Obama Girl Creators Launch Barely Digital to Make Tech Funny

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - January 26, 2009) - Next New Networks, the leading online television company, today announced the launch of its new comedy network, Barely Digital. From the creative team behind Barely Political and the Obama Girl phenomenon, Barely Digital will showcase the same brand of satire, brought against the ripe target of the technology sector. Whether lampooning overexcited YouTube commenters or staging an intervention for a World of Warcraft addict, expect Barely Digital to cover gadgets, gaming, Obama's BlackBerry, the elite digerati, Ask Jeeves and Web 4.0 like nobody's business.

As the first Next New Network dedicated to tech comedy, Barely Digital will feature a number of regularly scheduled shows, including product reviews, comedy sketches, mashups and remixes of tech news footage, and digital shorts. And like the most popular hit programming of its sister network Barely Political, Barely Digital will also feature monthly music videos from the same team that's ruled the viral video charts since September 2007.

"I am predicting that one day things like video games, gadgets and websites will become popular, and we want to be there when that happens," said Ben Relles, Creator of Barely Digital. "When we shot the Obama Girl video most people didn't even know who Barack Obama was -- and now just a year and a half later he's been on both the 'Tyra Banks Show' and 'The View.'"

"In 2008, Barely Political set records and won millions of fans by satirizing the media's infatuation with politics. It was clearly the breakout online video property of the year," said Lance Podell, CEO, Next New Networks. "With Barely Digital, we're taking the same creative talent and applying it to the tech scene, which like politics, is another huge focus area of pop culture and media that's ripe for parody. Barely Digital is our first new network to launch in 2009, and we believe it will quickly become a very popular source for tech humor and entertainment."

Barely Digital's first videos and related content will go live this week at http://barelydigital.com with a lineup of sketches including "YouTube Comment Fight," and "Hipster Pod." Barely Digital is the company's first network dedicated to all things tech. The network is targeted to (no big surprise) men aged 18 to 35 and will focus on all those techie things this audience loves: gadgets, gaming, coding, social media and comedy.

About Next New Networks

Next New Networks is TV for the Internet. As the leading independent producer of online television networks Next New Networks creates, packages, brands, markets and syndicates some of the Web's most popular regularly scheduled and episodic programming. Since its inception in March 2007, the company has launched sixteen networks, and its programming has been viewed more than 400 million times.

Hit programming from Next New Networks includes Channel Frederator (home of the popular series "Nite Fite"), Barely Political (the creators of Obama Girl), TMI Weekly (co-hosted by web celeb Julia Allison), daily auto news network Fast Lane Daily, DIY filmmaker network Indy Mogul, lifestyle network ThreadBanger, and your one-stop showcase of the cutest pets across the globe, Ultra Kawaii. The company, headquartered in New York, is privately owned, with investors including Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs and Velocity Interactive. For more information, please visit www.nextnewnetworks.com.

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