TV Deal Isn’t Tempting to Ask A Ninja
For many creators of digital video programming, argues Ellie Parpis in AdWEEK, the lure of a TV deal is still powerful: “Although the Web is becoming as important a distribution vehicle for entertainment as traditional TV, the goal for many is still to end up on the good old boob tube.”
Not so for the gang at Ask A Ninja:
“Kent Nichols, improvisational comedian and co-creator of Askaninja.com, an online comedy series featuring a ninja who answers user e-mails, says there’s no incentive for him and his partner, co-creator Douglas Sarine, to consider taking it to TV. ‘We met with all the major studios about Ask a Ninja. It doesn’t make sense in terms of money,’ he says. ‘We gross about $100,000 a month in revenue. These were early offers, but they were a fraction of what we could make in a year.’”
While FM manages advertising and sponsorships for Ask A Ninja, we still don’t know who’s behind the mask.
I bow to the ‘Ask a Ninja’ Ninja. His Ninja skill is L33t and better than I. Now a Pirate on the other hand would take the TV deal for a crate of cheap rum. Ninja > Pirate, any day.
Wait to stick it to the man, Ask-a-Ninja Ninja. And grats on your lucrative profits for all the hard work and….killing…that you do. That’s just plain awesome.
One day, I hope to be a Ninja with HALF your skills. There is no way I shall ever be as deft at the art as you.