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Published: 2017-05-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7dWwGNlnIQ
All right, we are live here. I'm Spiro Scores with newsbud.com. And joining us today, we have quite a few members of the newsbud team. Joining us, we have Sibel Edmonds, who is the founder and editor of Newsbud. We're also joined by Peter Lee, Professor Philip Kovacovich, Pai-E-N, and Eric Moshe. Today, we're going to be doing a roundup of some of the hottest topics that happened in
the past week geopolitically, and maybe some of the topics that slipped through the cracks. So, but first, we'd like to give you an update on our current phase three Kickstarter program that is currently up and running on Kickstarter. Sibel? Yeah. Well, week one is over. Today, we started our week two, and we have been doing very good, not good enough, but very good. We are 10%
there in terms of the amount of dollars we have to raise for this phase three Kickstarter for Newsbud. And we would like for this rate of accomplishing this goal to increase. I know there are a lot of people. It's some kind of a psychological factor. You know, people are like, oh, this is great. I'm definitely going to do that later. Or I'll see how it goes,
and I will step in and do it later. And we, first of all, we want to thank all of you, every single one of the donors who came and pledged to this phase three Kickstarter. Same goes for the previous Kickstarter. We really want to thank you. This is a community news organization. Let me put it this way. It is basically us, the Newsbud team, and together
with all our supporters, these are our subscribers, people who have been generous and donating to us through our donation button at our website. But also all of you who have come, stepped in, and have made this a dream. Because it used to be this thing that everybody considered a dream to have a news organization that is 100% people funded with no advertisement, with no foundation grants,
with no partisan affiliation, which we have none. And we have shown the world, not only here in the US. We are based in the United States, our news organization. But I have to put this statistics out here for people because it's very interesting. For 50% of our subscribers, our generous donors, are international. In fact, to just give you an example, we have been signing up for
the first newsbud Academy course offered by Professor Philip Kovacovich, the great. And when we are looking at it, 10% of the people who have registered, and we have dozens of people who have registered, come from the United States. We have several from the United Kingdom. We have two from Denmark. We have two or three from Sweden, Germany, France, Switzerland. We had one person who registered, and
he is an Iran, he or she, I don't know. But people from Turkey, so we have international supporters because our coverage is international. Anyhow, what I was saying was that don't wait. Do it now because be the one who shows that this is the time to do it. And we want to wrap this thing up, the Kickstarter, even though it's going to go for 45 days,
we only have 38 days left. We want to wrap it up because it is energy and time consuming. And all of us rather concentrate on our productions and all the analysis that we are putting forward and our investigative stories, some of them have been placed on hold because we are in the midst of this Kickstarter. So we are asking our audience to please do it today.
Do it now as you're watching us. If you have your iPhone and you have a laptop there, go to our Kickstarter link. We have the link for you here. And do whatever you can. If what you can is $20, please do that. No amount is small or too small. If you can do $500, please do so and God bless you. And with that, I know we
have some interesting topics today about every one of us talking about the hottest, the most significant, the most important development this week. It can be national or international. So I'm going to have everyone get ready and start chiming in with what they consider, each one of you consider the hottest, most important development, Spiro. Well, that's right. We put together a fantastic team here at NewsBud. A
team that I'm very proud to be a part of and we have the panel here today joining us live. I'm very excited about this broadcast here today. We're also going to be taking questions from you guys in the comment section in the live chat that's taking place right now. And so, as you were mentioning, the Kickstarter, I provided the link there in the live chat, as
well as the link to the NewsBud Academy, that Professor Kovacovitch is going to be presenting. That's going to be awesome. He's going to be here in studio. I'm looking forward to that. But we, one of the first questions that we have here is from Kristen Short. She's a great supporter of ours. She runs our, she's a volunteer supporter. And she runs our Instagram page for us.
Her question is, what were the key factors in the success of the previous two NewsBud Kickstarter campaigns? So, Belle? Wow, that's a great question. Thank you, Christina. And thanks for everything you have been doing for our new organization. I say new because we've been operating only for nine months. And I think we have achieved great, great, great accomplishment. But I think this is personal in terms
of my personal opinion, in my opinion, what has contributed to our success. And it's a question that I would like everyone here in this group to take maybe a couple of minutes and answer. I think generally speaking, people have good nose. People can, I know mainstream media and a lot of outlets out there, they keep putting forward how domified people have become and people are dumb
and they can be, you know, they can be easily fooled, but I believe that as an innate bullshit detector, excuse my language, people have a good sense when they see a good thing. And the track record we had before NewsBud as boiling frog's post was one factor because that started in 2009. And it was a very, very small, much, much smaller in much, much smaller scale
news organization that had only maybe two or three people, a couple of podcasts per week. Now, another thing is our team member other than the track record. And these people, our team members make it shine because when we say here is an analysis, we are not putting that forward by, you know, average Joe, not that it is anything wrong with average Joe. And Joe's are good,
fine, but people want to hear from people and from experts that do have the authority to talk about these points. For example, with Professor Philip Kovačevic, when he's talking about the Balkans and the Russian developments from the Russian perspective, you're listening to someone who speaks the language who has lived in the country, who has taught in the country, who has been in touch with the politics
there, who has contact and sources there, who spent his life basically going through the whole educational process in this area. Okay, I'm not saying it's limited to this. Same is true with every other member, whether it's Peter Lee, whether it is Jeff Doreso with technology. So our team members, I think I believe is another major factor. The other thing is I believe people have been hungry.
People have been so thirsty, so hungry to see objective. I mean, I know there is no such a thing as 100% on bias or 100% objective, but with the track record and with our team members, we have shown that there has been no partisanship. We are not into this red pill, blue pill business. And the fact that we have not ever, ever run advertisements from any
corporations on our website, that we have never been connected financially or in any kind of relationship to any foundations. And those foundations, they operate with their own set of agendas. So people have been hungry and thirsty for this. And for the first time, they see a potential and opportunity of having this kind of a medium as a news organization, they took a chance. And finally, the
other part, the beauty of this model is, instead of going for one big capital startup capital to take us through two years, we decided to do this in four phases. Meaning, every five months, we raise funds and you have five months, people have five months to sit back, observe, watch and see what we are accomplishing. In terms of how many shows we are adding, how professionally
they are edited, what kind of programs, what kind of articles, analysts we are adding to our site. And obviously, people have been pleased and happy with what they have been seeing. And I hope that's the case for this phase as well. So that's my take. And with that, I would like for our team members to tell our viewers why they think we have been successful in
the past. Well, don't all jump at once. Well, I want you to go first. What I've seen in NewsBud, whether it's people commenting on the audience or commenting in the comments section on YouTube, whether it's the comment box on NewsBud's official website, I see a lot of support and camaraderie directed towards NewsBud, NewsPredecers, in particular, Phil Kobachovich has a large fan base of people on YouTube,
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