Let's Speculate Irresponsibly

Let's Speculate Irresponsibly
Number	30
Broadcast Date	July 27, 2014
Episode Length	1:06:42
Hosts	Brian Brushwood, Tom Merritt
Guests	Kristi Kates

What the Nerdist thinks of YouTube these days, the best trailers from ComicCon and Google may still have bought Twitch.

Guest

• Kristi Kates
• pyxismag.com

Opening Video

• Game of Thrones, Blooper Reel

Primary Target

• All the trailers from Comic-Con
• Watch the first trailer for Halo: Nightfall, the live-action TV series by Ridley Scott
• Here's the First Mad Max Trailer, and It Will Make You a Believer
• Humanity is running out of oxygen in the trailer for 'Air'
• Legendary announced that it was developing a movie based around Skull Island, home of King Kong
• Sam Raimi announced that he and his brother Ivan are writing a show based on the franchise, and that it will star Bruce Campbell.

Secondary Target

• Nerdist Knocks YouTube’s Stickiness, Commenters at Comic-Con

Google’s video site is not a place where people “hang out,” Hardwick said.

He also got an appreciative hoot from the crowd after dissing YouTube’s commenters as “toxic.”

“YouTube is a bunch of 13-year-olds who are like, ‘Look at me, I am unattended!’” he joked. “The second comment is always ‘FIRST,’ because they never make it.”

Rooster Teeth regularly puts videos on its website a few hours ahead of uploading them to YouTube, and sells paid subscriptions that provide access to exclusive content

Signals Intelligence

• Google reportedly finalizes deal for live stream service Twitch

VentureBeat reported Google finalized a deal to buy Twitch for $1 billion

Neither Google or Twitch are talking

The average viewer watches 106 minutes of Twitch live streams per day. About 58% spend more than 20 hours a week watching videos on Twitch

Gear Up

• Chromecast turns one: why this small streaming stick became such a big deal

Chromecast turned one July 24

Chromecast users have pressed a cast button 400 million times since the device was first released a year ago.

More than 6,000 developers have signed up to add casting to their mobile or web apps.

No. 1 selling electronics item on Amazon

COMING SOON: Screen mirroring, personalized home screen

Under surveillance

• FXX will marathon the entire 'Simpsons' series next month before releasing it online

FXX will marathon all 25 seasons of the Simpson’s from August 21st to September 1st.

FXX will launch the "Simpsons World" digital hub in October, which will allow cable subscribers to watch every episode on demand on their desktops at SimpsonsWorld.com, mobile devices via the FXNow app, and on compatible smart TVs and set-top boxes

Front Lines

• Netflix made 1.34 billion dollars last quarter doubling its profit from last year.

Netflix grew to 36.24 million US subscribers and 13.8 million international subs. That’s about 25% growth in the US and 77% elsewhere.

• Ultra Music is suing YouTube star Michelle Phan for $150,000 a song.

Ultra Music alleging she did not have the rights to use 50 tracks in her videos. Phan claims she had permission to use the tracks. DJ Kaskade defended her.

• Comcast added a Labs section to its X1 set-top box letting subscribers test drive new features.

One new feature that’s coming is a personalized “virtual video channel” made of shows and movies from a variety of sources that will appear in the regular programming grid.

• A new ‘Host Mode’ on Twitch lets streamers log off but keep live chat running while running video from another channel.
• Book 3 of The Legend of Korra will not air on Nickelodeon’s TV channel but will stream on the channel’s website.

Co-creator Bryan Konietzko told the ComicCon audience” “pulling it off the channel and moving it to digital exclusively is part of the huge sea change in the whole industry.” Thanks to Indi_de_Lis for the link on the cordkillers subreddit.

• Lions Gate will add special features to an app for people who buy certain movies through Comcast, starting with the film “Divergent”

2014 Summer Movie Draft

• http://draft.diamondclub.tv/
• 1 Amtrekker: $689,515,120
• 2 TMS: $598,450,443
• 3 DTNS: $595,014,272
• 4 Night Attack: $443,836,166
• 5 GodsMoneybags: $390,588,309
• 6 /Film: $282,356,843

On Screen

• Brian: Das Experiment, World War Z, The Leftovers, Orphan Black (mostly)
• Tom: The Leftovers, The Shield (210)
• Kristi: Begin Again, Stargate Atlantis , Transcendence

Dispatches From The Front

Hi tom and Brian I am one of the reported 250,000 people in Australia who subscrbes to netflix, which as you know isn't officially available here, so i have to use a VPN. I use unblockus.We never have any problems streaming at full quality even though we are yhe other side of the planet. I hear that in the USA some people are having problems as their isp is slowing down their streams, i was wondering if they would still have the same problem if they used a vpn service, whats your thoughts? Plus it also gives you the advantage of chosing what Netflix region uou want.

Keep up the good work

Alan

In a recent show you talked about why Nielsen only counts 18-49. Psychologists in the 1960 and 70's measured Brand Loyalty and found that people over a certain ago become inflexible in the their brand choices. Basically the younger people are then the more effective the advertising. Brand Loyalty is why markets don't advertise to people over 49, these studies have been shown to be flawed. Also the disposable income difference by age has flipped in the last 40 years with college loans and a stagnant job market reducing youth spending power. But given that markets are still focused on broadcast viewership that has been decimated in the last twenty years they can be the brightest group of company executives.

Mark

Aereo's next work around... Rent me a 1 square inch apartment in the city. Cram an antenna and slingback like device (and whatever additional tech is needed) in how ever many feet tall apartment. Then they are technically just renting a prefurnished apartment. Totally legal.

David

Hey guys,

I know that we are between Game of Thrones seasons but I wanted to pass on my experience as someone who watched the shows without reading the books first. I love the show and have watched it from the beginning. I have to admit, though, that I would get confused sometimes about who all of the characters are and where the story was going. After the first season I tried to read the first book. At the time I found myself getting bored because I knew what was going to happen. Fast forward to the present and I decided to pick up the books again. After a few years the details of season 1 are a bit fuzzy. I was instantly hooked on the book. Not only that, but I suddenly realized the relations between the characters and why some of them acted the way they do in future seasons. Having knowledge of future events is really making the books enjoyable and I can see the foreshadowing and the mistakes the characters make that lead to their downfall. Of course reading the beginning of book one and seeing the Starks as one big happy family was kind of depressing. My goal is to have all of the books read before the next season starts so I can see what it's like to be on the other side of the experiment. One book down, 4 to go...

Thanks for the great podcast,

Scott from Houston

Living in South Africa, cord killing is near impossible, as we only have over priced satellite and free terrestrial shit, that is not even HD yet. However I managed to get a Fire TV, and now proudly use Netflix, Hulu plus and Amazon Prime, HBO Go and WatchEspn (via a friends Verizon account). Filling in the blanks with sickbeard, couchpotato and Plex. All this costs me less than $80 a month, including internet. Not bad, compared to what you have to deal with in the USA.

Long live the Cord Killers.

Thanks

John Mac

Links

• http://www.cordkillers.com/blog/2014/7/27/cordkillers-ep-30-we-were-casting-all-over
• patreon.com/cordkillers
• Dog House Systems Cordkiller box

Preceded by: "Polluted Suggestions"

Let's Speculate Irresponsibly

Followed by: "Coming Soon"