Note the upsidedown map
Rocketboom, a new media company with a ton of fuel on board, lost a co-pilot and host, Amanda Congdon to Hollywood. Andrew Baron, the show’s producer, is now piloting the craft and looking for a soft landing.
Washington Post tracks Rocketboom’s flight path:
When Rocketboom started in 2004, young video producer Andrew Baron sent out a casting call in New York and hired Congdon to produce a daily Internet show without a fancy studio — just $25 a day, a desk and a map of the world as a backdrop. Eventually, viewers were drawn to Congdon’s offbeat humor, the show’s funny camera angles, and its unpredictable format and content. As hundreds of thousands of viewers began to tune in, Rocketboom asked for advertising bids on eBay and brought in $40,000 to $85,000 a week at times.
Steve Rubel, senior vice president of Edelman Worldwide’s Me2Revolution practice, told the Post that Congdon “pulled a Star Jones.”
On her blog, Amanda Unboomed, Congdon says:
I am disheartened by Andrew Baron’s decision to spread misinformation. He knows I cannot move to LA without a job…but insists on spinning things this way to shore up his assertion that I am “walking away” from Rocketboom. I did not walk away. I did not accept Andrew’s idea of “partnership”.
You can check out Congdon’s confessional resignation here.
