Tim Street

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Tim Street

Nationality Flag of the United States United States
Occupation director, writer, producer, and new media consultant
Website
http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/

Tim Street [1]is a director, writer, producer, and new media consultant. He is one of the pioneers of using the Internet as a story telling device and he is the Creator/Executive Producer of the Popular Viral Video French Maid TV. CNN referred to Street’s work as “Red Hot” [2], The Toronto Star said “Prophetic,” Wired News called his first creation, fortheloveofjulie.com, ‘one of the Internet’s creepiest sites… and one of the most convincing hoaxes to hit the Net.” [3] Tim has been elected to sit on the advisory board for the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), an industry association focused on providing advertising and audience measurement standards for episodic and downloadable media.[4] Tim lives in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by United Talent Agency (UTA).[5]

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[edit] Traditional Media

Tim Street's career in entertainment began in 1981 at Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida where he started as a Steam Train Engineer at the Magic Kingdom on the Walt Disney World Railroad. He soon switched hats and began creating and producing TV and radio commercials for the various Disney Theme Parks. In 1993 he moved to Los Angeles and started working for Nickelodeon where he served as one of the producers on hit children's television shows like "What Would You Do?" and "All That." As Founder and President of a Pasadena-based production company, The Spark Factory, Tim has Executive Produced such traditional TV shows as Elvira’s “Raise the Dead,” Betty White’s “Twelve Games of Christmas,” “Match Game Blank-A-Thon,” “Gong Show’s 25th Gong-a-versary,” “25th Anniversary of ‘Family Feud’,” and Spike TV’s Hot Buttered Movie Special, hosted by Jennifer Garner. In addition to television shows, Tim is an award-winning short form director, having written, directed, and produced hundreds of promos, commercials, and interstitial programs for cable and network television. He won the Promax BDA Awards for Directing and Producing Promos 2003 and 2006 and served as a judge for the 2005 Promax BDA Awards Home Entertainment Competition [6] [7] [8]

[edit] Creator of Fictional Web Sites

In 1999 he set out to create an interactive story that would use the Internet as a platform.[7] He came up with a factitious site that appeared to be set-up by a guy who was madly in love with a young woman named Julie. Fortheloveofjulie.com generated millions of page views as well as attention from the Los Angeles Police Department, Santa Monica Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. [2][9] Fortunately, the site brought him notoriety in Hollywood rather than jail time. Fortheloveofjulie.com was Tim's first foray into interactive web-based media and that lead to several other sites including My Son Peter (a site by a man who plays hide-and-seek with his son who has been dead), Zach Mango (Jon Cryer's character in The Trouble with Normal), and Fight Club (Tyler Durden's behind-the-scenes online journal.)[7]

[edit] Viral Videos / Podcasting

French Maid TV was born in 2006 when Tim expanded his interactive storytelling to include advertising built into the storyline. His goal was to create how-to videos taught by French Maids. Aimed at the 18-24 year old male demographic, French Maid TV is short (2-6 minute) videos that teach skills like CPR, How to Share Music, How Barter Online, and How to Share Photos. Each video is sponsored and the distributed on the Internet and via podcast, where the spread virally. By using Revver and having sponsored videos, Tim has been able to successfully monetize his content [10][11]The six episodes have been viewed over 20 million times, have been featured iTunes and as one of YouTube’s top videos [12].

Association for Downloadable Media is the newly formed industry association focused on providing standards for advertising and audience measurement for episodic and downloadable media. Tim Street was nominated for chairperson at the Open Meeting held at the 2007 Podcast and New Media Expo. He declined the nomination in favor of the other candidates. Since he has become well known for French Maid TV he feared the association may not be taken seriously with him chairperson in the inaugural year.[13]

[edit] New Media Conference Speaker

Tim Street speaks at many national conference on new media.

[edit] References

  1. ^ IMDB. Tim Street IMDB. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  2. ^ a b Hopper, D. Ian (2000-03-13). Stalker site aims to be next generation of 'Blair Witch'. CNN.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-06. Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
  3. ^ Burke, Lynn (2000-03-17). Stalking Site: Slick or Sick?. Wired. Archived from the original on 2007-10-06. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
  4. ^ Association for Downloadable Media 2007 Elections. Association for Downloadable Media (2007-12-03). Archived from the original on 2007-12-07. Retrieved on 2007-12-08.
  5. ^ West, Jackson (2007-04-10). ‘French Maid’ Producer Signs with UTA. NewTeeVee.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-06. Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
  6. ^ Tim Street Bio. The Spark Factory. Retrieved on 2007-10-07.
  7. ^ a b c Nontourage Podcast Guest Tim Street. Nontourage Podcast (2007-05-01). Retrieved on 2007-05-25.
  8. ^ Promax & BDA. Promax & BDA 2005 Judges Home Entertainment Competition. Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved on 2007-10-07.
  9. ^ Hopper, D. Ian (200-03-17). Authorities tell faux-stalker site to tone it down. CNN.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-06. Retrieved on 2007-10-05.
  10. ^ Graham, Jefferson (2007-09-13). Posters reap cash rewards at video-sharing site Revver. USA Today. Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
  11. ^ West, Jackson (2007-02-14). How French Maid TV Brings in Dough. NewTeeVee. Archived from the original on 2007-10-06. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  12. ^ YouTube.com. Top Ten Videos on YouTube. YouTube. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  13. ^ Van Orden, Jason. Association for Downloadable Media Open Meeting. JasonVanOrden.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  14. ^ New Media Expo. New Media Expo Schedule Thursday August 14, 2008. New Media Expo. Archived from the original on 2008-03-21. Retrieved on 2008-03-15.
  15. ^ National Association of Broadcasters (2008-03-21). NABShow Podcasting Summit. NABShow Conference. NAB. Archived from the original on 2008-03-21. Retrieved on 2008-03-12.
  16. ^ MacWorld 2008 Conference Program Publishing & Promoting Podcasts. MacWorld (2007-12-14). Archived from the original on 2007-12-14. Retrieved on 2007-12-15.
  17. ^ Hollywood, Digital (2007-06-01). Digitial Hollywood Spring 2007 Session Descriptions. Digital Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2008-01-21. Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
  18. ^ Digital Hollywood. Digital Hollywood Speaker Bios. Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  19. ^ Geoghegan, Michael (2007-06-20). Podcast Academy - Tim Street signs on. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  20. ^ Podcast Academy (2007-09-27). Podcast Academy #6 Instructors. Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  21. ^ Podcast and New Media Expo (2007-09-28). Podcast and New Media Expo Speakers Friday 28, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  22. ^ Frey, Jeffrey (2006-10-03). Podcast Academy #4. Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  23. ^ Nelson, Gini (2006-12-10). Podcamp West 2006: Marketing Using the Net. EngagingConflicts.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-21. Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
  24. ^ Promax & BDA (2004-06-25). Promax & BDA Conference Sessions. Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved on 2007-10-07.

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