Live Stream with Sax Carr & Tim Powers from Comics on Comics

Hey Folks,

My guests today were the comedic hosting duo, Sax Carr and Tim Powers together known as PowersCarr they host Comics on Comics a combination of blog/podcast/video and live events.

In this episode: Your Host (me Samproof) joined by Sax Carr and Tim Powers talked about our recent partnership, ComicCon, MeltDown Comics, the upcoming Scott Pilgrim release for Volume 6 on July 19th at Meltdown comics 10:30pm pst (i'll be streaming live from the vent).

Also in this video:


and Racist Batman episode from the 40s

Stay Strong,
-SamProof

2 million views on stickam!

Hey Folks,

I just passed the 2 million milestone for total views on stickam! Yay! another half million or so and I'll be in the top 20 for all categories (this image is from my specific field)

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

Friday Show Stats Update

Hey Folks,

I'm totally obsessed with my own stats, as I'm sure most people who make any kind of web content are.

I've decided in some kind of complete transparency to start posting my stickam show stats. Since my hour long show is on thursdays, I'll try to get these up regularly on Fridays (cause after that, the stickam rankings change and you can't find em again!)

I'm not a 100% how the stickam Stream Rank works, but it's the first thing that comes up. So it's pretty much the most important one, and I'm glad to be in the Top 5 (and that's All Channels, not genre specific!)

If you want to get genre specific though... BAMN!

That's me, #1 before the skinny blonde chick and English dude (I love Myles, he's cool)

and then finally this is the Most Watched category.

so just under 24,000 for about an hour and a half of streaming. Go me! :)


Stay Strong,

-SamProof

Web Sponsorship and scams

Hey Folks,

So I've come to realize that I need a marketing guy, or business partner to handle business type things.

In my efforts to turn Video Fight Club in to something bigger I've reached out to a few "Web networks", Revision3, DailyMotion, etc...

I recieved an email response almost immediately from one of, what I'm going to call one of the smaller of these types of "companies" I use the word loosely.

And in it they quoted me a price of 500 dollars. Not money I would see, but a price per episode to have my material played on their "network" (again I use this term loosely). They also asked for a commitment of 4 episodes.

Here's the email snippet:



I like that they cover the cost to "distribute to iTunes" I know it would really put me out to upload that all by myself (oh wait, Blip.tv automatically syndicates my content to iTunes!)

I get it - they've got an actual studio with big fancy equipment to pay for.

But this isn't how things work.

And further more (and yes I know this particular "company" is on more then just stickam... but) this week my 1 hour show got more views then all their programming for the week on stickam?!

What this tells me is, apparently I could be making more money then I thought (which is roughly .17 cents a day - thank youtube!)

So anyone want to sponsor a one hour webshow? I'll do a "this clip brought to you buy" type of dealie... eat/drink/wear your product... whatever. Let's talk!

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

3rd Annual Youtube Gathering 2009 Hollywood CA

So here's my quick review of the 3rd Annual Youtube Gathering in Hollywood, CA 2009. First off I just want to say - Good F'ing times!

10 AM Crepe Breakfast
So the day started with me rushing down to the cafe, thankfully nearby my apartment. (I have to say I'm on cafe overload these days. I'm there almost every day) Usually I simply get a large coffee and then sit around and make my money back by sucking up band width and electricity.

But what is Crepe breakfast without crepes!? (I really should have taken a picture of my food, I realize this now.)

Anyway I waited around and people started arriving, thank God. For a minute I thought "this is too early, no one is showing up". However it was even better then I thought. there where about ten of us all together and we hung out eating and chit chatting till about 11:30 when we headed out to the gathering.

For the record, I got the 'Savoy' a crepe filled with Nutella and Strawberries. It was amazing.

Noon The Gathering
So as with any gathering, a small cluster of us (mostly the breakfast peeps) found our way to the meeting spot and hung out in front of the stairs to get in as many people's way as possible. Yay us!

In time more and more people showed up. I think the head count was somewhere around 30+ people. We had our share of eCelebs with Katiesopinion, itsbrent, olgakay and Boh3m3. a bunch of seasoned regulars Confidential247, thetalesend, nbwulf, misssarahb and alicecooper

Failpire/Stickam
So our banner was on the front page of stickam. I post bulletins all over about going live from the gathering. and then. Boosh.

So here's the deal - we were supposed to get a Nokia from stickam HQ to broadcast through. But Thursday I get an email asking me if I have a simm card, which I don't (Verizon Phone...) so the phone is no go. So I took my laptop, and set it up and honestly I don't know if I was ever actually live and connected of not. I set it all up and closed the laptop for easy carrying and when I opened it later it had done a full shut down. So I'm guessing I was like for 3 seconds and 1 lurker.

Ok.. let's call this part one. I'm getting bored with myself. So here's some more pretty pictures from the gathering. and more to come later.

Stay Strong,

-SamProof

New on Failpire

Well it's Failpire Friday

Join me tonight at http://samproof.tv/Live.html at 7:30 pm PST

But a new show isn't all. Failpire's got a brand new Wikipedia at it's disposal.
Check it out, and if you're a wikihead - join up and help us out by create pages and editing the pages we've started about previous guests, shows and more.

And if you haven't already head over to the Community site at Ning as well and get to know each other.

I've got some big plans for Failpire in 2009, including the return of the 100 hour Video Challenge 'Short Race', Prizes, Contests and more.

And remember to upload your videos to our video section for a chance to be our weekly 'User Submitted video' and be played live on the show for hundreds of viewers.

Stay Strong,

-SamProof