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Going Viral

Over the past decade, the advent of online video hosting and social media has opened up the potential for anybody to reach an audience in the millions. But effectively engaging with a viewership with ever-changing tastes, moods and attention spans remains an incredibly difficult process. So what works when trying to reach the online world? And perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t?

We’ve had a long and exciting engagement with the online community across a variety of platforms for the past decade, beginning with a little short film that went viral across the world to a crowd-funding campaign that was featured in TIME Magazine and lead to a development deal with 20th Century Fox in the USA – all from our offices here in Melbourne. As I discuss in an interview here, all you need is a good idea, a clear message, the right means of delivering it to your audience, and a dash of good fortune and timing.

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Crowd-funding, Social Media and the Online Audience – What We’ve Learned

When we began writing a light-hearted comedy script called The Weatherman, we had no idea it would lead us headlong into the world of crowd-funding campaigns, social media awareness and online audience engagement. But a couple of years later, and after raising $80,000 from a global online viewership for what would become the World’s First Crowdfunded Television Series, it’s fair to say we’ve learned a thing or two along the way.

We never intended to crowdfund our show. The very idea seemed preposterous – who on earth would fund a project of this scale with nothing but philanthropic intention? But when we met with Aubrey Levy of Mobcaster at the screening of our self-funded pilot of The Weatherman at the New York Television Festival in 2011, he believed the time had come for just such a crazy idea. In fact, he’d built an entire platform around it.

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