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I’ve developped a reputation for being the person to ask for finding sex video-podcasts… and with great power comes great responsibility.

Although there are many places to look for iPorn, it’s never been easy. When I want to review a sexy video-podcast, I often search multiple sources to find content:

• Whenever Fleshbot makes a post about a certain subject, there is a list of previous posts that shows up underneath. If you go to the most recent post on video-podcasts you will usually find previous posts with other interesting video-podcasts to check out.
• Existing directories don’t always make it easy to find adult content (for obvious reasons), but if you do a search for porn or sex you might just get lucky.
• Typing “sex video podcast” into Google might also land you a couple of links, but for the most part you’ll probably just run back into Kitkast and Podnography.

Today, however, the difficulty in finding sex video podcasts to review has become exponentially easier. Last night I received an e-mail from a Kitkast viewer who has taken it upon herself to start a directory of sexy things; iPornDirectory.com. Now we all have a new more centralized place to find content for our video iPods… not that I own one…

(Thanks Anna!)

Sorry I’ve been MIA for the past week or so… I’ve had a few problems:

• I’ve been sick with a cold;
• I’ve been suffering from fatigue, malnourishment and headaches;
• I’ve not been inspired to write anything good enough to post on my blog… all my energy is now centered around Kitkast.

Things have been really tough this week… although I’m well organized in my future Kitkast planning I found it really difficult to film this week because it was hard to say my lines while being sick. Zod thinks it’s because I don’t have as much breath as I would when I’m healthy, but I think it has more to do with the fact that I kept choking on my stuffy nose when I’m trying to talk. Oh well, at least that’s better than last week… last week I couldn’t even talk without feeling pain!

Will write when the spirit moves me… until then, why not go and comment on this week’s Kitkast. Kitka out.

Happy day-after-Valentine’s everyone…

As discussed on this week’s Kitkast, go check out yesterday’s Lo-Fi Saint Louis rerun to see my intro sequence.

After writing my post about French Maid TV yesterday I realized something… the statistics that I quoted for those sexy french maids being #13 and Rocketboom being #23 on iTunes were somewhat false. I realized last night that there are different versions of iTunes for different countries and that those statistics were Canadian statistics.

On the Canadian statistics, Rocketboom is the number one news podcast (beating all mainstream Canadian news podcasts) and Kitkast is nowhere to be found in the top 100 podcasts. However, in the UK and Germany Kitkast surpasses even Rocketboom on the top 100.

This morning I got an e-mail from an old friend telling me that he has started a new rock band in Scotland and that he wrote a song called Queen of the USA. It turns out the first line of the song goes “Hot bitch Kitka she’s the Queen of the USA.”

How cool is that…

If iTunes prefers that you only register with them once you have three complete episodes, how did French Maid TV go from zero to hero with just one episode in just one month?

French Maid TV posted their first episode in mid-December and a month later I started to wonder whether they would ever post a follow up. They finally posted their second episode earlier this month with a whole new cast of french maids and are currently holding their place as one of iTunes’ top podcasts (today’s rank: 13). In fact, although they only had one episode in January, they still outranked videoblogging pioneers Rocketboom (today’s rank: 23).

But that’s not all…

Even with one episode by January, French Maid TV were already in talks with Podtrac to support advertising in their videoblog and they had already started an AdBrite account to get extra money by selling advertizing space on their official site. Additionally, within two weeks of posting their first episode, they already had a French Maid TV store set up on Cafe Press.

These tactics are all standard marketing strategies for a podcast that wants to monetize their product (hell, I’ve tried two out of three of them!), but I’m wondering when they’ll post their NEXT episode. Will it be something they do every 6 weeks or will they start making them more regularly?

I understand the desire to make some money from podcasting (especially when it takes a lot of time and money to produce), but I don’t think I would be worrying about monetization if I only put out one Kitkast every 6 weeks. Frankly, I’m surprised that an advertizing company like Podtrac would want to do business with someone who’s only made one podcast… I know if I were an advertizing company, I would be concerned whether my client would produce the show regularly enough to give me a stable platform.

So, are advertizers interested in the one-shot long-shot deals or do they want a reliable client to guarantee that their ad will be viewed by as many people as the last time? How many TV shows do you know that are only released once every 6 weeks? Gees, if Kitkast was released once every 6 weeks, it would be 60 minutes long! Instead, these people are putting out a 3-minute show…

The future of advertizing on videoblogs is a truly interesting topic, indeed. I wonder what the CPMs for an erratically-produced show like French Maid TV will be compared to a trustworthy daily show like Rocketboom. Is French Maid TV just a short-term project to make a quick buck?

[On a side note: A German viewer sent me an e-mail today informing me that Kitkast is #30 in the top 100 podcasts on iTunes in Germany. Stand aside, Hasselhoff, Kitka’s here!]

Related: French Maid TV reviewed on Kitkast Episode #1.13