Comments on: Dear Podtech: I’m Not Your VP Marketing http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:49:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: WinExtra - So what will Robert Scoble do? http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-2458557 WinExtra - So what will Robert Scoble do? Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:02:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-2458557 [...] better known for being the current home of A-List blogger Robert Scoble and his equally famous as exciting as watching paint dry videoblogging.However while there is supposed to be an announcement coming from PodTech itself [...] [...] better known for being the current home of A-List blogger Robert Scoble and his equally famous as exciting as watching paint dry videoblogging.However while there is supposed to be an announcement coming from PodTech itself [...]

]]> By: TechCrunch 9: Bigger than 8 (D’oh) « Marketing Nirvana http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-2133690 TechCrunch 9: Bigger than 8 (D’oh) « Marketing Nirvana Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:03:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-2133690 [...] whose team Scoble and Jeremiah are a part of. Some of you may be aware of the last minute online back-and-forth between Podtech and [...] [...] whose team Scoble and Jeremiah are a part of. Some of you may be aware of the last minute online back-and-forth between Podtech and [...]

]]> By: » Comment on Dear Podtech: I’m Not Your VP Marketing by Why PodTech … http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1698681 » Comment on Dear Podtech: I’m Not Your VP Marketing by Why PodTech … Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:29:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1698681 [...] Original post by Why PodTech.net’s demise may be imminent « Rajesh Barnwal [...] [...] Original post by Why PodTech.net’s demise may be imminent « Rajesh Barnwal [...]

]]> By: PodTech Heading Towards The Deadpool? http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1698660 PodTech Heading Towards The Deadpool? Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:21:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1698660 [...] work. The dry nature of PodTech productions was described by Michael Arrington so eloquently when he said “90% of Podtech content is just slightly more entertaining than watching paint [...] [...] work. The dry nature of PodTech productions was described by Michael Arrington so eloquently when he said “90% of Podtech content is just slightly more entertaining than watching paint [...]

]]> By: Why PodTech.net’s demise may be imminent « Rajesh Barnwal http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1698614 Why PodTech.net’s demise may be imminent « Rajesh Barnwal Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:00:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1698614 [...] TechCrunch: 90% of PodTech content is just slightly more entertaining than watching paint dry. [Interestingly, PodTech has received $7.5 million over two rounds led by US Venture Partners and Venrock Associates.] [...] [...] TechCrunch: 90% of PodTech content is just slightly more entertaining than watching paint dry. [Interestingly, PodTech has received $7.5 million over two rounds led by US Venture Partners and Venrock Associates.] [...]

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]]> By: Jay Gould’s Blog » WikiYou in the News http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1526433 Jay Gould’s Blog » WikiYou in the News Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:38:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1526433 [...] argue, if he incorrectly reviews your site, its because your messaging was not clear, so “don’t shoot the messenger“.  He’s probably right, our messaging may not be as clear as we had hoped for the [...] [...] argue, if he incorrectly reviews your site, its because your messaging was not clear, so “don’t shoot the messenger“.  He’s probably right, our messaging may not be as clear as we had hoped for the [...]

]]> By: Enric http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1525519 Enric Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:35:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1525519 If it's "Bad Sinatra", http://www.badsinatra.com/wp/?p=6 I'd much prefer to watch paint dry. If it's "Homeland Defense Week", http://www.homelanddefenseweek.com/ it is quite for interesting then the paint. Though I wonder on some of it's accuracy. Either way, I don't think PodTech has yet shown the ability to understand and promote non-tech content. If it’s “Bad Sinatra”,

http://www.badsinatra.com/wp/?p=6

I’d much prefer to watch paint dry.

If it’s “Homeland Defense Week”,

http://www.homelanddefenseweek.com/

it is quite for interesting then the paint. Though I wonder on some of it’s accuracy.

Either way, I don’t think PodTech has yet shown the ability to understand and promote non-tech content.

]]> By: Jay http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524571 Jay Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:03:01 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524571 [soap opera music] Tune in next week on "As the Paint Dries" when Marcos learns that Sheila is pregnant... but not with his child! [/soap opera music] I figure getting the message /wrong/ with TC gives PT more traffic in terms of the curiosity factor digging for the background story. So, perhaps this is better than more positive coverage that might only demand a single click through... [soap opera music]
Tune in next week on “As the Paint Dries” when Marcos learns that Sheila is pregnant… but not with his child!
[/soap opera music]

I figure getting the message /wrong/ with TC gives PT more traffic in terms of the curiosity factor digging for the background story.

So, perhaps this is better than more positive coverage that might only demand a single click through…

]]> By: Jason Rowe http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524559 Jason Rowe Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:44:53 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524559 Its funny that a company that is supposed to be running messages for other companies, and getting them into the whole 'social media' thing, that Podtech themselves have no idea how to manage their own message Its funny that a company that is supposed to be running messages for other companies, and getting them into the whole ’social media’ thing, that Podtech themselves have no idea how to manage their own message

]]> By: J. M. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524556 J. M. Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:38:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524556 The better title for this blog post: "Mike Arrington Ain't Your PR Baby Daddy!" The better title for this blog post:

“Mike Arrington Ain’t Your PR Baby Daddy!”

]]> By: J. M. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524549 J. M. Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:33:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524549 Alright, already. Enough with the free for all. Being such a small community here in Web 2.0-land, we really shouldn't launch comment missiles at each other with such reckless abandon. (see Valleywag, videoblogging list, recent TC Posts etc.) That being said: Although you can share your business highs and lows with him, Mike Arrington will blog whatever the hell he feels like. TC is his domain. If you change your story, Mike will be compelled to change his blog post. It's that simple. Podtech knows this, but seems to be experiencing some serious lapses in PR judgement. But is that really a PR crime? Or just growing pains? IMHO, John Furrier and Robert Scoble are just two energetic guys with recording equipment trying to carve out their respective paths in the wilds of podcasting and vlogging. Oh, and they got funding last year to do it. Have they done it well? Um, it could be better, but it's ONLY year one. Podcasting -- video and audio -- is a still a new medium looking for an audience and advertisers to boot. Remember, $5million dollars in TVLand pays for 1 or 2 "30 min sitcoms" -- and PodTech's been able to create a full company, with hundreds of web shows featuring a wide array of online talent that has really helped pave the way for the real money to come into this space. Early to market doesn't alway mean you make the best market decisions and success is determined by how fast you can learn from your mistakes. Podtech deserves to be allowed to learn from any mistakes they're making -- perceived, real or otherwise. We all do. :-) Alright, already. Enough with the free for all. Being such a small community here in Web 2.0-land, we really shouldn’t launch comment missiles at each other with such reckless abandon. (see Valleywag, videoblogging list, recent TC Posts etc.)

That being said: Although you can share your business highs and lows with him, Mike Arrington will blog whatever the hell he feels like. TC is his domain. If you change your story, Mike will be compelled to change his blog post.

It’s that simple.

Podtech knows this, but seems to be experiencing some serious lapses in PR judgement. But is that really a PR crime? Or just growing pains?

IMHO, John Furrier and Robert Scoble are just two energetic guys with recording equipment trying to carve out their respective paths in the wilds of podcasting and vlogging.

Oh, and they got funding last year to do it.

Have they done it well? Um, it could be better, but it’s ONLY year one. Podcasting — video and audio — is a still a new medium looking for an audience and advertisers to boot.

Remember, $5million dollars in TVLand pays for 1 or 2 “30 min sitcoms” — and PodTech’s been able to create a full company, with hundreds of web shows featuring a wide array of online talent that has really helped pave the way for the real money to come into this space.

Early to market doesn’t alway mean you make the best market decisions and success is determined by how fast you can learn from your mistakes.

Podtech deserves to be allowed to learn from any mistakes they’re making — perceived, real or otherwise.

We all do. :-)

]]> By: Simon Edhouse http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524405 Simon Edhouse Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:39:58 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524405 Gee... somehow this situation is just overflowing with human drama isn't it? ...and isn't the blogosphere Soooooooo Bitchy! phew... Be warned all, Michael Arrington wields more power that Zeus, and apparently, just when you may think you've got his ear and can leverage that nexus to get some attention, he may just humiliate you in the eyes of everyone who's attention you crave. ~ 'Live by the sword, Die by the sword'... I guess. Really intrigued by the justification about when "Off the Record" can suddenly become "On the Record". - Ouch! This is the down-side of working in silly-valley presumably, you're all a little too familiar to each other and the micro can quickly get macro... However, have to say that apart from the feeling that this is somehow more personal that is really evident, I think TechCrunch is broadly correct here. They have the right and responsibility to report it as they see it and this little drama only strengthens their brand. Gee… somehow this situation is just overflowing with human drama isn’t it? …and isn’t the blogosphere Soooooooo Bitchy! phew… Be warned all, Michael Arrington wields more power that Zeus, and apparently, just when you may think you’ve got his ear and can leverage that nexus to get some attention, he may just humiliate you in the eyes of everyone who’s attention you crave. ~ ‘Live by the sword, Die by the sword’… I guess. Really intrigued by the justification about when “Off the Record” can suddenly become “On the Record”. - Ouch! This is the down-side of working in silly-valley presumably, you’re all a little too familiar to each other and the micro can quickly get macro… However, have to say that apart from the feeling that this is somehow more personal that is really evident, I think TechCrunch is broadly correct here. They have the right and responsibility to report it as they see it and this little drama only strengthens their brand.

]]> By: Tom O'Leary http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524307 Tom O'Leary Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:28:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524307 meow... meow…

]]> By: appalled http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524251 appalled Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:19:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524251 Furrier: High school QB who istole Arrington's girlfriend. Arrington: Spurned loser ex-boyfriend Scoble: Fat geek who abandoned his books to hang out with high school QB in the hopes of getting some scraps Memo to Arrington: Your holier than thou speeches would have a tinge more credibility if you were *truly* objective. So, please save your champion of the truth bs for your imaginary friends. Memo to Scoble and Furrier: Please stop being pathetic blog whores who respond to every comment on every blog and start focusing on building a business. You are not in a high school beauty contest anymore and you are not just wasting some VC fund's money. You are actually playing with some poor guy's pension that Calpers had the poor judgment to invest in the idiot VC firm who assumed having fun at a strip club with Furrier equates automatically to Furrier being a great CEO. Memo to the PodTech board: Are you for real? Do you even exist? Do you pay these guys to plead with Arrington for two hours on the phone? Is this the caliber of executives you want representing your investments? Get your heads out of your asses, fire these guys and act like you have an obligation to your LPs that go beyond collecting management fees. Furrier: High school QB who istole Arrington’s girlfriend.
Arrington: Spurned loser ex-boyfriend
Scoble: Fat geek who abandoned his books to hang out with high school QB in the hopes of getting some scraps

Memo to Arrington: Your holier than thou speeches would have a tinge more credibility if you were *truly* objective. So, please save your champion of the truth bs for your imaginary friends.

Memo to Scoble and Furrier: Please stop being pathetic blog whores who respond to every comment on every blog and start focusing on building a business. You are not in a high school beauty contest anymore and you are not just wasting some VC fund’s money. You are actually playing with some poor guy’s pension that Calpers had the poor judgment to invest in the idiot VC firm who assumed having fun at a strip club with Furrier equates automatically to Furrier being a great CEO.

Memo to the PodTech board: Are you for real? Do you even exist? Do you pay these guys to plead with Arrington for two hours on the phone? Is this the caliber of executives you want representing your investments? Get your heads out of your asses, fire these guys and act like you have an obligation to your LPs that go beyond collecting management fees.

]]> By: B S meter http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524214 B S meter Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:38:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524214 Dear Podtech, Don't mess with Michael Arrington! EOM Dear Podtech,

Don’t mess with Michael Arrington! EOM

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]]> By: Dhananjay http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524135 Dhananjay Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:23:53 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524135 I wasn't exactly referring to the financial aspect, in reference to "laughingstock", but I'll leave the rest to your imagination. I wasn’t exactly referring to the financial aspect, in reference to “laughingstock”, but I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.

]]> By: yajnan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524121 yajnan Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:10:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524121 I know the guys over at PodTech including Scoble and Furrier. They are making money and have clients. Furrier has built a company and team from scratch to establish the market and create revenue growth and as they say cash flow positive. I'd hardly call that a laughingstock when others entrepreneurs can't sell or make money. People who make money on sand hill road and build companies are viewed as good entrepreneurs. Sand Hill road only cares if you make money. I know the guys over at PodTech including Scoble and Furrier. They are making money and have clients. Furrier has built a company and team from scratch to establish the market and create revenue growth and as they say cash flow positive. I’d hardly call that a laughingstock when others entrepreneurs can’t sell or make money. People who make money on sand hill road and build companies are viewed as good entrepreneurs. Sand Hill road only cares if you make money.

]]> By: Dhananjay http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524095 Dhananjay Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:35:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524095 They don't need PR, they have "social media", whatever that is. I think Robert will be ok post-Podtech, but that Furrier guy is fast becoming (correction: already is) a Sand Hill laughingstock, I see no hope for him. They don’t need PR, they have “social media”, whatever that is. I think Robert will be ok post-Podtech, but that Furrier guy is fast becoming (correction: already is) a Sand Hill laughingstock, I see no hope for him.

]]> By: Chris http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524041 Chris Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:41:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524041 Someone take the mic away from Scoble before he blows this up even more. Man, you podtech guys needs some PR...bad! Someone take the mic away from Scoble before he blows this up even more. Man, you podtech guys needs some PR…bad!

]]> By: Chris Nagele http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524024 Chris Nagele Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:21:54 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1524024 I think people forget that most of your posts are just personal opinions, which only hold up if others agree with you. For me, Podtech content has been the ONLY moderate length web video content I have ever watch from beginning to end. Both Scoble and Calcanis have really put together some great episodes. Why? Because I am actually in the tech industry instead of just reporting on it. The episodes I have seen proved valuable enough to sit and watch for 30+ minutes, which is not an easy task sitting at a desk. That's just my opinion. I think people forget that most of your posts are just personal opinions, which only hold up if others agree with you.

For me, Podtech content has been the ONLY moderate length web video content I have ever watch from beginning to end. Both Scoble and Calcanis have really put together some great episodes. Why? Because I am actually in the tech industry instead of just reporting on it. The episodes I have seen proved valuable enough to sit and watch for 30+ minutes, which is not an easy task sitting at a desk.

That’s just my opinion.

]]> By: Martin Ringlein http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1523994 Martin Ringlein Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:16:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/dear-podtech-im-not-your-vp-marketing/#comment-1523994 This is why I love TechCrunch! This is why I love TechCrunch!

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