So one of the Loading Bar email shows for December was the 10th highest rated item on Spill's website for the year 2012. We're seeing an exponential rate of growth in terms of overall views and the numbers continue to impress.
This year, the Spill convention is merging with the Rooster Teeth convention, so we expect a large presence to gain considerable new audience from that.
Right now, the owners are concentrating on trying to make the website pay for itself. So even though this is all good news, they are actually cutting expenses, which doesn't impact me or anyone on TLB. Probably has more to do with Korey and some of the movie review guys who expense trips and such. We're the least expensive property they have, since we don't even attend trade conferences.
They did hire a web developer team to begin enhancing and correcting issues with the site. I'm not sure what the results of this are, but we should see new features and things take root as time goes on. I am hopeful they will fix the RSS feed issues one of these days.
I think 2013 will be mostly the same, without too many content changes. Korey wants us to do the email show weekly instead of bi-weekly, but that would be about it.
If the audience share continues to grow though, I can see more money being thrown at the project. Not talking about quitting my day job before I retire. But we could see Spill start to become a respected property moving forward. Let's hope so. I put a lot of fucking work into it.
Kevin
