Here's our first English FotoTV News. It is a news show in which we present interesting snippets of information on photography from around the world. What you see are the first 10 minutes of the show. See it complete here: www.fototv.com/fototv-news
16th Dec 2009, Cologne – The InternetTV about photography – FotoTV, has today released its 150th video online at www.FotoTV.com. FotoTV has a vast collection of videos about all aspects of photography including photography techniques, interviews with famous photographers, editing tutorials and more. It adds two new videos every week to this collection. FotoTV’s stock of videos together with the new videos added weekly, helps it retain its position as world’s largest InternetTV about photography.
The founder and CEO of FotoTV, Marc Ludwig says, ‘We are delighted to reach another milestone. Our 150th video is also a special one, as it features David Douglas Duncan, the world renowned photojournalist. In this video, David Douglas Duncan speaks exclusively to FotoTV, sharing the story behind some of his pictures that brought him world fame’.
Other photographers who feature in the recently released videos include, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Anders Peterson, Willy Ronis, Paolo Roversi, Mitch Epstein, Elliot Erwitt and more.
Adds Marc Ludwig, ‘ Reaching 150 videos was definitely arduous but it was also a lot of fun. We are really happy to see the English incarnation of FotoTV catch up with its German sister site www.FotoTV.de, which is the biggest of its kind in the world.’
In the last few months, FotoTV has been steadily gaining traction amongst photography enthusiasts around the world. The founder and CEO further adds, ‘ We can’t wait to get the 800 and odd videos that we have already shot, up and running for our subscribers. We hope that our plans to target english speaking regions through FotoTV.com pays off and soon FotoTV will be popular in these regions as it is currently in the german speaking countries’. About FotoTV FotoTV is that world’s biggest WebTV/InternetTV on photography. A huge collection of 600 videos spans all aspects of photography. Every video demonstrates through an expert photographer a photo technique, a lighting setup, a portfolio or post productions tips.The videos are based on the principle of “Learn by watching the Experts” through videos on the Internet – a hugely popular trend nowadays.15 of these videos can be viewed for free upon registration and the rest of the collection, including the two new videos added every week, is available at 85 USD per year.
Los Angeles, CA, December 11, 2009 --(PR.com)--FotoTV, the world's largest InternetTV about Photography has released a first of its kind news show about photography. The first edition of this news show called FotoTV.News has been released today. It presents news clips, events, interviews, exhibitions, portfolios, surf tips and many such more for avid photographers worldwide. It also provides a quick look at upcoming programs on FotoTV.com.
The Founder and CEO of FotoTV, Marc Ludwig says, "There are special news shows on sports, technology, science, art and even the Internet, but nothing about photography as a subject. There are so many enthusiastic photographers around the world and the FotoTV.News is a complimentary service from FotoTV to all avid photographers out there".
The news show is scheduled to be a monthly program. It is available in English (www.fototv.com/news) as well as German (www.fototv.de/news) as a free service. The FotoTV.News show can also be downloaded as a podcast.
Says Marc Ludwig, "From the time we conceptualized this news show, we wanted it to have a really wide reach, not only online but also offline. To broadcast it as a podcast was the best way to achieve that". The news show is entirely produced in the FotoTV studio. The company has invested heavily in the latest production technology, by which the entire news show is recorded using a virtual background system. Adds Ludwig, "with the new studio we can not only produce our own news show economically, but we can also extend the same cost and time effectiveness to interested broadcasting and publishing houses".
Commenting about the future plans for the news show, the Founder and CEO says, "we plan to further increase the reach of FotoTV.News by allowing partners to embed it on their websites (for their audience/users) and in some cases also co-brand it".
About FotoTV: FotoTV is that world’s biggest WebTV/InternetTV about Photography. A huge collection of 600 videos spans all aspects of photography. Every video demonstrates through an expert photographer, a technique, a new concept, a different perspective, or post productions tips. The videos are based on the principle of “Learn by watching the experts” through videos on the Internet – a hugely popular trend nowadays. 10 of these videos can be viewed for free upon registration but the rest of the collection is available at 70 Euros per year. www.FotoTV.com has a special end-of-the-year subscription offer at 30 Euros per year that is valid until 31st Dec 2009.
Contact: Uma Muthuraaman, uma@fototv.com, 0221 222 3722
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