The Next News Feed

Next New Networks has expanded its roster of distribution partners today with the launch of The One, a daily web series, to be featured on the AOL front page, that spotlights “the one thing we’re thinking about today.”

Today, we launched The ONE, a new daily series on AOL’s homepage, as part of the innovative new relaunch of AOL.com.  It’s the first show in a while I’ve personally co-created (with my good friend and colleague Kathleen Grace), so I’m especially excited to give you all the first look.

With The ONE being presented on AOL’s homepage to their audience of 15 million unique U.S. visitors daily, this may be the biggest placement for a daily news series to date, and all of us at Next New Networks are honored to be the first company to launch an original series like this with AOL.

The ONE is all about cutting through the thousands of stories presented to you daily — on the web, on TV, in your friends’ Facebook and Twitter feeds — and giving you a great perspective on the one story that really matters. Today, November 8, we’re talking about the Conan launch on TBS, and brought on comedian and author Baratunde Thurston, digital director for The Onion — to talk about it. The series is directed and produced by Kathleen Grace, our head of production and creator of hit web series The Burg and The All-for-Nots, who co-created it with me.

New episodes will be live on AOL.com at 1pm daily, Monday through Friday, and feature a roster of great contributors from around the web. As part of Next New Networks’ partnership with AOL, we’re also distributing some of our most popular series on the site, from two of the biggest hits on the web, “The Key of Awesome” and “Auto-Tune the News,” which was featured on AOL’s homepage Friday, to Hungry Nation series like “Working Class Foodies” and Indy Mogul series like “Backyard FX” and “Beyond the Trailer.” We’re excited to get this in front of AOL’s massive audience, and to have our content available to many of their complementary destinations like Autoblog, Popeater, Stylelist, Engadget, and TechCrunch.

More info about the series is in our full press release with AOL. We hope you’ll check out the show, and stay tuned for more good things to come. 

(Source: shey.net, via moth)

Next New holds the #2 and #3 spots: “…the shooting star here was Auto-Tune the News, whose remix of the ‘bed intruder’ viral video launched the series from nowhere (last month, at least) to second place.”

“I wanted to focus on the creative side,” says Michael Gregory, a Brooklyn musician whose band, the Gregory Brothers, leapt to YouTube stardom with its Auto-Tune the News series. He teamed up with a company called Next New Networks, a web-video development company in New York. The company manages performers’ sponsorships, negotiates ad deals with Google, and handles audience development and public relations. Next New Networks represents about 50 artists who collectively generate more than 150 million monthly views.

Catches rising YouTube stars — and makes them legit.

“Sarah’s Fit Show,” “Empower Your Body” and “Tara Stiles Yoga” Headline Web Series on New Click Fitness Network

NEW YORK, NY—(Marketwire - June 24, 2010) -  Next New Networks, the leading next-generation media company providing original Web series to millions of loyal and engaged viewers, today announced the addition of the Click Fitness Network. Click Fitness launches with three health and fitness shows, all created by independent producers as part of the Next New Creators program.

“The home of Web series IndyMogul, Channel Frederator and ThreadBanger is throwing a billion-videos played party. The dedicated site NextNewBillion.com has a countdown meter that invites the user to vote on the day the site will crack the big mark. A downloadable poster is a mosaic of 5,000 screen shots. The company launched in March 2007 mainly as a digital studio of Web video shows. The model has evolved a bit since then but generally it still incubates and distributes over 20 shows across the usual syndication routes online.”