I have no clue what this is about, and I will not watch the video before the end of the day but this is either a sick joke or a pathetic businessmodel.

"Let's get some funding and then, when we burn it all, ask it back from our users, then raise some more VC because are users are loyal and then burn that same money"

They are closing down sooner or later... be it now or in year.

@EJ Why can't I change my comments anymore?

Thanks for the post! I can understand that people think... Oh let's burn cash from our viewers. The key point is that we do have advertising revenue coming in, but it takes months for that cash to actually come. There are financing deals underway as well. The problem is it all takes time, and there is no cash. So that's why we are asking for people to pay for the show this time. With that money we can continue on until the deals are finalized. Is it a bad business model? Will it work? Only time will tell. But I am very optimistic.

Ok, keep us informed! Interesting to see how much will come on and how much people contribute...

I will give them a donation, I like the french guy, he made me laugh,

"yo hav to act nov"

He is really great. Thank you and keep supporting us. Add a badge to your blog or digg the story.

Will do. At the moment we have raised 3%. And it just started. So I am hopeful!

first, bailout for mobuzz.tv...

next, bailout for web 2.0?

At least you still have power and sex!

On a more serious note: good luck with raising the money :)

Hmm...on what they spend 50,000 euros/month?? Just on bandwidth? Because all what I see on their website is just the video (in different languages) begging for the money?

Anil de Mello sure speaks his languages. Impressive.

unless i understand it wrong they make 100 mini shows a month???. that is 1667 euros a day for 3 people and crew, the pre-production, production and post production in europe and done in a good quality?. i think that is about right.not cheap, but not expensive. i mean i hear that rocketboom alone costs over 1000 for each 5 minutes show and it only got a single person in it and one behind it. and 5 euros for a beer glass???. my god.

the spanish version is hilariously bad.