I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well. Burnie Burns admitaudiencecheck share on social
Suddenly, everyone woke up, and everything was moving online. We've got Netflix making original series, CBS placing their network online, and suddenly, everyone's announcing some kind of digital network for serving their content online. Burnie Burns announcecbscontent share on social
The moment we put up the PayPal button, some guy donated $300. That's when we realized that if you give somebody a chance to support something on the Internet, they'll do it. Burnie Burns buttonchancedonate Change image and share on social
People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true. Burnie Burns doorfrontlot Change image and share on social
The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.' Burnie Burns bluegroupinitial Change image and share on social
I started one of the first online video companies way back in 2003. Burnie Burns backcompanyonline Change image and share on social
If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them. Burnie Burns communitycoolhire Change image and share on social
We didn't join YouTube until late 2008 because when we first looked at it, honestly, I viewed them as a competitor. But then it grew to the point where if you wanted to be part of the conversation, you had to be on YouTube. Burnie Burns competitorconversationgrow share on social
I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today. Burnie Burns contentcorefeel Change image and share on social
We started about three years before YouTube existed, so we had to host all the videos on our own servers at a co-location facility. When we got so many hits on our first few videos, and we estimated our bandwidth bill was going to be about $12,000 a month, we knew that we had to establish a business model ASAP. Burnie Burns 000asapbandwidth share on social