — you’re either in, or you’re out.”

Baken’s passion for this subject matter shows. Ding Dongs is made with plenty of heart and care, and there are more than enough funny jokes to keep your attention. Keep an eye on Baken’s channel to see new episodes as they arrive.

OTHER UNDER-THE-RADAR SERIES TO CHECK OUT

• Seven Days Straight. This examination of different types of crime made some noise at the LA Web Fest.
• Inconceivable. Two friends must grapple with topics like love and sexuality due to an unplanned pregnancy.
• Breaking Breaker. The rise of an ascendant young pop star is chronicled.

Got a series you’d like to see featured in the Indie Spotlight? Be sure to contact us here. For best coverage, please include a full episode in your e-mail.

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Vice, which can be found online, in print, and on TV, has shown itself to be eager to explore new platforms. Twitch, no longer just a platform for League of Legends gameplay, is hungry to broaden the scope of its non-gaming content. If you think that sounds like a match made in heaven, Vice agrees with you. At its 2017 NewFronts presentation it announced that it would bring several of its brands to Twitch after seeing success with a 72-hour gaming stream it launched last October.

The initial partnership between Vice and Twitch coincided with the launch of Waypoint, Vice’s foray into the world of gaming. Now, according to a sizzle reel at the NewFronts event, an expanded partnership will “[program] the entire Vice universe on Twitch.” Channels that are expected to show up on the popular streaming platform include Noisey, Motherboard, and Vice News.

Beyond that bit of news, Vice also used its NewFronts slot to discuss a few upcoming shows for both its digital hubs and its Viceland TV channel, the latter of which passed its first birthday earlier this year. Among other programs, Vice viewers can expect a docuseries on Vice Sports that will look at promising 16-year-old athletes as well as a nationwide art showcase called 50 States Of Art.

Vice, as per usual, offered up a NewFronts pitch like no other. Unlike last year, company founder Shane Smith did not take the stage with a punk band, but exec Niall Cooney did enter a boxing ring to take part in an officially-sanctioned boxing match against Eddie Huang, the host of Viceland’s Huang’s World. It was a wild departure from the rest of the week, but then again, I’d expect nothing less from Vice.

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Twitch Studios, the streaming platform’s in-house production outfit, has announced its next original series: an interactive show celebrating sneaker culture called FreshStock.

The live, weekly docu-series will be co-hosted by Twitch staffers Bash ‘Bashlol’ Mussa and Ray ‘Hypebeast’ Li, both of whom work in the company’s partnerships department. In each episode, Mussa and Li will travel with a member of the Twitch community to a local San Francisco sneaker boutique. In addition to examining hot releases and discussing guests’ footwear preferences, FreshStock will also feature live DJ performances, appearances by fashion luminaries, and segments where viewers can comment and vote.

Premiering May 11, FreshStock will air Thursdays at 2:00 pm ET at www.twitch.tv/twitch, where Twitch houses all live and post-produced content from its in-house studio. Twitch Studios has created other community-driven pop culture shows, including Fanboys — which covers comics and culture — as well as the mini-documentary Ironsights, which tells the story of Sara Erlandson, one of the best Big Buck HD players in the world.

“Our users enjoy a wide variety of content that celebrates our home grown personalities,” said Marcus ‘djWHEAT’ Graham, director of Twitch Studios. Graham added that FreshStock allows the platform “to spotlight our community, but through their love of kicks and in a format that allows viewer participation in the true spirit of Twitch.”

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Insights is a weekly series featuring entertainment industry veteran David Bloom. It represents an experiment of sorts in digital-age journalism and audience engagement with a focus on the intersection of entertainment and technology, an area that David has written about and thought about and been part of in various career incarnations for much of the past 25 years. David welcomes your thoughts, perspectives, calumnies, and kudos at david@tubefilter.com, or on Twitter @DavidBloom.

Disney’s announcement this week that it’s launching a new digital network, and tucking away its former high-profile Maker Studios acquisition, brings to a whimpering end an entire era of multi-channel network mania that gripped media companies just a couple of years ago. Good. It’s time to move to the next stage of the digital-media business, one with promise of a more sustainable future.

Maker was the biggest, brashest, and most expensive of the MCNs to be purchased by a traditional media company in the first half of this decade. Since its acquisition, however, Maker and the MCN phenomenon have already become web Ancient History.

As seen in this week’s string of NewFronts presentations by increasingly sophisticated digital-media publishers old and new, it’s time for the industry to take that next step.

Yes, the online advertising business continues to be dominated by Google/YouTube and Facebook (between them they generated about $105 billion in ad revenue, or 20% of the world’s ad expenditures on all platforms, according to Zenith). But the NewFronts presentations this week and next promise to show companies that are building content for the future, growing serious businesses that can attract serious advertising and subscriber support.

It’s important to remember that YouTube created the whole notion of MCNs, so third-party companies could represent groups of creators who wanted a stronger return on the ads wrapped around their videos. The MCNs would get a share of the higher revenues, as would YouTube and the creators. Tens of thousands of creators signed up, many of the MCNs representing a broad range of not-very-similar talents and trying to make money by making those creators at least marginally richer.

It’s been awhile since most of the upstart digital media players have described themselves as MCNs. Even three years ago, some were calling themselves Multi-Platform Networks, or MPNs, to suggest they had moved beyond a YouTube ramora.

More importantly, these companies came to understand the value to creating and owning original programming. They also began to leverage opportunities in live events, merchandising, and traditional-media partnerships and programming.

But during the MCN mania era, Hollywood misunderstood a crucial piece of the business: these new media companies didn’t own anything, or not very much. The videos made by their creators (with some exceptions) belonged to the creators, often young people with little experience in complicated issues such as digital-asset management and library sales. Reselling that content, a classic Hollywood way to milk value from existing content, was extremely difficult.

Unlike a movie studio such as MGM (where I worked a decade ago before its library fetched nearly $5 billion from a consortium of buyers), the MCNs didn’t have a deep collection of digital content that could be sold and resold.

Instead, the MCNs had relationships, and short-term contracts, with young people in a fluid and still developing industry.

It reminded me a bit of the scene in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People, a deeply amusing film about Factory Records, the Manchester, England label that launched Joy Division and successor New Order as well as James and Happy Mondays. When a major label came to buy the always-struggling Factory, founder Tony Wilson had to admit his company had only handshake deals with its artists. It had nothing to sell. Ooof!

So I’m delighted to see Disney putting Maker amid a broad portfolio of digital assets, such as Oh My Disney, StarWars.com, Babble, Polaris, and branded Youtube channels devoted to Disney characters.

Yes, Disney has an extremely checkered history of digital missteps going back two decades, including the Maker purchase for $500 million plus an earn-out provision for much more (which Maker didn’t come close to achieving).

But Disney says the new network’s sites have one billion followers, and great potential for cross-marketing and audience reach and engagement. That’s great, though Disney surely knows by now that more numbers don’t mean more money in digital. More focus is what matters.

I’m pretty sure Disney and other media companies are starting to understand the special nature, and vast opportunity, of digital content. With any luck, this digital thing could turn into a real business after all.

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Roughly one year after announcing a $4.5 million funding round, Stem, a Mark Cuban and Scooter Braun-backed startup that helps musicians and online creators collect and share revenues across a plethora of digital distribution platforms, has announced a redesign of its flagship desktop service and iOS app.

The changes come as Stem, which was co-founded by former UTA digital talent agent Milana Rabkin, has become increasingly buzzy for its work with artists like Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino, and deadmau5. Stem handles distribution on platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, and Amazon, and also digitally divvies up complex royalty splits in order to pay various collaborators. In addition to its work with musicians, Stem is also used by digital influencers who, say, want to share revenues with various collaborators on a web series.

The biggest change to Stem 2.0 is a revamped dashboard, per product manager Ross Lindly and co-founder Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith. The new dashboard will enable users to compare earnings from different platforms or among different types of revenue — such as ad-supported and subscription tiers. The same changes will arrive within Stem’s app, which will now feature notifications calling attention to monthly payouts.

Stem has also added updates to content management capabilities. Whereas users’ catalogs were previously organized by individual assets, now creators can see how groups of content — including an album or series of videos — are performing as a whole.

The update is currently in beta, with invite requests available here. Stem will roll out the final version of its revamped platform over the next quarter. And additional updates are in store, the company says, including the ability to: import full catalogs of video and music, place territory restrictions on content, and receive payment directly to one’s bank account.

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At last night’s Brandcast, YouTube announced it plan to launch six original programs for its basic ad-supported service. At the same time, it doesn’t plan to slow down content distribution on its premium YouTube Red platform, and the latest series available through that subscription can now be watched. Its an animated adaptation of the popular mobile game Fruit Ninja, and it’s produced by the game’s developer, Halfbrick Studios.

The Fruit Ninja series, subtitled Frenzy Force, follows four young ninjas who train in the art of Juice-Jitsu (groan) in order to defeat a thousand-year-old nemesis named Durian Grey (okay, that one’s pretty good). Beyond the fruit puns, viewers can expect handfuls of the same splattering action they get from the Fruit Ninja game, which has been downloaded more than a billion times.

Frenzy Force is one of several YouTube Red originals the video site has released with its young viewers in mind. Other shows launched under the banner of YouTube Kids include a pair of animated series led by popular Minecraft stars: Dan Middleton’s DanTDM Creates A Big Scene and TheAtlanticCraft’s Kings of Atlantis.

This first season of Frenzy Force consists of 13 episodes, each of which run for about 12 minutes. Four installments are available now, with the remaining ones expected to arrive over the following nine weeks.

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It’s been six weeks since Discovery-backed Group Nine Media made the decision to shut down the SourceFed, SourceFedNerd, and People Be Like brands. Since then, the old SourceFed channels have lay dormant, but Group Nine is looking to reboot them under new ownership. SourceFedNerd has become NowThis Nerd, and that update has drawn a resoundingly negative response from the channel’s subscribers — and even a few of its former hosts.

NowThis, famous as a prolific Facebook publisher, has made no secret of its desire to expand its horizons, and Group Nine’s recent shakeup presented an opportunity. On the same day SourceFed’s shutdown was announced, NowThis took over the former home of Discovery’s Seeker Daily brand and received a chilly welcome from subscribers there, as the like-to-dislike ratio of an intro video shows.

Now, NowThis is trying to set up shop on the former home of SourceFedNerd, and it’s hoping to convince subscribers that they’ll receive the same sort of content they used to receive. NowThis Nerd Senior Producer Michael Calabro, who doesn’t exactly have the world’s most enviable job at the moment, tried to make the sell in an intro video. “Our ultimate goal is still the same as SourceFedNerd,” he said. “We want to give you insightful and entertaining videos on movies, games, comics, and everything else people like us care about.”

SourceFedNerd subscribers are not picking up what Calabro is putting down. At the time of this post, the intro video has 33 dislikes for every like, and more than 33,000 thumbs down in all. Meanwhile, more than 36,000 people unsubscribed from the channel on May 4th alone. In the video’s comment section, former SourceFed hosts like Ava Gordy and Steve Zaragoza, as well as other YouTube notables like Funhaus’ Bruce Greene, have showed up to offer their own remarks on the change.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, another former SourceFed host, Reina Scully, unleashed a sizzler of a rant aimed at Group Nine:

It is possible to reboot a channel without irritating subscribers, but based on the tone of Calabro’s introduction, Group Nine had an idea of the fuss their strategy would cause. The company has offered the following statement: “We realize that change is always hard and we certainly aren’t trying to upset the audience. We’re committed to making the channel great and we’re just getting started.”

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At its annual Brandcast presentation last night during the two-week-long NewFronts video ad conference, YouTube announced a slew of new shows and also revealed some noteworthy stats.

Citing a Google-commissioned Nielsen study, CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that more 18- to 49-year-olds visit YouTube on their mobile devices during primetime television — when ratings are at their highest — than any cable or broadcast network. YouTube also announced that there are now 75% more channels that have surpassed 1 million subscribers than there were last year. And smart TV sets represent the company’s fastest-growing screens, Wojcicki said, with watch-time doubling year-over-year.

Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s chief business officer, discussed the growth of Google Preferred, which aggregates content from the likes of Michelle Phan, Good Mythical Morning, and other top creators into packages for advertisers. Google Preferred has expanded into 20 countries, Kyncl said, and the number of advertisers using the service has grown three-fold since its launch in 2014.

On the subject of advertising, Wojcicki also took a moment to deliver a sincere apology in the wake the ad boycott, whereby marketers were aghast to discover that, in some cases, their ads were running against extremist videos. “We apologize for letting you down,” Wojcicki said. “We can and will do better.” She noted that the company was working around the clock in order to ensure brand safety. Accordingly, certain advertisers, including Johnson & Johnson, have resumed their YouTube spend.

For additional stats unveiled at Brandcast, check out an infographic on Google’s marketing blog right here.

Filed under: NewFronts, YouTube by Geoff Weiss
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Grace Helbig has managed to parlay her online video stardom into an acting career, and her filmography now has a new chapter in it. Helbig, known for the vlogs she creates on her channel, will star in Something In The Water, an upcoming comedy from Lionsgate based within the world of bass fishing.

Something In The Water will be directed by Trey Fanjoy, who also co-wrote the script with Cindy McCreery and is somewhat of a big deal in the country music world. She has directed videos for artists like Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert, the latter of whom is billed as the flick’s executive music producer. The Grammy Award-winning Lambert won’t have an acting role, but she will oversee music curation and pen an original song.

Something In The Water represents the first project to be made public from the overall movie and TV deal the entertainment company inked with Helbig in October 2016. The studio has also worked with Helbig and her on-screen besties — Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart — to distribute Dirty Thirty, a comedy set at a birthday party.

The film is produced by Ken Treusch for Bleecker Street Entertainment, along with Fanjoy and Helbig. In it Helbig will star as one of five women who challenge their respective misters to a bass fishing competition. Deadline notes that the film is a sly play for the East Asian market, as bass fishing is gaining popularity within that region.

While she continues to appear in more films, Helbig will also keep up her schedule on YouTube. Her channel has more than three million subscribers.

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YouTube has produced some 30 original films and series thus far for YouTube Red, a premium subscription service priced at $9.99 per month. But now, the video giant will begin funding originals that don’t live behind this paywall; instead, shows from the likes of Kevin Hart and The Slow Mo Guys will be ad-supported, like the rest of YouTube.

Seven such shows were unveiled at the company’s annual Brandcast event yesterday evening, including: Ellen’s Show Me More, which will give viewers behind-the-scenes access to Ellen DeGeneres’ hit talk show; Good Mythical Morning, a long-form expansion of the popular talk show by digital luminaries Rhett & Link; What The Fit?, where Hart (below) will attempt to master various fitness trends; I Am: Demi Lovato, a docu-series about the recording of the singer’s new album; and The Super Slow Show, where YouTube’s The Slow Mo Guys will test the latest tech.

Additionally, the previously-announced Best.Cover.Ever. will also appear on ad-supported YouTube, while Katy Perry, who performed a mini-concert to cap off Brandcast, announced that she will host a livestreaming listen-along on the eve of her album release. Bloomberg reports that 40 additional ad-supported originals are planned for 2017 in an investment worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

YouTube’s chief business officer, Robert Kyncl, explained that the company opted to pursue ad-supported originals for its more than one billion monthly viewers — who watch more than a billion hours of video every day — as premium content increasingly moves behind subscription paywalls. “Five years ago, 85% of all original series were ad-supported. This year, that number has fallen to just over two-thirds,” he said. “So we see these shows as a way for us to partner with [advertisers] to buck this trend.”

Johnson & Johnson, for instance, which notably yanked ads from YouTube in the midst of a boycott in March, has signed on as the exclusive sponsor of Best.Cover.Ever. in addition to a major investment in the Google Preferred lineup of top creators, YouTube said.

YouTube last funded ad-supported content back in 2011 with its Original Channels Initiative, though the company had wiped all references to the now-defunct program from its website by 2013. This time around, however, YouTube is betting on unscripted shows from traditional and digital luminaries that already boast massive built-in fan-bases.

And free premium content doesn’t mean that Red, which was released in October 2015, is going anywhere. In fact, according to Bloomberg, YouTube is seeking to up the ante on Red by developing programming that costs $3 million to $6 million per hour to produce, which is on par with shows made by HBO and Showtime.

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New Form has made a new for itself by teaming with top online video creators on high-quality pilots, many of which ultimately receive full series orders. The production company tends to arrange its pilots in showcases it refers to as “incubators,” and its latest batch is now here. Seven projects make up the incubator series known as Gold Mine, and this time, New Form has made a point to stress diversity and inclusion.

The projects New Form works on often give digital-native creators the opportunity to appear alongside film and TV talent, and the Gold Mine series (named as such by the creators featured within it) is no exception. Social media standout Eric Ochoa, for example, co-stars with Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Melissa Fumero in a comedy called Mourners Inc. Elsewhere in the slate, Friends’ Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky (who previously teamed up for the hit digital series Web Therapy) have co-created Campus Catwalk, which co-stars YouTuber Alexa Losey.

The stars of Gold Mine are diverse not just in terms of their respective entertainment backgrounds but also in the literal sense. New Form ensured that each Gold Mine project features a woman in a creative or leading role, and resulting shows often discuss race and other topical issues.

“Something I often hear in the marketplace is surprise about the kinds of pilots that we greenlight; the odd, the risky, the black sheep,” said New Form CEO Kathleen Grace in a press release. “But we do this because we have the audaciousness to believe in people and different kinds of stories, that’s what Incubator is all about. We regularly engage with creators who represent all perspectives and could not be more thrilled to share this with our audiences.”

Now that these pilots have been released, New Form will shop them around to potential takers. The studio has typically worked with digital distributors like YouTube Red and Vimeo On Demand, but it has also brought a project to TV thanks to a deal with TBS for the animated comedy Final Space. At a recent presentation timed to coincide with the NewFronts, New Form stressed that it is not exclusively targeting online video platforms anymore, hence why it made the decision to drop the word “Digital” from its name. “Studios like New Form need to be flexible,” said New Form COO JC Cangilla at the presentation. “We’re building for all formats, and we’re building for all genres.”

Here, via a press release, are details about the projects in the Gold Mine incubator series:

MOURNERS INC.

Created by: Cristina Gomez & Luke Eve

Starring: Melissa Fumero and Eric Ochoa

Former child-star, Monica, is now broke and barely clinging to her sobriety when the father, who abandoned her fifteen years ago, dies and leaves her the Latino family business. She inherits Mourners Inc, a company that supplies à la carte mourners for wakes and funerals (think escorts, but more death). But, there’s a catch– to take ownership of the biz, Monica must deliver a shiny, loving eulogy at her father’s funeral, a man she barely knew.

CAMPUS CATWALK

Created by: Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky and Louise Rozett

Starring: Nisalda Gonzales and Alexa Losey

Tally Lopez is a blue-state girl who just doesn’t fit in at her red-state college. When this undocumented Valor College freshman is bullied online after wearing a traditional Mexican dress to a political rally, she starts an Instagram feed to champion self-expression through fashion. Her mission? To celebrate the personal style of everyone—friend and foe—on campus.

KATE OF THE DAMNED

Created by: Nerdist’s Andrew Bowser, Ben Mekler, & Jason Nguyen

Starring: Megan Amram, Jim O’Heir, Shannon Woodward and Lucas Neff

When 30-year old burnout Kate is bitten on the neck by a mysterious figure, she wakes up to find that she is now a vampire. Even worse, she is now Queen of the Vampires. This new title apparently comes with an entourage of minions who expect Kate to reign over them– not to mention end a centuries old war between her kind and the werewolves. The only problem, Kate could not give less of a shit.

ANTI-SOCIAL

Created by: Manon Mathews and Jason Zumwalt

Starring: Manon Mathews

Brielle, a model famous for her Instagram, good looks and sexy snaps, loses her famous boyfriend and most of her followers when the world discovers she’s a high school dropout. To get back the guy (and the fame), she re-enters as a Freshman at Chandler High. When she is finally forced to put down her phone, she just might learn that it’s not how the world looks at her that’s important, but how she looks at the world.

BOY TOYS

Created by: Sunny Tripathy

Starring: Cody Co

A group of attractive, charming millennial guys attempt to woo wealthy women in the hopes of changing their own misfortune. Their leader (and perpetual man-boy) Kyle, is always looking for shortcuts in life and he must stay competitive in order to win the affection (and lifestyle) of LA’s most prominent women. But the game of playing people, comes at a price. And for Kyle, that includes losing the love of his life.

GOOD FACE

Created by: Helen Kriger and Lina Suh

Clara, a young Korean-American doctor’s assistant with dreams of being an artist, has a secret that would shame her strict, traditional parents: she has a white boyfriend…and she’s living with him. When one fateful night brings the different pieces of her life into conflict, she must confront her unsettled identity to have any hope of reconciling herself and her two lives.

@THEREALASSISTANT

Created by: New Form

Starring: Madeleine Byrne

This vertically shot, frantic buddy-comedy follows Christiana, an ambitious yet naive young woman who scores an assistant job to a high profile, wrecking-ball of a social media star: SMASHLEY. Week in and week out she finds herself thrown into a proverbial wood chipper–one insane request after another.

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