products
Personal Loans Crypto Protect Mortgage Card Credit Score
company
About Reviews Investors Careers
blog help
Dashboard Log Out
Log In Sign up for free
Sign up for free Log In
Dashboard Log Out
products
Personal Loans Crypto Protect Mortgage Card Credit Score
company
About Reviews Investors Careers
blog
help

Company

About mogo Careers Contact Pressroom MogoCard fees Leave feedback

Community

  Share
December 14, 2011

Louis CK takes on the middle men (a.k.a. The best $5 you've ever spent)

If you haven’t heard of Louis CK, you NEED to check him out. He’s hilarious (as you can check in the clip at the bottom of this article). But more importantly, this week he released one of his shows, Live at the Beacon Theater, for only $5. Instead of having a big production company set up, film and distribute his show, he decided to do it himself, all on his own, and then make it completely accessible – to everyone. This experiment, to cut out the middle man, has been a resounding success. CK posted an update on the download site, and here’s a little snippet: “The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it
  • Norton by Symantec
  • Made in Vancouver
  • Visa image
  • Company

  • About Mogo
  • Reviews
  • MogoLounge
  • Investors
  • Careers
  • Pressroom
  • Products

  • Personal Loans
  • Crypto
  • Protect
  • Mortgage
  • Card
  • Credit Score
  • Help

  • Help & Support
  • Contact Us
  • Leave Feedback
  • Legal Stuff

  • Privacy & Security Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Community

  • MogoBlog
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • © Mogo Inc. All rights reserved. Mogo and the Mogo designs are trademarks of Mogo Finance Technology Inc. and used here under license.

What are you looking for?

What are you looking for?