Sorry for dropping out of the conversation. I was in transit out to California and storms in Atlanta made the trip a nightmare. I am back online now.
BB1 I agree with you the whole event was extremely confusing especially in light of what we have done in the past to promote APCW and what we had planned for J Todd on the new CAP TV network which will be launching soon. Perspectives could had a HUGE audience online with us and then when simulcasting across Europe on the SKY sattelite network starts up he could have been seen by nearly 60 million potential viewers on TV! Amazingly stupid move on his part if you ask me.
KW I will see if I can locate you this afternoon to chat.
One thing I want to clarify is this:
Auditing stats is not a novel or unique idea. It wasnt coined by APCW and its an extremly common practice in business. Even if APCW was still doing them, which apparently they arent since the shift to entertainment videos, we wouldn’t be stealing anything if we started doing them at CAP. It compliments what we do here in keeping affiliates informed and protecting their interests. We also have a lot more resources and reach and can facilitate independant audits better than anyone else in this verticle. As a service provider we want to meet the needs of the community. To service affiliates we will do whatever we can to make CAP better and more useful for all our members. Another added advantage is via CAP we have the realtionships in place to cause positive changes based upon audit results when discrepencies arise. It just makes sense for us to do it, so we will.
This really has nothing to do with the exit of APCW from CAP.
I also want to make this clear:
This discussion is held in private among CAP senior members. It’s not an open discussion where J Todd needs to respond. I was just keeping you guys in the loop as to what happened and why we decided to part ways with APCW. I didnt want this to develop into a circus on the general message boards and am ready to move on to all the exciting things we have planned for the fall. I wish J Todd the best of luck in the future and lets leave it at that.
There is going to a LOT of great new things going on at CAP, (we are investing over 100K throughout the rest of the year), and I want to focus on those. :hattip: