On the heels of WatchMojo.com crossing the symbolic 75,000,000 all-time streams mark, here are more even stronger growth numbers.
1) What summer effect?
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It seems like yesterday when we crossed 25,000,000 cumulative streams.
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Reading about IAB trying to come up with standards for online video advertising, I wonder: should we be coming up with standards for online video advertisements when we don’t have real standards for online video content?
Scouring through TubeMogul’s archives, I’ve realized the three main obstacles facing online video content producers are the following: continue reading...
A couple of graphs capturing our growth.
- WatchMojo.com monthly streams: continue reading...
Our latest milestone: We’re at 35M streams now. Here’s the press release touting serving our 33,333,333rd stream sometime in October 2008:
Through a series of partnerships, WatchMojo.com streams over 33 millions videos to become one of the largest and most popular video producers online, with a library of 5,000 1 to 3 minute videos covering Automotive, Education, Fashion, Film, Food, Health, Music, Politics & Economy, Space, Sports, Technology, Travel and Video Game categories, syndicated across hundreds of sites, including YouTube, MySpace, Hulu, and many more. continue reading...
One of the few good things about losing money (humor me) is that the government isn’t on your back to collect taxes, so they don’t give you a deadline to close your books and submit financial statements.
After all, if you make money, you have to pay taxes… but if you lose money - and what self-respecting startup and entrepreneur doesn’t? - you don’t pay income taxes. It’s pretty simple: the government can’t be bothered with losers and doesn’t ask you to issue your financial statement - namely your income statement and balance sheet (the third financial statement being changes in cash flow) - so this gives you ample time to avoid closing your books. continue reading...
During the Great Depression, farmers would destroy crops in order to create some kind of floor price for their fruits and vegetables, even though many of their fellow citizens were starving to death. John Steinbeck chronicles this plight in Grapes of Wrath, a book I will pretend to have read (I actually read some of it, but man that book was thick).
Today, despite homelessness being as rampant as ever, some are considering actually demolishing homes in order to create some kind of defense against sliding home prices. As foreclosures skyrocket and empty houses proliferate the marketplace, the specter of unsold, empty homes keeps a lid on recovering real estate prices (in a best case scenario) and accelerates plummeting home values in a worst case scenario. Indeed, according to a recent piece in The Economist: continue reading...
Deep, random thoughts from the front lines.
So I already commented on what went on through my mind where I signed a contract where the Applicable Law was Israel, read more here. continue reading...
With the birth of my first child in late May, I’ve taken some time off to help out at home, spend time with my wife and daughter, and this has given me ample time to reflect on our company’s growth and prospects.
There is a God, and He Loves Soccer continue reading...
