EPIC-FU is your guide to what the web is buzzing about. It's a new kind of web show -- interactive and immersive. It's Rolling Stone Magazine for the Internet generation.
Created by Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf, EPIC-FU is all about the things that make us geek out -- the coolest art, tech, and music from the online and offline world. The new popular culture is about the influence of web culture on the mainstream. EPIC-FU is a new way of thinking about popular culture -- it's about conversation and interaction. Entertainment is a two-way street now.
EPIC-FU (formerly called JETSET) is a Webby Award Winner and a Vloggie Award Winner with a large and growing audience. Each month we serve millions of views across the web.
Wasn't this show called JETSET?
Yes, it surely was. From June 2006 until October 2007 JETSET was born, grew up, and thrived. But it wasn't unique, and we reached a point where the name was no longer right for what we were doing and where we wanted to go.
We always described our show as the new pop culture. What we meant by that was the strictest definition of the new POPULAR culture. Fred Seibert summed it up perfectly: for most people over 25, MTV defined popular culture through music. For the people growing up now, the Internet is the defining cultural engine. Our show was always about exploring that culture and talking about all the people who were empowered by a new kind of media. That is the new popular culture as we see it.
With EPIC-FU we have something unique that we can fully own. In every sense of the word. :)
How does EPIC-FU make money?
We work with our licensing partners at Next New Networks to find sponsors and to figure out how to present their message to our audience. This may include ad placement within the show, banners on the website, or a combination of both.
We never do any sponsor or product integration without a clear indicator that a sponsor has provided consideration to the show. We do not accept payment or other compensation in exchange for a product's inclusion in editorial content.
As part of our partnership with NNN, we acknowledge their involvement with the show by displaying an NNN plate at the end of every episode as well as occasional promotional videos and call-outs to help bring attention to their other shows.
Credits
Produced by Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf
Directed by Steve Woolf
Edited by Zadi Diaz
Associate Producer & Segment Editing by Rick Rey
Correspondent Supervising Producer - Rick Rey
Correspondent Segments Co-produced by Annie Tsai and Eric Rey
All things conceptual, design and tech is produced in-house at Smashface Productions, LLC.
All EPIC-FU shows are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 3.0 License. Some rights reserved.
Licensing and distribution by our partners at Next New Networks.
EpicFu.com videos hosted by Blip.tv.
Special shout out to our friends at Rocketboom.com - Internet news show, covering international arts, technology and weblog drama.
