Podcast provider PodShow is relaunching its service today as Mevio with a focus on original episodic content programmed for the Internet, the company said.
Mevio said it will offer “millions” of hours of episodic programming, videos and music centered around a social media experience.
Meh. Natali Del Conte was the best thing that happened to PodShow, and she left. Cali is still there and others, but I don’t think that they ever recovered in the minds of creators from their contract being read by Keith and the Girl.
I wish them well with their new identity, but I would tend to disagree with the post-podcasting time.
Podcasting is just RSS file delivery. It’s a season pass for your show. If you’re not using it, you’re losing money. People can subscribe and then forget about it.
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April 23, 2008 at 10:54 am
Do they still have First Class Virgin Atlantic for their executives?
April 23, 2008 at 10:59 am
Well said, Kent. Couldn’t have said it any better myself.
April 23, 2008 at 11:38 am
What doomed Podshow was that it plain sucked, ugly interface, came out of the gate way too late, and YouTube phenomenom just kicked their ass. Not to mention, NPR and ESPN content killed them too. It was way too cliquish with Adam Curry suckups. A big bust for Adam Curry and Ron Bloom.
April 23, 2008 at 11:54 am
And this “original episodic content” is different from what they had how?
While I understand the trend to move away from “Podcasting” as a defining term instead of simply “media,” I wonder if there isn’t something more to the rebranding. Podshow has gotten a lot of negative press. Maybe a change of name would partially mask some of those articles you’ll find when doing a Google search. Maybe I’m stretching, but I just find it curious…
April 23, 2008 at 12:07 pm
NewTeeVee interviewed Ron Bloom about it.
http://blip.tv/file/850348
April 23, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Usually when you change names, it *is* to shake off bad vibes (Altria, anyone?). “Podshow” certainly has that.
April 23, 2008 at 4:16 pm
“First the iPod, now the world.” Ron Bloom. Subscribe on the network you knew as Podshow.
April 23, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Podshow’s always been in their own little bubble. We’ll see if this is a real change or just cosmetic.
http://ericsusch.com/2008/04/23/podshow-implodes-into-mevio/
April 23, 2008 at 5:39 pm
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April 23, 2008 at 6:25 pm
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April 24, 2008 at 10:04 am
PodShow UK producer here (still PodShow in the UK for now) from what the producers have been told Mevio is moving into a new direction from PodShow.
The primary reason behind the change of name was to move away from the evil “Pod” word. Advertisers and clients don’t take the word “Pod” seriously, it has connotations with amateurism, Mevio obviously wanted to move away from that.
Having read (and signed) the PodShow contract I must say that the contract read out by KATG in no way resembles the real artefact. KATG are well known haters of PodShow and their producers, I’m not saying that it was fabricated, I’m saying that it was manipulated. By only reading out part of a contract you can twist it to however you want it to sound.
The PodShow contract is not a transferral of your soul, it’s simply a standard exclusivity of distribution agreement. Which means that the producers still retain all rights to their work; it’s just that within the period of the contract the show that they sign up to PodShow has to be uploaded to their servers, simple as. PodShow has no right to interfere with the show’s production.
I personally am in full support of Mevio (for obvious reasons) and it is taking a step in the right direction. Yes they may have fucked up at the start, but the race isn’t over yet.
April 24, 2008 at 3:57 pm
This is great. From the podshow press release:
“We have never believed in user-generated content as a business, or even as a sustainable entertainment offering,” said Ron Bloom
From Ron’s site:
“I put forward the 5/50 rule that predicted within 5 years, over 50% of the content consumed would be created by other consumers. From my vantage point, I’m now thinking that I underestimated the percentages.”
April 25, 2008 at 11:48 am
Day one, and they’ve already managed to steal most of my content. Bastards.
April 26, 2008 at 2:09 am
http://tinyurl.com/4exm8w
All their feeds are Mevio feeds, not native feeds.
Check any show’s rss feed icon.
Deja Vu.
April 29, 2008 at 6:09 pm
OK, I *am* signed with Podsh…er Mevio, but at least they changed the contract before I signed in that we now own all of our content. I never would have signed it if they claimed ownership.
August 10, 2009 at 5:45 am
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