June 27, 2006

Rocketboom is to charge advertisers $85,000 a week

rocketboom_logo.jpg Rocketboom is said to be drawing 300,000 viewers a day to it's videoblog, and is about to start charging advertisers $85,000 a week, reports The Economist in an article entitled "Blogging off", June 15th edition.

The article is about Robert Scoble's leaving Microsoft to join PODTech.net, "a rising star in video podcasting, which is now far more fashionable than blogging and potentially far more lucrative. It seems that Mr Scoble is most impressed by Rocketboom, " writes The Economist.