Yahoo! will launch the production of four own series

Yahoo !! plans to enter the market online video with its own content. To do this, four series were launched at once. These are comedies, each in the season will have at least 10 episodes, and the budget of each series will be from $ 700 thousand to several million dollars. Wall Street Journal quotes the Yahoo!, Familiar with the situation: "They want to play in a large way."

We are talking about projects similar to those selling Netflix on the network, the largest online provider in the series of series, and Amazon. The quality should approach the level of the series that HBO produces.

April 28 Yahoo! It will hold a special presentation for advertisers called New Front ("New Facade"). Among other things, the head of the company Marissa Mayer is going to present the pilot episodes of new projects. However, officially so far Yahoo !!!! This information does not comment.

In March Yahoo! She entered into negotiations on the acquisition of the New Distribution Network provider for $ 300 million.