Hi Mike I was flip, but sex is what does sell, in advertising, etc. However, once it is sold, what are you bringign. Not just sex, but a service. You must give some nutrition with dessert, and once you bring people into the community, listen, get involved, and ultimately lead.
This is a good discussion D --- In [email protected], "Mike Meiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And don't listen to Daniel McVicar. :) > > Sorry daniel. Sex sells is B.S. If you want a genuine audience... > an audience of makers, participators and creators... like maholo > fundamentally needs to survive... you're downplay the overt sexiness > of Veronica, and up-play her obvious street cred. Veronica should go > all out and be the geek and gaming girl she was born to be... not put > on the tight fitting shirt and dumb herself down. > > This is much like the youtube issue earlier. Youtube courts a lot of > non-genuine traffic... people there for the crowd and spectacle... > people who leave assinine comments and wouldn't watch your show if it > wasn't the most popular video of the day. > > This is VERY often seen amongst many top youtube people. 500,000 hits > on one video 11,000 on the next. > > In the racing world you're only as good as your last race... in the > youtube world your only really as big as your least viewed video. That > is more reflective of your real audience. > > In order for maholo to survive it must tap into that culture of > creators, makers, participators... communicators. > > -Mike > > On 11/12/07, danielmcvicar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jason > > Your view level is pretty good, your show looks very good. > > > > If you want more views, put it across the board on multiple servers and > > hosts. You'd be > > surprised at how many you can get at Daily Motion. > > > > You may also experiment with short sweet and sexy promos. Across the > > board. > > > > Sex is what attracts attention the most, the hook is something that you > > have an instinct > > for. > > > > Then, as a daily show, you are a service, liek Rocketboom, more than a > > brand like French > > Maid TV. Your audience will find a certain comfort in watching the videos > > daily. > > > > What I enjoyed with The Late Nite Mash experiment was a surprise to > > me...coming from > > audience counting media. It was the collaboration that I found online and > > in the > > community. > > > > All the best with your show. > > > > Daniel > > > > --- In [email protected], "Jason McCabe Calacanis" <jason@> > > wrote: > > > > > > We launched Mahalo Daily with Veronica Belmont last week as some of > > > you might know. You can find the show at http://daily.mahalo.com and > > > on iTunes. We're hosting it at Blip.Tv (for now) but considering some > > > other options since folks have been pinging us. > > > > > > I'm looking for some advice on what we can do--other than make the > > > best show we can--to grow the view to 100k+ a day quickly. > > > > > > We did over 120k views in the first week (about 12-37k views for each > > > of the first four shows) which is much more than I thought we would. > > > We've got our iTunes page running and we're syndicating the videos to > > > YouTube and Facebook. We've also started a Facebook, Ning, Flickr, and > > > Twitter groups/accounts to compliment the program. They are getting > > > nice pickup. > > > > > > On a business level, I'm wondering if there is anyone out there who > > > can bring in 100-250k views a day for show, perhaps in exchange for > > > exclusive hosting rights/advertising rights or something (i.e. Yahoo, > > > AOL, YouTube, etc). > > > > > > Anyone have an distribution tips? > > > Has anyone done deals like this? > > > > > > Mahalo for any help... > > > > > > best J > > > > > > i blogged about this here: > > > http://www.calacanis.com/2007/11/11/congrats-to-tyler-and-veronica-on-an- > > amazing-first-week-for-mahalo/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > >
