Blip.tv: We're Building the Next Generation Television ...
Blip.tv was founded six years ago in May 2005, by a group of five friends who love web series and has grown to become one of the Internet’s largest independently owned and operated video properties. CEO and founder Mike Hudack says that, what they've doing all along is building the next the generation television network. Since it's founding blip.tv has cultivated some the world’s top web series producers, advertisers and video distribution platforms with the mission of making original series both profitable and scalable.
This past week, Blip.tv relaunched its website of a new blip.tv destination site to better curate the best original web series on the site and make it more discoverable. Additionally, Blip.tv also announced that it's reached reached more than three billion views to date, and on pace to reach one billion views per quarter.
I caught up with Hudack at NewTeevee Live 2010, where he discussed the founding of the company, its vision and where he sees it going. Thousands of shows are using the platform and distribute to most of the video Internet, and top show producers on Blip.tv have made over $500,000 in revenue in 2010.
"There are more independent show producers today than there have ever been in history," says Hudack, "and that will keep happening and our job is to make those shows sustainable and profitable over the long term, and scalable"
For Hudack, it's been remarkable to watch this industry grow into an industry, because it wasn't here before and he says it's not there yet, but getting there. Right now there are a number of sustainable web shows and more and more people are consuming of web shows as their primetime viewing as they shift from from television to the web.
"The Internet is a very different place than television, and we are literally building a television network for the Internet, instead of a television network for television."
This past week, Blip.tv relaunched its website of a new blip.tv destination site to better curate the best original web series on the site and make it more discoverable. Additionally, Blip.tv also announced that it's reached reached more than three billion views to date, and on pace to reach one billion views per quarter.
I caught up with Hudack at NewTeevee Live 2010, where he discussed the founding of the company, its vision and where he sees it going. Thousands of shows are using the platform and distribute to most of the video Internet, and top show producers on Blip.tv have made over $500,000 in revenue in 2010.
"There are more independent show producers today than there have ever been in history," says Hudack, "and that will keep happening and our job is to make those shows sustainable and profitable over the long term, and scalable"
For Hudack, it's been remarkable to watch this industry grow into an industry, because it wasn't here before and he says it's not there yet, but getting there. Right now there are a number of sustainable web shows and more and more people are consuming of web shows as their primetime viewing as they shift from from television to the web.
"The Internet is a very different place than television, and we are literally building a television network for the Internet, instead of a television network for television."