Crisis at MoBuzz
21 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Online video, Internet, Media
The popular video podcast MoBuzz was ground breaking when it launched in 2004 and has been probably the best produced video podcast covering Internet culture, some gadgets and quirky news from around the Net. Always with a great and somewhat sarcastic tone set by the presenter Karina Stenquist the show has become an Internet phenomena. But since Karina left the show a few months ago there seems to be chaos over at MoBuzz.
The new presenter Susan Hickey replaced Karina but didn´t stay long and during her time the show wasn’t the same as during Karinas time at MoBuzz. And while MoBuzz is looking for a new presenter the competition is growing, GeekBrief has always been a popular tech and gadget show but now Morgan Webb has started another tech/Internet show called WebbAlert which just might steal MoBuzz thunder. We sure hope MoBuzz will find a great presenter again soon, because it would be sad if they would be forgotten.
- Tomas
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Unfortunately if Mobuzz had practiced what most companies would consider to be ethical and professional business practice Susan would not have left. After presenting for National and International broadcasters one could logically assume it would take more than a few misguided comments from the mostly pubescent Mobuzz audience to provoke Susan to leave! Then lets factor in the heavy doctoring of Mobuzz’ forum in order to propagate the myth that Susan was not popular - in order to put a spin on their own shortcomings. Pretty much all postings supporting Susan have been taken down by Mobuzz and if people had been following the show when Susan was presenting it, they would have witnessed around 80% of the comments being pro-Susan. In fact this won’t hold up for much longer - especially in lieu of the amount of other work offers Susan has had and indeed with the commencement of a new show she will be presenting very shortly. As Anil himself admitted they now have difficulty finding a new presenter - who may well have to move country - something they were woefully unprepared for when Susan arrived. Also lets not lose fact of the reasons Karina left in the first place. When I spoke to her in Madrid she expressed complete dissatisfaction with Anil and some of the backroom staff regarding their unprofessional approach. Meanwhile Anil maintained he had to get rid of Karina due to dramatically falling viewing figures (English version) since Jan 07. I think Karina’s pretty bright, I think Susan’s pretty bright.. Mobuzz still have no presenter…… you do the math?!
Sounds like you have some inside insight into this topic. Would be interesting to know what that information and insight comes from? But I suppose maybe you can not reveil that.
/Tomas - Trendency
Hi Tomas
Am happy to chat. Am equally happy that Susan’s new job starts next week, & also interested to see that Mobuzz have a new presenter for the English show. I hope they have learnt from Susan’s situation?
Best
Peter