Anyone who regularly watches video on the Web, and if you’re reading WebTVWire, it’s a safe assumption that includes you, would have heard of Lonelygirl15.
It was a fictional video journal which took YouTube, and the wider world by storm when it launched in June 2006, and fooled many people in to believing it was a real girl documenting her life online.
It was however, a cleverly constructed show made exclusively for the Web, and was the brainchild of Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, along with filmmaker Ramesh Flinders.
The nature of the show eventually became known, but a year later, the pair created KateModern, a similar show for the social networking site Bebo.
Creators New Company
Now, according to Techcrunch, the duo behind both of these viral hits have formed a new company called Eqal, an interactive media company looking to create and produce similar successful series.
Things are already looking good as the company has managed to raise $5 million in funding from Spark Capital and individuals such as Conrad Riggs, Ron Conway, Marc Andreesen, and Georges Harik.
A new website has also been launched to host the two current series, as well as any that come after, including different versions of the shows for different countries.
