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“The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.”
“Even in the days of early YouTube, we always focused on narratives, and we always focused on franchises. We didn't do a lot of vlogging and stuff like that.”
“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.”
“'Red vs Blue' as a show has evolved dramatically. It looks an entirely different show to what we started with, but the format of the show has changed so much over the years, too.”
“If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.”
“The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.'”
“We are proud to be the No. 1 most funded film on Indiegogo... and with a totally new property. In a world filled with sequels and reboots, Lazer Team is a brand-new IP being made possible by the people who want to see it.”
“Suddenly, everyone woke up, and everything was moving online. We've got Netflix making original series, CBS placing their network online, and suddenly, everyone's announcing some kind of digital network for serving their content online.”
“It's really great to see fans all over the world.”
“I have been playing video games since the Atari 2600 days.”
“I started one of the first online video companies way back in 2003.”
“Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.”
“I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.”
“We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.”
“We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.”
“We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.”
“Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves.”