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T-Cast Content Update: Entertainment News 2007-07-13 13:33:11 T-Cast producers have compiled a list of relevant news material and added a player to the site to syndicate that news. News feeds are provided by The News Room, and displayed on the T-Cast News Page.Enjoy. ... Entertainment

Revver the next Google purchase, or maybe Stage6? 2007-07-12 20:39:33 Google has build an empire on buying up the best innovations and integrating them into a vast advertising network. Providing free content and making billions for it. In a lot of ways Revver has what Google wants, a better player, CPC based auto insertion ad technology, and a pile of copy-right responsible content.At T-Cast, we like the Revver model and wish them success. But there are problems with the things as they are. There is still no analytic reporting for video syndication and the revenue from those clicks is not broken down for either the syndicator or the content producer. Value of clicks are falling, but then are still better than most of the adwords content market with pay-per-click of $0.12 to $0.27.It would seem to be smarter for the content producer to sell their own advertising, and the T-Cast producers asked Stage6's Divx support team for just such an opportunity only to be disappointed with the response. No question that the Divx authoring software is the best e ... Google

Content Update: ComedyCaster and DramaCaster 2007-07-05 14:55:25 We have added two very exciting shows to our directories. Prom Queen a teenage drama about getting ready for prom night, promises some big surprises for the big night.Online Videos by Veoh.comAnd Snowmen Hunters! A crazy comedy/reality tv spoof will surely teach you a few ways to hurt yourself. Don't try this stuff at home. ...

Podcasting for Revver Ad Delivery 2007-04-30 21:06:52 There is no doubt that podcast and rss distribution can drive a show's viewership, but is it effective ad delivery? RSS tracking from Feedburner.com is a great way to understand your podcast or blog viewership, and revver files are supported by iTunes and most podcast directories which provides a turn key solution to hosting and syndicating video podcasts. But in our experience the powerful distribution combination, does not convert advertising clicks in an effective way.For our original production, The Retired Porn Producer's Guide to... we have many methods driving viewership.PodcastingOur podcasting feed is directed to Episode 5 (the latest episode) of the series, which downloads (or as Revver puts it "views") when the podcast is subscribed to. Roughly 30% of those go on to download another episode and 10% download them all, but in general podcasting drives 30% of our daily viewership. That episode however has performed poorly over the last month with a click through rate of 0 ...

Content Update: ComedyCaster 2007-04-28 23:19:24 So catching up on the random clip side of the site, we have syndicated 10 great short films that where lost in the pile called Youtube. If you have a short film that you'd like promoted contact us.Check out the new clips! ...

Content Update: ComedyCaster 2007-04-21 18:28:48 We have three new shows for you on ComedyCaster including this one:That's right, it stars a dog named Jett. Check out the rest of the series. ...

Content Update: DramaCaster 2007-04-21 18:28:05 Chasing Windmills a internet soap opera is now on DramaCaster.This is the overture of the second season of Chasing Windmills, in which new characters and plotlines are introduced. ...

Content Update: ScifiCaster 2007-04-21 18:27:18 Poking the Eye of the Storm is a crazy serialized 'B' film, perfect for your inner geek.More Sci-Fi to come! ...

Producer Tip: Short is King! 2007-04-21 18:26:11 If you're a film director you really want to be able to "get your vision out" but there is always that producer standing behind you saying, "do it faster and cheaper". Well if your producing or directing for the internet there is one more demand on that list. Make it short! On the internet short is king.One of the goals of the T-Cast Network is to get a real grasp on how to create and market fiction based internet video. And then bring that knowledge back to producers and the community at large. We use a number of services like Revver reports, Google Analytics and Feedburner tracking to make observations in our "Producer Tips" stories.So...Lesson Learned 1 - Short is King!In our original series The Retired Porn Producer's Guide to... we have four episodes:Blogging- 2 minutes, completes views 11% , converts clicks 3% of the timeOffice Meetings- 2 minutes 20 seconds, completes views 13%, converts clicks 0.7% of the timeWater Cooler Chit-Chat- 3 minutes, completes views 10% , co ...

Service Update: Revver 2007-04-17 12:25:25 The aggregator of clicks which drives the reporting system on Revver.com, seems to still be behind by about 12 hours. Clicks have returned to normal, and view counts seem to reflect marketing efforts and measurable feed/site activities. Hopefully the clicks will catch up in the next few days. One other change, click that once generated $0.30 are now only getting $0.27 . No comment about any of this has been posted on their blog. With the validity of reports so importent to advertisers, revver is likely trying to handle things quitely. As a poblisher and syndicator, the T-Cast Network is going to give them a few more days to sort it all out. ...

Service Report: Revver 2007-04-15 01:49:03 On April 10th T-Cast Editors contacted Revver support about inconsistencies in the new reporting system was tallying views and clicks. It is now April 14th and the validity of the reports are still in question. Revver's initial response explained the problem as such: Couple of things here, all related to one bug that was causing duplicate views on videos over the last 24 hours. To fix the problem, we had to reset our view aggregators. Reset doesn't mean "started over," and you're not going to lose credit for any views. It just means recounted, so you're viewcount will be corrected of any duplicate views and should be back to normal by later tonight. If you haven't seen your viewcounts increased by tomorrow let us know.The next day the reports where still changing and videos that where earning 1-2 clicks a day were still not reporting any earnings. So we continued our inquiry:My reports still don't make any sense. The Summary says one clip downloaded more times than the ...

Service Update: Revver 2007-04-14 19:25:49 Revver has finally upgraded its revenue reporting system, and has even more plans in the works according to Sean Boyd (Revver Member Services Coordinator). This upgrade was sorely needed, and will provide producers a more detailed evaluation of their content's advertising potential. If you've been reading our blog you know our estimated earnings off of Revver has thus far been approximately $0.025, but this upgrade changes and elaborates on this calculation. We will be posting an assessment of Revver's entire service shortly, please check back. ...

Money Making and Video Sharing Blogs 2007-04-14 19:24:36 We'd like to draw your attention to a couple of other blogs that may help you on the journey to monetize your content. Embed My Videos is "A blog for Revver users to share and promote their videos" on which there is a great post about various places to promote and syndicate your Revver video( Embed My Video: How to promote your Revver Videos ). This blog is a great resource for people with any kind of content to promote their revver videos.Dosh Dosh is a great blog to learn about all things money online. Posts include everything from affiliate marketing, to Adsense, to blog, podcast and website promotion. If you want to develop a master plan for a internet business this is a one stop shop and a great place to start. ...

Promotion Strategies: Lessons from Traditional Media 2007-04-14 13:56:49 Big or small, if you want your film or video series to be successful you need as many people to see it as possible. The major studios and television networks know this better than anyone, and along with star filled casts, special effects and distributions strategies, proper promotion provides a foundation for blockbuster success.Take Titanic, for example. Its budget has been estimated at a cool $200 million, approximately $25 million of which went to promotion. ( This Magazine)Unsuccessful marketing and promotion can kill even the best movies, while movies roundly rejected by audiences can still become box office hits based on strong opening weekend numbers. Sure word-of-mouth audience activities can impact the films overall run, but if the audience doesn't know about a movie in the first place, there is little change that chit-chat can drive people to the theatre.The same is true for Internet productions. Everyone hope that their video will "go viral" and be seen by millions of viewe ...

Featured Series: "Can We Do That?" 2007-04-13 14:08:32 In “Can We Do That?“, the trio of Ski-ter, Cory and Charles own a production company that film edgy, extreme and hilarious tv commercials that have viewers scratching their heads asking “Can They Do That?” In real life, ironically, the three enjoy successful acting careers in commercials, television, and film making people ask “Where have I seen them before?”This is a great show that really finds a place in the digital space. The episodes are short, punchy, and out right hilarious. The production shows good economy, and with only a few audio problems the series really shows how simple ideas can make compelling low cost video. The action and fight sequences are over the top, and the girl at the front of each episode, genius!We're featuring one of the talky episodes from early in the series, check the rest out on ComedyCaster or visit their website at http://canwedothat.net/ ...