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web series
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video serial broadcast on the Internet
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Encyclopedic overview
NH6. Example of a web series, with episode runtimes ranging from 16–20 minutes.
A web series, also known as a short-form series or web show, is a collection of short scripted or unscripted online videos released on the Internet (i.e., World Wide Web), generally in episodic form. A single installment of a web series can be called a webisode or an episode. The scale of a web series is small, and a typical episode can be anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes long (though some may run up to 20 minutes). Web series first emerged in the mid-1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “web series” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.