Hiscox presents Leap Year, an award-winning original series about the founders of Silicon Valley's hottest tech startup. Season premiere June 18th on Hulu and Hulu Plus. ]]>Mashable Executive Editor Adam Ostrow interviews Wilson Cleveland and Hunter Hoffman of Hiscox on why the company made the unorthodox decision to launch Leap Year, a scripted web video series, and how they made it a smash hit.
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We're thrilled to announce both The Temp Life and Suite 7 have been named official honorees by the 16th Annual Webby Awards! The Temp Life (season 5) is an honoree for Comedy: Longform or Series and Suite 7 for Individual Performance: Shannen Doherty. Here's a look at the work being recognized and many thanks to the Webbys for the honor!
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Hunter Hoffmann from Hiscox and CJP's Wilson ClevelandWe're thrilled to announce that NATPE (National Association of Television Programming Executives) has awarded Leap Year, the scripted original comedy we produced with Happy Little Guillotine for Hiscox Small Business Insurance with its 2012 Digital Luminary in the branded entertainment category, which recognizes excellence in an original online video series that is funded primarily through a brand sponsor. Other 2012 Digital Luminary recipients include NASA, Yahoo!, Charlie Todd and the original series Aim High 9Cambio) and Wainy Days (My Damn Channel).
Recipients in categories ranging from Branded Entertainment Series to Online Video Personality will be honored during an awards presentation hosted by our friend Alex Albrecht at noon on Wed, Jan. 25 during NATPE 2012 in Miami. The event will also be streamed live at www.natpemarket.com/digilumi.
Read the entire NATPE announcement here.
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Congratulations to writer Susan Miller, winner of iThentic's Golden Play for Best Writing: Drama for the Suite 7 episode: Good in Bed, starring Jaime Murray and Eddie McClintock and directed by our pal Mark Gantt.
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From a guest post written by CJP Digital Founder, Wilson Cleveland for Tubefilter News.
"Make no mistake my friends, 2011 will be remembered as the year sh*t got real in online video. This year the bastions of web video, no longer satisfied with “digital dollars,” made some of their boldest grabs yet at television’s multi-billion dollar advertising business by emulating the look, feel and business of…television. Welcome to progress."
Read the full post here.
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We're thrilled to announce Leap Year, the startup comedy series we produced for Hiscox Small Business Insurance has received 2 IAWTV Award nominations for Best Male and Best Female Performance (Comedy) for Yuri Baranovsky (Aaron) and Alexis Boozer (Bryn). Congrats to ALL of this year's nominees! Check out this episode from Leap Year season 1:
]]>“I think the ‘web series’ concept has evolved from being a type of entertainment that was ‘platform specific’ to one that’s ‘platform agnostic,’” Cleveland said. “The evolution of digital technology has been the most significant change agent in the evolution of the ‘web series’ simply because the delivery platforms have changed.” Cleveland’s Hiscox-branded comedy Leap Year, for example, was distributed via Hulu Plus, and was thus watchable across all platforms, including television.
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