Summary: Yes, indeed ladies and gentlemen. This past Sunday, Tipoaa turned the biggest corner it’s seen since the show’s inception over a year ago: We’re now a video podcast. You can watch our very first official video episode RIGHT HERE: As you can see (!), Mike and the T chatted this week about their new technology, what games they’ve been playing lately, the end of the London Olympics, and everything else going on with them lately. If you have an email to send us (or want to send us a VIDEO INTRO — how cool is that? — you can send it along to theshow@incrediblepodcast.com. We’ll be back next week and (pretty much) every week, streaming live on Sunday on YouTube, and then posting the video of the show there and the audio here. In order to celebrate this new direction, let’s do a FAQ! Video?!? Does this mean the audio podcast is gone forever? Of course not, crazy. You’ll still be able to get the audio on iTunes and here on incrediblepodcast.com as usual. That’s not going away — that’s never going away. We’ve just decided that it would be nice to have the shows on video, because a) YouTube has given us a pretty easy way to do it, and b) we can actually monetize a little bit on YouTube itself. More money is good for everybody. Plus, Ustream was starting to put random ads in our stream, and listeners were complaining. Now that we’re on YouTube, we won’t have to worry about those random ads, and it won’t cost us any more. Everybody wins! Plus, you’ll get to see our shining faces every week. But, if you’ve got videos going up on YouTube, that means you have a YouTube channel now, right? This is true! We do have a YouTube channel, and it’s right here. If you have a YouTube username (or a Google one), please head on over there and subscribe, thumbs up the videos, and do all of that fun social network stuff. Please share our videos wherever. Please put comments on them, and enjoy them, and just generally interact with them like crazy! The more exposure we get, the more listeners we get, the more we’re able to do with this show and with this channel! And yes — Turpster now works for Yogscast, and they have a little bit of experience with YouTube and video posting, so you will probably see more non-show videos popping up on that channel. Mike and Turpster shooting funny videos while they’re together in person? Yes! Mike and Turpster playing games like World of Warcraft, together or separately? Yes! Mike and Turpster commentating on videos that you send to theshow@incrediblepodcast.com? Yes! Mike and Turpster creating music videos, just like in the old days? Well, we don’t have any plans to do that, but hey why not. Maybe yes! What about the chat channel? This is a good question — YouTube has comments that serve as a chat during the livestream, but as a few listeners have told us, it’s not quite the same. So we’re not sure what we’ll do about chat just yet. We’ll always be able to chat with listeners during the show, so don’t worry about that. But we haven’t figured out whether we’ll stick with YouTube, or use some other chat service. We’ll see. I don’t have any more questions, I just wanted to say that this is awesome. Oh, will you have guests on, still? Thanks, it is awesome! And yes, we will have guests on occasionally (and we’ll do Tipoaa Pure occasionally, too). But when they’re on now, we’ll have them on video with us, so you’ll get to see their shining faces too. This video thing is great — it’s going to be good for the show, and you’ll love it as well. Thanks for listening and for supporting Tipoaa!
