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 videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jason McCabe Calacanis" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> 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 > > > >
