Watch as Alana, Jesse and Kellene compete in their first challenge.  A real photoshoot for Glamour magazines May issue!

If you like fabulous hair and fierce competition… then check out Tressed to Impress on Glamour.tv .  It’s a new online reality series we produced for Herbal Essences in conjunction with Glamour Magazine. The first episode just went live. New episodes will air every Monday at 12 PM ET.

Take look at the clip below.  It’s a highlight reel of some projects we worked on here at Diligent.  Although it could use a little updating, we still think it shows some of our capabilities.  What do you think?

Diligent Co-Founder, Gabriel Landau, is speaking on March 24th at the Nxt Stage Conference in Los Angeles, CA.  NXT STAGE Online & Mobile Entertainment Conference is an industry conference targeting specifically pre and post-production executives as well as programming executives from the film/tv production sector. The premise of the conference is that there are significant number of trade shows/conferences that address the commercial and technical aspects of the content markets yet very few that focus on the creative/production aspects. When you think about other digital media conferences and the number of panels that are dedicated to the pure logistics of ad serving! As a result, while the business models and technologies have rapidly evolved, the creative process has been left lagging behind. The writers, producers and proramming executives have not been told that they, too, are stakeholders in this new digital world. This is the opportunity for the platform solution providers and the distributors to bring the creative production community into our evolving digital world.

Here’s some information on the panel that Gabriel will be on:

Tuesday, March 24th at 10:30am

Track C – Social Media

Participation Programming

The holy grail for any development team is to create formats or concepts that secure traction quickly and feed off their own momentum. What is this “magical stuff” that can shift audiences in their seats and encourage them to adopt the brand in their daily lives?

Moderator Jason Ling – Promethean Industries – Founder/Chief Strategist
(former Head of Mobile – MySpace)  

Panelists:

Derek Handley -CEO -The Hyperfactory

Jason George –CEO – Telescope

Gabriel Landau –Co-Founder – Diligent

Frank Riva – Sr. Director, Marketing & Business Development – Apptera 

In episode 102 of Couch Crashers, Kevin and Ben try to find Conan Obrien but instead wind up buying an awful star map from a midget and having Rowdy Roddy Piper put the sleeper hold on them. It’s unbelievable, it’s Couch Crashers, baby!

First episode of C.C. is up…Watch Kevin and Ben go to the Battle in Seattle.

Episode 2, featuring Rowdy Roddy Piper, premiers March 16th..

The show we sold to Playboy.com, Couch Crashers, is premiering tomorrow, Monday March 9th, on Playboy.com.  It’s a lifestyle / interview show featuring two comedians (Ben Gleib from The Real Wedding Crashers and Kevin Kline from The Playboy Morning Show), “crashing” cool events, while getting full access to them. The show is being produced with Alta Loma Entertainment (playboy’s non-adult division).We’re very happy to announce that Bushmills has committed to sponsoring the first five episodes of the series.  Thank you Stacey Drucker for believing in the project when we brought it to you back in November!  Here’s a link to Episode 1:  http://playboy.com/arts-entertainment/features/couch-crashers/      

Melissa Roth quoted Diligent Partner, Ron Eigen in her article on branded entertainment titled: Meet the Monetizers: The Year of the Branded Web Series for the newly launched site editorial site eGuiders.  The site shows great original online videos recommended by great entertainment professionals.

In the article Melissa talks about the evolution of branded content.  She references several examples of the ways in which brands have integrated their messages with entertainment… our favorite being this integration of Winston Cigarettes with The Flintstones: 

Our new multi-touch kiosks have been installed at the Natural History Museum for the new Visible Vault installation that houses the Latin American collection.  Here’s a sneak peak of the interactive screens!

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The exhibit is currently in sneak preview mode (for members only).  But it fully launches in mid-January, so stop by and check them out.

Some info on the collection:

The archaeological collection from the great Aztec, Maya and Inca empires and their surrounding cultures is being conserved in preparation for a new exhibit. The objects from the ancient civilizations of the Americas – Southwest United States, Mexico, Central America and South America.

The Museum’s Website

We just found out the video we did with Eric Schwartz, aka Smooth E, won 2 Silver Davey Awards….one for

Music Video and the other for comedy short…The video, Crank dat Kosha Boy, went viral immediately, ending up with over 4 million hits online.

We’d like to give a special shout out to our man, Eric Schwartz, aka Smooth E, for involving us with the project.