Marathon Feed Question

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » June 6th, 2010, 4:30 am

I'm curious if the marathon feed helped or hurt us this year.

Mo Daviau · Post by **Mo Daviau** » June 6th, 2010, 12:29 pm

I watched from my mom's house in San Diego! If I had been in town, though, I would have come to the theater.

The Drewd · Post by **The Drewd** » June 6th, 2010, 3:42 pm

I have a broken ankle and the Hideout has too many stairs/potentially distant parking, so without the stream I'd have missed it all.

jillybee72 · Post by **jillybee72** » June 6th, 2010, 5:16 pm

I watched from hundreds of miles away....do you want my vote?

zyrain · Post by **zyrain** » June 6th, 2010, 5:20 pm

Stats:

Stream Started: 1:37pm on Jun 4, 2010
Stream Ended: 11:37am on Jun 6, 2010
Total Time: 1 day, 14 hours, 45 minutes

Total Viewer Time Wasted: 23 days, 15 hours, 50 minutes

Unique Viewers: 618
Total Viewers: 1,013
Average Viewers: 15

Post by **Jon Bolden** » June 6th, 2010, 5:33 pm

I checked it out a few times coming and out of my house, so it was really nice to have for downtime. Maybe we should charge for it! Just kidding

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » June 6th, 2010, 5:56 pm

last I heard, it was still up a couple of hours ago...Sunday afternoon....

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » June 6th, 2010, 7:06 pm

I think ultimately the number of people not in Austin who got to watch parts of the Marathon justifies it. That was pretty cool!

I think keeping it sort of underground is the way to go... don't promote it on the website or anything, but people share it with their friends and people they know will be interested.

I wish Ustream archived streams, but I guess that would be insane.

Justin D. · Post by **Justin D.** » June 6th, 2010, 7:18 pm

I'm sure there were some people who could have come to the theater, but watched online instead. I liked it though and got to check out some of the shows before I took the stage when I wouldn't have had time to do so otherwise.

However, it would've been cool if there had been a PayPal donation button with it, if that was at all possible.

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » June 6th, 2010, 7:59 pm

Justin D. wrote: However, it would've been cool if there had been a PayPal donation button with it, if that was at all possible.

That's a great idea. If we do it next year, it be cool to have a special page with the video embedded and a way to donate money if you're so inclined, plus some text to guilt Austinites into coming down physically.

Brian Boyko · Post by **Brian Boyko** » June 6th, 2010, 10:29 pm

Roy Janik begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting wrote:I think ultimately the number of people not in Austin who got to watch parts of the Marathon justifies it. That was pretty cool!

I think keeping it sort of underground is the way to go... don't promote it on the website or anything, but people share it with their friends and people they know will be interested.

I wish Ustream archived streams, but I guess that would be insane.

I'm actually really, really pissed off.

I had nothing to do this weekend, I wanted to see this from New Zealand, but because you didn't promote the live stream anywhere... or e-mailed me directly, or twittered me, or god help me, facebooked me - and I KEEP getting facebook invites for live events in Austin that I can't attend, but THIS, which I CAN, I didn't get...

I missed the whole thing. If you had asked me, I could have helped you figure out how to record the whole thing locally as you stream so that I might be able to watch it NOW, even though I volunteered to try to help... repeatedly... on the forums, and didn't get a response back. Instead, I missed the whole thing.

I'm on Skype, Twitter, Facebook, and I have an e-mail address. No one in Austin bothered to give me the slightest notice. I really feel like I was snubbed by the entire Austin improv community on this, and it hurts. It really hurts.

I don't care if you promote the damn thing or not, but DO tell your friends who can't make it!

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » June 6th, 2010, 10:52 pm

Sorry Brian. It definitely wasn't meant as a snub. The whole live feed came together super last minute, and I didn't think it was going to happen. But Neal managed to get it up and running, but by that point I was in the throws of the marathon.

Post by **bradisntclever** » June 6th, 2010, 11:05 pm

Roy Janik wrote:Sorry Brian. It definitely wasn't meant as a snub. The whole live feed came together super last minute, and I didn't think it was going to happen. But Neal managed to get it up and running, but by that point I was in the throws of the marathon.

And, to be fair, mention of the livestream did go out on the Hideout's Tumblr page and Twitter as soon as it was live. Anyone following the Hideout through either of those sites had the potential to see the updates.

Asaf · Post by **Asaf** » June 6th, 2010, 11:37 pm

There were a couple of shows that I saw via the stream instead of coming down to the theater because it fit my schedule better (being a man without a car). But I got to see the set with Pretty Jack Jaybird which was awesome.

I debated between viewing the last two hours via the stream or live. In the end I decided I wanted to see it live, but it was a hard choice to make being so tired and having to teach a few hours afterwards.

But ultimately it was a fun thing. I had a friend that was able to watch my show from Philadelphia and texted me afterwards about it. So that was cool.

Another thing to look into for the video stream is Dynamo Player. It lets you set up a payment frame at the beginning of a video. You can dictate the cost and the duration of access. Info here: http://site.dynamoplayer.com/about

Post by **Jon Bolden** » June 6th, 2010, 11:39 pm

Maybe I'm alone on this, but I would love to have it streaming ANYTIME there is a performance. I would even pay a fee for it. Maybe like $15 for the year? Am I totes dumbz?

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Marathon Feed Question

Did the live feed of the marathon affect how often you attended in person?

Marathon Feed Question