A few short years ago an entrepreneur couldn’t build and scale a successful tech or media company without raising millions of dollars in venture capital funding. The same can be said about a video creator or filmmaker where they couldn’t create a hit show or film without the resources that a corporate studio provided. Fast forward to 2010 where we are seeing many startup companies and films succeeding without the support of big corporate money. I don’t know what you think about all this, but to me it’s truly refreshing to see new possibilities and opportunities, and to watch as the business and media industries rapidly change like never before. Look no further than Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook as I believe that he’s the poster boy for the new generation of business visionaries, innovators, and leaders.

Our vision is to grow Spidvid into the web’s open video production ecosystem where individuals share and aggregate their talent and resources together so new video entertainment can be created. Studios are still needed for the most part to develop and promote feature films, but many top web series and short videos/films of the future will be the result of collaborative teams that crowdsource their funding, and leverage new marketing tools at their disposal for free.

I thought up this connection between studios and venture capitalists the other day when I was working out, and couldn’t resist writing a post about it. I’m both an optimist and evangelist when it comes to new media and business, and it’s very exciting because we’ve never seen the world transform so drastically so fast like we are today. This post is a bit random, but I hope it provided some good food for thought.

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We are always looking for good communities, shows, videos, films, and events to get behind. Damian Pelliccione is heavily involved within the new media scene, and video production world. He successfully organizes a monthly mixer event in downtown Los Angeles called New Media Vault, which brings together hundreds of like-minded individuals working in and around new media.

Damian informed me that he was coming to Toronto in August and mentioned he wanted to do a New Media Vault Toronto event, and wanted me to help him co-organize it. I was on board from that moment on and since then all of the details have been worked out for a Monday, August 23rd event in downtown Toronto. If you reside in or will be in Toronto on that date, then you should definately come out because you will meet some extraordinary people who share the same new media passion you do. And if you’re lucky you may win a door prize, discover a new yummy drink, or meet what could turn out to be your future husband or wife. This isn’t a match maker event, but roof top patios in the summer can be pretty magical at times.

If you have a new media event that we should get behind then please let us know about it on Twitter, Facebook, or in the comments below.

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Spidvid was recently written about and reviewed by Harpreet Singh. I thought the platform and community was captured quite well, so I re-posted the blog article below and made some minor edits so the content reads like other content on our blog. Thanks Harpreet for taking your time to learn about Spidvid, and to write a story.

The start-up scene is always sprawling with action. Individuals keep coming up with brilliant ideas to tackle a problem at hand. If you ever heard of YouTube, you can relate to the fact that the online video sharing platform is filled with low quality videos. Enter the new service round the corner; Spidvid. It’s a platform which brings together video creators and professionals, who ultimately create quality entertaining videos. The offering doesn’t end there, it goes further to distribute the videos and generate compensations for the team members who contributed to each production project.

It’s an inventive concept accented by a beautiful user interface. It’s easy to use and very responsive. You may be a video creator, a professional who can act, write, edit, or may be a viewer who has video ideas that you would like to see created by others. Being part of this community you can connect to others who have similar interests to yourself, learn from their past experiences, and team up with them on future production projects.

Spidvid will raise the bar for online video production. The framework brings together people from different corners of the planet, who share a common goal of creating better videos than they normally get the opportunity to do. Right now, Spidvid is offered as a beta service, but as more and more users jump on the bandwagon, the more valuable the talent network gets for others to draw from.

Getting projects and content onto the website is a task which the marketing team needs to pay attention to. I would like to have a section to see some clips of the videos created on Spidvid.

Overall, it’s a good beginning to a new frontier in video collaboration. Spidvid has given users the tools which they need to connect and develop videos outside a single fortified studio. By making it open to the public, the content will cross geographical boundaries and be enjoyed by a wide range of viewers.

So let’s get started and create some videos!

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