Jake Hurwitz

Serious Business? CollegeHumor Tries Selling Web Video.

Peter Kafka in Media on October 11, 2011 at 9:02 am PT

Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld are Web stars. But the fans who watch their videos on CollegeHumor don’t pay to watch them. Time to see what happens when they charge for their stuff.

Will a Web Video Star Shine at Sundance?

Peter Kafka in Media on December 7, 2009 at 2:55 pm PT

The next wave of media stars is supposed to rise up from the Web, but so far, examples have been few and far between (how’s that Fred movie coming along, by the way?). But here’s another Internet success trying to make the leap into the big time, which is still, like it or not, defined by traditional media outlets: Next New Network host Bobby Miller, who is going to try to dazzle the judges at the Sundance Film Festival.

Why Online Video Ads Still Don’t Work

Peter Kafka in Media on May 15, 2009 at 2:12 pm PT

From the funny-and-true! department: A biting clip from the dudes at College Humor satirizing the lousy ad options and mind-numbing ad jargon that dominate the online video business.