If you’re on or dabbling with Snapchat these days, here’s a nice little opportunity for you.
Snap is looking to produce 10 different short form comedy series that feature 3-5 min. episodes to feature on Snapchat. Those picked from submissions will get $20K to make the 10 episodes.
If you’re into it, you can find out more details and submit here.
Snapchat Wants to Get Into Original Programming By End of This Year
It was only a week ago that Apple announced that they’d be spending $1 billion on original content.
Now, Snapchat wants to push forward with their own slate of original programming that doesn’t necessarily seek to replace TV with short form content, but, rather, compliment it.
Details on what exactly that might look like have yet to be released, but 2018 seems like it’ll have more for you to watch than the tons and tons and tons and tons of content currently available to watch/listen to.
(via Deadline)
Looks like Snapchat isn’t going away anytime soon with Comedy Central renewing four exclusively Snapchat based series and adding nine on top of that.
Already, Comedy Central has these series on the booming social media platform Snapchat:
Quickie with Nikki Glaser
Swag-a-Saurus with James Davis
Like It with Liza Treyger
Hot Takes with Brandon Wardell
They’re renewing all of those and then adding:
–Ian Abramson’s brilliant 7 Mins in Purgatory where comedians perform in an isolated room that has a camera feed shown to a live audience that the comedians can’t hear
-The animated Animal-Lolz which has Joe Zimmerman presenting animal facts
-Animated reenactments of Bert Kreischer’s dreams with Bert’s Dreams
–Caleb Synan failing upward in the world of all those reality cooking shows on Deadliest Chef
–Dollar Pizza sketch series parodying Uber, Guber Pool
–Julio Torres trying to gives us warnings from the future in Messages From the Future
–Hudson Brothers animated series The Lounge that follows friends/non-teachers/co-workers/assholes at a middle school.
–Mike Lawrence unleashing his the fury of his opnions on You’re Wrong
–Emily Candini and Dave Horwitz exposing what happens during commercials on a late night talk show
You might want to join Snapchat if you haven’t already.
(via Variety)
They’ve already got one going with James Davis’ Swag-A-Saurus.
The volatile media of Snapchat continues to grow in popularity and, as such, Comedy Central is getting on board with planning to do more shows soon with the likes of folks that we really dig: Liza Treyger, Nikki Glaser, Michelle Wolf, and Yassir Lester.
We’ll be curious to see if they can drive people to use Snapchat for the first time in order to see these shows.