Kimia, Jeremy, Jacob, and Kurt compete in the ultimate quiz show.
Content Warning: Hemophobia (Visual of blood) - [40:07-40:08]
Was this just an episode to give Jacob a bunch of money? I don’t know how to feel about that…
Yes. Specifically, it’s an episode to give Jacob a bunch of LinkedIn’s money.
It was pretty funny to me how blatantly rigged the rules were to ensure that Jacob walked away with 100% of the money. I think that the other “contestants” were in on the plan from the beginning. Notice how they all even blatantly flubbed the first pick drawing.
It took me some time to process, but I came around to: less money in the hands of LinkedIn and more money in the hands of Jacob W is probably a good thing for the world.
The baffling thing to me is that it was LinkedIn. Like, I’m sure Sam went with whoever was offering the most, but LinkedIn thinks the Dropout audience is a good target demographic for them? That at least feels unlikely, though perhaps the price tag was simply very small compared to what they normally work with. (Or maybe there’s one or two people at LinkedIn who are into Dropout and managed to pitch it lol.)
Then again, I’m probably way out of the loop out that site. Or on how advertising works effectively.
It’s interesting to me that LinkedIn is willing to pay $100,000.00 to advertise on DropOut right around when they made the news with a shitty anti-trans policy change.
With TV filming timing - it raises the question if LinkedIn knew the change would generate bad press, and actually cared?
Or more likely they just recognize that early adopters and influencers are tired of the big streaming services?
Or $100.000.00 is so little money - to LinkedIn - that LinkedIn doesn’t care how they spend it…
Yeah, but why should Jacob get all the money and not just share it between themselves? I hardly believe that Jacob is the only person who is in need for money in the company. I don’t mind much when it’s smaller amounts of money, but 100k? That’s SO much money!
I noticed that too. I suspect that Jacob has a specific plan to launch something that will involve the others - and this ends up being a way that DropOut can partner without DropOut outright owning the result.
I recall a brief moment where Jacob accidentally mentions working together on something with some of the others present, and then realizes that it’s probably too early to mention whatever it is “on air”.
That said, I wish DropOut would borrow more from how Maximum Fun is structured, leaving ownership among the creatives.
Yeah I’m not so sure about the LinkedIn advert when they are explicitly making it allowed to harass trans and non-white people. I get that the money went to Jacob but I still paid to watch people shill an awful service that is happy for people to harm me
I hope the sponsor thing stays a one-off thing. I’m paying for access to this platform, if they start making me watch ads too I’ll be gone
Interesting way to introduce ads on the platform 😄
But what a fun episode!
I notcied that, too. I think it’s the first ad of any form I have seen on DropOut.
I have to admit it shows an understanding of me, as an audience member - I’m not mad that they’re wholeasale transferring large sums of money from monopolist corporations to independent comedians.
It still makes me nervous that they will get greedy for the big corporate money, and start to comprise what makes DropOut great.
That said, I would not mind seeing an ongoing tradition where they just shovel a corporate sponsor’s money to a worthy independent artist.