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Web television


Web television (also web series) is original television content produced for broadcast via the World Wide Web. (The phrase "web television" is also sometimes used to refer to Internet television in general, which includes Internet-transmission of programs produced for both online and traditional terrestrial, cable, or satellite broadcast.)

Web television content includes web series such as Red vs. Blue (2003–present), Husbands (2011–present), The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012–present), Video Game High School (2012–present), Carmilla (2014–present), and Teenagers (2014–present), among hundreds of others; original miniseries such as Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008); animated shorts such as those of Homestar Runner; and exclusive video content that supplements conventional television broadcasts. The current major distributors of web television are Amazon.com, Blip.tv, Crackle, Hulu, Netflix, Newgrounds, Roku, and YouTube. Examples of web television production companies include: Generate LA-NY, Next New Networks, Revision3, and Vuguru.


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