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	ABC cutting ties to 'Rocketboom' star
		Published: 29, 2007 at 1:37 PM Print story
		NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Newsreader Amanda Congdon, who was hired by ABC due to her success on the online "Rocketboom" video show, is parting ways with the U.S. media group.
		Both Congdon and ABC News officials have confirmed that once the Internet star's contract runs out at the year's end, they will cut ties with one another, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
	www.upi.com /NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/09/29/abc_cutting_ties_to_rocketboom_star_/2470 (310 words)

	TiVo.com \| A TiVo Exclusive
		Rocketboom (www.rocketboom.com) is a three minute daily videoblog based in New York City, covering a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to quirky internet culture.
		Rocketboom is currently one of the most popular videoblogs on the internet with more daily subscribers for original syndicated multimedia content than nearly any other site, including podcasts.
		Rocketboom is presented on TiVo as part of the TiVo Videoblog Project, which is currently experimenting with ways to make the new medium of videoblogs accessible on television.
	research.tivo.com /rocketboom (655 words)

	Rocketboom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rocketboom, produced and directed by Andrew Baron, is a three-minute daily vlog (videoblog) which is often presented in the format of a newscast, usually with a comedic slant.
		Rocketboom responded by moving the episode from their archive to another location, which is linked from the Rocketboom archive.
		Rocketboom's opening theme music is "Zoom a Little Zoom", from the 1959 album Space Songs (written by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer), a public domain recording because of a lapsed copyright.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rocketboom (1123 words)

	Techcrunch
		Rocketboom also has first mover’s advantage, is work safe and, as unfair as this may be, plays the attractive woman card.
		RocketBoom has catapulted itself to success, with 250,000ish daily viewers, distribution via Tivo and $40,000 per week in advertising revenue.
		RocketBoom is extremely low-budget - “Instead of costing millions of dollars to produce, Rocketboom is created with a consumer-level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a map with no additional overhead or costs” (Link).
	www.techcrunch.com /tag/RocketBoom (1286 words)

	MediaShift . Forget Ad Agencies::Rocketboom Auctions Ad to the Highest Bidder \| PBS
		Rocketboom is a daily three-minute newscast hosted by perky Amanda Congdon, and produced by Andrew Baron.
		But more radically, Rocketboom is taking the ad-selling process out of the hands of ad salespeople, out of the domain of ad agencies and media buyers, and going directly to companies.
		Today’s Rocketboom video-cast was all about the introduction of ads and the eBay auction, with Congdon doing a parody of crass advertising techniques.
	www.pbs.org /mediashift/2006/01/forget_ad_agenciesrocketboom_a.html (764 words)

	Behind Rocketboom's breakup fireworks \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Rocketboom's majority owner, Andrew Baron, has said that Congdon quit because she wanted to move to Los Angeles and that he wasn't able to meet her demands to move the video blog's production facilities there.
		For her part, Congdon--who in many ways had become not just the face of Rocketboom, but the face of video blogging as a medium--insisted that she had not quit and that, in fact, she had been fired.
		Now, as Rocketboom struggles to get back on its feet and rumors swirl about Congdon's future--including fodder on Valleywag that she may join the popular videoblog 88Slide--CNET News.com got an opportunity to ask the former face--and more--of Rocketboom what's really going on.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9588_22-6093402.html (1656 words)

	Rocketboom \| PopMatters Multimedia Review
		Rocketboom is a weird little beast, but the last time I checked, pretty much everything on the Internet was a weird little beast.
		In addition to making an appearance in an episode of C.S.I. (in which a killer watches Rocketboom to check up on news of his own crimes), the podcast has been picked up by TiVo, as an experiment in the use of the set-top box to download web-based content for playback on a television set.
		While Rocketboom does have a number of contributing bloggers on its roster and doesn't shy away from the occasional sketch, its unusually strong focus on a single personality makes it stand out from the rest of the podcasting scene.
	www.popmatters.com /multimedia/reviews/r/rocketboom.shtml (917 words)

	American Journalism Review
		"Rocketboom basically shows that news is in the hands of people, not just the pros," says Jeff Jarvis, a blogger (buzzmachine.com), consultant and new-media evangelist.
		This is where Rocketboom has made a virtue out of what initially appears to be a drawback.
		Part of Rocketboom's charm is that it plays off the conventions of TV newscasts, much as "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show" do.
	www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=4114 (2843 words)

	Rocketboom - Valleywag
		RocketBoom creator Andrew Michael Baron, shown here, responded on his blog Dembot to ZeFrank's swipe at Rocketboom's suspect viewer stats, as reported on Valleywag yesterday.
		Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron hasn't given up the fight with recently fired-or-quit news anchor Amanda Congdon over the 49% stake she claims to still hold in the popular video blog (earlier...
		Rocketboom's former host is still telling her side of the story to the media.
	www.valleywag.com /tech/rocketboom (618 words)

	RocketBoom Flogs Vlog Ads on eBay
		Rocketboom's eBay auction for the opportunity to be the first advertiser on its vlog received a high bid of $40,000 last week.
		Rocketboom is a daily videoblog (vlog) based in New York City and is one of the most popular video shows online.
		Rocketboom's eBay auction was for five original commercials to run March 6 - 10, 2006, to be played at the conclusion of the Rocketboom episodes.
	auctionbytes.com /cab/abn/y06/m02/i13/s05 (162 words)

	BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Congratulations, Rocketboom
		So Rocketboom’s ad auction came off with a rather obscure advertiser — TRM, an ATM and photocopy vending company — getting the privilege to be the first to promote on the hottest vlog …; and to get free publicity because of it.
		Good for TRM and good for Rocketboom, valuing a week’s worth of commercials at $40,000 (and good for me not being made a liar predicting in The New York Times that they would be worth a high CPM).
		Rocketboom got some nice breaks from the MSM (Business Week being one) that helped launch their success.
	www.buzzmachine.com /index.php/2006/02/11/congratulations-rocketboom (2375 words)

	Amanda Congdon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Congdon began as Rocketboom's anchor with the show's October 26, 2004 debut and gave her own reports, often with a comedic slant.
		As she went from an initial 700 viewers in 2004 to 70,000 viewers in Rocketboom's first ten months, her success was noted by CBS Evening News, Wired, the Associated Press and others.
		Rocketboom's flexible format allowed her to display her abililties as a monologist, unleashing a variety of comedy characters, both male and female.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amanda_Congdon (987 words)

	Podcasting News: RocketBoom Video Podcast Now Available on Tivo
		Rocketboom, a popular video podcast, is now available on TiVo as part of the TiVo Video Download Trial.
		Rocketboom is currently one of the most popular video podcasts on the Internet.
		Rocketboom is distributed online, all around the world and on demand, and thus has a much larger potential audience than any TV broadcast.
	www.podcastingnews.com /archives/2005/12/rocketboom_vide.html (400 words)

	NPR : Rocketboom Wins Viewers on the Web
		Rocketboom, launched in October 2004, is hosted by actress Amanda Congdon.
		On Sep. 1, 2005, just after Hurricane Katrina hit, Rocketboom presented a dramatic segment that featured host Amanda Congdon acting in the roles of survivors of the disaster.
		The Rocketboom intro music is "Zoom a Little Zoom," from an album called Space Songs with Tom Glazer, a popular 1940's folk musician.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5398075 (234 words)

	Adrants » Rocketboom to Sell Ad Time Via eBay, Retain Creative Control
		The madly successful video podcast Rocketboom, which garners 130,000 downloads per day, has decided to accept advertising and will do so by auctioning off ad time on eBay.
		Rocketboom, produced by Andrew Baron and anchored by Amanda Congdon, will require the winning bidder to relinquish creative control and allow Baron and Congdon to create the ad.
		Separate from the auction, and in the future, Rocketboom says they will consider any company and their post-roll ad.
	www.adrants.com /2006/01/rocketboom-to-sell-ad-time-via-ebay-retai.php (356 words)

	RocketBoom Ditches Amanda Congdon (Video) - Mashable! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In a short video (included below), Amanda claims that she was ditched by Rocketboom co-creator Andrew Baron.
		Rocketboom has been the world’s most successful video blog, with more than 250,000 daily viewers, a partnership with Tivo and around $40,000 in weekly ad revenue.
		He had no idea she was gone, only saying that things had been up in the air over the last week, but never thought she was leaving.
	mashable.com /2006/07/05/amanda-congdon-gets-ditched-by-rocketboom (589 words)

	Rocketboom loses its famous face \| News.blog \| CNET News.com
		The Rocketboom video blog is on hiatus and hopes to relaunch on July 10 with a new presenter.
		Baron is saying the divorce had to do with Rocketboom's inability to meet Congdon's wishes to move Rocketboom's production to Los Angeles from New York and her subsequent desire to pursue other opportunities in Hollywood.
		For his part, Baron is saying that he wanted to assist Congdon with her L.A. desires, but that she demanded to be satisfied immediately and Rocketboom could not meet her timeline.
	news.com.com /2061-10802_3-6091006.html (377 words)

	No Mas, Congdon? - Blogebrity
		Coming on the heels of Gawker's "tightening our belts" announcement arrives yet another blogging layoff, this time one that seems to big to be true: Amanda Congdon is with Rocketboom no longer.
		We wanted to meet her demands to move production out to L.A., however, we are a small company and have not been able to figure out a way to make it work, financially and in many other ways at this time.
		Andrew Baron, the founder and creator of Rocketboom, will stay with the company in New York and will continue to produce and direct the show.
	blogebrity.com /blog/2006/07/no-mas-congdon.php (486 words)

	TIME.com: 10 Questions for Amanda Congdon -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amanda Congdon, the former co-producer and host of Rocketboom, a popular video blog, left the site this week after a dispute with producer-director Andrew Baron.
		Now, Rocketboom fans are watching the first video blog from her replacement, former MTV Europe News VJ Joanne Colan.
		We’ve already seen that on Rocketboom with John Edwards, and more is sure to come in the fall and definitely by 2008.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,1213064,00.html (942 words)

	Scripting News: 7/5/2006
		It's not clear whether she was going to pay Andrew (he hasn't been drawing a salary, while Amanda has) or if she had offered to buy him out.
		Disclaimer: I don't own any Rocketboom stock, and have no interest in the outcome other than I am generally supportive of both Amanda and Andrew, and the video blogging art, business and community.
		I thought they were a good team, I enjoy their work, and I hope both get a chance to profit from their success.
	www.scripting.com /2006/07/05.html (417 words)

	TechBlog: Updated -- Rocketboom: The Break-up
		In video linked above, Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon says she's not on vacation, as has been indicated in the show's comments section.
		Rocketboom will be back with a news episode and an interim host this MONDAY, JULY 10.
		Rocketboom succeeded largely because of Congdon's geeky charm.
	blogs.chron.com /techblog/archives/2006/07/rocketboom_the.html (383 words)

	Rocketboom on TiVo - TiVo Community & Store
		I also emailed rocketboom several times about providing a.mpg file, but never got a response.
		I've been a subscriber to Rocketboom videocasts for some time now and have enjoyed it quite a bit.
		Seems a shame they are risking all this churn just beacause they are afraid of innovating along with a partner.
	www.tivocommunity.com /tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=275353 (1503 words)

	Stories Tagged 'rocketboom' » Netscape.com
		As with my precedingly popular article on HDR photography, this post can be seen as a photographical revue on HDR through the HDR pool on flickr.
		Rocketboom Confirms Former MTV vJ as Interim Host, Sort…
		(via briansolis.blogspot.com) – According to the Rocketboom homepage, "Amanda Congdon has decided to move to L.A. to pursue opportunities that have arisen for her in Hollywood." Amanda's response was long and heartfelt, "I am disheartened by Andrew Baron's decision to spread misinformation.
	www.netscape.com /tag/rocketboom (756 words)

	Future Tense: July 10, 2006 Archives
		For the past 18 months, She has been the anchor for the hugely popular video blog Rocketboom.
		BusinessWeek Internet editor Heather Green, one of the first to recognize Rocketboom's rising star says Congdon's departure is evidence of video blogging's shallow roots.
		Olson is the Minneapolis correspondent for Rocketboom and a friend of both Congdon and Baron.
	www.publicradio.org /columns/futuretense/2006/07/10.shtml (216 words)

	Rocketboom Takes Off: Earthlink and TRM are First Advertisers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SAN FRANCISCO -- Rocketboom is a popular video blog, or vlog, a daily three-minute snarkfest done out of New York.
		But after the auction dust settled, EarthLink struck a deal to be the second Rocketboom advertiser, with its ads appearing during Rocketboom's broadcast the week of March 13.
		But perhaps its biggest gamble will come next month when it pays to be the second advertiser on Rocketboom and lets the twenty-something creators of the show conceive and execute the ads for EarthLink and air them in March.
	www.brandweek.com /bw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002034874 (558 words)

	Rocketboom: See what people are saying right now on Technorati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rocketboom: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		Ze Frank Vs Rocketboom But Alexa is not the problem.
		This is going to be a long one … I’ve been watching this like a hawk, not saying something to see if the dialogue would continue.
	www.technorati.com /tag/rocketboom (394 words)

	Rocketboom Weblog
		Today I am happy to announce Rocketboom has partnered with the Rechargeable Recycling Battery Corporation to create and run three post-roll ads.
		(3) The Rocketboom wiki is a place for FAQ, audience interested input, and all kinds of RB-related stuff.
		The Podshow is self-aggrandizing by hotlinking Rocketboom into their player, showcasing our video with their ads, giving the false impression that Rocketboom is part of the Podshow network and providing no link back to the Rocketboom site.
	www.rocketboom.org (2863 words)

	A Rocketboom-like site is looking for a Vancouver Amanda Congdon \| Urban Vancouver
		Rocketboom is a New York based daily video podcasting show which features arts and technology stories.
		The host, Amanada Congdon, has used the high visibility of her daily broadcast to over 100,000 people per day, to launch her acting career.
		at least to me. the rocketboomers must always be combing the Web for commentary related to them which is good.
	www.urbanvancouver.com /node/3702 (403 words)

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