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What is Blip TV?

• Blip is a media platform for web series. It also offers a place for producers of original web series to distribute their productions. The company was founded on May 5, 2005 by Justin Day, Mike Hudack and Dina Kaplan. It’s located in New York City and Los Angeles.

• Since launching in 2005, Blip has evolved into the largest independently-owned and operated digital video platform in the world and attracts over 30 million viewers each month.

• They offer a wide variety of shows such as drama, comedy, arts, sports, tech and many more to choose from.

• Blip helps independent producers around the world who are producing their own original series from using Blip tools, to showcase and distribute them across the web.

This is Blip TV's web page, it is colour matched and arrange professionally and neatly each for the viewers and editors to be able to access in which they want to.

Editors picks, trending now and new episodes are categorized with web series so the viewer can choose where they want to go making them easier to find.

Each category is outlines and you are able to browse by leading on from the link.

Why is it good? - - Blip is free for viewers and producers. -Blip.tv practically supports all possible video formats including the popular Flash Video (flv) format which

offers better compression while maintaining the video quality. -Blip.tv provides detailed stats about your videos including how visitors found your video, what format they

preferred and where did they watch it. They’re also able to see reviews from the people watching their series, this is useful feedback they can gather and work upon as opposed to if it was released on ITV or BBC as they wouldn’t receive anything back after they have viewed it.

-Blip is designed for original web series. Web series must release new episodes on a regular basis, have a particular audience or subject matter focus, and share a common format from episode to episode.

-It’s available to be seen when you want and where you want, its not like TV shows where you have to wait for the specific day and time when it is shown on TV, this allows more viewers to be interested in watching it as they can when it suits them.

-They must be short, to keep the viewer interested and not reeled in to doing something else on the web as they get bored.

-Blip is available on Android phones and tablets, Apple iPhones and iPads, the Amazon Kindle Fire, Google TV and the Xbox 360.

What are the requirements?

-Blip TV require a high standard of work before the editor considers to make it visible to the public. -It has to be a original web series, unlike YouTube which allows any type of video to be uploaded. -The audio and quality must be clear to improve the quality of the work overall. -On the site, each show page is encouraged to have a show poster, header graphic and website banner. -All revenue from advertising is split 50/50 between content producers and Blip. -Blip collects personal information about you whenever you access the Website, browse and view Content,

request information or materials, participate in Activities, post Submissions or transact business with Blip Entities.