news: Amanda Congdon leaving rocketboom
Posted on | July 5, 2006 | 4 Comments
without a doubt, todays hottest topic on the blogosphere was Amanda Congdon leaving rocketboom. rocketboom is (or was) probably the biggest success-story in the young history of video-podcasting. the geeky news-cast with mainstream-appeal founded by Amanda and her partner Andrew Baron attracted enough viewers to sell a week worth of advertisment for no less than 40.000 US$ on ebay. watching Amanda’s and reading Andrew’s statement I assume it’s safe to say the split happened in disagreement. without its anchor-woman, rocketboom will surely have a hard time…meanwhile Amanda is already wooed by Robert Scoble (ex-Microsoft, soon-to-be Podtech) and Jason Calacanis (AOL/Netscape)…
update: now scoble muses on hiring calacanis as well… 
don’t think so
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July 11th, 2006 @ 3:10 pm
While I personally did not find Ms. Congdon’s trademark paper tossing and button pushing inspiring, I have read others who think she is an original talent – net, net she should find receptive outlets.
Going forward: On the technology side, I would suggest he trade in QuickTime and move to Flash, offer better indexing of content, and build a slicker UI. On the Ad side, I have to believe there are companies that would advertise pre-rolls; perhaps he could do an episode shot in a car where the car is the subtle product placement.
July 11th, 2006 @ 4:50 pm
thx for your comment!
when I first saw rocketboom I found amandas gestures dispensable, but probably that helped greatly building her brand.
about tech: flash-videos on the webpage – definitely! but keep quicktime/wmv-feeds for portable devices!
July 12th, 2006 @ 4:22 am
Agreed — just with any actor I would have liked to have seen her evolve, also I can take John Stewart on my ipod after I xfer from my tivo so after the first dozen webisodes it got dry.
Ok, keep QT and WM for ipods and ipaqs and also partner with someone in the cell content space for mobile phones, forget Real (buggy on the production side).
July 12th, 2006 @ 9:33 pm
[...] two days later than expected, rocketboom 2.0 reboots with its first episode featuring interim-host and ex-MTV-vj Joanne Colan. former rocketboom-host and neo-vblogger-celebrity Amanda Congdon announced her split from producer Andrew Baron just one week ago. since then both sides‘ accustations (of course videotaped) were only drowned by the blogospheres echoes. [...]