Hi, Just so you know, whenever someone watches a videoblog in the TVTonic interface, there will be a prominent link to your homepage (specifically the link URL specified for that item in your RSS).
Sincerely, Andre Sala TVTonic Team On 2/9/07, J. Rhett Aultman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It makes me feel good to hear this. I often feel like, when I just ask > people to email us or to friend us on MySpace, that I'm screaming into the > void. I know I have an audience, because FeedBurner stats show the > subscribers. > > I also, as far as I can tell, have never grown my audience through word of > mouth from one viewer to the next. Early stats on Google Analytics show > that most people who visit the website are new users who don't come from a > search engine or directory. So, we're winning viewers largely by getting > our URL directly in new hands. This all runs curiously contrary to how I > thought things would go. Yes...Freetime is still just a toddler of a > vlog, but I somehow expected the viral effect would be in stronger force. > > I think part of it's content, too, though. I've noticed on LiveJournal, > friends of mine with the largest friends list are generally quite > controversial. They give people something to argue about. I'm beginning > to wonder if vlogs that don't give people a reason to regularly pound > their keyboards in discussion just don't fan out. I see similar things > happening in text blogs. > > Also, I wonder if the aggregator makes a difference. A lot of my audience > comes from TV Tonic, and I didn't see ways for people to access comments, > leave reviews, etc, using the TV Tonic software. > > -- > Rhett. > http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime > > > Speaking only from my own experience, it's a very small minority of > > viewers who comment and interact. On one of my shows I developed an > > extremely active, interested and vocal audience who have created a > > project inspired by my efforts and tangential to it. They remain a > > minority of my audience, however. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
