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The Boom is Gone from RocketBoom

Amanda Congdon “Unboomed”

RocketBoom Amanda Congdon, the face and voice of the ultra-popular Rocketboom video blog has been fired (see her video farewall annoucment here).

Apparently, her partner Andrew Baron thinks he’ll be just fine without Amanda. I had no idea that there was somebody else of import at Rocketboom — I thought Amanda was Rocketboom.

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has this to say about Rocketboom:

RocketBoom has catapulted itself to success, with 250,000ish daily viewers, distribution via Tivo and $40,000 per week in advertising revenue. It was beginning to rival national cable television shows for audience share.

There is certainly another side to this story - but whatever happened it is an unmitigated disaster for the show. Amanda was RocketBoom. She will certainly go on to continued success. The future of RocketBoom may not be so bright.

Yep. I just opened ITunes and hit “Unsubscribe” to my daily Rocketboom podcast. I doubt we’ve heard or seen the last of Amanda. I doubt we’ll be able to say the same thing about Rocketboom.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 | Trackback |

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