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Revision3 Big Viewer Numbers for Web TV in 2009

Steven Finch — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:57:32 +0000

Revision3, an Internet television network, today announced some impressive 2009 numbers, including 30% revenue growth and nearly 1.5 billion minutes of viewership engagement.

Revision3 producers their own programs such as Diggnation, Tekzilla, Scam School and more. In 2009 they seem to have a good growth period in which they added a lot of new shows, but then only 3 months later most of these and more were cut from production.

In terms of revenue streams Revision3 is completely focused around advertising revenues and have several big customers such as Sony, Netflix, Coors and HBO. Normally advertising is limited to three advertisers per show and are done within the shows as mentions. The company also notes that the size of the average ad sale has increased by 50% in 2009.

Kevin Rose and His 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers

Steven Finch — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:02:28 +0000

There is a post over at Techcrunch that seems to be getting a lot of hits today and I’m not entirely sure why! Kevin Rose the founder of Digg, Revision3 and Pownce, has written a guest post for Techcrunch which outlines the top 10 ways to increase your Twitter followers.

The 10 points that he makes seem be very basic and if you actually know how to use Twitter properly I’m sure they aren’t new to you. However what I find funny about this post is that Kevin has probably only really got his followers from mentioning Twitter on every Revision3 show that he does and by being hugely known in the USA as a tech boy pinup. It is just weird that he is trying to preach ways to increase your Twitter followers when he hasn’t really used any of these methods.

Revision3 Acquired By Fox News?? Hmmmmmm

Steven Finch — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:18:47 +0000

It has been about 3 months since Revision3 launched the new version of their site and now they have been acquired. Techcrunch reports that in Episode 143 of Diggnation: Hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht announce the sale of Revision3 to Fox News at about the 2:05 mark. Rose says â€œWell, ah, we basically have a big announcement for everyone. Revision3 has been acquired by a bigger company. Weâ€™ll be moving to Fox News.â€ He added â€œIâ€™m thinking of getting a fox tattoo, its kinda part of my signing bonus, if i do it i get a little extra money.â€

Itâ€™s an early (very early) April Foolâ€™s joke, of course. Jump to the 3:45 mark. They are clearly playing off a story from two weeks ago, spread quickly via a credulous Robert Scoble Twitter message, that CNET had acquired Revision3 for $58 million. Bloody April Fool’s jokes. I think the American companies take it a lot more serious than any others. Well it was a nice way to get publicity and damm it, i fell into the trap!