Austin Improv

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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?