Online Progress

Once a Facebook group for our webisodes had been created, and people had been invited to join it, the show started getting some hits. This was good, because it meant anyone who showed interest in the episodes, could get almost instant updates on whatever was happening with it. This meant when the video was uploaded, we posted it on there. In the image, you can see Sam posted it on our wall a couple of times shortly after each other, so people got the updates more. This was good because it meant people knew exactly when it was up and how they could view it. You can see that only 30 minutes after the first post, Mike says we had already had 85 views on the video.






We also got some good advertising from the bands we used in the episode. The band, Centrefolds agreed to let us use their music in our video, and in return got credited at the end - however, they also put a link to the video on their Facebook page, so we got a potentially bigger audience that way. Centrefolds have 250 fans that may otherwise have no known about Lines, however might have checked it out because a band they like was featured in it. I think using real music like this instead of stuff made on Garageband was a really good idea, as it just sounds more professional to have real music.


I wasn't at home at 7pm yesterday for the official launch, but we got the video uploaded and told everyone about it and the views have just been rolling in. After creating a Facebook event and inviting hundreds of friends and family etc to join, and generally advertising it wherever and whenever possible, we managed to get 150 views in just 2 hours. We also had some comments, which was a response we were hoping for.

At 6pm on Saturday, we has managed to score almost 300 Youtube hits, which could be down to people still getting notified about the launch on Facebook because we set the event to end in February, or just word of mouth. I don't really mind how we got the views, the point is we got them and we are still getting comments about it.

I checked this morning (Sunday), and we had almost 420 views. We also had a 4.5 star rating on Youtube, which i think is a result. We have had several comments about it, and many people have said they are looking forward to the next one. This is good, because we now have a target market for our next episodes. We hope to make the next episode a bit funnier, as we are not sure how many people will watch it if there isn't any form of humour in the show, however nobody has said anything bad about it so far, apart from an e-mail i got from Steve Picton complaining that he was credited last in the cast list. Though i think this was probably a joke.