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p2pnet news | Advertising:- Starting today, Google is to use the work of independent film makers to boost its advertising efforts.
Creators will be able to hook into the YouTube Screening Room to, “distribute their work, build an audience,” at the same time adding to their incomes by sharing advertising revenue generated by their works.
Google is promoting the move as a way to showcase an international selection of films, it says, going on:
“The YouTube Screening Room will feature four new high-quality short films every two weeks, as well as feature-length films on a case-by-case basis, creating new business opportunities for filmmakers and bringing informative, timely and entertaining films to the YouTube community around the world.”
Short films from Norway, Sweden, Canada, the UK and the US, with, “well-known actors and award-winning filmmakers alongside undiscovered talent” will be featured in the first month, says the company.
Films from Germany, Austria, France, Kenya, Australia, Ireland and the UK will be added over the next few months, it says.
Movie makers can have a ‘Buy Now’ button to link to sites selling DVDs and digital downloads of their films, as well as a player, states Google.
Contributors, “will also collect a majority share of ad revenue generated from views of their work,” says the Associated Press.
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Google - The YouTube Screening Room Debuts, June 19, 2008
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June 19th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
YouTube’s ‘screening room’ announcement today underscores the powerful role the Internet can play for independent filmmakers to share their work and build a fan-base without the limitations of conventional theater distribution. But it’s not the first — Lycos Cinema has provided a platform for indie filmmakers to showcase their work since late 2006. Having been at it for a while Lycos Cinema is loaded with hundreds of award-winning independent films, such as God’s Lonely Man (Grand Jury Nominee - 2006 Sundance Film Festival); The Corndog Man (Emerging Filmaker Award - 2000 St. Louis International Film Festival); Kid Brother (Special Jury Prize - 1988 Paris Film Festival, Unicef Award Berlin International Film Festival); and The Zeros (Audience Award, Narrative Feature, 2001 SXSW Film Festival).
And as part of a major upgrade in May 2008, Lycos Cinema teamed up with Independent Features for an online film festival that is running from May 5 to June 30. The festival takes advantage of Lycos Cinema’s unique, patent-pending watch and chat capability, which allows fans to synchronously discuss and watch movies in real-time. So it really mirrors the community experience of a film festival with fans socializing and buzzing about their favorites. Fans also get to vote, and the top films will be shown at the Tribeca Cinemas in NYC in late July. Check it out here: http://cinema.lycos.com.