nytimes.com — "One of Hollywood’s top five talent agencies has created an online unit devoted to scouting out up-and-coming creators of Internet content - particularly video - and finding work for them in Web-based advertising and entertainment, as well as in the older media."
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Closed AccountOct 26, 2006
No, this is just more of "Hollywood Doesn't Get The Internet." The whole point of the internet is that it makes information transmission easier and available to more people, cutting out the middleman. Internet content creators don't NEED agents coming in and taking their ten percent, and whole point of YouTube and other sites like it is that content creators can now directly reach their audience, including those who would hire them to work in Web-based advertising and entertainment.Seriously, that whole Hollywood thing of "would it play in Peoria" is now turned upside down - Hollywood is basically the Peoria of the Internet.
caseybOct 26, 2006
He's been travelling a lot to "talk" to industry folks. I wonder if it's the same people.
goodbrainOct 26, 2006
Interesting. I guess the geek ideal of working as a freelancer while you try to get your big idea venture funding my be getting some competition.
andayaOct 26, 2006
too late for these guys, Yahoo! beat them to the punch.<a class="user" href="http://talentshow.yahoo.com/">http://talentshow.yahoo.com/</a>
vioneOct 26, 2006
what's different about United Talent Agency, already established in Hollywood, is that they're working for other entities (clients) already present on the internet as well, like people who want to create an online tv show. it's making the long tail of talent searchable.