Posts Tagged ‘indieWIRE’
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
VUDU is a digital movie streaming and downloading service. Consumers more and more want to watch films on their computers or on their HD televisions sets in their own living rooms. TV’s and PC’s are merging and blurring. When Wal-Mart enters the market it has certainly gone main stream.
One of the reasons I created Snagfilms was to take advantage of this convergence and to make good work film ubiquitous to large audiences.
I think we have positioned Snagfilms quite well. In 18 months of service we are now streaming literally tens of millions of minutes per month of films to millions of consumers. We are helping Indie film makers. We are helping charities and we are helping consumers and bloggers to self express.
We are an independent company that is trying to do well by doing good. We have a double bottom line and are competing against giant corporations.
Support us today by watching films on Snagfilm and by grabbing a film widget and showing films to your friends. Help us be David to these Goliaths. Small is beautiful.
Tags: indieWIRE, SnagFilms.com, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Click here to read about it.
Now get the good news from Snagfilms.
Put your film on Snagfilms. We will curate it, love it, market it, sell ads against it and help you up sell DVD’s. Help you support a charity with your film. Your film will be seen by a large audience. You will get a check from us. Everyone will win. Our actions will be transparent. You can trust us.
Snagfilms.com and IndieWIRE.com. The best friends you will ever have in the documentary and any film making business.
Tags: Indie Films, indieWIRE, SnagFilms, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
It is the heart of the holiday season, the festive week of Christmas to New Year’s. It is time to reflect and be grateful for what we have and not miss what we don’t have.
Last year this time we all were feeling doom and gloom. The market was down. There were no loans to be had. People were losing jobs left and right and the aura and psychology of the market and the overall economy was really bad.
As we close on 2009, I must confess that the year was one of goodness and counter intuitive wins mixed with sadness.
I am most grateful for the health of my family and friends.
And the Washington Capitals had a magnificent twelve months on the ice and off the ice. We had a really great record. We finished last year strong and won our first playoff series in 10 years and we are now well positioned for this next year. We also sell out all of our games. We have a backlog of people awaiting season tickets. We were able to raise our prices and we have very happy customer satisfaction levels. Who would have thought we could be that successful in this economy? I am very grateful to you all.
The Washington Mystics also grew quite fast and became one of the best performing teams in the WNBA and turned their on court performance around as well as we qualified for the playoffs.
Revolution Money grew fast; built out its platform; and - as was reported in November - was acquired by American Express at a healthy return to investors. We await final approval by the government but I believe this deal will close sometime in Q1 of 2010. This was the third largest acquisition of a new media payments platform ever behind PayPal and Bill Me Later (both by eBay) so it was a big win for us all and I am very excited about helping the American Express Company in the future as we roll out this platform into a new series of great consumer beneficial products and services.
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Tags: "The Business of Happiness", 2009, Abe Pollin, American Express, Clearspring, Filmanthropy, Groupon.com, Hoop Dreams, indieWIRE, Joe Casella, John Buckley, Nanking, Revolution Money, SnagFilms, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take, Washington Capitals, Washington Mystics
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
We are very committed to developing indieWIRE to be the preeminent source of information about indie films and documentaries. We will also develop the platform that supports indieWIRE to allow other experts to blog and post and create a network of sites that celebrate the medium; review films; and cover breaking news and industry happenings.
Here is the wonderful Anne Thompson who now is hosted and supported by IndieWIRE just like newcomers Reel Geezers. Reel Geezers reviews are a treat. Check them out on SnagFilms.
Our intention is to make indieWIRE the #1 source of information about the industry.
In conjunction with SnagFilms.com, I believe we will build out the biggest and best network around this media. I believe in independent film as an art form. I am proud of our experts that also celebrate the genre and also work so hard on our behalf.
Check out indieWIRE daily. Watch films on SnagFilms.
We are building something important together here.
Tags: Anne Thompson, indieWIRE, Reel Geezers, SnagFilms, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Do you read Thompson on Hollywood? It is well done and a real insider’s POV. We are proud to be associated with Anne Thompson via our partnership with indieWIRE. Check out these
stories.
I saw Law Abiding Citizen this weekend too. I didn’t know who to root for?
Bad is good and good is bad. Revenge is sweet or not? I guess Gerard Butler is a pretty cool guy but this film made me incredulous. Let us tunnel into the jail in many places. That is plausible, isn’t it?
Big stars, big budgets, lots of things get blown up but not much makes sense. Writing is weak but the acting is pretty strong. I give the film two out of five stars.
Tags: indieWIRE, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take, Thompson on Hollywood
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
“Elitist bullshit!”
That is funny. Here is a good read.
Tags: Eugene Hernandez, indieWIRE, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
The New York Times wrote a nice piece on Anne Thompson and her move to indieWIRE. This is so great for us. Click here to check it out.
Tags: Anne Thompson, indieWIRE, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Click here to see the first installment of Anne Thompson’s blog on indieWIRE. It is still called Thompson on Hollywood. See what all of the fuss is about.
Tags: Anne Thompson, indieWIRE, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
In something of a coup, indieWIRE snags Anne Thompson to join our orbit. Anne is the well known Hollywood columnist formerly of both the Hollywood Reporter and most recently Variety. She is very well known; highly regarded; very connected; and very smart. Her blog is one that I read all of the time and it will now be seen on indieWIRE starting on Sunday evening. Enjoy it and welcome aboard Anne!
Tags: Anne Thompson, indieWIRE, SnagFilms, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
IndieWIRE turns 13 years old this week. I remember them when they were a newsletter delivered via AOL mail. Yes, I am THAT old.
Now they are the number one source of all things that celebrate indie film and documentaries. Here is a great article by Eugene Hernandez about indieWIRE and its past, present and future. Check it out by clicking here. Eugene is the most beloved editor in this field and the hardest working man in show biz!
Tags: Eugene Hernandez, Indie Films, indieWIRE, Ted Leonsis, Ted's Take
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