WILLIAMS: Explaining Cyclone Fanatic's premium initiative
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🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, guys, what's going on? Chris Williams here with a new installment of the |
| 0:05.0 | podcast. A different one today. I want to be more just very open and |
| 0:10.4 | transparent about our new initiative at Saikw and Fanatic with more of a premium look for |
| 0:17.1 | users who want it to and I have a long column that details all this stuff that's up on our front page right now. |
| 0:26.2 | Again, I just want to be as transparent as possible with everybody about what we're doing and what our goals are with this. |
| 0:37.2 | COVID-19 is obviously, I'm not breaking any news here, It's rocked all sorts of industries and it's it's really |
| 0:45.9 | coming hard for media specifically media like ours which is 100% advertising based. |
| 0:54.0 | You know, at one point when Jeremy Lynn launched this site, |
| 0:58.8 | however many years ago, probably 15 now, |
| 1:01.8 | the free model, which we're still going to be by the way, and I'll get to that. |
| 1:06.0 | That was really, I thought a really smart thing for Jeremy to do because he was kind of going, you know, against the networks who, and that's where I was |
| 1:16.4 | at the time I was working for Scout, where you, this is pre-Twittor, right? |
| 1:22.1 | So premium information, wasn't just floating around on the |
| 1:26.1 | internet these premium message boards and whatnot were really the place to to get that |
| 1:32.3 | type of thing. |
| 1:33.4 | And Jeremy was, I thought, a little bit ahead |
| 1:36.3 | of even like Twitter and stuff in that sense |
| 1:38.6 | where he said, well, why does it have to be free? |
| 1:40.6 | Why can't we have information out for the masses? |
| 1:44.2 | So that was where our business model originally started. |
| 1:47.9 | And we've grown when our ownership group took over 10 years ago we had a very specific |
| 1:56.8 | business model in mind we wanted to grow we wanted we had a very specific |
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