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Amanda goes boom on HBO and ABC

Started by mathewi · 10 months ago

As many people predicted when Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon split up so acrimoniously with her former partner Andrew Baron (which I wrote about here), it didn’t take long for someone to see the potential benefit of having an attractive video-blogger with a built-in following on th ... Continue reading »

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  • Rob Hyndman

    2 years ago

    I must admit, I'm not really seeing anything to this, other than the unsurprising lesson that attractive people are sought after for video spokes-gigs. Oh, that and that magazines sell better when they cover celebrities, of whatever grade.
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  • Mathew Ingram

    2 years ago

    I think it's more than just the idea that attractive people are sought after for video things, Rob -- I think in many ways the Web is taking its place alongside other outlets (like community television and local TV weather reports) as a source of those attractive people. Not exactly a breakthrough in journalism, perhaps :-) But interesting nevertheless.
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  • Rob Hyndman

    2 years ago

    Well, that was my point. It's really a talent scout for modelling agencies kind thing. Well, models who can read.
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