Peer Production: CHILLTOWN TV Season 1 Finale

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Because you demanded it!

Oh, erm, wait. We don’t mean, um, that you demanded that Season 1 come to an end. We mean that, you know, you demanded that TVWriter™ show you the ending. read article

Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie

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Chapter 18: The Whole Branding Thing (sigh)
by Leesa Dean

This week I was invited to a special YouTube screening. The invite said I was selected to attend, which was pretty cool (I literally couldn’t believe I was invited!) But, unfortunately, I couldn’t make it. I had planned to, even registered to attend, but was so involved working on this TOP SECRET PROJECT, I just didn’t have time. In fact, the night of the screening, I was up till 3am rendering/animating. The screening had top YouTubers discuss best practices for taking with advertisers regarding branding with a panel.

The truth: no advertiser is going to be interested in branding my show. Yet. You really need to have a substantial amount of subscribers/viewer retention for that. I’m doing well but not SMOSH well. I’ve got under 800 subscribers. I think I’d have to have at least 20,000-30,0000 (at least) before those kinds of conversations start to happen. It would have been interesting to hear what they had to say, though… read article

PeerProduction: LELE’S RATCHET ADVICE

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We keep telling ourselves we’ll stop plugging this little interweb series, but here we go again.

Cuz, damn, baby, Lele is funny: read article

Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie – Chapter 15

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History
by Lessa Dean

Really busy week. Not going out as much (to panels, workshops, etc.) but heavily working on a new top secret project that I’ll be able to share in a few months. And between that, tweaking Episode 8 of Chilltown (which launches next week!), doing the radio shows (the Lele segments plus three new interviews this week, including one on HipHopHeadz which really was a ton of fun.)

Something kept cropping up during the interviews: I got asked how I broke into writing. Not the web arena, but writing in general. read article

Peer Production: LELE’S RATCHET ADVICE SHOW

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Whoa! Home girl’s learned how to edit. Nicely done, Leesa. We’re diggin’ it.