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In April 1995, "Global Village Idiots", an episode of the reality-based program Rox on public access cable television in Bloomington, Indiana, was uploaded to the Internet, making Rox the first series distributed via the web.{{cite magazine|author=Quittner, Josh |title= Radio Free Cyberspace |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,134084,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118173045/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,134084,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 18, 2016 |access-date=January 18, 2016|magazine= TIME|date= May 1, 1995}} The same year, Scott Zakarin created The Spot, an episodic online story which integrated photos, videos, and blogs into the storyline. Likened to Melrose Place-on-the-Web, The Spot featured a rotating cast of characters playing trendy twenty-somethings who rented rooms in a fabled Santa Monica, California beach house called "The Spot".{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-marcus/personalized-tv-why-i-made-a-gay-web-series_b_1933877.html |title='Personalized TV': Why I Made a Gay Web Series |work=The Huffington Post |first=Jon |last=Marcus |date=October 2, 2012 |access-date=March 23, 2016 |archive-date=April 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401024150/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-marcus/personalized-tv-why-i-made-a-gay-web-series_b_1933877.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|title=Web Series |url=http://www.harvesttideproductions.com/web-series/ |website=Harvest Tide Productions |date=2011 |access-date=July 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220104517/http://www.harvesttideproductions.com/web-series/ |archive-date=February 20, 2012 |url-status=usurped}} The Spot earned the title of Infoseek's "Cool Site of the Year," an award which later became the Webby.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/digitalbabylonho00john|url-access=registration|title=Digital Babylon: How the Geeks, the Suits, and the Ponytails Fought to Bring Hollywood to the Internet|last1=Geirland|first1=John|last2=Kedar|first2=Eva Sonesh|date=1999|publisher=Arcade Publishing|isbn=9781559704830|language=en}}{{cite news|last1=Gentile|first1=Gary|title=Ads Turning Up in 'LonelyGirl15'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032801757_pf.html|access-date=August 8, 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 28, 2007|archive-date=August 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812170327/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032801757_pf.html|url-status=live}}

In January 1999, Showtime licensed the animated sci-fi web series WhirlGirl, making it the first independently produced web series licensed by a national television network. In February 1999, the series premiered simultaneously on Showtime and online. {{cite news|author=Kipp Cheng|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BDW/is_11_40/ai_54148182/|title=It's Showtime – WhirlGirl|work=Brandweek|date=March 15, 2009|access-date=March 29, 2021|archive-date=July 31, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731154539/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BDW/is_11_40/ai_54148182|url-status=live}} The character occasionally appeared on Showtime, for example hosting a "Lethal Ladies" programming block, but spent most of her time online, appearing in 100 webisodes.Richard Tedesco, [http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/138040-WhirlGirl_seeks_big_TV_break.php "WhirlGirl seeks big TV break"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731111241/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/138040-WhirlGirl_seeks_big_TV_break.php |date=July 31, 2012 }}, Broadcasting & Cable, March 22, 2001

As broadband bandwidth began to increase in speed and availability, delivering high-quality video over the Internet became a reality. In the early 2000s, the Japanese anime industry began broadcasting original net animation (ONA), a type of original video animation (OVA) series, on the Internet.{{cite web |title=Original Net Anime (ONA) |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=37 |website=Anime News Network |access-date=December 19, 2019 |archive-date=October 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002014105/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=37 |url-status=live }} Early examples of ONA series include Infinite Ryvius: Illusion (2000),{{cite web |title=リヴァイアスイリュージョン その |url=http://www.ryvius.jp/index.php?m=illusion |website=Infinite Ryvius (Official Site) |publisher=TV Tokyo |access-date=December 19, 2019 |language=ja |archive-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025001425/http://www.ryvius.jp/index.php?m=illusion |url-status=live }} Ajimu (2001),{{cite web |title=Ajimu (Official Site) |url=http://www.nifty.com/ajimu/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010815184002/http://www.nifty.com/ajimu/ |website=Nifty Corporation |access-date=December 19, 2019 |archive-date=August 15, 2001 |url-status=dead |language=ja }} and Mahou Yuugi (2001).

In 2003, Microsoft launched MSN Video, offering NBC-related content.{{cite web|last1=Berniker |first1=Mark |title=Microsoft Debuts Free MSN Video Service |url=https://www.internetnews.com/small-business/microsoft-debuts-free-msn-video-service/ |website=InternetNews |publisher=TechnologyAdvice |date=October 14, 2003 |access-date=19 January 2025}}{{cite magazine|title=MSN Streaming NBC, MSNBC Video |url=https://www.forbes.com/2003/12/10/1210msnvideopinnacor_ii.html |magazine=Forbes |date=December 10, 2003 |access-date=19 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031213113526/https://www.forbes.com/2003/12/10/1210msnvideopinnacor_ii.html |archive-date=December 13, 2003}} Its web series Weird TV 2000, a spin-off of the syndicated television series Weird TV, featured dozens of shorts, comedy sketches, and mini-documentaries produced exclusively for MSN Video. The video-sharing site YouTube was launched in early 2005, allowing users to share television programs.Waterman, D., Sherman, R., & Ji, S. W. (2013). The economics of online television: Industry development, aggregation, and “TV Everywhere”. Telecommunications Policy, 37(9), 725–736. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim said the inspiration for YouTube first came from Janet Jackson's role in the 2004 Super Bowl incident, when her breast was exposed during her performance, and later from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, which led to the idea of a video sharing site.{{cite web |first=Jim |last=Hopkins |title=Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-11-youtube-karim_x.htm |website=USA Today |publisher=Gannett Company |date=October 11, 2006 |access-date=March 26, 2017 |archive-date=August 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805161152/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-11-youtube-karim_x.htm |url-status=live }}

From 2003 to 2006, many independent web series began to garner and achieve significant popularity, most notably the science fiction series known as Red vs. Blue by Rooster Teeth. The series was distributed independently using online portals YouTube and Revver, as well as the Rooster Teeth website, acquiring over 100 million social media views during its run. (Rooster Teeth would eventually create computer-animated web series RWBY in 2013.) In 2004, adult animated series Salad Fingers was created, which amassed a cult following. The comedy series The Burg, hailed as the internet's first sitcom and starring Kelli Giddish and Lindsey Broad, rapidly gained an audience and notice from the press before its creators signed a creation deal with Michael Eisner. The drama Sam Has 7 Friends, which ran in the summer and fall of 2006, was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, and was temporarily removed from the Internet when it was also acquired by Eisner.{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2007-03-11-eisner-vuguru-promqueen_N.htm | title=Eisner to take on the Internet | date=March 11, 2007 | work=USA Today | access-date=March 11, 2007 | first=David | last=Lieberman | archive-date=March 14, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314182728/http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/2007-03-11-eisner-vuguru-promqueen_N.htm | url-status=live }} In 2004–2005, Spanish producer Pedro Alonso Pablos recorded a series of video interviews featuring actors and directors such as Guillermo del Toro, Santiago Segura, Álex de la Iglesia, and Keanu Reeves, which were distributed through his own website.{{cite web|url=https://www.filmin.es/director/pedro-alonso-pablos|title=Pedro Alonso Pablos' biography on Filmin.es|access-date=October 19, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022145735/https://www.filmin.es/director/pedro-alonso-pablos|archive-date=October 22, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://elcorso.es/pequenos-grandes-creadores-pedro-alonso-pablos-y-la-animacion/|title=Article on Elcorso.es|access-date=October 19, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118173046/http://elcorso.es/pequenos-grandes-creadores-pedro-alonso-pablos-y-la-animacion/|archive-date=January 18, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.visioncineytv.es/2014/09/estreno-en-filmin-de-la-serie-de-animacion-cuentos-del-mundo-de-pedro-alonso-pablos/|title=Article on Visioncineytv.es|access-date=October 19, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025083628/http://www.visioncineytv.es/2014/09/estreno-en-filmin-de-la-serie-de-animacion-cuentos-del-mundo-de-pedro-alonso-pablos/|archive-date=October 25, 2014}} lonelygirl15, California Heaven, "The Burg", and SamHas7Friends also gained popularity during this time, acquiring audiences in the millions. (Science fiction thriller lonelygirl15 was so successful that it secured a sponsorship deal with Neutrogena in 2007.){{cite magazine|last1=Graser |first1=Marc |title='Lonelygirl15' cozies up to promo deal |url=https://variety.com/2007/digital/features/lonelygirl15-cozies-up-to-promo-deal-1117967249/ |magazine=Variety |date=June 19, 2007 |access-date=June 19, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712032125/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117967249.html?categoryid=18&cs=1&nid=2562 |archive-date=July 12, 2007}}

In 2004, Stewart St. John, executive producer and head writer of 1990s webisodics The Spot, revived the brand for online audiences as The Spot (2.0), with a new cast, and as a separate soap opera on Sprint PCS Vision-enabled cell phones, creating the first American mobile phone series.{{cite web|title=Reality TV Meets the Mobile World: The Spot Available to Sprint PCS Vision(SM) Customers |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/reality-tv-meets-the-mobile-world-the-spot-available-to-sprint-pcs-visionsm-customers-74017227.html |publisher=PR Newswire |date=May 13, 2004 |access-date=July 2, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702045143/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/reality-tv-meets-the-mobile-world-the-spot-available-to-sprint-pcs-visionsm-customers-74017227.html |archive-date=July 2, 2013 }}{{cite news|last1=Colker |first1=David |title=For the Young, Restless and Mobile, Sprint Offers Drama |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-29-fi-phonetv29-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 29, 2004 |access-date=19 January 2025}} St. John and partner Todd Fisher produced over 2,500 daily videos of the mobile soap, driving story lines across platforms to its web counterpart.

In 2007, the creators of lonelygirl15 followed up the series' success with KateModern, a comedy-drama series that debuted on social network Bebo, and took place in the same fictional universe as their previous show.{{cite news|last1=Sweney |first1=Mark |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2007/nov/29/katemoderntakesoffwithvirg |title=KateModern takes off with Virgin Atlantic |work=The Guardian |date=29 November 2007}} Big Fantastic created and produced the soap opera Prom Queen, financed and distributed by Michael Eisner’s production firm Vuguru, and debuted the series on MySpace.{{cite magazine|last=Shields |first=Mike |url=http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003579095 |title=Eisner's 'Prom' Seeing Web Success |date=May 1, 2007 |magazine=MediaWeek |access-date=May 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070504012418/http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003579095 |archive-date=May 4, 2007 |url-status=dead}} Vuguru partnered with Mark Cuban's channel HDNet to release All-for-nots, a mockumentary series by The Burg creators Kathleen Grace and Thom Woodley, which debuted at the SXSW Festival in 2008.{{citation needed|date=March 2025}} These web series highlighted interactivity with the audience in addition to the narrative on relatively low budgets. In contrast, the eight-webisode series Sanctuary, starring actor/producer Amanda Tapping, cost $4.3 Million to produce. Both Sanctuary and Prom Queen were nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award.{{cite news | url=https://variety.com/2007/digital/awards/acad-announces-broadband-noms-1117966107/ | title=Acad announces broadband noms | date=May 31, 2007 | work=Variety | access-date=May 31, 2007 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105052536/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117966107.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2562 | archive-date=January 5, 2009 }} Award-winning producer/director Marshall Herskovitz created the drama Quarterlife, which debuted on MySpace and was later distributed on NBC.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/business/media/13quarterlife.html| title=Show Series to Originate on MySpace| last=Cieply| first=Michael| date=September 13, 2007| work=The New York Times| access-date=February 24, 2012| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516035615/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/business/media/13quarterlife.html| archive-date=May 16, 2012}}

In 2008, major television studios began releasing web series, such as the ABC comedy show Squeegies, the NBC sci-fi show Gemini Division,{{cite news | url=https://www.lanet.ua/tariffs/ | title=Интернет+ТВ в Киеве: онлайн-телевидение, интерактивное телевидение от провайдера Ланет | date=November 7, 2018 | work=The New York Times | access-date=November 7, 2018 | archive-date=November 7, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107145615/https://www.lanet.ua/tariffs/ | url-status=live }} and the Bravo reality series The Malan Show.[http://www.bravotv.com/The_Malan_Show/index.php The Malan Show Bravo TV Index] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219205111/http://www.bravotv.com/The_Malan_Show/index.php |date=December 19, 2008 }}{{cite web |author=Malan Breton Collection |url=http://www.malanbreton.com/themalanshow.html |title=themalanshow |publisher=Malanbreton.com |access-date=October 18, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929153943/http://www.malanbreton.com/themalanshow.html |archive-date=September 29, 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.bravotv.com/project-runway/blogs/where-are-they-now/malan-breton?page=0,1|title=Malan Breton|work=Bravo TV Official Site|access-date=May 22, 2014|archive-date=May 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522051851/http://www.bravotv.com/project-runway/blogs/where-are-they-now/malan-breton?page=0,1|url-status=live}} Warner Bros. relaunched The WB as an online network beginning with original mystery web series, Sorority Forever, created and produced by Big Fantastic and executive produced by McG.{{cite news | url=https://variety.com/2008/digital/features/thewb-com-set-for-aug-27-launch-1117990615/ | title=TheWB.com set for Aug. 27 launch | date=August 15, 2008 | work=Variety | access-date=August 15, 2008 | first=Diane | last=Garrett | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821034826/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990615.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 | archive-date=August 21, 2008 }} Meanwhile, MTV announced a new original web series created by Craig Brewer, $5 Cover, that brought together the indie music world and new media expansion. Joss Whedon created, produced and self-financed{{cite news | url=http://news.tubefilter.tv/2008/07/23/dr-horrible-could-bank-26-million-even-before-dvds-2/ | title='Dr. Horrible' Could Bank $2.6 Million Even Before DVDs | date=July 23, 2008 | work=Tubefilter News | access-date=November 5, 2008 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126105837/http://news.tubefilter.tv/2008/07/23/dr-horrible-could-bank-26-million-even-before-dvds-2/ | archive-date=January 26, 2009 }} musical comedy-drama Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog starring Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008-08-24/magazine/24wwln-medium-t.html | title=Web Serial Killers | date=August 22, 2008 | work=The New York Times | access-date=August 22, 2008}} {{Dead link|date=August 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}} Big Fantastic wrote and produced Foreign Body, a mystery web series that served as a prequel to Robin Cook's novel of the same name.{{cite news | url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/01252008/business/digital_dreamers_411773.htm | title=Digital dreamers | date=January 25, 2008 | work=New York Post | access-date=January 25, 2008 | first=Peter | last=Lauria | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128114415/http://www.nypost.com/seven/01252008/business/digital_dreamers_411773.htm | archive-date=January 28, 2008 }} Beckett and Goodfried founded a new Internet studio, EQAL, and produced a spin-off from lonelygirl15 titled LG15: The Resistance.{{cite magazine | url=http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/08/qa-lonelygirl15.html | title=Lonelygirl15 Team Launches Sci-Fi Resistance | date=August 27, 2008 | magazine=Wired | access-date=August 27, 2008 | url-status=live | archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20111029102337/http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/08/qa-lonelygirl15.html | archive-date=October 29, 2011 }}

Mainstream press began to provide coverage.{{cite news | url=http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2009/09/web-tv-guide.html | title=The Web TV Guide | date=September 2009 | work=Brand X | publisher=Los Angeles Times | access-date=September 28, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002220506/http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2009/09/web-tv-guide.html | archive-date=October 2, 2009 }} In the United Kingdom, KateModern ended its run on Bebo. Bebo also hosted a six-month-long reality travel show, The Gap Year, produced by Endemol UK,{{cite magazine|last1=Esposito |first1=Maria |title=Bebo joins with Endemol for online reality show |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/bebo-joins-endemol-online-reality-show/763887 |magazine=Campaign |date=October 31, 2007 |access-date=19 January 2025}} which also made interactive sci-fi drama Kirill for MSN.{{cite news|last1=Kiss |first1=Jemima |title=MSN launches interactive online sci-fi drama |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/oct/30/digitalmedia-television |work=The Guardian |date=30 October 2008 |access-date=19 January 2025}}

During MIPCOM in October 2008, MySpace announced plans for a second series and indicated that it was in talks with Australian cable network Foxtel to distribute their first series on network television. Additionally, MySpace spoke of their plans to produce versions of the MySpace Road Tour reality series in other countries.[http://www.digital-media.net.au/Article/FOXTEL-HITCHES-RIDE-ON-MYSPACE-ROAD-TOUR-CO-PRODUCTION/428311.aspx FOXTEL HITCHES RIDE ON MYSPACE ROAD TOUR CO-PRODUCTION] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023163812/http://www.digital-media.net.au/Article/FOXTEL-HITCHES-RIDE-ON-MYSPACE-ROAD-TOUR-CO-PRODUCTION/428311.aspx |date=October 23, 2008 }}, Digital Media Australia, Natalie Apostolou, Friday October 17, 2008. The emerging potential for success in web video caught the attention of top entertainment executives in America, including former Disney executive Michael Eisner, head of the Tornante Company at the time. Torante's Vuguru subdivision partnered with Canadian media conglomerate Rogers Media on October 26, securing plans to produce upwards of 30 new web shows a year. Rogers Media agreed to help fund and distribute Vuguru's upcoming productions, thereby solidifying a connection between old and new media.{{cite magazine|last1=Littleton |first1=Cynthia |title=Eisner cuts deal for Web shows |url=https://variety.com/2009/digital/markets-festivals/eisner-cuts-deal-for-web-shows-1118010383/ |magazine=Variety |date=October 26, 2009}}

In 2009, the first web series festival was established, named the Los Angeles Web Series Festival.{{Cite web|title=Welcome To LAWEBFEST 2016|url=http://www.lawebfest.com/|website=www.lawebfest.com|access-date=February 19, 2016|archive-date=February 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207003314/http://lawebfest.com/|url-status=dead}}

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The rise in popularity of mobile Internet video, along with technological improvements to storage, bandwidth, and bitrates, led to the erasure of accessibility and affordability barriers. This meant that high-speed broadband and streaming video capabilities for producing and distributing a web series became a feasible alternative to "traditional" series production, which was formerly mostly done for broadcast and cable television. In comparison with traditional TV series production, web series are typically less expensive to produce. This has allowed a wider range of creators to develop web series. As well, since web series are made available online, instead of being aired at a single preset time to specific regions, they enable producers to reach a potentially global audience who can access the shows 24 hours a day and seven days a week, at the time of their choosing. Moreover, in the 2010s, the rising affordability of tablets and smartphones and the rising ownership rates of these devices in industrialized nations means that web series are available to a wider range of potential viewers, including commuters, travelers, and other people who are on the go.

The emerging potential for success in web video has caught the eye of some of the top entertainment executives in America, including former Disney executive and current head of the Tornante Company, Michael Eisner. Eisner's Vuguru subdivision of Tornante partnered with Canadian media conglomerate Rogers Media on October 26, 2009, securing plans to produce over 30 new web shows a year. Rogers Media will help fund and distribute Vuguru's upcoming productions, solidifying a connection between traditional media and new media such as web series. Web series can be distributed directly from the producers' websites, through streaming services or via online video sharing websites .{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/diegodario/docs/webseries |title=WEBSERIES by Diego Lopez |date=April 18, 2010 |publisher=ISSUU |access-date=July 2, 2013 |archive-date=March 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330145431/https://issuu.com/diegodario/docs/webseries |url-status=live }}

The Webby Awards, established in 1996 by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS),{{cite web|title=About The Webby Awards |url=https://www.webbyawards.com/about/ |website=Webby Awards |date=2021 }} and the Indie Series Awards, established in 2009 by We Love Soaps,{{cite web|title=About The Indie Series Awards |url=https://www.indieseriesawards.com/p/about-indie-series-awards.html |website=Indie Series Awards |date=2019 }} recognize independently produced comedy, drama, and reality TV entertainment created for the web. In 2009, the International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) was founded with the mission to support and recognize artistic and technological achievements in the digital entertainment industry.{{cite web|title=Background |url=http://www.iawtv.org/about/ |website=International Academy of Web Television |date=2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221160001/http://www.iawtv.org/about/ |archive-date=December 21, 2019 |url-status=dead}} It administered the selection of winners for the Streamy Awards, (which awards web series content) in 2009 and 2010.{{cite web|last1=Russo |first1=Maria |title=Watch Out, Emmys, Here Come the Streamys |url=https://www.thewrap.com/watch-out-emmys-here-come-streamys-1882/ |website=TheWrap |date=March 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016225228/https://www.thewrap.com/watch-out-emmys-here-come-streamys-1882/ |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|last1=Hart |first1=Hugh |title=Streamy Awards Hype Hot Web Stars |url=https://www.wired.com/2010/04/streamy-awards-hype-hot-web-stars/ |magazine=Wired |date=April 12, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306030700/https://www.wired.com/2010/04/streamy-awards-hype-hot-web-stars/ |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |url-status=live}} Due to the poor reception and execution of the 2010 Streamy Awards, IAWTV decided to halt its production of the award ceremony.{{cite web|last1=Christian |first1=Aymar Jean |title=On Giving the Streamys (and the IAWTV) a Chance |url=http://tvisual.org/2012/12/17/on-giving-the-streamys-and-the-iawtv-a-chance/ |website=Televisual |date=December 17, 2012 |access-date=October 23, 2013 |archive-date=October 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215539/http://tvisual.org/2012/12/17/on-giving-the-streamys-and-the-iawtv-a-chance/ |url-status=dead }} The IAWTV followed this decision by forming the IAWTV Awards (which recognize creators, cast, and crew of short form digital series from around the world) in 2012.{{cite web|title=About IAWTV |url=https://www.iawtvawards.com/about |website=International Academy of Web Television |date=2021}}

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• Podcast
• International Emmy Award for Best Short-Form Series
• Los Angeles Web Series Festival
• Melbourne WebFest
• Vancouver Web Series Festival
• Channel 101
• Shorty Awards
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• {{cite web|last1=Bedard |first1=Mike |title=How to Make a Web Series: A Filmmaker's Guide in 4 Steps |url=https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/how-to-make-a-web-series/ |website=StudioBinder |date=June 21, 2020}}
• {{cite magazine|last1=Hendrickson |first1=Paula |title=Short Form Content Attracts Big Interest From Production Houses |url=https://variety.com/2017/digital/spotlight/buzzfeed-conde-nast-super-deluxe-1202465201/ |magazine=Variety |date=June 16, 2017}}
• {{cite web|last1=Kendricken |first1=Dave |title=Unprecedented Cost Breakdown for the $600K Web Series 'Video Game High School' |url=https://nofilmschool.com/2012/12/cost-breakdown-web-series-video-game-high-school |website=No Film School |date=December 20, 2012}}
• {{cite web|last1=Kerrigan |first1=Anna |title=10 Reasons You Should Make a Web Series (Instead of an Indie Film) |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/10-reasons-you-should-make-a-web-series-instead-of-an-indie-film-62093/ |website=IndieWire |date=May 13, 2015}}
• {{cite web|last1=Lee |first1=Dami |title=Web series gets nominated for Emmy, makes fun of other Emmy nominees |url=https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2016/8/9/12411938/honest-trailers-2016-emmy-nominations-youtube |website=The Verge |date=August 9, 2016}}
• {{cite web|last1=Pond |first1=Steve |title=Emmys Short Form Categories Take a Big Hit From New Screening Panels |url=https://www.thewrap.com/emmys-short-form-categories-take-a-big-hit-from-new-screening-panels/ |website=TheWrap |date=June 10, 2019}}
• {{cite magazine|last1=Yang |first1=Zeyi |title=China's next cultural export could be TikTok-style short soap operas |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/27/1088980/chinese-short-drama-tiktok-flextv/ |magazine=MIT Technology Review |date=February 27, 2024}}

• [https://snobbyrobot.com/ Snobby Robot] (magazine for web series creators)
• {{cite magazine|title=The Essential Guide to Webfests |url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/74875-the-essential-guide-to-webfests/ |magazine=Filmmaker |date=2013}}

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