In this edition of the Flashback I’m jumping back to 1971 to a performance by a young Joe Walsh and his James Gang band. Now known primarily for his work with The Eagles, Joe Walsh had quite a successful early career with The James Gang and as a solo artist. There’s not much available online, but luckily this video exists and captures the power trio in a great performance of their moderate hit “Walk Away”. There’s something special about the power trio setup. One Guitar, one bass, drums and vocals… Not much wiggle room, especially when playing hard rock. This band was great at it. Enjoy: continue reading...
Check out this cool video comparing the size of some of the largest known stars and planets in the universe. continue reading...
WatchMojo.com is giving you the chance to win John Mulaney’s brand new comedy special “New in Town” on DVD! continue reading...
Sons of Chaos, a thrilling short film about the world after man.
YouTube has become the stomping ground for some incredible content and low-budget films, and this post-apocalyptic trailer is no exception! Hit the jump to see what the world is like after fresh air, along with those remaining having to survive creatures that feed on humanity… continue reading...
Eva Stachniak’s beautiful novel “The Winter Palace” follows the rise of one of history’s strongest women: Catherine the Great. However, this story is told through the eyes of a servant girl. It’s a fascinating story of power, seduction and more, and WatchMojo.com was lucky enough to speak with the author about her book, and about Catherine the Great herself.
WatchMojo - Tell us about your book “The Winter Palace.” continue reading...
Nice to see fellow video content producers Revision3 doing well. In their yearly update they boasted about increases in:
- Viewership: by 359% to Nearly 800 Million
- Revenue: by 53% Year-Over-Year continue reading...
As WatchMojo celebrated its 6-year anniversary on Monday January 23, on Show 25 of HipMojo, Rebecca asks me about some of the highlights of WatchMojo’s first 6 years. Enjoy:
Recently I moderated a panel at Streaming Media West. Panelists included Michael Schwalb (Tremor Media), Mark Suster (VC at GRP), Eric Anderson, (VP, Content and Product Solutions, Samsung Electronics America) and AJ McGowan (CTO at Unicorn Media).
We covered a lot, and at the risk of bragging the feedback was very good (I’ll be moderating a panel at Streaming Media East in May 2012). continue reading...
The Artist, Image Source: La Petite Reine/ARP Sélection
The nominees for the 84th Academy Awards, taking place on Sunday, February 26th, 2012 at 7pm, were just announced this morning. continue reading...
I’ve now moderated two panels at Streaming Media, once last summer at SM East and once this past fall at SM West. Noteworthy on the LA panel was Marc Suster’s assertion that Google had spent closer to $250 million - and not the $100 million the media was reporting - on YouTube’s content initiative. I touched on that in my TechCrunch article “Can Content Producers Be Disruptors Or Is Content Only Meant To Be Disrupted?“ Anyway, in LA, after my I conducted an interview where we touched on many themes. One of the topics was the fact that WatchMojo had not raised any VC and we had bootstrapped.
The article’s title was: WatchMojo Wins with Slow and Steady Online Video Growth. continue reading...
With CT running from the Feds again busy and unable to join us, Rebecca steps in for show #24. We talk about:
- the things entrepreneurs should avoid when fundraising; based on a very popular article I wrote on TechCrunch. continue reading...
In show 23 of HipMojo, WatchMojo producer and host Rebecca Brayton steps in for CT and chats with me about
1) the pros and cons of bootstrapping versus raising money from VCs,
2) how companies that manufacture an audience through technology are beating those who build real audiences and
3) the nature of Montreal as a startup city. continue reading...
On HipMojo 22, CT offered his predictions for 2012 while I gave my “anti-predictions”, things wannabe experts (like yours trul) keep insisting will happen but seldom do. To be clear, these are all trends that are occuring, but change takes time. That was the gist of the article, I wasn’t implying that these are false statements or hype alone. Read the article or watch CT and I ranting (ok, me ranting):
In my end-of-year series for MediaPost, we asked a number of online video professionals three questions.
The professionals included: continue reading...
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