I've tried so often to listen to FTK podcast. It's hard to put my finger on why exactly, but I think it's the dynamic between Joel and Brett. Joel's persona seems forced while Brett doesn't even try and seems bored. Unfortunately, being a former Australian marathon record holder doesn't automatically mean you have something interesting to say.
How much do you think Adidas spent sending all of the shoetubers to Boston? They wouldn't be any different than Blue Origin wasting money.
Too much. My guess: they're all probably demanding business class travel (domestically a couple thousand bucks per person; hotels in Boston a couple thousand bucks per person; free shoes for $300 per person; meals, $150 per person per day for a week, a thousand bucks per person total; appearance fees, varies but we'll say $10k average; event space, another $25k. So $16,250*50 ShoeTubers=$812,250, plus $25k=$837,500, plus the cost of media staff there to make sure they document the content ($162,500)=a cool $1 million on the influencers.
Now I will forever have a hard time seeing how this makes business sense. The cost of purchasing ads with one million views on YouTube? $5,000. I think that the brands and the PR companies think we will view these videos to be more authentic. But when that much change is being dropped on travel they seem less authentic than regular ads.
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He definitely charges around $4k-$5k. I thought he had a speaking gig last year too. You know they're not going after his Boston Marathon video. The BAS needs to hear about this favoritism.
I've tried so often to listen to FTK podcast. It's hard to put my finger on why exactly, but I think it's the dynamic between Joel and Brett. Joel's persona seems forced while Brett doesn't even try and seems bored. Unfortunately, being a former Australian marathon record holder doesn't automatically mean you have something interesting to say.
Same. Just because you think your own conversations with friends are hilarious does not make them funny to the wider world.
There's a real lack of story to this pod, I can't get behind any of their journeys. And no one feels relatable/likeable enough to keep me listening.
Brett isn't on the podcast anymore is he? Which says a lot, tbh.
Joel was actually fantastic on the Inside Running patreon series during covid "Road to nowhere", but that was possibly due to Nick Earl and Ellie being funny too.
I stopped listening the most episodes early last year, pretty sure they went dark during the Olympics build up?
There's some incredible episodes in the early seasons - both Dave McNeil's appearances, Scullion, Deek. I go back and listen to those, but don't keep up witht it now.
I don’t think he can in London. It is not the easiest course and it’ll be the be relatively warm (based on weather predictions 6 days out at least), which doesn’t suit him.
I give him a better chance of doing so in Berlin, Valencia, or wherever he runs in fall.
the first question should be can he run 2:18, or even run <2:20 again. Bearing in mind the amount of attempts he's undertaken to run 2:19:45, it's very clearly not a guarantee in London, so I think he should be looking to at least consolidate this type of performance first before trying to suddenly take another minute (45s+) off his time
Maybe he could run 2:19:30 this week, but may sabotage himself by setting his sights too high suddenly
this of course could be just trolling, but my god do people around here overestimate what influencers are getting paid to the nth degree.
Also, it doesn't cost apple 1500 to make an iPhone, just as it doesn't cost Adidas $300 to make a show that it is giving away. Basic economics of production here.
Maybe he could run 2:19:30 this week, but may sabotage himself by setting his sights too high suddenly
I reckon he'll have a good shot at around 2.18. I guess the real question is are these marginal gains worth the effort?
I can seem project sub 2.15 being interesting! However, he seems to be putting a huge effort in for marginal improvements. I am not sure he could improve that much.
Matt B. Is running and qualified himself. The Aubrey guy inserted himself into one of Matt’s videos and seems completely unbearable.
It looks like Kofuzi has a speaking gig at Boston sponsored by adidas. How? What group does he appeal to?
The first time I was even aware of that unbearable (good choice of word!) fool Aubrey was cause he had shoehorned himself into a Kofuzi video. In the last few months he's had an appearance on Fordys show as well. Its clearly his MO to become famous for "knowing people" Rather than for doing or achieving anything worthwhile to justify his views
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