Whedonverse Finding New Ways to Monetize Web Productions

[nerd4hire]

Turns out Felicia Day may be some sort of savvy business woman as well as a creative force.

Her web series The Guild has been receiving pitches from assorted media including conventional. The thing is she wants to hang onto the rights, so she's swung a deal with Microsoft to screen the second season of The Guild via X Box live, Zune, and MSN. Sprint is cutting in to promote itself via The Guild as well.

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There are promotions for Season Two of The Guild at MSN.com Here.

Getting ahold of The Guild Season Two may be a bother. It sounds like it goes to X Box live for 4 weeks, then we the X boxless can view it at MSN.

The important thing is there will be money coming in for The Guild.

In the meantime Doctor Horrible is still working a commercial deal with I tunes. A DVD and CD of the soundtrack is available and there seems to be other sundry other spin-off, possibly, one day commercial schemes such as singalongs, or stage productions either in the works, in progress, or in idea stage.

 

[Joan the Vampire Slayer]

Very cool! Dr Horrible on stage? Bad ass. 🙂

 

[yellowcrayon]

So I read that article, after hearing about it (I follow Felicia on Twitter, as well as Dr. Horrible *halo*)... I started watching the Guild after Dr. Horrible, because I was curious, and decided that though I'm not much of a gamer, I did like it.

Here's the part that confuses me. Does that mean that it won't be on YouTube anymore? Just going straight to whatever Xbox does with it?

 

[nerd4hire]

Knowing the way Microsoft does things I'd be surprised if they let anybody else get ahold of it before it runs its four weeks on Xbox live. Even after that it sounds like they want the exclusive on MSN, and if they're selling it on Zune, they're not going to like free versions popping up.

I don't understand exactly what Sprint's part is in this. Downloads to a phone perhaps. Advertising elsewhere?

Wait though, didn't they mention something about a website for The Guild where it would air as well?

 

[Black Eye Guy]

Thats Awesome that it will be on Xbox Live! That will open it up to a whole new audience!

Although now Ill have to pay for it with Microsoft points