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Post by dkm on Feb 8, 2018 12:30:08 GMT -8
It doesn't to me, but I have seen people elsewhere complain about it.
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Post by dody on Feb 8, 2018 12:34:02 GMT -8
Doesn't really matter to me yet.
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Post by MKCS on Feb 8, 2018 12:48:15 GMT -8
Really in 2018 every company or business should have a website. It makes them look cheap or amateur without one.
For the shows I'm promoting our website was created and had every piece of information necessary on it before I even announced the first show. My website isn't amazing but it does the job. Maybe they should do a basic website for now and grow it when the company picks up steam.
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Post by Fred Richards on Feb 8, 2018 13:30:00 GMT -8
IMO, a website is significant and contemporary. However, a site that is empty or rarely updated is an embarrassment.
"Tradition" is a synonym (loosely) for "museum." Roughly 65+% of what recent NWA websites have posted is rooted in yesteryear.
Bottom line remains - it is the Pumpkin Person's Property to do with or not do with as he pleases.
In contrast (and relevant to the instant topic):
WWE's rally faces key test four years after web gamble
paid off
By Emma Ockerman
February 7, 2018, 9:20 AM EST
It wasn’t clear what would happen to World Wrestling
Entertainment Inc. when it broke with industry standards to
create its own network four years ago. Investors who stuck
around made out handsomely, and now look to the company to
leverage its popularity into more lucrative licensing deals.
Up against cord-cutters, WWE opted to cannibalize its
profitable pay-per-view business by launching its own
network in 2014, a move that engendered “no admiration” from
Wall Street, Chief Strategy and Financial Officer George
Barrios said in an interview. He remembers a writer saying
at the time that if Chief Executive Officer Vince McMahon
were smart, he’d march his top lieutenants “up to the top of
the building and make us jump.”
Now, amid a frenzied push for live and direct-to-consumer
content, analysts say other media companies are stuck
playing catch up to WWE. The midcap company’s shares rose 66
percent last year, their third consecutive year of growth.
To keep that rally going, however, the hard-to-define
company will need to navigate distribution talks for its
marquee programming as well as McMahon’s new XFL side
project.
Streaming content, or over-the-top distribution, is “what
Disney had said it was going to do after it buys Fox in
2019,” Laura Martin, an analyst at Needham & Co., said in a
phone interview. “That’s what CBS is doing with Showtime
over-the-top -- what WWE has successfully already done. It’s
leading by years.”
Investors are also growing more confident. Short interest
has fallen to 11 percent of float, down from 20 percent in
July, according to financial analytics firm S3 Partners. WWE
topped analyst estimates for revenue in each of the past
four quarters, and earnings estimates in the past two. The
company is slated to report fourth-quarter results on
February 8, and the average earnings-per-share estimate is
targeting 86 percent growth year-over-year.
A mix between an athletic brand and a theatrical enterprise,
WWE has attracted 1.5 million monthly subscribers, a social
media following that trumps the National Football League and
a growing share of international viewers.
Hilliard Lyons analyst Jeffrey Thomison said it’s an easy
guess why WWE’s fandom is expanding: The content is grossly
entertaining. The Stamford, Connecticut-based company is
also savvy at connecting with its fan base on social media
platforms. WWE’s YouTube channel had 22 million subscribers
as of February 6, more than that of the NBA, NHL, NFL and
MLB YouTube channels combined. That level of standing may
have helped nudge along a deal with Facebook Watch to stream
an exclusive 12-episode series.
“I try to go to the events whenever they’re relatively
close,” Thomison said in a phone interview. “I’m there for
research purposes, but I have to admit that they’re always a
lot of fun.”
The company’s show of strength will be tested in the coming
months as it aims to attract more competitive bidding for
U.S. distribution rights to its core Raw and SmackDown
programming, currently in agreement with Comcast Corp.’s
NBCUniversal and airing on USA Network. A new deal is
expected to be announced sometime between May and September.
Investors are also awaiting distribution agreements in India
and the U.K.
The new U.S. deal may be a “game changer in terms of
profitability” for WWE, Brandon Ross, an analyst at BTIG,
said in a phone interview. Television is still the biggest
money-maker at the company. In 2014 it generated $130
million in annual revenue across seven licensing deals for
its core programming, stepping up to $235 million in 2018.
Some see reasons to be cautious. Citi analyst Jason Bazinet
downgraded the stock to hold in December, saying it was hard
to find fundamental drivers to justify the year’s rally.
Others may worry about McMahon being pulled away from his
CEO duties as he plans to start a new professional football
league in 2020, although McMahon says the new league will be
completely separate from WWE.
CFO Barrios, meanwhile, compares WWE’s evolution to the
“hero’s journey” format commonly found in Greek mythology.
The company’s advancements in direct-to-consumer programming
are “now viewed as an archetype” for the media industry, he
said.
“People look very closely at what we’ve done.”
Original article/Bloomberg
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Post by Jay Cal on Feb 8, 2018 13:52:20 GMT -8
Its kind of funny. I got my first taste of the internet in 1994. It was through AOL. Back then, I wasn't really aware of web pages. AOL has community message boards, news sections, etc. The interesting thing about all of it is, Facebook has basically become the AOL of 1994. Some people use Facebook for news, for media, for... everything. WWE has a full blown website. But you can basically run a business without a website, if you have social media.
I don't think you need a web page. Although I would run with one.
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Post by dkm on Feb 9, 2018 8:05:33 GMT -8
What benefit would a website add? Right now between Twitter and Facebook the NWA is reaching over 22K people on its own. Plus whatever people are seeing from Nick Aldis, CWFH, and the like.
They aren't doing shows (be that good or bad is another topic) so a website would a website actually offer fans anything more?
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Post by Fred Richards on Feb 9, 2018 9:56:58 GMT -8
What benefit would a website add? Right now between Twitter and Facebook the NWA is reaching over 22K people on its own. Plus whatever people are seeing from Nick Aldis, CWFH, and the like. They aren't doing shows (be that good or bad is another topic) so a website would a website actually offer fans anything more? Perhaps this entire question is premature. Until and unless Corgan starts running-for-real, it is somewhat difficult to measure the value of a website or the detriment due to its absence. "Reaching people" doesn't cash-in at the bank. Getting those people to buy your product is all that matters. I gave consideration to posting a question thusly - - How many of we NWA aficionados who participate in this forum can honestly say we have spent money on any NWA product - - not a t-shirt from a vendor, etc. I mean paid out $$$ to the NWA directly? And, yes, the NWA did have an online store- hell, I still have quite a few shirts from the Howard Brody era in my basement (PWO, LLC lost a few hundred on that ill-fated venture). |
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Post by Jay Cal on Feb 9, 2018 14:34:57 GMT -8
I haven't spent a dime on the National Wrestling Alliance since the PWO, LLC forfeited the rights to the NWA.
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Post by JADEN on Feb 9, 2018 14:49:53 GMT -8
What benefit would a website add? Right now between Twitter and Facebook the NWA is reaching over 22K people on its own. Plus whatever people are seeing from Nick Aldis, CWFH, and the like. They aren't doing shows (be that good or bad is another topic) so a website would a website actually offer fans anything more? Perhaps this entire question is premature. Until and unless Corgan starts running-for-real, it is somewhat difficult to measure the value of a website or the detriment due to its absence. "Reaching people" doesn't cash-in at the bank. Getting those people to buy your product is all that matters. I gave consideration to posting a question thusly - - How many of we NWA aficionados who participate in this forum can honestly say we have spent money on any NWA product - - not a t-shirt from a vendor, etc. I mean paid out $$$ to the NWA directly? And, yes, the NWA did have an online store- hell, I still have quite a few shirts from the Howard Brody era in my basement (PWO, LLC lost a few hundred on that ill-fated venture). You should bring them to the next DAWG event |
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Post by Fred Richards on Feb 9, 2018 15:01:08 GMT -8
You should bring them to the next DAWG event They're yours. I will put them in the rental car. |
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Post by Jay Cal on Feb 9, 2018 15:50:35 GMT -8
You should bring them to the next DAWG event They're yours. I will put them in the rental car. Make sure somehow you guys get me one of those throwback shirts. Size XL. |
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Post by dkm on Feb 10, 2018 16:09:51 GMT -8
I haven't spent a dime on the National Wrestling Alliance since the PWO, LLC forfeited the rights to the NWA. I spent about the same |
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Post by dkm on Feb 10, 2018 16:11:32 GMT -8
Perhaps this entire question is premature. Until and unless Corgan starts running-for-real, it is somewhat difficult to measure the value of a website or the detriment due to its absence. I think that is a true statement. |
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Post by gmellos on Feb 12, 2018 13:59:32 GMT -8
I have always viewed this site as the unofficial NWA site. I just hope Jay and Co are allowed to continue to be that. Or hell have Billy official sponsor/sanction this website
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Post by Jay Cal on Feb 13, 2018 9:54:42 GMT -8
I have always viewed this site as the unofficial NWA site. I just hope Jay and Co are allowed to continue to be that. Or hell have Billy official sponsor/sanction this website Nobody has officially "sanctioned" this website as official. I talk to Dave Lagana occasionally, but in no way has he endorsed what this site does or is. However, I like to think that the NWA in the past saw value in what this site was. And hopefully they currently do as well and will continue to do so in the future. Bob Trobich, Bruce Tharpe, Billy Corgan, not one of them ever put the site over, but I know Trobich appreciated our efforts to promote the NWA. I think Bruce initially did. And as far as Corgan goes, I think he knows the site exists (because the one chance I got to speak to him, I told him) but I doubt he's ever been to the site. |
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