March 04: February may be the shortest month of the year, but for Next New Networks it was a record viewership month in our three year history, breaking well past 40 million views across our dozens of web series.

February’s record views were led by the YouTube megahit comedy series Key of Awesome, featuring Mark Douglas and Weezer, as well as our ongoing hit series like Beyond the Trailer, Backyard FX, and Movie Buzz (all on Indy Mogul), ThreadBanger, and Fast Lane Daily, all of which posted some of their best months to date. In addition, both Channel Frederator and Barely Digital doubled their views in February from the previous month, and our newest network, Hungry Nation, grew over 50%.

This comes on the heels of some other great news for Next New Networks: we recently announced our 2009 viewership results, where we broke 750 million all-time views and one million subscribers to our networks on all outlets including YouTube, podcasts, and email (read all about it on TechCrunch). In February, another milestone was reached, when we broke 1 million subscribers on YouTube alone, as shown by the growth chart below.

We were also happy to learn this week of the Next New Networks series that were named as nominees in the second annual Streamy Awards (of which we took two home last year), which honors the best in original series for the web, as voted by audiences and top industry creators.  These included four nominations for breakout Barely Political hit Auto-Tune the News (part of our Next New Creators program), a Best Visual Effects nomination for Indy Mogul, Best Original Music for Key of Awesome, and Best Art Direction for  Music Videos. The Streamys will be held on April 11th in Los Angeles and will be a must-watch event for anyone interested in web series and internet TV.

Check out our #1 episode for the month of February, Key of Awesome episode 13, "TIK TOK Ke$ha Parody," which posted over 4.5 million views last month, as well as a popular episode of Indy Mogul's Next New Creators series "Beyond the Trailer" and two of our "Cop Out"-themed comedy videos from last month, which aired as part of Cop Out's Best in Jest YouTube sponsorship.

• Drop the Pun! Catchphrase Academy
• Beyond the Trailer: Super Bowl Commercials 2010
• Cop Out Trailer: REMIXED