CNN Acquires Social-Video Startup Beme, Co-Founded By YouTube Star Casey Neistat (variety.com) 62
CNN announced Monday that it has purchased video-sharing app Beme, and will work with its founder, Casey Neistat, to build a new media brand next year focused on storytelling for a younger audience. Casey Neistat is a YouTube celebrity and tech entrepreneur who launched Beme last year. Variety reports: CNN said the new venture that it's forming out of the acquisition -- aimed at reaching millennial viewers with the street cred of Neistat's reporting and commentary -- will launch in the summer of 2017. All 11 of Beme's employees will join CNN; the cable news network will be shutting down Beme, which had garnered more than 1 million downloads. New York-based filmmaker Neistat, who has more than 5.8 million subscribers on YouTube, announced earlier this month on his channel that he would be suspending his personal vlog to focus on new projects, one of which turns out is the pact with CNN. His daily vlog dispatches cover current political and news events as well as action sequences like his viral "Snowboarding With the NYPD" video last winter. Led by Hackett, formerly VP of engineering at Yahoo's Tumblr, Beme's development team will "build technology to enable the new company and also develop mobile video capabilities for CNN's portfolio of digital properties," according to the Turner-owned cable news network. Neistat, 35, will lead the new venture's "editorial vision" as executive producer. CNN said it will employ its global resources to launch the new media brand, and plans to hire dozens of producers, builders, developers, designers and content creators for the new company. CNN said the new Beme-based company will operate as a standalone business under the CNN Digital umbrella.
Star Casey Netstat (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know if Casey Netstat is really a star but his netstat program sure came handy to me many times.
https://linux.die.net/man/8/ne... [die.net]
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I don't know if Casey Netstat is really a star but his netstat program sure came handy to me many times.
https://linux.die.net/man/8/ne... [die.net]
Guessing this was a veiled dig on the lack of News for Nerds here, but it's Casey Neistat.
As far as the "celebrity" moniker, I'd award that to the netstat author any day over some guy who likes to pimp his life for clicks.
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I'd award that to the netstat author any day over...
Read the fine link (RTFL) provided in my OP, there was many contributors...
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You have a typo - your post should read:
Fake news channel works together with youtube "celebrity."
What the fuck is a "YouTube Star" anyway?
Focusing on Storytelling (Score:2)
Well, CNN is already really good at telling stories to an audience of millennials who live in fantasyland, so this should be a raging success for them.
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Well, CNN is already really good at telling stories to an audience of millennials who live in fantasyland, so this should be a raging success for them.
Very true. I fully expect an army of Kardashians filling news anchor positions very soon.
Of course, religion will be covered by Yeezus himself...
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It's a bit like why Obama didn't release his birth certificate. Sure it would have stopped the crazies (well some of them) from carrying on about it, but they would have just found something else to complain about and they looked really stupid to everyone else.
If you want to go after Trump, do so on policy, because he doesn't really hav
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It kinda seems to me that it has already happened. The news anchors are such drama queens. And then they waste everybodys time by airing crazy bitches like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
It's a freak show already, why would I want to get cable TV again?
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Umm, CNN is the reason that Millennials stayed home instead of voting for Hillary. CNN trashed Bernie throughout the entire campaign with lies and deception at the behest of the Clinton campaign. Unfortunately Millennials will believe anything they are told by "reputable" left-leaning journalism outfits like CNN.
You think I'm for Trump, and you're mistaken. Trump terrifies me, like he should terrify the legions of mouth-breathers who put him into office.
You are foolish to think that anyone who doesn't toe y
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Umm, CNN is the reason that Millennials stayed home instead of voting for Hillary. CNN trashed Bernie throughout the entire campaign with lies and deception at the behest of the Clinton campaign. Unfortunately Millennials will believe anything they are told by "reputable" left-leaning journalism outfits like CNN.
Hahaha! That's a very interesting rationalization you have there. The only part of it that makes sense is that yeah, a lot of millennials, after voting for Bernie in the primary despite all the lopsidedness in the lizard person moon matrix media, did stay home or else wrote in Bernie (or Vermin Supreme).
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I've never heard of these people. Are they supposed to be important or contributing to society in any way?
After all, every time we hear about a new mission to Mars or somewhere in space someone always asks why we're "wasting" money on research and discovery rather than poverty (which has always existed) or some fantasy about "curing" cancer.
Re:pump the brakes, CNN (Score:5, Interesting)
They probably acquired his company because of the political pull that he has; he convinced hundreds/thousands of other youtubers to publicly endorse Hillary on their channels.
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I spent about two months trying to figure out how to tell the suggestion service on Android TV that I was not interested in his crap. I still don't know how he got into my rotation and I'm still not sure why he was finally removed. But it's good to know that CNN is going to inflict him on a whole generation; I feel like my pain should be shared.
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Well then tell his viewers that because he's making massive cash based on people viewing his videos. There are way too many to just be "elitist pricks". The kids love him.
Keep in mind that millenials are not really the force behind youtube views. The main force is little kids 12 and under. These kids no longer watch TV or play video games or do anything other than watch content on YouTube. I'm exaggerating a bit but seriously if you have kids this age you understand what I'm talking about. If you let them t
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You must not have actually watched many of his videos. The guy came from nothing, had a kid at like 18. With no money moved to NYC on whim and made it. He is a very motivating personality.
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The AC you replied to stated a fact.
You're the homophobic bigot who assumed Casey's gender and interpreted it as an insult.
I saw it as a compliment.
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Who thinks that the news channels have any integrity left? People over 60?
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They remember lots of things that never happened.
Likely CNN paid $1 for app and $24,999,999 for him (Score:2)