Is Katers an IMS?

[Smashing]

"A webisode is simply a web episode"

source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webisode

edit to add: LG15 is a "web series," an "online series," an "internet show," etc. we don't need an acronym for everything. We don't have one for "TV show."

I think the best phrase is simply "web show"

[jayhenry]

lesbrent said:

"Losing My Religion" was an episode of the Lonelygirl15 Webisode.

An episode of the "Lonelygirl15 Webisodes" maybe.

An episode of the Webisode? Singular? No way.

[milowent]

i don't like the word webisode, though i thought it meant one online-episode of an online serial. i think soup of the day may have been referred to as a "webisodic show"?

webisode sounds like a 1990s term to me, which it is, anyway. we need something snazzier.

[lesbrent]

I didn't make it up

Webisode

- A Webisode is a single push technology episode. A Webisode can be a preview or promotion of a particular TV show, music video, or other show presented from a Web site using streaming video or other techniques. Some sites are dedicated to presenting Webisodes. from whatis

Webisode
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An episode of a television show that airs initially as an internet download or stream as opposed to first airing on television.

A webisode is simply a web episode – a form of new media that characteristically features a dramatic, serial storyline, and where the primary method of viewership is streaming online over the internet.

Originated on battlestar Galatica www.scifi.com/battlestar/

www.aintitcool.com/node/31980

SO yeah, singular episode is webisode. A series is simply a series.

[Smashing]

they're just episodes. That's all. We don't need any other term for the episodes. And for the show, it's just an online show or a web show or an internet show. Perhaps in the future, as internet and TV merge, we won't be so concerned with where we see the show, and we'll just call it a show.

[lesbrent]

smashing I agree with you in a way, but i think the difference here is that it is streaming online, a series, and they are VERY SHORT! Shorter than anything on TV (minus serial commericals).

[Smashing]

That's a good point lesbrent. I hadn't thought of that. There is a connotation of a short clip to webisode. I'm with milo that I don't care for the term, but you are right that a tv episode is long and an online episode is typically short. And calling them "online clips" doesn't indicate they are a part of a series. So you are right, webisode is it unless we come up with something else. I've heard the term mobisode (mobile episode), but don't care for that, as I have never watched a clip on a mobile phone in my life. hmm...Oh well.