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ExpertVillage.Com Budgets $2M to Produce 75,000 Internet-Friendly How-to Videos in the Next Eighteen Months Via Freelance Filmmakers

Posted on: Monday, 28 August 2006, 09:00 CDT

New Content Will Be Available Either Direct to Consumers via the Internet, Download onto Portable Video Players, or via Corporate Partners Seeking to Package Content into Broader Service Offerings

ExpertVillage.com, the largest producer of how-to videos for the Internet, today announced it has budgeted $2 million to produce 75,000 new Internet friendly how-to videos over the next eighteen months, using freelance filmmakers/videographers. With the dramatic increase in availability of Internet video, consumers have become accustomed to getting information on the Internet in video form. ExpertVillage.com currently has over 1300 high-quality expert-based Internet videos available online, and plans to significantly expand its catalog of content available either direct to consumers via the Internet, download onto portable video players, or via corporate partners seeking to package content into broader service offerings.

"The how-to category is uniquely suited to be delivered through video on the Internet, allowing consumers to actually see how to do everything from repairing the garbage disposal to folding an origami swan," said Byron Reese, CEO of PageWise, the publishers of ExpertVillage. "We have had a tremendous response to our current catalog, and feel these next 75,000 videos will give us the definitive library of how-to advice from experts."

ExpertVillage Filmmaker Program

To reach its goal of producing 75,000 how-to videos in eighteen months, ExpertVillage.com today officially launched its Filmmaker Program located at http://www.expertvillage.com/submit, where new filmmakers or pros with downtime from their day jobs can go to find details on needs requirements, submission formats, and how they can earn $300 per video shoot. The Filmmaker Program taps the collective expertise of the community of independent freelance filmmakers around the world. After setting up an account at ExpertVillage.com, they are able to claim assignments from thousands presently posted. The filmmaker then locates a qualified expert in the assignment topic and begins production of ten to fifteen short how-to videos.

ExpertVillage plans to recruit up to 5000 independent filmmakers via postings on www.craigslist.org and other resources. Response from filmmakers has already been promising -- the first day the site went into beta, over 400 filmmakers signed up.

About ExpertVillage.com

ExpertVillage.com is published by Austin-based PageWise Inc., a leading online media company, which publishes such online properties as HappyNews.com. Offering a mix of text and video content, ExpertVillage.com currently features over 12,000 how-to articles and over 1,300 short-format how-to videos based on interviews with leading experts in six categories: Home & Gardening, Health & Beauty, Money & Finance, Sports, Hobbies, and Travel. PageWise currently has online over 80,000 how-to and informative articles that receive over 50,000,000 visitors a year. For more info on ExpertVillage.com, visit the Web site.

Source: Business Wire

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