Rocketboom
Rocketboom is a ( Monday through Friday) daily updated, mostly three-minute video blog. This was until June 2006 as a collaboration between the actress Amanda Congdon, who also acted as hostess, and the co - producer Andrew Baron.
The two started Rocketboom on 26 October 2004. Congdons last Rocketboom entry was made on 23 June 2006. Gave Andrew Baron on July 11, 2006, the end of the cooperation in a short memo known and confirmed this on 12 July by the former MTV Europe Video Jockey Joanne Colan as " Übergangsgastgeberin " introduced. Congdon disagreed on its website the official Rocketboom version is in the claims that she wanted to reorient, and described the events as being sacked.
On 20 April 2009 Joanne Colan was replaced by the YouTube blogger Caitlin Hill as a presenter, but did not stay long. Since July 6, 2009 Molly Windman presents the broadcast.
Rocketboom is a daily basis with more than 300,000 downloads, one of the most successful video blogs in the world. As a German copy shall Ehrensenf.
History And Popularity
Rocketboom started in 2004 with 700 viewers daily, about 70,000 spectators in the first few months. In early 2005, the blog was featured on CBS Evening News and other media reported on it. On January 9, 2006 Newsweek wrote that Rocketboom daily have about 130,000 spectators.
On February 2, 2006 Rocketboom was involved in an episode of the television series CSI: In one scene, the killer looks of the report on his act on Rocketboom on. Later, the New York Times reported about the big crowds of the hit show.
In the spring of 2006, Rocketboom reached the status of at least 250,000 completed downloads a day. Each of the daily episodes has been downloaded more than 300,000 times. Rocketboom reported that several popular episodes have been downloaded up to a million times.
In April 2006, the first advertisement was included in the show.
The daily video entries on the Rocketboom site built between 2004-2006 under the direction of Baron, some of the entries from 2006 under Mario Librandi.
The piece of music that opened each show is called " Zoom a little Zoom " from the 1959 released album Space Songs by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer. The rights to the recording are off. So the song is public domain. Was sung by Tom Glazer and the piece Dottie Evans, backed by Tony Mottola.
Employee
Anchors and correspondents:
- Annie (Los Angeles )
- Andy Carvin ( Boston)
- Zadi Diaz (Los Angeles )
- Ruud Elmendorp ( Nairobi )
- Steve Garfield ( Boston)
- Milt Lee (South Dakota)
- Ella Morton (New York)
- Chuck Olsen ( Minneapolis )
- Bre Pettis (Seattle )
- Tyson Root ( Houston )
- Stefan M. Seydel ( Switzerland / Germany / Austria )
- Graham Walker ( Prague)
- Molly Windman (Studio New York)
Technical and editorial team:
- Andrew Baron
- Kenyatta Cheese
- Leah D' Emilio
- Bob Geile
- Andrew Kornhaber
- Greg luminaires
- Chris Menning
- Elspeth Rountre
- Barry Pousman.
- Jamie Wilkinson