Pish Posh TV is a mix of web developers and filmmakers.
Its mission is to bring quality content to the metro area. The Pish Post team produces video content for clients and records original short videos explore "geek" - gaming, tech, and DIY - and Detroit culture and events. Pish Posh also created an app that helps users publish podcasts. For the past two years, Pish Posh TV has operated out of a house in Boston Edison, but is moving downtown to the Department of Alternatives on Washington in May and plans to expand its operations.
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What does your company do?
Pishposh.tv is an online video network. We are currently covering technology, geek, and Detroit topics. We are also launching our new podcast production app, lovegames, to the public. Lovegames eases the flow for users to plan, produce and publish podcasts.
How?
We are a mixed group of web developers and film makers. This is a great fit since our main delivery platform is the web. We're able to build custom tools on the fly for both production and publishing.
How will you know it's working?
To continue to produce content people care about that's hard to find from other sources. To reach a wide audience and get our and our partner’s messages out.
How will you make money?
We produce a wide range of content as well as build applications that ease the process of podcast production. We're selling our internal tools to make it easier for others to produce web and standard media content in a high quality fashion. We're also available for contract work ranging from shooting your next video podcast series to app development.
What change are you hoping your company brings about?
When it comes to our own content, we tend to lean toward DIY and news reporting. We would like to contribute to making people life long learners that are curious about the world around them. We consider it a win every time someone walks away from our content with a new idea or plan to study a fresh topic.
Why Michigan?
Aside from the weather, why not Michigan? Most of the team is from Metro Detroit and as the cliche goes, we find Detroit to be rife with opportunity for those able to grasp it. We also feel that Michigan is an underserved market for the kind of projects that interest us and hopefully allows us to stand out from the crowd while introducing people to new topics.
Who are the brains behind the creation?
Michael Evans is co-founder of PishPosh.tv. Mike has worked with several startups in the media world and keeps a solid grounding in both web development and film. His obscure interests such as table-top gaming and maker lifestyle provide content direction for Pish Posh that keeps us fresh, interesting... and a little strange.
Dennis Fiore is co-founder of PishPosh.tv. Dennis is a filmmaker using the medium to explore. He works with several filmmakers in Metro-Detroit producing documentaries, commercial works, feature films, music videos, and website content. Filmmaker. Photographer. Web Developer.
Ben Duell Fraser is Canadian transplanted to Detroit in ’97. Ben has a degree in Business Management from Wayne State University, and a varied background including research, web-design project management, information technology, and a decade’s worth of bartending. Ben is the captain of the perennially slightly-above-average Woodbridge team in the Detroit City Futbol League, the commissioner of the Detroit Indoor Futbol League, tutors kindergartners in reading, and moderates the Detroit subreddit.
Kenneth Love is a father and a husband. Has been building web sites and applications for over 15 years and doesn't plan on stopping any time soon. An educator through videos, blog posts, and as a speaker at conferences, meetups, and just training co-workers. He lives in Oregon and enjoys getting to get out in nature and take photos.
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