Five Animated Shows Get Streamy Award Noms

December 17, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments

The nominations for the 3rd annual Streamy Awards were announced early Monday. The five nominees for Best Animated Series are:     Tom Hanks’ Electric City (Tom Hanks, Yahoo.com) electriccity.yahoo.com/ep1-en-truth-or-consequences.html Dinosaur Office (Kevin Corrigan, Caldwell Tanner and Brian Murphy; Collegehumor.com) www.dinosauroffice.com Dick Figures (Ed Skudder and Zack Keller; Six Point Harness, Squetch, [...]

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‘Samurai! Daycare’ Proves Its Chops on YouTube

August 14, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments

Pipsqueak Films’ new animated series Samurai! Daycare has made a big impression on YouTube. Created by Disney veteran and Emmy nominee Mike Blum (The Adventures of Baxter and McGuire, The Zit), Samurai! Daycare debuted on August 9 on Smosh’s Shut Up! Cartoons channel and has generated 250,000 views in less [...]

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SMOSH’s Shut Up Cartoons Delivers Strong Numbers

May 4, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments

Since its debut on April 30, Alloy Digital/Smosh’s Shut Up! Cartoons has ranked first or second in growth and registered close to 2 million video views. The toon-centric channel broke into the top-500 of all of YouTube’s hundreds of programming channels within the first 24 hours of its launch. Its [...]

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SMOSH to Launch YouTube Animation Channel

April 13, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 9 Comments

Online teen and young adult comedy content destination SMOSH will launch a new animation YouTube channel called Shut Up! Cartoons on April 30. The toon channel is led by former Disney TV Animation head Barry Blumberg and SMOSH co-founders Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. “We are very excited with our [...]

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