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This is episode six of my Digital Life show for
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June twenty fifth, twenty thirteen. I'm Rob Greenley and thank
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you for downloading or just clicking play from my website
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from all over the world. My focus this week is
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YouTube content, good video podcast content? Or are we seeing
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the youtubeization of video podcasting? Is this a good or
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bad trend? Or is it all good? I'll get into
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that later in the show. The other topic this week
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is the birth of an animal pet podcasting star is
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happening this week and I will dive into that as well.
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And the other last two things. I'm going to follow
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up on my backyard aquaponics project as I go back
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into the greenhouse for a report later in the show.
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And lastly we'll hear some show comments from Sean and
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Jim So. I can be reached at Rob at Rob
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in iTunes, the Windows Phone podcast Area, and Stitcher the
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content area for a Windows Phone and Zoom at Microsoft.
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And if you have a podcast and you'd like to
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get that added to the catalog, please send me an
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email to Podcasts and that's with an s at Microsoft
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dot com. Well, let's dive into the topics that I
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have for this week. We are seeing the birth of
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an animal pet podcasting superstar. That's happening. The launch of
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a Little Bub show series from Revision three in Discovery
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was launched this past week. The first episode was only
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about a minute and forty four seconds long, but it
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was definitely awe inspiring. There's no question about it. You
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should definitely go check it out. The name of the
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show is Lil Bub and that's l Il Space Bub.
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It's basically a Catually, it's had some great success on YouTube.
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And what Revision III decided to do since this cat
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is so cute and cuddly and has an army of
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loyal fans, that they figured they would create a show
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on their network that focused on the life of this cat.
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And I guess this cat won the Best Cat on
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the Internet award. I guess it was through some friskies
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or a whiskas contest online. I guess the first version
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of this show, it was basically like a preview episode.
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It wasn't even a full show. Garnered about two hundred
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and twelve thousand views and four days on YouTube, and
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his page on YouTube already has thirty four thousand followers.
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This cat is a little unusual. I guess it has
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quite a few birth defects. I mean, you should definitely
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go to the about this cat and read up. He
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has shorter than normal legs and kind of a shorter
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jaw than what's normal, and he's just kind of like
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a very tiny cat that looks really really cute and
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has his tongue is always sticking out. So anyway, I
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think this is kind of a unique moment in the
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podcast area, and I just wanted to let you all
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know about it because it definitely got my attention when
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I watched this first episode. We may be seeing the
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birth of an animal pet podcasting superstar here, so definitely
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go check it out. Then, I also wanted to do
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a follow up update on my episode one of this show.
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My aquaponic system is up and fully operational, and I
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wanted to give a little greenhouse report from in the
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greenhouse of the status of this It won't be too long,
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but I just wanted to give you an update from
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inside the greenhouse. So let's go ahead and play that
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well as you can hear. That is the sound of
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bubbling water and flowing water. And I have the aquaponics
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system that is set up in my backyard up and operational,
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and things are happening, and I do have some produce
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starting to grow in here. But over the last week
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I was able to get water into the system and
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get it up and running. I actually gave a report
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a couple of weeks ago on the status of the
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aquaponic system in my backyard and just wanted to do
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a follow up with it. Actually, I'm standing inside of
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the greenhouse right now, and things are flowing. I have
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two what's called media grow beds, which are comprised of
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basically little pummus shaped balls, and the water just flows
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through those rips down into what's called deep water culture
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raft beds, which are basically two So I have two
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media grow beds that are about three feet long, each
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one of them by maybe almost two feet wide. And
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then I have a fish tank that sits underneath those
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grow beds that's about five feet long by about three
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feet tall, and that's where the fish actually live and
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they poop and do their thing and live their lives
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inside of that tank and create fertilizer or the complete
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system that will grow lettuces and tomatoes and whatever we
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want to grow in here. It's basically a dirtless a
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dirt less growing system that just uses flowing water and
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waste that's generated by fish. It's a complete natural process.
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beds that sits on top of the fish tank, and
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water flows through those and falls down into these what's
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called these deep water rafts, which I started to mention there.
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They're basically long, basically tanks that are about a foot tall.
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They're about five feet long by a foot tall, and
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they have like a piece of foam that actually sits
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on top with holes grilled in the foam, and that's
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where the plants grow and their roots just dangle into
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the water. So the water provides all of the nutrients
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and oxygen that the plant needs to grow and thrive.
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lot faster than growing in dirt because it gives the
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plant all the nutrients that it needs to thrive. And
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it's inside of a greenhouse. I have, you know, fairly
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controlled temperature. It's warmer in here, it's protected from the elements,
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and I'll actually post a photograph of this system as
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part of this blog post and this podcast, so you
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can actually see what it looks like. Actually, I'll probably
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even try and get up a video as well so
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you can actually see how it works as well. But
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it's actually pretty neat. I have grill lights that are above,
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and I also have a fish tank heater that keeps
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the temperature of the fish tank at a fairly constant temperature,
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though it's summertime in the Northwest and it can get
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a little warm up here. But I just wanted to
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give a little report from inside of the greenhouse again,
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an update, and I appreciate you listening to my podcast.
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So I'm going to go out with the sound of water. Well,
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it's always fun to take this show out into the
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real world and hear the sounds of the real world
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life out there. And it's always soothing to hear the
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sound of flowing water and bubbling things. So the acoponic
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system is in the process of cycling. From a biology perspective,
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I'm basically doing a what's called a fishless cycling of
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the biofiltration in the system, so I can add fish
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later and not have a possibility of killing off any
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fish in the cycling process. Basically, every aquarium or tank
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that you have, you know that you would buy or
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have fish in, has to go through this process. And
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this is just on a much bigger scale. I've got
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probably three or four hundred gallons of water in this
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whole system, so it takes a little bit of a
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process to go through. And I'm going through and doing
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water tests and testing the chemistry of the water. And
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then we're also in the process of trying to figure
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out what plants we want to grow in the in
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the acaponic system. We're leaning towards pretty much starting out
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with like a romine and fancy lettuces and things like that,
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but we may branch out and get into egg plant
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and do other types of things. And I'll definitely bring
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a quick update to that here, and I also I'll
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post a video to my blog of the visual portion
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of a tour. My next concern with the acoponic system
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is my tank water levels and having a pump shut
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off system, so if I ever have a pump failure
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or a water overflow situation that the system will automatically
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shut down. I don't currently have that right now. And
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then also I wanted to add sometional kind of insulation
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in the greenhouse for the winter up here in the Northwest,
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it gets a little cold. So and definitely go look
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for my video tour that I'll post on my website
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at Rob Greenley dot com. So definitely check that out
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if you have an interest in a backyard aquaponics system,
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which is cool but pretty complex to actually deploy in
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the real world. So let's dive into my main topic
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of this week, and it really does get back to
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this topic with a little bubb and is a YouTube
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video series going to be successful as a podcast? And
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I think it is an interesting question. It's one that
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I've posed before and it really, I guess maybe gets
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back to and this bigger discussion about podcasting is just
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another form of distribution for any kind of media, right,
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So if you create a show, it can be a
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minute long, or two minutes long, or five minutes long,
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or an hour and a half long, like my last
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week's podcast episode was an hour and a half long.
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I think that there's different expectations in the YouTube area
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versus video podcasting, or at least it has been in
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the past, and we may be seeing kind of a
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transition happening right now, though I do have to say
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that on the video podcasting side, short form videos have
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been around for a long time in the video podcasting area,
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but I do think that the video podcast side has
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tended to, at least from the past anyway, has tended
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towards being a little bit more TV like, a little
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longer form content. It caters to a little bit older
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audience than what you typically see on YouTube from a
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a serialized show type of thing, which tends to be
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a lot shorter. It tends to be, you know, a
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person that's sitting in front of a webcam and just
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talking to their audience and doing that kind of thing,
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where video podcasts have tended to be more TV like content,
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a little bit longer form. So I think you have
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this view that a Revision III is looking at this
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a little bub series as being you know, we're making
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it really for YouTube, because that's the YouTube consumption paradigm,
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is short form personality driven content, and they're just putting
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it out as a video podcast to build on that success.
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I guess that may not be entirely the case, So
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that that's the impression that I'm getting, is that the
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programming that I'm seeing from video podcasters out there are
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tending to cater a little more to the YouTube distribution.
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But I think that this podcast and many others that
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are being put out by kind of just content creators,
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can be successful in both areas. But I think that
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keeping it short, like a minute and a half, maybe
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too short for success in the video podcast area. I
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just think that the expectation is that the viewers want
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a little more value for the commitment that they have
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to make to get a video podcast, as opposed to YouTube,
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where it really doesn't take a lot of commitment to
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consume content. On YouTube, you just click a play button.
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you know, you subscribe and you it's a little more
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difficult to find the content and that kind of stuff.
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The target audiences for I wanted to draw a little
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bit more of a demographic kind of profile here. The
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video podcast audiences tend to skew towards thirty plus around age.
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The YouTube tends to be less than thirty, and I
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do think that that drives some expectations, though I think
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depending on the content, it can certainly appeal to a
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very wide range of ages, though I think I have
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to couch this by saying that video podcasts are being
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consumed more and more on mobile devices, which tends to
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be a little shorter form content, so you know, it
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may be okay for short form YouTube type content to
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make it over to video podcasting as another distribution method
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for those shows. So I think that it's very possible
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for those shows to be success full in both size.
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Though I do think that podcasts just in general is
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a domain that's starting to really be dominated by audio
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and on demand radio, and I think that will be
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the type of content that will continue and flourish in
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the podcast area, where a video side will always be
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kind of a sideline player. One other kind of twist
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of this too is c net TV has a show
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called It's The Always On Show with Molly Wood. This
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started out as a video podcast and a streaming show
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on c Net's website, but if you go watch it now,
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it's trying to become a real TV show. It has
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basically breaks that are perfect for the insertion of TV
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like ads, and I think it definitely mirrors the production
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model of a regular broadcast TV show, which may be
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where they're trying to go with that show, and it
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may wind up on a CBS affiliate or something like that,
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or on Saturdays or something here down the line. So
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that's a wrap on my main topic for the show.
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This week, it's going to be a little bit shorter
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show than what we've had the last couple of weeks
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because I had conversations with other folks on the show.
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That's not going to be the case this week. But
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next week, I definitely want to dive a little deeper
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into the global podcasting topic and we'll be hopefully speaking
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with some other folks overseas, you know, about those trends