Day 3: On funny angry vloggers and exclusive online content

The last couple of days I watched ”real” online video, that is to say: audiovisual content made for the Web. Most of it is (semi-)professionally produced and most of it is really really funny.  Let’s start with the vloggers and “one man shows”.

First up is a golden oldie: The Show with ZeFrank. To me below is the best episode since I take an Austrian Arrows flight regularly:

Another vlogger, Loren Feldman, is a very angry but oh so funny guy. See what he has to say about Ze Frank:

I will get back to Loren Feldman when I will talk about Seesmic, the video start-up by Loïc le Meur.

In a different league is VBS.tv, from the people behind Vice magazine. VBS.tv is a videosite with only original and exclusive material. They produce high quality content, but with Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) as creative director this can be expected. The guys behing the channel are also the people behind the magazine and the tone of voice is exactly the same: underground, global, cultural, edgy and young. in Europe we have Arte on television, this is Arte online for a younger audience. One of their best productions, Heavy Metal in Bagdad, was turned into a “real” film and premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. Check it out:

Okay, back to the funny stuff. Current TV is also one of my favorites, although I liked the old lay-out of the site better. Since I work for a magazine publishing company, I sure liked InfoMania’s “we’ve got you covered”. The model behind Current is still brilliant: get (semi-)professional content in through the site, share revenues and broadcast the best watched online content on TV. They’ve expanded to the UK and Ireland. How about the rest of Europe?

That’s it for today. Next post will be about recent start-ups like Hulu, Seesmic and Kyte.