So I would always keep a camera man with me. Like when I fly and I go everywhere, most of the time the labels, they don’t want to pay for our camera man, that’s not in the budget. But I personally pay out of my own pocket to bring my camera man because I understand the importance of that footage.
Walt Mossberg, the Grand Old Man of Tech Journalism, at a Beet.TV event, points out that as the web moves from being primarily a text and graphics medium to a primarily video medium, the assault on old mass market media moves from newspapers and magazines to movies and television.
Last July we posted about Crackle, and now we hear on Beet.TV that it has a “bucket of cash” and 15 million unique monthly visitors. That explains the pop in our viewership the last couple of days.