new irish show & podcast

Fnz

MooseJam wrote: »

there's no advertisements on your site how are you gonna make money ?

They have a similar business model to the Underpant Gnomes.

Step 1, though, is 'Get clicks'.



EDIT: Love the show guys, keep up the good work, wise up, f**k off!

Cosmonaut

how many downloads have you had ? there's no advertisements on your site how are you gonna make money?

As FNZ says were taking things slowly and getting the clicks first. Ive run many websites before and you can get bogged down in financials very quickly. The idea of the site is to create a a game site that is totally independant of publishers cashflow but still has intellegent (podcast) and entertaining (the show) debate and content about games. Myself and Denis have started full-time jobs with an aid to funding the site.

The beauty of the internet is your idea is good, it doesnt matter how much money is behind it. We'll worry about money further down the road.

Thanks again for the kind words everybody , i weve learned a lot since starting the podcast and we hope to refine and restructure the podcast continually.


EDIT:
Sorry, you asked about downloads. Each new podcast gets between 100-150 downloads within its first 2 weeks, with 80 or so of those coming from initial 2/3 iTunes downloads. Weve found however that the earler podcasts are being downloaded after people check out the new content, which is a good sign. That means that some of the older podcasts have download figures of over 300. Roughly 80% of people who click to stream the podcast from our own server listen to it fully which is also good news.

We suspect that if the show proved to catch audience, that the podcast subscriptions will highten. Also, the only sites weve promoted the podcast on are Gamespot, Boards and a few Irish game communities (IGN.ie & clan sites). Referralls from these sites are so important, so once i get down to Cork im gonna concentrate on these areas.

Whats exciting is that ive recieved encouraging emails from high level staff reviewers of various games websites. Not that theyre oppinions are more important than us gamers, but its nice to know it appeals to a broad audience.

witnessmenow

Hey guys,

Just wanted to say im really enjoying the show. I've listened to most of them in the last few days and although i really wasnt expecting much they are really decent!

Have you thought about sending a few of the podcasts to some of the smaller radio stations, you never know someone might let you on Might get your name out there a bit?

Keep up the good work anyways

EDIT: By the way, just listening to "Podcast - 27th April 2008" : You can flash the firmware of the xbox360 dvd drive without soldering, and there is no way to chip a PS3 yet!

Cosmonaut

witnessmenow wrote: »

Have you thought about sending a few of the podcasts to some of the smaller radio stations, you never know someone might let you on Might get your name out there a bit?

Thanks for the words man. As for radio, sort of, but it would have to be a different format i think. Leaner and more factual than exploritory. I worked in radio for 5 years until last week, and know that theres an audience for a diluted version of it somwhere, so who knows.

Gotta concentrate on building the audience of CitizenGame before we start whoring ourselves out to stations. We like cursing too much anyway

ciano1

Whens the first of the video shows being released???

Cosmonaut

My moving and work over the past few weeks has pushed it back, but ASAP basically. Our 2nd show is going to be from the Blizzard Invitational in Paris, so we need show 1 to be out before that with some breathing room.

When we know, youll know, but thanks for the interest. Its not going up untill we know its gettin Kotaku frontpage love lol

kingcurls

Cosmonaut wrote: »

THere is NO WAY Curls got a shout-out at near the end of the show!

Danny your so harsh!! ok to be fair i am a glory hunter..I WANT IT ALL...havent gotten a chance to listen to the more recent ones was there a GTA review done...guess there is one way to find out

ciano1

Im having podcast withdrawl symptoms today

Otacon

ciano1 wrote: »

Im having podcast withdrawl symptoms today

I know the feeling. Having cold sweats atm. Where's the hiss-covered Windows Sound Recorder podcast we were promised!?

Cosmonaut

Yea my bad folks. Deno was all readied up for it, but i just moved down and underestimated the amount of cardboard boxes that needed unloading and furniture that needed building. There is most definetly a podcast next week folks, and the rush is on to get the script for epsiode 1 of the show finalised.

Apologies to all you audio junkies, RL got in the way

Kinetic^

WE WANT PODCAST WE WANT PODCAST WE WANT PODCAST!!!!!! :pac:

Just had a quick thought there upon finishing that sentence that ended by the youtube logo in the thingy above. Why not upload the podcasts to YouTube with just your logo as the video? Would get more coverage and you can add in as many tags for it as you like.

mayordenis

Really sorry guys and hope it won't put anyone off in the future, Kinetic^ thats definately a good idea and yea with the traffic on that site it's bound to drastically increase coverage, so yea good idea, i think we're always planning on putting at least parts of the actual video show on the youtube - with maybe a Citizengame.co.uk for more. . . . thing after the 7/8 minutes are up.
we both should have pretty good connections aswell now which should speed everything up you'd be suprised how long the uploads took on dannys last connection - what a nub like.

Cosmonaut

Kinetic - great idea, shall do that for this weeks cast methinks. And yes as deno said were uploading trailers and snipets for the show to youtube.

Just a quick message to say this weeks cast shall be recorded tomorrow as its a bank holiday weekend and jesus created those so we could rest and stuff. Also deno went home for the long weekend.

ciano1

Podcast link broken methinks :mad:

Fixed now

kaimera

First time listener; started with the previous 'cast.

Trés good guys; keep it up!

Otacon

ssssssssssssssssssss...nice podcast...sssssssssssssssssssssss

ssssssssssssssssssss...good effort this week...ssssssssssssssssssssssss

ssssssssssssssssssss...can't wait for the next one...ssssssssssssssssssssssss

:pac:

white_falcon

danny stop coughing into the microphone - you're blowing the ears off me lol!

great podcast man

well done on the radio for putting the woman against the GTA drink driving into her place...feckin eedjit...

ciano1

Did ye find a new studio to record yet??

Ah weal....at least ur not reduced to recording it on a phone

mayordenis

Sorry guys I can't hear you over all the background hisssssssssss

Shiminay

I'm quite enjoying these podcasts guys, keep up the good work.

Is there no way of streaming them rather than having to download them though?

mayordenis

Originally we had it streaming from some **** streaming thing - but we'll have a look at options again itunes is good though nice background downloads :P

Shiminay

iTunes is the Devil. I won't be having it on my PC. I WON'T BE HAVING IT I TELLS YA!!!

The YouTube option previously mentioned could be a handy way around this even if it did take a little longer to put together.

witnessmenow

In work ,it streams with WM9 for me, I think you tube has a time limit so you'd have to upload multiple ones for each episode.

Otacon

/me develops the shakes.... withdrawal symptoms

Sssssssssssss...wheres the new podcast?...sssssssssssssssssss

mayordenis

oops sorry - we have the podcast but with the new situation monday is no longer an option you will have it in the next couple of hours - drop whatever you are doing and start spamming the site

ciano1

Citizengame.co.uk..........

''Welcome to the Beta: Episode One Launching May 2008!''

*Checks Calender and realises its nearly mid-june*:eek:

:pac:

mayordenis

****e . . . will have to change that . . . consult the podcast for further info

Cosmonaut

haha, were as timely as websites come. I make no apologies, the work will be worth it in the end. But in other words...sorry!

//changing text

witnessmenow

Cosmonaut wrote: »

haha, were as timely as websites come. I make no apologies, the work will be worth it in the end. But in other words...sorry!

The ironing is delicious
:pac::pac:

witnessmenow

Good poscast this week.

You might have made a mistake in rise from your grave though... NBA 05 and NFL 05 probably never made it to teh megadrive :pac:

mayordenis

witnessmenow wrote: »

Good poscast this week.

You might have made a mistake in rise from your grave though... NBA 05 and NFL 05 probably never made it to teh megadrive :pac:

ROFL :pac:

Cosmonaut

witnessmenow wrote: »

Good poscast this week.

You might have made a mistake in rise from your grave though... NBA 05 and NFL 05 probably never made it to teh megadrive :pac:

hahaha. Eh yea.
Though it was NHL not NBA so who knows

kaimera

heh, kingpin, what a game.

Soz, listening from the start here in work. God what a great game.

Cosmonaut

Podcast for this week is up. With Denis is Paris, i was joined this week by past podcast contributer Dale Cantwell for a longer than we expected podcast.

Remember Denis and myself will be reporting from The Blizzard Invitational on www.citizengame.co.uk all over the weekend, with articles and news published throughout the weekend while we record our video report on-location.

Fnz

Listened to last weeks podcast yesterday. We get it... you don't much care for Denis Dyack... rest assured that this fact is now understood by everyone!

I hope you're enjoying your (working) holiday; going forward, feel free to end each CG podcast with "well... we'll always have Paris" (ad nauseam).

ciano1

2nd Beta up

All coming together nicely

Looks like Danny has been working hard on the site in the development video

Cosmonaut

For those of you that havent seen it yet, the Blizzard Invitational special episode in online HERE.

Its near 40 minutes of footage from the entire weekend, including the cosplay, dance comps from the front row, gameplay footage, swag bag opening and the Parisian aftermath of the cup final.

Let us know what you thing

RE*AC*TOR

Don't care much for WoW, or Blizzard-ness in general, so I found the a lot of the long segments with no voiceovers to be a bit tiring. I would probably have shaved ten minutes off the overall length. Then again for a Blizzard fanboy this stuff could be like gold-dust.

Highlights for me was when the MC got their words mixed up and

FAIL came up on screen

, the stuff at the end with the spanish fans (i know it's not game related), bits when ye were wandering around with either one of ye on screen or doing a voiceover.
In all I thought the tone was great, managed to strike a fine balance between mocking and reverance. Personally I'd double the on-screen / talking time and halve the cosplay / orchestra bits.

RE*AC*TOR

From the podcast - bricking = making into a brick. Ie having no other use.

The other definition of bricking involves to bricks and some dangling testicles.

Kinetic^

Video was good. Like Reactor, I wouldn't be that big a fan of Blizzard's genre of games (just ordered WC3 & Frowen Throne though) but I found the event well covered. I skipped the dancing part, couldn't bring myself to watch it. :pac:

RobertFoster

Kinetic^ wrote: »

I skipped the dancing part, couldn't bring myself to watch it. :pac:

One of the best parts Dunno what it was all about though, what have Blizzard got to do with dancing? I've never played a Blizzard game, so I probably missed some in-jokes.

mayordenis

Ok just to clear up - in World of Warcraft each race and gender has a distinct dance and they are all based on a real dance like the male night elves and jackson and the male orcs have MC Hammer I think,
So they always have a dance comp at there things - I get where people are coming from but I'm getting mixed messages because alot of people think the dance and costume comps were really entertaining like Robery Above, and I agree - it's was excellent and also really cringy.

New podcast is up btw with our new proper equipment -mixing desk - nice mics - also have a nice 2nd camera on the way so we can essentially get moving quicker on the video content and also basically we need to camera's.

RE*AC*TOR

I enjoyed the dancing more the second time watching. That male human with the disco was really good.

RuggieBear

dancing was great.

RobertFoster

mayordenis wrote: »

New podcast is up btw with our new proper equipment -mixing desk

Have you broken the mixing desk over Danny's head yet? It was obvious black man/little girl was getting to you (me too tbh!)

thebman

Kharn wrote: »

iTunes is the Devil. I won't be having it on my PC. I WON'T BE HAVING IT I TELLS YA!!!

The YouTube option previously mentioned could be a handy way around this even if it did take a little longer to put together.

You could host on exiledgamers video section:
http://www.exiledgamers.com/video/categories

We have an embeddable player. I'm a mod there in case anyone is wondering why I said we

We would appreciate the original content as its mostly gameplay videos with other peoples sound tracks and some user recorded gamer videos so it would be nice to get something like this up there too.

Just mentioning it as a possiblity.

Fnz

"Black football"?

That's the most racist thing I've ever heard. You, sir, are worse than Hitler! :P


P.s. Mixing desk antics made me laugh, due to ridiculousness! Then got kinda annoying... then you 'brought it back' as it were ("THIS BIG?")... then annoying again. Short, controlled bursts, dude.

RE*AC*TOR

I lolled my ass off with the voices on the mixing desk.
Little scary girl voice
I wept.

witnessmenow

15 second blank intro .... FAIL!

Also Wall-e is fantastic:pac:

mayordenis

lol I can't listen to it in work,
But i'll beat danny to death later :P