Welcome to 2020, where nothing seems to go right. The year was starting out pretty good. I was super excited. We were going to pitch at some events at SXSW and get into conferences. And then we all know what happened. Now the world is crazy. It can be easy to sink into a depression about the current state of the world, but it’s helpful for me at least to remember where I have been before so that I know
Why I Hate Almost Everything Disney Star Wars Except The Mandalorian
Last year in May I wrote a blog titled, “Why Disney’s Star Wars Strategy Isn’t Going to Work and What They Should Do”. It was a followup to my post, “Why I Think Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a Bad Movie“. It’s been over a year, and now the most recent Disney SW film, The Rise of Skywalker, has been released to reviews even more critical the TLJ was. And right off the bat, let’s be clear here that
Why YouTubers Should Start Channels on Zenither Before January 1st 2020
As you all should be aware, come Jan 1st YouTube is implementing AI bots to go on seek and destroy missions to remove children oriented channels from their platform. Channels deemed kids content will not appear in search, will lose commenting and they will also stop notifying subscribers about new video uploads. This is not hyperbole; this is happening. If you want to keep your businesses you have to adapt to the changing times. You need a new home for
How YouTubers Can Survive FTC COPPA Apocalypse (Join Zenither)
I don’t know how many of my friends who are YouTubers pay attention and see my posts these days. But I wanted to remind people that I am the President of Zenither, a multi-channel video streaming platform. We’re a startup with four patents on our video streaming technology that allows 24/7 TV channels to be managed and controlled with a laptop, making it as easy to run a TV network as it is to manage a YouTube channel. While we’re
Ghostbusters 2020 Prediction: It’ll Probably Work
Everyone has heard that the Ghostbusters franchise has a new film coming next year which is titled at the moment as ‘Ghostbusters 2020’. There hasn’t been many official details released about it but from what I have read, it sounds promising. In the past I have been extremely critical of Sony’s handling of the Ghostbusters franchise. I wrote two blog articles about the attempted 2016 reboot film; the first article correctly predicted the movie would bomb. I really want to
An Introduction to Dynamic Television Broadcasting System Used by Zenither
Intro: With our Zenither TV Anywhere platform we have built “cable TV without the cable“. We believe our technology can allow us to be the #1 TV carrier in the world. This is a boastful statement but it is one based upon the strength of the technology which we have imagined and engineered. It’s not a hypothetical; right now we are doing TV broadcasting in a way that nobody else is doing it and which we believe is the future
How I Promoted My Self-Published Book to the Top of an Amazon Bestseller List
In the past I have written about how many authors are getting bad information on how to promote a self-published book. One of my core strengths as an entrepreneur is my marketing ability. It’s taken a lot of time, but by suffering through a lot of mistakes I’ve managed to find a process that works for me. I had built the Power Up TV network using certain techniques, and I’ve also applied these techniques to the books I have written,
The Entrepreneurial Life Requires Sacrifice
Six years ago ( 2012 ) I bought new shoes. This was to replace the pair of shoes pictured above, which I had purchased when I got out of the Army in 2005. So I wore these shoes for seven years. I took a photo of these shoes before I threw them away because I wanted to remember that. I’m starting this blog post by mentioning this because I think it illustrates how little money I had in my young
What Movie Theatres Should Do to Survive a Digital First World
It’s no secret that the movie theatre industry is in trouble. Last year attendance declined to a 23 year low. And while the foreign box office grows in revenue size much of this growth has been in countries like China which have restricted rules and only allow a small number of foreign films to receive theatrical distribution per year. Studios like Legendary Entertainment have allowed themselves to be purchased by Chinese owners in attempts to bypass these restrictions but these efforts
Zenither Open Beta Has Launched!!!
( This is a copy of the shareholder newsletter, also available at https://www.startengine.com/martell-broadcasting-systems ) Hi all, This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. The Zenither TV Anywhere platform has now launched in open beta mode! You can download the Android app at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sciodev.zenither or watch the Free web app from the button at the top of http://www.zenither.com/ website. The iPhone / iOS app has a few more things to tidy up but we expect it to go live toward the end of this week
Pre-Launch Party & Thunder Studios Lawsuit Update
( This blog post is a copy of the shareholder newsletter published by Martell Broadcasting Systems, Inc. on 6/22/2018 and is available to read publicly at our Start Engine listing page at https://www.startengine.com/martell-broadcasting-systems ) Hi folks, As this is our shareholder newsletter it is my job to keep everyone informed about matters of relevance to equity stakeholders. As we had two important events occur this month, I’m writing this newsletter a little early in order to honor my fiduciary duty as President
How to be Happy
“So trade that typical for something colorful And if it’s crazy, live a little crazy You can play it sensible, a king of conventional Or you can risk it all and see….” -Hugh Jackman, as P.T. Barnum in ‘The Greatest Showman’. I can be an acquired taste. I made a decision several years ago, to just try to be brutally honest when giving advice and I’ve tried to make this blog be a largely unfiltered place for my thoughts about
June Update: New Features, Our First Commercial and More!
Hi folks, I’d like to let you all know about some new exciting things that have been occurring here at MBS the past two months! Those of you following our Facebook page will know we’ve been making continual progress every day and we’re getting closer to launch, but for those who haven’t been following our page, here’s an update. 1. New offices: We’ve upgraded our offices to a location in downtown Los Angeles that is about 2,000 square feet. Our staff has settled