Amazon's 14-Pilot Experiment Blazes a New Path in VOD Marketing

How many Hollywood movies and big studio TV shows have you seen and been tempted to yawn at? You recognized the plot within the first five minutes, you could tell what would happen before it did, or worse, you could dictate an entire plot based solely on the trailer.

Hollywood and big studios' risk-averse culture, though once justified, has now become irreverently obvious, and while people still eat what they feed them, they're starting to look elsewhere for their entertainment thanks to video-on-demand (VOD) services like Hulu and Netflix offering original series content.

On Friday, April 20, 2013, Amazon Instant Streaming locked arms with Hulu and Netflix to shift moviegoers from big theaters to home theaters and mobile devices with original content of its own.

23 Underrated Entertainment Industry Organizations You're Missing Out On

Are you a solopreneur or freelancer in the entertainment industry?

I’m sure you’ve had moments when you feel your entrepreneurial journey is seemingly lonely, taxing, and errant, primarily because you’re surrounded by friends and family members with normal jobs, or perhaps surrounded by other starving young entrepreneurs like yourself.

But is the journey really that bad? Does it have to be?

No, it doesn’t.