Webisode

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A webisode is a short episode which airs initially as Internet television, either download or stream as opposed to first airing on broadcast or cable television. The format can be used as a preview, a promotion, as part of a collection of shorts, or a commercial.[1][2] A webisode can be an episode especially of a TV show that may or may not have been telecast but can be viewed at a Web site. [3]

The word itself is a portmanteau formed by the words 'web' and 'episode'.

A webisode is simply a web episode – collectively it is part of a web series, a form of new medium called web television that characteristically features a dramatic, serial storyline, where the primary method of viewership is streaming online over the Internet.[4] While there is no set standard for length, most webisodes are relatively short, ranging from 3–15 minutes in length.[5]

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Origins:

  • 2009: Webisode is inducted as a word into the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
  • 1996: Earlier usage by the textually-based seaQuest 2047 to describe their periodic publications, beginning circa 1996.
  • 1995: Created by the first Internet serialized fiction called The Spot created by Scott Zakarin It was used to describe the series. Derivational words also created at the time: Webisodic.

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