Goal: Finding a sponsor for video podcast within two weeks

Many of you know that I host the video podcast "The Speaking English Podcast", been doing so for months now. Inspired by the recent undertakings of Chief Interruptor Joseph Jaffe and Tim Coyne, I am going back to the teachings of Steve Pavlina and of course Lisa Haneberg (I was part of her inaugural 2 Weeks 2 a Breakthrough programm). And of course it all starts with a goal and the sharing of the goal. Joseph wanted sponsoring/an iPhone and said so. Tim wants an audition for House and said so. I want a sponsor for The Speaking English Podcast.

A couple of pre-ponderings:
1.
Define sponsoring: Lots of possibilities there. I can produce the show
using somebody’s product (hardware/equipment), market it with
somebody’s product (software/plattform), use/feature somebody’s product
(product placement), do post-roll ads, feature selected content if
applicable (e.g. book reviews). The transaction could either be
hardware, money, or other goods or barter, I am open to all
suggestions. Would I take an iPhone? Sure, but I’d also take a Nintendo
Wii or an Amazon coupon? You like my approach but not the show? Let’s
talk about it, let me host your show and pay me for that 😉

2. Things you probably don’t know about The Speaking English Podcast:
I think have done C.C. Chapman
well, because my show runs everywhere. YouTube, Metacafe, MySpace,
Viddler, blip.tv, (formerly) Netscape, myvideo. The main locations
though are the blog at speakingenglishpodcast.com (it’s not pretty, but efficient), revenue generating platform revver.com and the (mostly) German video platform sevenload.com.
You can download every show and keep it as you long as you want, you can find it on iTunes and of course subscribe via RSS.
Numbers? The past five shows have attracted more than 50k viewers combined, with show #54 on revver pulling in a record 27k viewers, followed by #56 with 11k. Overall tendency rising Thanks to the Long Tail, the views of past shows continue to grow, e.g. episode #48 on Sevenload with 4.000+ viewers alone.
Viewers come from all over the world, most of the ≈1.000 RSS subscribers come via iTunes, 3/4 of those on Windows machines.
On average I produce one show per week, some via mobile phone and I have a kyte.tv-channel set up for future activities. Of course, there is also a Facebook-group.

There
you have it. All the beans. Now I that this post is out, I am going to
ask people for advice, favors, attention –  you name it. Help me show
that amateur creative content and monetization are not exclusice.

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