During the height of the original series, we had a fairly decent "an episode a week" schedule for Talking Heads.  Out the gate, the Youtube Rejects series hobbled along to its debut first episode, but mainly it was victim of harsh circumstance inasmuch as that I was attempting to get people productive over the holidays.

Like that's ever gonna happen.

The good news is that we've hit our stride and we've hit it early.  One week after posting our first episode, the second episode is out the door.  I have high hopes for the second episode--whereas the first tricked people into the Talking Heads show, episode two is all heads, all the time.

Here are some interesting details:

1) Episode one of Youtube Rejects is one of the best performing videos on Victor's page in the past 4 weeks.  (Ignoring the one titled "Sex with a Lesbian" cause, I mean, come on ...)  It outpaces his other entries easily by 1-2k views.  Also, as of right now, it's gotten a total of 150 comments.  Not too shabby.

2) Being that the episode was ABOUT her, Heather saw an increase of 166 subs since we posted the episode, one week ago.  Some of those subs no doubt had nothing to do with Talking Heads (she's a rising YT star in her own right), but a fairly good chunk has to be from Talking Heads (130-150).

3) I don't have any numbers from depointless.  Hell, I don't even think depointless has any numbers from depointless.  But we still love him.

4) I saw a modest 40 or so new subs in the past week (and I'm attributing ALL OF THEM to Talking Heads).

5) We haven't bothered tracking any of Victor's subs since he's been actively unsubbing dead accounts to hover at 9,999.  Yeah, I don't know either.

I share these details to mark the general state of affairs as we get ready to launch episode two.  Obviously, I hope that it will far outpace the first episode, and I need to know the metrics from the first to be able to see how well the second does.  If that makes any sense.  New to the fold will be Middlebrook and his guest spot.  As always, he delivered a fantastic performance that should indefinitely have people clicking over and subbing his channel.

So without any further delay, here's where everyone stands this morning in subscription counts, before episode two has been posted:

2/2/09 Subscription Count
1199 - MissPacman08
474 - Depointless
134 - Krumbine
155 - Middlebrook

Stay tuned for updates!

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