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EO Co-Founder John Papola Featured in BBC Special

EO Co-Founder John Papola Featured in BBC Special

EO Co-Founder John Papola Featured in BBC Special The global impact of our viral videos continues. Emergent Order’s flagship original content, Fight of the Century, was recently featured prominently along with co-founder John Papola in a BBC TWO one hour special exploring the life and ideas of F. A. Hayek. It’s pretty exciting for us [...]

Fear the Boom and Bust Headlines YouTube's EDU Channel

Fear the Boom and Bust Headlines YouTube’s EDU Channel

Last Friday, the New York Times did a feature story on YouTube’s efforts to improve classroom access to educational content. Here’s a blurp from that story: Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that [...]

EO to present at SXSW

EO to present at SXSW

Emergent Order co-founder John Papola will be joining other emerging media pros to discuss the transition from the world of broadcast tv to web-based video production, its promises and challenges in a rapidly changing media marketplace. If you’re headed to SXSW, be sure to come by and check out the provocatively titled panel “Screw the Big [...]


EO moves into new Austin, TX offices

EO moves into new Austin, TX offices

We’re excited to announce the opening of our new production office in downtown Austin. After a over decade in the New York City area, we’re really enjoying the new digs, especially the mild winter. Here’s to a creative, productive and prosperous new year! You can get all the details over at the contact page.

EO explores Modern Mandom with Spike

EO explores Modern Mandom with Spike

Emergent Order and our good friends at Spike TV recently complete a unique and interesting brand exercise. We traveled the country to create a short documentary series on the trials and tribulations of modern American man.

Emergent Order in Oslo, Norway filming the 2011 Oslo Freedom Forum

Emergent Order in Oslo, Norway filming the 2011 Oslo Freedom Forum

All this week, the team will be in Oslo, Norway, filming behind-the-scenes at the Oslo Freedom Forum. Here’s a description of this exceptional event focused on drawing the world’s attention to human rights: This is a three-day experience like no other. The Oslo Freedom Forum provides a unique venue for pioneers and entrepreneurs in the [...]


Order is Emerging...

Order is Emerging…

If you’re reading this right now, you’ve stumbled across the beta version of our site. Emergent Order is a content development and production company founded by former Spike TV creative director John Papola, former head of Spike post production Joshua Meyers and former Nickelodeon brand producer Lisa Versaci. There’s more to come, so bookmark us [...]