Tracking Nightmare

Well, Christmas has come and gone. As I approach the new year, I am going to stop checking the stats on the Nightmare Cartoon, and concentrate on finishing the next two cartoons. My goal is to have the next one done by mid February.

I came pretty close to the goal of 100,000 views. Here is how it broke down, as of the last time I checked on Dec 27th:

Newgrounds: 75,000 views
Captain Capitalism.com: 6,185 views
Flash Portal: 9,736 views
Vidshadow: 2,186 views
Youtube: 395 views

Total views I can track: 93,502

I also found the cartoon on several sites that somehow got the swf, and put it up on a site, and I cannot track those hits...so I think I might have actually come really close to 100,000.

Newgrounds helped sponsor the toon, and I sold some minor merchandise.

Next time around I am going to experiment with doing some internet ad buying, just to see how that affects things.

One interesting experience I had was trying to post the message boards. It was recieved fairly well in a couple of places, but the at the majority of messageboards I just got flamed for trying to "advertise" my stuff. I think that is kind of funny, considering the cartoon is up for free for the world to see...and I dont make any money off of views. In fact, if anything I lose money due to bandwidth overages. I was a little more prepared this time, but still got hit a little bit by going over my allowed bandwidth. Meh.