We have been very patient before launching Spidvid. But we believe that launching early is important because you never know how the early adopters within the community will use your service. Our challenges around launching later than we had hoped include suffering a brutle hack attack that took much longer to recover from than first anticipated, and for the last few weeks we have been upgrading our video management tools. These tools are important to creators, so we had to make sure that they fit the demands our future creators will have.

Things are ready to go now, and we are excited about finally being able to go out there and attract the video creators, actors, writer, directors, producers, story tellers, and others who believe that we have reached a special new time in the video production evolution.

We will be using a combination of traditional, and social media strategies to get our story and social platform out there to attract our first few hundred beta users. In the next couple of weeks expect to see some demo videos that will help to outline how our model and framework functions. We can talk about it all we want, but until the video production world sees the potential that Spidvid and our community have, then the site is still challenging to fully figure out.

We are looking at a soft launch for Wednesday. If anything changes we will be posting updates on our Twitter account. Let the new social wave of collaborative video production begin.

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Not too long ago you would only watch videos from a large studio company usually based out of New York or Hollywood. Production studios used to have the video industry in lock down as they had many competitive advantages, keeping the smaller guys and their videos in the dark without much attention.

This is no longer the case as anyone with passion, a dream, and a script can create quality video content from anywhere they wish. Tools, software, and resources used to cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. The most important aspect about the production process has always been about the contributions of talent from individuals, not the products they had at their disposal.

So now as we enter a new production world where videos can attract millions of views on a low budget, or no budget at all, we need to ask ourselves what the competitive landscape will look like in five or ten years from today.

With Fred being one of YouTube’s most important and viewed creators, it won’t be shocking to see more similar examples like Fred or small production teams successfully build communities around their content as we move further into this new media landscape.

The independents used to have to compete on solid story telling, but now can also compete on solid production values as well. Mixing these two elements it’s realistic to believe that our favorite mainstream shows on TV now, will compete for our attention with low-cost niche content production.

One of the motivating factors for originally developing Spidvid was understanding the power and value of connecting human talent together for production projects. As individuals learn to understand what talent they need for their projects, how to attract that talent, how to effectively collaborate, and understanding the benefits for everyone involved, there is a new media model on verge of truly exploding.

There is something very special happening here, and we believe the opportunities for getting involved will be very lucrative as all the stars align to build out the ecosystem. Re-imagine the video production process, visit our site and click “Sign Up” to become a member to join this new media movement.

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While we anxiously wait for Spidcast’s show to be approved by the iTunes store’s admin team (hopefully by tomorrow), and for Spidcast.com to get completed, we have decided to embed the very first episode of Spidcast here on our blog. You can listen to the interview below, just click play.

If you like what you hear, then be sure to subscribe to the show to get automatically updated when future weekly episodes are released. Enjoy!

Topics covered in this episode:

- Why the show is named Spidcast

- Why we decided to start the show

- The types of conversations you will hear on Spidcast

- The story behind Spidvid

- How Spidvid’s new media model works

- Who benefits using Spidvid’s social network

- If Spidvid intends to be a disruptive force against traditional video production studios

- An example of a collaborative production team

- Where collaborative video production may be in five years from now

- How someone becomes a Spidvid member

- Celebrity mentions: Ashton Kutcher and Donald Trump

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Our goal for Spidvid is to not only create the first social network focused on collaborative video production, but to also spark and be part of important conversations that relate to the core mission behind our social platform.

Next week we are launching Spidcast (Spidvid + Podcast = Spidcast) which will feature conversations on how individuals connect together to form their own production teams, new video collaboration technologies, tools and resources which can be used to improve the production process, and future prospects for this industry.

This will be a weekly show which can be streamed and listened to directly on Spidcast.com, or can be downloaded through the Apple iTunes store.

Our very first episode will feature a successful movie producer, and I will be on to share the vision for Spidvid and Spidcast. Spidcast will be hosted and produced by Michael London who has many years of experience in radio broadcasting, and most recently podcasting. We are very happy to have him join our team, and fully believe that he will do a remarkable job for Spidcast long-term.

I hope that you tune in next week to Spidcast episode #1, and find value in what you hear. If you have any show ideas, questions, or feedback we would love to hear from you. If you have an interest in being a future guest on the show then be sure to get in touch.

Cheers to Spidcast, and to new beginnings.

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