Lunch with Carson Daly
Down at the EconSM conference in Beverly Hills, we had the unique experience of having lunch with Carson Daly, currently the host of Last Call with Carson Daly on NBC. Prior to lunch, Daly had sat on a panel about social media and Hollywood, where he posited his MTV Total Request Live show of the late ’90s as a pioneer of social media on television, “turning over an hour to users.”
Teaming up with Demand Media for an online video-related project launching next week (more on that later), Daly was excited to talk about the rise of the “semi-pro” in music and video. As he sucked down bloody marys and toyed with his BlackBerry 8800, Daly told the stories of securing development deals with NBC for Nobody’s Watching and Brookers (embedded above). A development deal, I asked, is that really the apex?
“It’s a colossal step for somebody outside of the old boy network to get in,” he replied. “Here’s a 19-year-old secretary in Connecticut, and now she’s getting paid by NBC to sit in her bedroom and make videos.”
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Nice article. I just interviewed Carsons’ sister Quinn Daly, vp for public relations at Demand Media regarding the upcoming promotion of the .TV domain extension on May1st.
Very candid interview, with some very tough questions, Quinn excelled in a personal capacity. Demand Media has a higher hurdle to overcome……
CHeck out my interview at http://WWW.ALLTHINGS.TV
I dunno about this Mr. Carson Daly… Look at one of his companies: http://www.channelme.tv/
Where he domain-squats on URLs like http://bill.tv/ (where he showers and talks to you while saying “This is my channel, get yer own!”)
Who knew domain-squatting could be fashioned into a Web2.0 comapany?
blech.