The Streaming Wars is a ruthless battlefield where funding alone cannot guarantee success. Casualties of the streaming wars so far include 9×9.tv, Vidme and Go90 but there are many others too. In this article I’d like to provide my thoughts on why I think several platforms were doomed from the start, and how Zenither has the potential to still rise like a phoenix. Vidme is a notable example as it received a lot of fanfare when it first launched. Thousands
I Don’t Like the Disney Channel and I Don’t Believe Disney+ Will Kill Netflix
If you read my blog it should come as little surprise to learn that I have spent a lot of time studying Disney. The company is one of the biggest players in the entertainment world and the company is often at the fore-front of revolutions in the business. I admit that there are also parts of Walt Disney the man’s personal story which I find eerily mirror my own. For example when I learned the tale of how Charles Mintz
The Advice I Gave YouTube in 2010 and How I Used It to Design Zenither
My experience with YouTube stretches back all the way to its initial launch in 2005. I was among the first people to actively watch videos on the platform, and I created my own account in 2006 to publish my own videos, too. So as a long time user of the platform I have experienced all of the changes which had occurred on the platform, and seen how it changed over time. There have been times I had the opportunity to
Ahsoka Tano and the Importance of Character Development
I have written a few posts in the past that are very critical of Disney’s handling of the Star Wars property since their acquisition. The majority of my criticisms boil down to Disney trying to force Star Wars to fit into the MCU model. What I realize I haven’t spoken enough about is what I do like about Star Wars in general. As far as sagas go, I much prefer the original trilogy (IV to VI). This is the Star
The exploitation of children by social media sites is ridiculous and unnecessary
This article will likely be shorter than I could really elaborate on but I wanted to make a note of something. I am a fan of the YouTube Channel Nexpo which recently made the following video about a “children’s chat” site that allows adults to interact with children, seemingly to solicit them. The responses the site admins gave about how they cannot secure the site is rather ridiculous. Look I have been using the internet since I
The Consequences of Poor Civics Education in America
“I must have dreamed a thousand dreams Been haunted by a million screams But I can hear the marching feet They’re moving into the street Now, did you read the news today? They say the danger has gone away But I can see the fire’s still alight They’re burning into the night There’s too many men, too many people Making too many problems And there’s not much love to go around Can’t you see this is the land of confusion?“
How to Stay Motivated as the World Burns Around You
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,