Why Actor Kevin Pollak Prefers the Online Medium

Pollak likes the online format for a variety of reasons. He likes that you can get stuff out all over the world instantly. He likes the lack of limitations. You can do a show uncensored, and you can let it run as long as you want. His shows are normally at least an hour long, and sometimes 2 hours or more.

The online format is ideal for inspiring audience participation with the show itself as well. Pollak says he's had users contribute a theme song, questions for guests, and participate in a "Larry King game" (you'd have to watch the show to understand).

We're seeing this audience participation with content thing more and more in the online video world. Look at what Paramount's doing with Mountain Dew, Adobe Flash, and MySpace. They're marketing with an interactive web series/game.

In another article I talked about using more than just the obvious communities to spread your message. Kevin Pollak's Chat Show is a good example of how this can happen on its own, particularly with online video in the mix. His videos are not only on his site, but they're on YouTube, Beet.tv, Blip.tv, Ustream, and other Video sites.

The natural shareability of online video combined with the communication power of social media opens up the doors for a whole lot of opportunity. Pollak has presences on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. He's even got one on Mahalo. Pollak's show proves that you can find success online even if you don't know that much about the Internet. As Kevin says in our interview with him, he's learning as he goes. It certainly helps that he is already in show business, but if you can provide interesting enough content, people out there will watch it, and they will share it. Best of all, you can reach people all over the world.

How has being online expanded your opportunities? Discuss here.

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1 Comment
By Guest (WPN reader) - Fri, 10/30/2009 - 17:13
Just a comment
Know the face of course, but wouldn't be able to put a name to it.......But the 'big-name' interviews??
Only recognise one of the names and that was Eddie Izzard and he's old hat these days...maybe these other guys publicity machine is not as good as you make out, maybe the people he interviews need one too!!!!

Sorreeee!