I nearly shelled out $30 bucks just to watch London, then I remembered how terrible FloTrack was when I had a subscription years ago. This company is officially ruining running in the USA.
Does anyone know how much they pay their "employees." Zero. There's your answer.
I nearly shelled out $30 bucks just to watch London, then I remembered how terrible FloTrack was when I had a subscription years ago. This company is officially ruining running in the USA.
Does anyone know how much they pay their "employees." Zero. There's your answer.
And you get what you paid for.
To "pavements" remark that FloTrack is "ruining running", there's a new kid in town that has that title. They're called Citius. The worst, unprofessional and unpolished announcers in any sport, including NCAA and HS levels.
Does anyone know how much they pay their "employees." Zero. There's your answer.
And you get what you paid for.
To "pavements" remark that FloTrack is "ruining running", there's a new kid in town that has that title. They're called Citius. The worst, unprofessional and unpolished announcers in any sport, including NCAA and HS levels.
Citius does a good job with what they have. And, it’s free. (Sure, THEY make money on their YouTube videos, but it doesn’t cost US anything to watch). How can anyone complain about something that was given to them for free?
*Reach out to them and offer your superior announcing skills*
Citius does a good job with what they have. And, it’s free. (Sure, THEY make money on their YouTube videos, but it doesn’t cost US anything to watch). How can anyone complain about something that was given to them for free?
*Reach out to them and offer your superior announcing skills*
Because no one would pay to see their horrible reporting if they had to pay for it. They sound like a couple of 15 yr school kids pretending to be announcers
Citius does a good job with what they have. And, it’s free. (Sure, THEY make money on their YouTube videos, but it doesn’t cost US anything to watch). How can anyone complain about something that was given to them for free?
*Reach out to them and offer your superior announcing skills*
Because no one would pay to see their horrible reporting if they had to pay for it. They sound like a couple of 15 yr school kids pretending to be announcers
Did you reach out to them to offer your superior announcing skills?
Because no one would pay to see their horrible reporting if they had to pay for it. They sound like a couple of 15 yr school kids pretending to be announcers
Did you reach out to them to offer your superior announcing skills?
I'm not an announcer, never said I was and I don't pretend to be like they do
When I was in college I checked the Flotrack website every day. I don’t think I’ve checked it since 2018. Literally no reason to now. Everything is behind a paywall and their content as gone down the drain.
WAY too many technical issues when you’re paying over $30/month. I was really happy with how they covered the 2022 Penn Relays. But it’s been absolutely abhorrent since then.
The London Marathon coverage was the last straw for me. 1 hour and 10 minutes later after technical issues started and it’s STILL not on. As I mentioned on a previous thread, imagine if during the SuperBowl just suddenly coverage stopped. The teams are scoring left and right, all kinds of excitement happening, but you didn’t see ANY of it because of technical issues. That would; of course, never happen.
I’ve canceled my multi-year subscription history with FloSports.
I went on a rant on another thread with information that I thought was pertinent to this thread, and thought I’d share it here as well…
“There are other ways these organizations make money.
I don’t mind paying, and I pay A LOT to be a fan of the sport that I have been a part of and have loved for 44 years.
There are times; however, (such as FloTrack), where I have to just flat-out STOP paying because of an inferior product.
There are other organizations that are doing things differently. Such as Sound Running, where I pay to view a particular competition and they’re completely transparent about 50% of my money going directly to the prize money and into the athletes’ pockets. Sign me up for that everyday!
Runner’s World? 40 years ago, 30 years ago, even 20 years ago it was great. It was how we as fans kept up on what our favorite distance athletes were doing around the world. I remember the issue about Carlos Lopez when he broke the marathon world record by 54 seconds and being the first man to run under 2:08. It was amazing. I looked forward to every issue in my mailbox. Now? It’s ads, ads, ads. Oh, and don’t forget about the multiple pages of hocking the products that are made by the companies that pay for ads. No thanks, not interested.
Now, oddly enough, when they DO have content that I want to read, such as the article about Goucher, I’m tempted to pay. But then again, I am all the time. And I just don’t. Because; if I were to, I’d be shelling out so much money that I’d be wondering at the end of the month “Where’d all my money go?” Oh, and then the next month I’d be shocked because everything is auto-pay and I just paid another month for something I’m not using, over and over and over again.
Just the other day I was doing some research on an athlete that just transitioned to the Masters age group. In that research, I came across MULTIPLE sources that I’d have to pay for to get old information about performances from years ago: Runner’s World, Running Times, Track & Field News, New York Times, etc. I’d have to start a subscription for ALL of those to even access one article that I was actually looking for. Just the subscription to Track & Field News alone would have cost me over $100 for a year (paid upfront for the whole year). I chose to find alternative sources and just went a different way with the information I was putting together.
I nearly shelled out $30 bucks just to watch London, then I remembered how terrible FloTrack was when I had a subscription years ago. This company is officially ruining running in the USA.
Does anyone know how much they pay their "employees." Zero. There's your answer.
Wrong. Its a full time job for people like Kevin Sully and Gordon Mack. They did fire the CEO (founder) about 5 years ago.
Once you are owned by a hedge fund is often brutal for the employees and customers.
