Not exact matches
In Texas, it was not a sense of guilt
over paying
money to watch majestic orca whales prevented from swimming freely at sea because they're forced to perform tricks in comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept
audiences away earlier this year.
But once it's all
over, and you have raised your
money, provided your funders with their promised rewards, and moved to trying to sell to a wider
audience, what many people forget is that keeping in touch with the people who supported them at the start is still very powerful for ongoing marketing.
Now, all that
audience growth must turn into
money, into some kind of sustainable profit
over time.
But in this case, a quick rally was in order: Steve Ofner sent
over this video earlier today, and if you've ever used Facebook advertising to grow your page Likes (as opposed to spending
money to «boost» a post to your existing
audience and their friends), you'll want to watch it.
The prime minister called for more
money to be pumped into the UK's creative industries after an
audience of
over one billion watched the Olympic opening ceremony on Friday night.
And yet, Richie managed to make a film that could be a key example of style
over substance and is a case study in why that's such a problem when you ask
audiences to invest time and
money into a feature film.
With
audiences having already seen a handful of Peanuts specials (including 1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas and 1966's It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown) on the boob tube without having had to pay a cent, it was a gamble to make a theatrical feature centered around Charles M. Schulz's lovable characters and expect viewers to fork
over money for the privilege.
This is a trend in movies I do not support, and one I really, really wish were
over; it's a waste of their
audience's time and
money, and forces directors to avoid efficient storytelling with good pacing.
I have a suspicion that the film's
money bosses probably insisted on the voice -
over sequence thinking that
audiences would probably be too bewildered by the onscreen proceedings initially.
Others mentioned that the attempts to market to a vast
audience are a waste of time and effort, that the real
money is in building a dedicated following
over time and releasing new content to those people as you go.
It does take time to build up an
audience to be able to make a decent amount of
money, but once you have a large following, you could earn
over $ 15,000 per month or more (we do).
Old school fans such as myself may have fallen by the wayside
over the years, left in the dust and mud to bleed out, but the new formula attracted and retained a larger
audience (and more
money) than ever before.
Auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen's job seemed mainly to channel huge, pre-determined sums of
money in as orderly a way possible
over a packed room that had
audience members standing in the aisles.