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A web series is a series of scripted videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet or also by mobile or cellular phone, and part of the newly emerging medium called web television. A single instance of a web series program can be called an episode or webisode, however the latter term is falling into disuse. ==History== (詳細はThe Spot, or thespot.com, was the first episodic online story, and the first website to integrate photos, videos and what later became known as blogs into the story line. Created by Scott Zakarin in 1995, The Spot was likened to "Melrose Place-on-the-Web" and featured a rotating cast of attractive actors playing trendy and hip twenty somethings who rented rooms in a fabled southern California beach house called “The Spot”, in Santa Monica, California. The site earned the title of Infoseek’s “Cool Site of the Year,” an award which later became the Webby. Also in 1995, Bullseye Art was one of the first web publishers to create animated webisodes. The first few webisodic content to come out of Bullseye Art included Porkchops, Internet the Animated Series and Rat Chicken. In 1998 Bullseye Art had a hit with Miss Muffy and the Muf Mob, which lead to a development deal with MTV. Bullseye Art also created Space Dog which gained popularity on Atom Films. The original Bullseye Art content can be seen currently on the (Magic Butter web network ). In 2003 Microsoft launched MSN Video, which featured the original web series ''Weird TV 2000'' (from the creators of the syndicated television series, ''Weird TV''). ''Weird TV 2000'' featured dozens of shorts, comedy sketches and mini-documentaries produced exclusively for MSN Video. From 2003 to 2006, several independent web series began to achieve popularity, most notably ''Red Vs. Blue'' (created by Rooster Teeth). The series was distributed independently using online portals YouTube and Revver, as well as the (Rooster Teeth website ). The series acquired over 100 million views during its first run. ''Sam Has 7 Friends'', which ran in the summer and fall of 2006, was nominated for an Daytime Emmy Award, and was temporarily removed from the Internet when it was acquired by Michael Eisner. In 2008 Bravo launched its first weekly web series called "The Malan Show". It followed New York fashion designer Malan Breton through the process of making it in America as an independent fashion designer.〔(The Malan Show Bravo TV Index )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Malan Breton )〕 In 2013, Netflix earned the first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for original online only web television for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. Three of its web series, ''House of Cards'', ''Arrested Development'' and ''Hemlock Grove'', earned nominations. Web television series have continued to gain in popularity and notoriety over the subsequent years. Some of the most notable web television series include ''lonelygirl15'', ''MySpace Road Tour'', ''Prom Queen'', ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog'', ''Urban Wolf'', ''Squad 85'', ''The Guild'', ''Good Mythical Morning'', I Kissed A Vampire'', ''Anyone But Me'', ''Spellfury'', ''The Legend of Neil'', ''Red State Update'', ''Dorm Life'', ''Speedie Date'', ''Fred Figglehorn'', ''The Annoying Orange'', ''Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy'', ''Burning Love'', ''Husbands'', ''Kam Kardashian'', ''Video Game High School'', ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries'', ''Classic Alice'', "The Spinoffs" and many more. In 2009, web television series received their first awards show, the Streamys. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Web series」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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