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I have a feeling the "business reasons" had to do with non-sponsorship revenue shares. In particular, rev share from t-shirts may have been the last straw for G
by martingordon 14y ago
I have a feeling the "business reasons" had to do with non-sponsorship revenue shares. In particular, rev share from t-shirts may have been the last straw for Gruber, especially based on the t-shirt talk on the last 5by5 episode and Dan's blog post regarding t-shirts (http://blog.5by5.tv/2012/5/22/t-shirt-status-update http://blog.5by5.tv/2012/5/22/t-shirt-status-update) where he explicitly mentions that hosts will get 50% of the profits from their show's shirts.
- slantyyz 14y agoIn the end, I don't think the "business reasons" really matter. Gruber was well within his rights to end the podcasting relationship if he was unhappy. It just would have been polite to the audience to give them a head's up.
- guan 14y agoRampant speculation: there could also be disagreement over how revenue from “run of network” sponsorships, where 5by5 charges a fixed price for sponsorship of their most popular shows, is divided between the shows. I could imagine not being satisfied with whatever method 5by5 used to do measure and allocate this revenue share. For example, one show might have x% of listeners, and everyone might even agree on how to measure that (feed subscribers, downloads, live listeners, whatever), but the host of one show might feel those listeners are worth more to sponsors than other shows.