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.
