Internet television network Revision3 is launching The Digg Reel, a new weekly show

Digg.com Videos Coming to Internet TV Network

Internet television network Revision3 is launching The Digg Reel, a new weekly show that will highlight the most popular videos submitted to Digg.com.
Internet television network Revision3 is launching The Digg Reel, a new weekly show that will highlight the most popular videos submitted to Digg.com.

The Wednesday show will include 10 to 15 minutes of clips from the most popular videos on Digg that week as voted by the users of the popular news ranking site. In addition to highlighting the videos, the show will include the best comments from the Digg online community, said Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 Corp.

Viewers will also go behind the scenes to meet the creators of the videos to find out how, when, where and why the video was made.

"There is so much user-generated and other video on the Web and so much of it is not very good," Louderback said. "It's great to have the community select it. In 15 minutes, you're going to be able to be completely updated on all the top videos each week that the Internet is buzzing about.

Jay Adelson, CEO of Digg Inc. and a founder of Revision3, along with Digg founder Kevin Rose, said that the popularity of videos on Digg shows how a large social content community can really help users find the best video content available.

"Revision3 will take it to the next level by giving viewers something they can't get anywhere else -- short clips from those videos, comments from our community and a behind-the-scenes perspective," Adelson said in a statement.

Revision3, which was created in 2005, served up more than 25 million shows and more than 103 million clips in 2007 through its Web site, the company announced early this month. In addition, it signed on advertisers like Sony, Virgin, Microsoft, Warner Bros., GoDaddy, Netflix and Intel last year, the company said.

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Digg Reel Features Most Dugg Videos

Digg, the social community that performs the valuable service of spoon-feeding us popular stuff to read and watch, is perhaps a little too big. Who has time to watch all the offbeat videos with the highest number of Diggs? OK, fine, we all do--as long as we don't tell the boss why we skipped that meeting. But there must be a better way...

Revision3--the Internet video programming network founded not-so-coincidentally by the folks behind Digg--has a solution. Today it launched its latest online show, The Digg Reel, a weekly 15-minute showcase of clips snatched from the highest-rated videos on Digg that week. It's like The Daily Soup, but for Internet video instead of talk shows and reality TV.




Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback--PC Magazine's former editor-in-chief and current contributor/columnist--described the show's approach best: "There's so much crap out there, it's great to have the Digg community filter out the best, but no one can watch it all." In theory, now you can. (And the language used is NSFW all the time.)

Host Jessica Corbin--who also co-hosts Revision3's Tekzilla with another former PC Mag/DL.TV colleague, Patrick Norton--won't show just the oddball stuff, like the rabbit that can open envelopes featured in the opening episode. She'll also show clips on serious topics, such as politics and world events, according to Revision3's press release.

But I expect most visitors will check Digg Reel to get a video digest of people being tazed by a bro or getting hit in the junk. It can't just be me.