{"id":1470,"date":"2010-07-02T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T13:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2010-07-02T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T13:23:03","slug":"perfect-example-of-web-video-done-right-cali-lewis-and-geekbeat-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/02\/perfect-example-of-web-video-done-right-cali-lewis-and-geekbeat-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Example Of Web Video Done Right &#8211; Cali Lewis and GeekBeat.TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years whenever someone asked me for examples of people doing web video correctly and successfully, <strong>Cali Lewis <\/strong>was a name always on my list. \u00a0Cali was the host of <em>GeekBrief.TV<\/em>, a daily web show covering the latest technology and gadget news. \u00a0I even interviewed Cali about the success of the show <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webvideouniversity.com\/cali\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0But as of last Friday, GeekBrief.TV is no more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not because they &#8220;went under&#8221;, it&#8217;s because they couldn&#8217;t come to an agreement with their partner, Mevio.com. \u00a0So poof, just like that the site (along with hundreds of episodes) are gone. \u00a0Well actually, you can still watch the archived episodes on Mevio.com. \u00a0The good news is that Cali Lewis is not gone. \u00a0She is actually continuing her work on the new site <strong>GeekBeat.TV<\/strong>. \u00a0And it&#8217;s still the perfect example of web video done right&#8230;quality, engaging content, quality production value, videos that move well, keeping viewer&#8217;s interested and keep viewer&#8217;s coming back.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s these &#8220;done right&#8221; principles that many web video producers tend to stumble over. \u00a0Get these principles wrong and if the rug gets pulled out from under you, you&#8217;re back to square one or worse. \u00a0Get these principles right and if the rug gets pulled out from under you&#8230;you just continue on without really missing a beat (like Cali). \u00a0That&#8217;s because by doing things right you will have built a loyal audience, one that will follow you anywhere&#8230;regardless of what your business name is, what your domain name is and who your partners are.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, Cali Lewis. \u00a0In one day, her old site, GeekBrief.TV disappeared&#8230;along with all of her videos. \u00a0But her audience immediately migrated to her new site. \u00a0<strong>In fact, her new site immediately became the #1 subscribed to podcast in all of iTunes<\/strong>. \u00a0And that can only happen when you do web video the right way.<\/p>\n<p>Here are links to Cali&#8217;s new sites:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekbeat.tv\" target=\"_blank\">GeekBeat.TV<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calilewis.me\" target=\"_blank\">CaliLewis.ME<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years whenever someone asked me for examples of people doing web video correctly and successfully, Cali Lewis was a name always on my list. \u00a0Cali was the host of GeekBrief.TV, a daily web show covering the latest technology and gadget news. \u00a0I even interviewed Cali about the success of the show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[606,607,608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}