Fullscreen's George Strompolos on rise of MCNs, discovering talent & new platforms such as Vine




The Spoon show

Summary: One of the most interesting trends in the indy video creator and distribution space in the last few years has been emergence of MCNs, or multichannel networks, on YouTube. One of the biggest of these new breed of content aggregators is Fullscreen. In this podcast, I talk to Fullscreen's CEO George Strompolos. George, who worked for YouTube before he founded Fullscreen, talks about the evolution of the space, how they discover new talent in the data-driven world of YouTube and where he sees new forms of social video like Vine and Instagram fitting into the broader indy creator space. You can learn more about Fullscreen at http://fullscreen.net Find me on Twitter at twitter.com/michaelwolf or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Nextmarket To listen or subscribe to more NextMarket podcasts, simply do so using one of the following channels: Website: http://nextmarket.co iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nextmarket/id579455690 RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/JEcj Stitcher Radio: www.stitcher.com/podcast/nextmarket?refid=stpr