Wednesday, February 10, 2016

YouTube's New Original Programming Doesn't Make It Netflix


[YouTube] announced two new original projects today, a series called Foursome with Jenn mcallister and Logan Paul, and a feature-length documentary about the journey of a transgender woman called Untitled GiGi Gorgeous. [...] For YouTube, the launch of Red Originals is a pretty significant step for a company that practically invented online video. YouTube, after all, has long been the place where pretty much everyone shares homemade clips. [...] as high-quality online videos become a more central part of how we watch entertainment, YouTube is in a place where it has to evolve. With Red, it’s proving that it can do its own thing—essentially, just by being a flashier, more niche YouTube—while avoiding having to compete with Amazon or Netflix, or losing talent to its competition. - Julia Greenberg, WIRED [via/web:http://streaming-tv.us]

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