Dr Guy Healy works as a researcher on an Australian Research Council project investigating the role of the web-series globally. Healy worked for about a decade at The Australian newspaper, mainly as a higher education writer; and for BBC Wildlife magazine as a freelance correspondent investigating species-level threats to wildlife. His most important story reported on calls from zoologists warning that research funding into, and surveillance of bat-borne viruses in Asia, Africa and elsewhere, had to be prioritized, in 2009

Preface by Tina Cesa Ward; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2: Absurdist YouTube animator Chris Voigt's journey to EMMY-winning, Bluey; Chapter 3: Rapprochement across the divides: the Saidden brothers aka Superwog and Emmy-nominated Princess Pictures; Chapter 4: The dark cinematic dreams of the Philippou twins, aka RackaRacka; Chapter 5: The world's #3 online dessert chef, and developmental activist, Ann Reardon 'stuck in the algorithms'; Chapter 6: The blood, sweat and tears of Shae-lee Shackleford and SketchSHE; Chapter 7: Julie Kalceff...not sitting in a room on her own; Chapter 8 : Erin Good, Taylor Litton-Strain and fantasy-noir web-pilot, Jade of Death; Chapter 9: Bending algorithmic culture to serve post-TV storytelling; Chapter 10 Tina Cesa Ward: The New York film director who fell into web-series; Chapter 11: the Garden in YouTube's Machine; Appendix 1: Career mobility paths of Skip Ahead alumni, 2014-19; Appendix 2: Three keys to sustainability for web-series makers, 2005 to 2021, based on Murdock and Goldings' (2016, 764) three economies; Index