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It's really great to see fans all over the world.
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The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.
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We wanted to make movies back in college before Rooster Teeth. Our roots have always been in feature filmmaking, and we've always wanted to go back to it.
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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.
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Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
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We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.
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YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.
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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.
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We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that.
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When Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo started 'Achievement Hunter,' we expanded heavily into 'let's play'-style gaming videos and have since expanded with a massive roster of gaming talent and multiple channels dedicated just to gaming videos.
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Travel is stressful.
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Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves.
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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.
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The big difference between us and other people who produce content is that we started doing this to make things that we wanted to make.
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Anybody who has traveled with a significant other before knows it's tough.
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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.
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Nothing scales quite the way a sci-fi feature does, I mean, you can always add more visual effects; you can spend a lot of money on the visual fidelity alone.
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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.
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