I've been thinking. Considering displaying webcomics, podcasting video and all other things people do online and give them for free to their audience (of course, the audience would have to buy printed collected editions or DVDs), is it possible to do the same for ther mediums? Like podcasting your animated series, publishing your serial novels online and so on.
The Internet allows any medium to be distributed without the corporate red tape, censorship or executive interference. It also allows lots of creative freedom to the artists, writers, storytellers and so on. And seeing podcast sites ranging from DigitalLifeTV featuring former TechTv alumnis, to Pure Pwnage as well as Homestar Runner & Red vs Blue, such possibilites are endless. Can you imagine the creators of Lost or 24 podcasting their shows online instead of showing them on TV, both network and cable?
Internet is perfect for serial storytelling in any medium. We can download every chapter or episodes every day, week, or month (preferably three days weekly). Then, when one arc is finished, we can sell the complete arc in print or disc or iPods or PSPs or mobiles. There are services such as Lulu.com or Comixpress to do for comics. If there are similiar services for DVDs of podcasted serials, please give a link or two.
What do you think?
I asked on the old forums about advertising networks and which ones were the best:
I still use blogads here which has a different format and which seems to be growing in popularity this year on Comixpedia (it's caught up to the banners I think at this point). On Blog Ads what do you think about the image/text combo - just different or better?For regular banner ads I think Keen is using Burstnet and several Dumbrellistas are using Indie Media. I think Blank Label is doing it inhouse at this point. Anyone else worth thinking about?
I've used Google ads too but never made much back from them (nor gotten much traffic here from advertising on them elsewhere).
Manley has his http://www.openadnetwork.com/ but so far it's not generally available (or is it? that site is just a picture right now).
KrazyKow mentioned:
Fastclick is the one of the best, IMO. They actually pay on time, which is more than can be said for some of the big names out there. Pretty good fill rate too, about 90% of my pageviews get a paying banner.
And Coz mentioned:
One of the other companies we were contacted by and did a test run with was http://www.adservingnetwork.com/ - they were really nice folks, but most of the ads were things about home loans, etc. etc.
Since then D.J.Coffman also posted this A-Z of Ad Programs in his $ blog which is helpful info.
So is anyone interested in talking the pros and cons of experiences with ads and stuff? What's worked best for you?
You've found your perfect artist to do your webcomic. However, s/he lives on the other side of the globe, like say Singapore. So, how would you handle outsourcing to this artist from another country?
I think I've set it up so that unregistered users and folks-not-logged-in can submit news. If you are not logged in you' won't get your user name associated with the post though.
Aslo I just had a user have a problem with the submit news function but I can't replicate it - it's working for me on all of my testing accounts. Let's use this thread for reporting any problems with the submit news function (or any comments about front page news too).
Where does a guy go to pimp his webcomic around here now?
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