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Ricky Van Veen

lines on the record: 57
first: 2015-12-03
most recent: 2015-12-03
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“It seems pretty alarming, right? The TV guys are saying no one's watching us anymore, but we can make money if you did watch us, and you guys are saying we've got all the eyeballs. We can't make any money there. It seems like you're both going to end up with zero live on a desert island.”
2015-12-03 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, there's no doubt. All of these companies Each other. Yes, that's a great way to put it. The digital media crowd, myself included, we definitely have the eyeballs. That's no question. But the immonization is something we don't have. So it's like we have the eyeballs, but not the monetization, and TV is losing eyeballs but still has monetization. So we both want one thing that the other person has or the other party has.”
2015-12-03 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Multiple shows on the air now and even more in development, every one of those things came from something on our YouTube channel or a video on our website.”
2015-12-03 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're the guy behind chopped if you've watched chopped. Yeah, kind of straddling both the digital and TV worlds. And with the college humor business, that actually has come in very handy. Because as I say in the piece, and I will probably talk about it later, it's hard to monetize just an internet audience, especially as things go to platforms, just because you have an audience doesn't mean that you're going to make any money. You have to do something on top of that, right? So one way that we've found one revenue stream that we've found that's been very successful for us is taking IP generated digitally and then selling it to places where you can monetize it, like television or like Verizons Go 90 or like all, you know, there are a lot of buyers of premium content now or premium short form content is what we specialize in for TV, we expand it into a full length show.”
2015-12-03 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. And on top of that, I think it was called 13. Oh no, it's called Facebook is the internet and 13 other things media people talk about at dinner.”
2015-12-03 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I felt horrible. And I wrote back and I was like, I was joking. That stuff hasn't been made since the 90s. I'm so sorry to send you on this wild guess, Jason's for a dumb joke.”
2015-12-03 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My story correctly, Ricky. And before we get started, I have to really give it up for your production team. I don't know if you were aware of this, but I got an email maybe two weeks ago from you saying, hey, love to do this podcast. And then someone followed up and said, here's the release form. And if you have any requests for food and beverage, let us know. And I replied all and said, yeah, I'll get the form right back to you. And as a joke, I said, and I would love a crystal Pepsi, the failed Pepsi beverage that hasn't been made since like 97 or something. I get an email yesterday saying, Ricky, we've been trying to source this crystal Pepsi all over town. We just can't. And I guess it was a young person who was not old enough to witness them all.”
2015-12-03 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT