Sawyer Petrick is a New York-based writer passionate about the film and television industries. Sawyer Petrick consulted on the feature film script, The Speech, and Episode 1 and 2 of the web series, The Look.
Thanks to OTT(Over The Top) platforms like Netflix, web series have become a popular form of storytelling outside the conventional television model. These are videos, generally in short episodic formats, are released on a video streaming platform. Web series have come a long way from their first appearance in the late 1990s when New York-based Scott Jaqueline developed the idea. The Spot was the first episodic online story. It ran from 1995 to 1996 and won the Webby Award. Not long after, the first Bullseye Art was the first online publisher to create animated webisodes such as Pork Chops and Internet the Animated Series. In 1998, the first comedy live-action series, The Stella Shorts, premiered on sites like Heavy.com and Comedynet.com for the first time. By the mid-2000s, web series had become more popular in the US with numerous independent shows, notably Red Vs. Blue, which amassed over 100 million views, and Sam Has 7 Friends, nominated for a daytime Emmy. In 2009, the Los Angeles Web Series Festival was established as the first web series festival globally. By 2013, Netflix, the world's leading OTT platform, won 3 Emmys at the 65th primetime Emmy Awards for its series, House of Cards, and changed the landscape forever. Today, web series have become high-budget endeavors as more growth is recorded in the sector. Statistics disclose that Netflix has penetrated 65 percent of US households, with an average American aged 18-34 spending two hours on the streaming platform. In 2019, Netflix had nearly 150 million subscribers worldwide; today, that figure has risen to more than 200 million.
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