Rocketboom Prediction

Sunday, July 9th, 2006 @ 11:27 pm

So, have you all heard the latest gossip about the video podcast, Rocketboom? Well, Amanda, the host, says the Andrew, the creator, was preventing her from moving to LA, where she could pursue her acting career, while still producing the show from the West Coast. You see, Andrew and Rocketboom are based in New York, where the Hollywood elite don’t seem to hang out as much.

Anyway, rumor is that Andrew fired Amanda for wanting to take the show west, but Andrew’s story is that Amanda quit. Confused yet? Well, the whole blogoshpere is talking. The word is that Andrew has a new host and there will be a new show on Monday, July 10th.

Time for my prediction, I am thinking this is all staged. They now have so much publicity that even ‘old media‘ news outlets are picking up the story. Andrew has held firm that there will be a show on July 10th, so, of course, they will probably have one of their highest viewership ever on that day. I am thinking that Amanda will be on the show, maybe by crashing in on the new host, and the whole thing turns out to be related to a brand-new sponsor. Oh yeah, they have been making some good money off advertising lately.

There you have it. That is my predicition. Come back on Monday afternoon to either tell me how wrong I was or how right.

Update: Well, after a few days of stalling, it looks like Rocketboom is back and it looks like I was wrong. I have to say that I think that Joanne did a great job and I loved the opening bits with the tomatoes and Andrew catatonic on the floor. Good form. I look forward to seeing more from the crew at RB!