The Netflix Effect Is Spreading

摘要

Kathleen Grace has done pretty well for herself in 2015. In June her production company, New Form Digital, posted a pilot on YouTube for Single by 30, a show about two teenagers who promise to marry each other if they wind up unattached at that unfathomable age. When YouTube announced its paid subscription service, YouTube Red, in late October, Single by 30 was on the list of its 10 exclusive original series and movies. A month earlier, Verizon had locked up the rights to six other New Form Digital shows for its G090 mobile video app, including XDoOver, about a woman who has to keep reliving her disastrous 25th-birthday party, and Mr. Student Body President, whose teen protagonist is billed as a cross between Ferris Bueller and Frank Underwood. In the past year, Grace has sold 18 shows to 10 digital video services.