While the popularity of web series is continuing to rise, the concept itself isn't entirely new. Scott Zakarin created the first advertiser supported web series in 1995, The Spot. Homicide: Second Shift was a pioneering Internet web series that tied into the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street. The web series started in 1997 and was ultimately cancelled due to financial constraints and technological restrictions.
The rise in popularity of web series can be seen as a result of the increasing availability of broadband and the improved video streaming technology. This has allowed independent producers to create low budget series distributed on the Internet, but more recently major television production companies are using the Internet as a means of promoting their TV shows as well as developing specific media and shows for the Internet.
Webseries are growing more successful in the Arab world. Shankaboot is the best Arab webseries centered about a simple delivery boy, Suleiman, and the difficulties he encounters during his life. It an an Emmy-award winner as well as has been widely spread all across the Arab world, especially in Lebanon mainly because it is in Lebanese dialect. There are others too, like: Beirut, I Love you! and Al-Horeye. Their aim is to be realistic and very credible, well honestly, they succeed in that! Everyone could relate to them, and try to put themselves in their shoes! They are greatly challenging; they use high standarded techniques for shooting and are competing with Tv series and even movies, since they use close techniques. Their standard is considered very high as compared to amateurs, and their single-most beautiful feature is they are short and no-time consuming at all! (5 to 7 minutes maximum). I recommend that everybody start watching those series.
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