Filming Movies on Webcams Is Just Art Imitating Life
There’s a six-year-old boy living somewhere in the U.S. who generates $11 million a year in advertising revenue. His name is Ryan and he reviews toys on his own YouTube channel....
VidCon 2018 Takeaways: How Live Streaming Could Become the New Mainstream
This year’s VidCon US celebration, held in Anaheim, CA over the summer, was proudly brought to you by Viacom. Actually, VidCon is owned by the multinational, multi-billion-dollar media company Viacom. The...
How to Live Stream Your Band for Free
Live streaming of music events has become so common that people are getting angry when major acts don’t go virtual. Eminem caught the wrath of the social media world recently for not...
Reebok’s Remote Fashion Designers Are Outfitting MMA Stars
I’m a writer, not a fighter, but I’ll admit I love the theater of the combatants entering the ring for a big boxing or mixed martial arts bout. The lights go out,...
Coaching Over Skype Lets Olympic Pros Lend Their Experience to Aspiring Athletes
If there’s a secret to attaining the grace that American Olympic ice dancing siblings Alex and Maia Shibutani possess, they’re not sharing it with just anybody. In the kind of maddening understatement...
You Can Now Get Paid For Live Streaming on Facebook–If You Have 2K Followers
The winning numbers for social media riches are 300 and 2,000. If you’ve got 2,000 Facebook followers and you can hold the attention of 300 of them during a live stream, the...
Skype Wins at the Technical Emmy Awards 2017 for Interactive TV App
What do Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jon Hamm, Orange Is the New Black, and Skype have in common? If you said they’re all Emmy winners, then you probably read the title to this post....
Millennials’ Live Streaming Habit Means the NFL Would Be Wise to Broadcast Online
The NFL is currently having one of those “have your cake and eat it too” moments with the tech world’s live streaming giants. Over recent years it has parcelled out small...
Christopher Nolan and the Virtual Film School: Learning Directing Via Video Conference
How do you make a war movie so true to the actual events that it wins approval from the veterans who lived through it? Director Christopher Nolan has achieved the feat with...
Live Streamed Geocaching Adds Another Angle to a Treasure Hunt
There’s treasure to be found in the wilderness. With your phone as a map and a compass, and the GPS satellites above you as your guide, you can walk out your front...
