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Anime Expo 2008 - Keynote Address: Vu Nguyen, Crunchyroll

Typo in second to last paragraph:

Of these, the ad-supported model should probe the most popular, but all three will be viable to some extent.

Interesting article. Must be awkward for companies seeing an illegitimate "business site" become a significant force to deal with.

Not all fans care about what company gets the license, especially if they don't care what happens because they're already seeing a show with subtitles and when it ends, it ends, and off to the next series.

That seems to be the general mindset for most people I talk to. It's like shiny toys that get boring fast.

When people ask for anime on places like Yahoo! Answers, it's always a variant of, "WeRE cann i dwnlooad ths for FREE!!11!!!!!oneone!1!1!!"

They don't feel the need to invest in anime because it's not something worth investing in. It's not like a special collection or owning the experience for a lot of these people. It's just there.

... Must be awkward for companies seeing an illegitimate "business site" become a significant force to deal with.

SharinganEye wrote:

... Must be awkward for companies seeing an illegitimate "business site" become a significant force to deal with.

Is Cruncyroll really a 'significant' force in the commercial sphere? The site gets a lot of views, but it got a lot of views before their big 'legit' headlines.

Maybe they (Crunchyroll) start a service quickly and turn some heads, but for right now it seems they are proposing what others (like ANN's news) are themselves now starting, and Crunchyroll had a head-start that they don't appear to have done a lot with.

The report talks about the viewer-ship numbers and how they hope to mix premium pay with ad-support, but that's what was said months ago. The report also doesn't make it seem Crunchyroll has a huge licensed library in place (we'll need the help of US and Japanese industries to..). In effect, it read like the same 'outline' Crunchyroll leadership detailed awhile ago, attract a certain demographic and now find a way to get revenue out of it. It just doesn't seem they've advanced the ball much with the lead-time they've had, and I figured they would have wanted an ironed-out service up and running before streaming 'competitors' popped up. The more viewers you draw, the more ad-revenue on the table, and viewers will probably stay with a 'favorite community' once they get used to a certain site (assuming most places will stream a similar variety of shows). Crunchyroll had/has an apparently big 'community', but if other streaming sites open up with a wide array of content a good chuck of folks will set up shop elsewhere. Like said earlier, maybe the facts change tomorrow, but for right now it appears Crunchyroll is still more idea than execution, and there are other fish entering the pond.

Eh. Whatever they do, it's their problem. I was pointing out that with the recent turn of events, companies have been forced to acknowledge Crunchyroll as something they might have to deal with.

If they really want to go legit, they should probably deal with their other media as well.

Speaking of... I wonder if NarutoFan will finally go down.

SharinganEye wrote:

... Must be awkward for companies seeing an illegitimate "business site" become a significant force to deal with.

Is Cruncyroll really a 'significant' force in the commercial sphere? The site gets a lot of views, but it got a lot of views before their big 'legit' headlines.

Maybe they (Crunchyroll) start a service quickly and turn some heads, but for right now it seems they are proposing what others (like ANN's news) are themselves now starting, and Crunchyroll had a head-start that they don't appear to have done a lot with.

The report talks about the viewer-ship numbers and how they hope to mix premium pay with ad-support, but that's what was said months ago. The report also doesn't make it seem Crunchyroll has a huge licensed library in place (we'll need the help of US and Japanese industries to..). In effect, it read like the same 'outline' Crunchyroll leadership detailed awhile ago, attract a certain demographic and now find a way to get revenue out of it. It just doesn't seem they've advanced the ball much with the lead-time they've had, and I figured they would have wanted an ironed-out service up and running before streaming 'competitors' popped up. The more viewers you draw, the more ad-revenue on the table, and viewers will probably stay with a 'favorite community' once they get used to a certain site (assuming most places will stream a similar variety of shows). Crunchyroll had/has an apparently big 'community', but if other streaming sites open up with a wide array of content a good chuck of folks will set up shop elsewhere. Like said earlier, maybe the facts change tomorrow, but for right now it appears Crunchyroll is still more idea than execution, and there are other fish entering the pond.

How do these guys plan on being taken seriously when browsing their "index" it still lists hundreds of shows. Unless I've missed something I doubt they have permission to be hosting all these files.