About Barely Digital
Barely Digital launched in January 2009 as the world's first online video site devoted to satirizing the world of technology. We cover the ins and outs of gadgets, gaming, and the internet, bringing you comedy devoted to the very technology we're all so addicted to over here. The first show on Barely Digital is called "Tech Know". It features Mark Douglas and Andrea Feczko as co-hosts of the World's Awesomest Gadget Review Show. Want to contact Barely Digital? Send emails here.
Meet the Team
Andrea Feczko
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Andrea is a NYU journalism graduate and New York based host and preditor. She has interviewed celebs like Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Craig, & Anne Hathaway for the nationwide The University Network. Andrea has also co-hosted segments for MTV, Fuse, & even the Maury Povich Show. Andrea began her career at Next New Networks as host of the Webby Award Winning show Fast Lane Daily and producing videos for Confashional.
Ben Relles
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Ben Relles is the creator of Barely Political and Barely Digital. Combined his videos have been seen over 500 million times and viewed on news programs and television networks around the world. Ben received his MBA from the Wharton School of Business in 2004, and was a founding partner of MarketVision, Inc. Ben created the video "My Box in a Box", and "I Got a Crush on Obama". He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife, and their twin kids. Ben can be reached here.
Michael Stevens
Before joining the Internet, Michael directed for the stage in Chicago. His first major dive into online video began with CamPain2008, a series of remixed political videos focusing on each of the contestants in the 2008 election. Be sure to ask him about his leopard-print robe.
Jake Chudnow
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Communication Strategy
A Brooklyn-based creative producer, interactive strategist, internet video research architect, and job description embellisher, Jake is a member of the Barely Political / Barely Digital team. In addition to managing Barely Political's social network and communication strategy, Jake produces the music for BD's YouTube music video series "The Key of Awesome," (http://tinyurl.com/KeyOfAwesome) and manages and creates videos for the 2Girls2Minutes network (youtube.com/2girls2minutes). Under the creative alias ‘Jake Chudnow,’ Jake currently has a hit techno single (among a few of his closest friends) entitled "All Night," available for listening at myspace.com/jakechudnow.
Tom Small
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Tom has directed plays in New York, Chicago, and London, including: The Iliad, The Oresteia, Julius Caesar, and Much Ado About Nothing. He has directed dozens of short films and three full-length features; his prize-winning adaptation of Macbeth was shown on the BRAVO channel. He has edited two full-length docs: We Also Dance, currently on PBS, and Live From The Hook, about the Virginia music scene and Dave Matthews Band. He shot and edited the 2008 official podcast of the NYPD. See his work at tomsmall.net. Now that he works for Barely Political he takes himself far less seriously.
Mark Douglas
Since arriving in New York to study at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Mark Douglas has been an actor, singer, stand-up comic, a sketch comedian, and has played Hamlet completely drunk. http://tinyurl.com/nylt6y. For seven years Mark was half of the musical comedy duo “The Rob and Mark Show” which released their CD, “The 3rd and 7th Hardest Working Men in Show Business” in 2006. TheRobandMarkShow.com Mark co-hosted the show “Geek-Ray Vision” on Spike TV, and was a cast member for the hilarious faux variety show Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions and Also There is a Game.
Rusty Ward
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A New York City based comedian and writer, Rusty has performed at clubs and colleges across the country, as well as on Comedy Central's Premium Blend. He currently lives in Brooklyn and released the live performance CD, "Learning To Touch Yourself" in 2006.
Amber Lee Ettinger
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After rising to online fame as BarelyPolitical's "Obama Girl", Amber Lee Ettinger was named #1 Hottest Woman of the Web in 2008 by E! Television. She has appeared on Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and is a regular guest on Fox News and MSNBC. Amber has appeared in GQ, TIME, People and Wired, among other publications and her online videos have been viewed more than 110 million times globally. Barack Obama called her "clever". Amber has a Jewelry Line called "Inspired by Amber".
Get to Know the Shows
Tech Know
TECH KNOW is the first original comedy series to run on Barely Digital, our tech humor network dedicated to lampooning the world of gaming, gadgets, the internet and an entire generation gone digital. Each week, Tech Know spoofs what happens behind the scenes at a fictional online gadget and tech review show, in the style of 30 Rock or The Larry Sanders Show, adapted for the YouTube generation.
About Next New Networks
Next New Networks is TV for the Internet. As the leading independent producer of online television networks Next New Networks creates, packages, brands, markets and syndicates some of the Web's most popular regularly scheduled and episodic programming. Since its inception in March 2007, the company has launched sixteen networks, and its programming has been viewed more than 500 million times. For more information, visit www.nextnewnetworks.com
