They’re read by the podcaster at the start of the episode and periodically throughout - an overall manual process.īut our source doesn’t think it’s all bad. Podcast advertisements are not targeted in the way other digital ads are. Perhaps the biggest opportunity within those “normal methods” is with advertising. It’s more of a long play of gaining that audience and then using the normal methods of either features or subscriptions or ads on the platform to then monetize on that audience.” The ad potential In the case of Spotify, I’m not sure if monetization is the main goal of the exclusivity. “ a lot more cost effective to buy exclusive rights to a certain podcast for a certain amount of time. There could be a lot of money spent around marketing and time to build up a podcast from scratch.” on top of that, you never know if it’s actually going to pick up and gain popularity. “The normal rate of producing a pilot which may be three to five episodes is going to cost a little over $100,000 dollars. Our source sees this strategy as too risky for podcasts. Interestingly, TV streaming services like Netflix and Hulu have increasingly approached the exclusivity strategy by producing their own content. If this is their main goal, then Spotify struck gold in 2020 when they signed a multi-year, $100 million deal with Joe Rogan, creator of the number one podcast in the world: The Joe Rogan Experience.Īccording to our source: “It was a very calculated and well-worth deal for Spotify.” “Spotify’s strategy is mainly to build audience, so looking for the biggest podcasts that are available out there and getting exclusivity with them so that they can build up the audience on Spotify for podcast listening.” Spotify’s podcast growth strategy has been focused on exclusivity rights. Post pandemic, the use of associated services such as videoconferencing are also on the rise, enabling companies such as Zoom to rise to the leader spot with some smart marketing. It seems there is no time like the present for creators to get in on the podcast trend, and streaming services are paying attention like never before. Since then, the number of podcast shows has quadrupled to more than 2 million and there are 48+ million total episodes. In 2018 there were just over 500,000 podcast shows and 18.5 million total episodes. it’s the golden age of podcasting where anyone who has thought about creating a podcast can easily create one.” I think right now is probably the best time to try and start a podcast and monetize. “I’d say right now is probably the height of it. Our first question was about where we currently sit on the trajectory of the podcast industry, and our source answered without hesitation:
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and Britain vied for control of the region. First Cow takes place in Oregon Country during the 1820s when settlement by non-Natives was just beginning and the U.S.First Blood, in contrast to the jungle and desert settings of its sequels, is set in the fictional Hope, Washington and was filmed in the real life Hope, British Columbia as well as Golden Ears Provincial Park.Dead Man: set somewhere in Washington (the Makah village at the end of the film indicates the Olympic Peninsula).Dante's Peak, set in a fictional small town in Washington's North Cascades (but shot in Idaho).Benny & Joon is set and shot in Spokane. Fitting, since the inspiration for the film's villain is also located in the Pacific Northwest. Antitrust takes place largely in Portland.Animal House was shot in Eugene, Oregon on the U of O campus, although it seems to take place somewhere in Pennsylvania.Tacoma seems to double for Seattle in a lot of the more generic places. 10 Things I Hate About You: Certain shots show that it is set in Seattle, with the skyline (complete with Space Needle) and several iconic locations.Eastern BC includes the Okanagan Valley, a major orchard and winery region, as well as a few different mountain ranges. nuclear arsenal is produced on the Hanford Reservation (rather than Oak Ridge, Tennessee or Los Alamos, New Mexico). Eastern Washington is home to the state's second-largest city, Spokane, whose suburb of Mead is home to Cyan, the developers behind Myst. The latter area is home to the majority of America's apple production, as well as the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River, the largest dam in the United States (and at one point the largest dam in the world). This may change in the next few years, however, as Washington has recently passed tax breaks and other incentives for filmmakers, as well as the Canadian and American exchange rates and labor laws making the States an equally valid choice.Īlso, beyond the Cascade Mountains, vast stretches of central and eastern Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia are not in any way a rainforest (and the residents tend to be far more conservative politically.) Much of eastern Oregon is desert or semi-arid, described by some as "the closest you can get to the Wild West and still have cable", while eastern Washington is largely rolling plains similar to those in Idaho and the Midwest. However, due to good union contracts, it's becoming more common for it to be doubled in Oregon. Whenever something is supposedly set in Washington, you can almost guarantee it is Vancouver Doubling. (Note the "rain" part of "rainforest".) This area may also be a Wild Wilderness with very little contact with the outside world, because the only city in this region Hollywood seems to know about is Seattle, home of the Space Needle and Starbucks. Alternatively, we may get a beautifully-forested small town, which often turns out to be a City of Adventure for the local Kid Heroes when they're not being subjected to a Horrible Camping Trip. Also expect to see a New-Age Retro Hippie or two. Oh, and Crazy Survivalists who hole up in shacks, write manifestos, and send letter bombs. This portion of the Hollywood Atlas is home to magnificent forest scenery, Vancouver, mountain lions, Bigfoot, log cabins, lumberjacks, and Magical Native Americans delivering Green Aesops. There are also American tropical rainforests in Hawaiʻi and Puerto Rico (and the Philippines, when they used to be under U.S. When people talk about the Rainforest, they invariably mean the tropical one in Brazil, but the Pacific temperate rainforest is actually the largest in the world by area, and it stretches from northern California upwards to Alaska. The Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada. Classic 2D scroller action with new exotic time and dimension jump mechanics, RPG elements and amazing worlds to explore from the streets of the 80s to the weird futuristic landscapes of another dimension.Narita Boy reloads the creative canons to find a unique style that combines the past and the future of video games A homage to the 80's that tastes like retro but is also new.Purely handcrafted pixel sprites with rich and complex animations. your father) is seduced by the dark, red code of HIM – the main antagonist of the game who’s, you guessed it, quite Sith and/or Darth Vader-like. Returning to the Star Wars references now: First and foremost, every time Narita Boy dies, a booming voice declares, “REST IN FORCE!” It is also mentioned many times in the dialogue that the Trichroma and/or Force is “strong in you.” The Techno Sword (main weapon in the game – a sword comprised of three light beams) is clearly very lightsaber-inspired and, to top things off, the Creator (Lionel Pearl Nakamura. The two most obvious examples of this are the main theme ( Narita Boy Theme), which sounds almost like a Weird Al version of Daft Punk’s Get Lucky (with assistance from Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams, of course), and then, when Narita Boy is in on the Trifurcation path, he encounters the “Synth Sensei/Bard of Trifurcation,” who’s music sounds quite like a lovely Wendy Carlos composition. It’s quite clear that the composer, Salvador Fornieles, who performs under nom de’ musique of Salvinsky, is simulating the synth-heavy sounds of both Wendy Carlos (composer of the TRON soundtrack, among others) and Daft Punk (composers of the TRON: Legacy soundtrack and electronic/dance music legends) throughout the score. Without spoiling every wrinkle of the story, I will say that Narita Boy’s writing is quite nuanced and layered, putting some really cool, technology-laced spins on the basic hero’s journey tropes and conveys a more satisfying narrative (in my opinion, of course) than both TRON and Star Wars ( A New Hope at least).Īnother area that Narita Boy is heavily influenced by both TRON and its sequel is in terms of the music and/or soundtrack. But it goes deeper than that with TRON, as Narita Boy’s overall plot borrows heavily from TRON (and Star Wars as well) in terms of themes, tone, and story beats, and many have proposed that both Star Wars and TRON are just modern re-telling of the classic “Hero’s Journey” so succinctly defined in Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero With a Thousand Faces. In the first place, the title screen (see below) looks very much like the original TRON movie poster that what plastered all over every movie house in 1982. The two biggest old-school references and/or inspirations found in Narita Boy are drawn from both 1982’s TRON (and, in some ways, the 2010 sequel TRON: Legacy as well) and the original Star Wars trilogy. We’re venturing into SPOILER territory here, so you’ve been warned. So much so, that I did a deep dive on all the references (intentional or not) that I caught while playing, and here’s what I noticed. At its heart, it’s a Metriodvania which is a genre that, realistically, needs to be paused for a bit, but this one did suck me in simply because it does old-school nostalgia exceptionally well. It’s an excellent game (if I was formally reviewing it, it would be a solid 9 out of 10) steeped in 80’s nostalgia. “Body don’t wanna quit, gotta get another hit,” the late, great Prince Rodgers Nelson once sang on his classic 1999 album.Īnd for me, the recently released Narita Boy by Studio Koba is exactly that next hit in the interactive entertainment form, rather than any Peruvian powder. Very, very sad indeed, because it seems you’ll never feel that good again… until you get another hit. It’s much like snorting a bump of coke (the 80’s drug of choice), to fly high again, but with that buzz fading away rather quickly, leaving you feeling, well, sad and miserable. It’s excellent because it gives you the “warmth and fuzzies” for a bit a wistful buzz, if you will. It was bolstered by the 2013 TV show, The Goldbergs (Fun Fact: series creator Adam Goldberg and I grew up about six miles from each other in the 80’s), and was cemented by Netflix’s Stranger Things which came along in 2016.īut here’s the thing: nostalgia can be both excellent and terrible at the same time. In my mind, this wave of 80’s nostalgia was kickstarted by Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel, Ready Player One, which got a decent movie adaptation by Steven Spielberg in 2018. There are no extra cables or wires instead, each user downloads a special extension for the Google Chrome web browser, which allows the system to share screens wirelessly from the main interface onto individual employees’ laptops or smartphones.” Installation is easy and straightforward. 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In March, 2016 the company announced a 341% growth in customers during 2015 and that it had surpassed the milestone of one million call minutes per week from over 1400 customers. Investors in the firm include General Catalyst Partners, Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Drew Houston, Aaron Levie, Marc Benioff () and Shishir Mehrotra (YouTube). In March, 2015 Highfive announced that they had raised over $45 million in total venture capital. He left Google to found Highfive, believing that the market leader, Skype, was not “secure or robust enough for business needs.” Sinha’s vision for Highfive is to “make videoconferencing as commonplace as e-mail in business.” After it was established, the company worked in stealth mode as Parlay Labs from 2012 until Highfive’s launch in October, 2014. Sinha, who was one of the developers of Google Drive, noticed while working for Google that there was a very high demand for videoconferencing, with tens of thousands of video calls regularly made. 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