ScreenPro comment: QUOTE: "Zach Braff has contacts..He can get in a room with money people. He is represented by a major talent agency. But the poor schmoe in Mobile, Alabama, or Walla Walla, Washington, has none of those advantages."

ScreenPro comment: There has never been a better time for most creative individuals to be both a truly independent filmmaker and/or a collaborative creative person.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: The #nitTWITS YouTube channel is similarly inspired by the ubiquitous social media site, but its creators have no time for other people’s tweets. Instead, they craft offbeat sketches based off of two or three line tweets from their own feeds.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: The new companion series to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is allowing fans to move to a fictional California town, creating an entire community around the show.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: But Google's biggest challenge to TV may be in its sheer size. WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell said Thursday that Google is about to become its biggest recipient of global ad dollars, unseating News Corp. in the coming year. Google has 12,000 salespeople knocking on doors of all TV advertisers big and small.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: Netflix plans to lead the shift to delivering television-style programming over the Internet and has developed sophisticated technology to support that transition.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: Our goal is to move the interaction to where it matters; making it a property of the file, versus the distribution framework; giving artists real data about, and real access to, their fans.”

ScreenPro comment: Quote:YouTube said Thursday that it wants to make subscriptions available as a self-serve feature to select partners soon.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: You can get lots of stuff for free now, and so the trick is to get people to pay for stuff they can get for free.

ScreenPro comment: Quote: Video streaming giant Netflix believes that making content available is the best way to beat online piracy, and the company has data to back this up.

ScreenPro comment: QUOTE: OpenSlate can identify creators who may not have huge subscriber counts, but still engage their fans in a big way.

ScreenPro comment: QUOTE: Rather than bringing movie and television stars on stage, as was done at the Brandcast during the Digital Content NewFronts last year, the focus was instead on YouTube’s homegrown stars.

ScreenPro comment: QUOTE: Amanda explains: Through the very act of asking people, I connected with them, and when you connect with them, people want to help you.

ScreenPro comment: QUOTE: A handful of top-tier performers have begun producing stand-up specials on their own, posting them online and selling them directly through their personal Web sites, eliminating the editorial control of broadcasters and the perceived taint of corporate endorsements.

ScreenPro comment: QUOTE: It’s better to keep a customer paying you something, rather than decamping because they don’t want to pay for a $150 cable bill.