It’s the thought that counts. Isn’t that what they say? I wholeheartedly agree. And I tend to think the thought counting also saves a whole lot of trees. I like to carry with me an attitude of gratitude for all the wonderful things in my life. Often, when my heart is bursting with appreciation, I feel like penning thank you notes to everyone whom I credit with contributing to my blissful state of mind: my wife, my clients, an agent [...]
Not long ago, whenever my son would hear me draw my breath in quickly or make a sound approximating alarm, he’d look at me with the insouciant curiosity of a three year-old and ask, “What’s the panic?” Precisely, my son. What IS the panic? Can anyone tell me? Are movies dead? Have people stopped consuming entertainment? Has media gone down the tubes? Is this the death knell of our business? As my boy is ever quick to remind me, “Dad, [...]
Hello Scarlett, I am your father. Not in a revelatory Empire Strikes Back kind of way (although I cannot wait to introduce you to Star Wars – I may even wait until you are 6 months old). It is January 5, 2012. You are 128 days old, I am thirty-eight years old and I am writing this to you, Scarlett, for the following three reasons… (1) The Small Reason: When you get older you’ll remember me as a forty-something/fifty-something, and never [...]
In this edition of”Hollywood Drive & Talk,” Content Engine’s Seth Jaret discusses the most important buzz word of our time.
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than it is to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt. This quote was inscribed on a plaque on a wall of my father’s office and now it’s inscribed in me. At the start of a new year it’s customary to take stock [...]
AMC has announced the renewal of Hell on Wheels for a second season. The original series reigns as the second highest rated series on AMC, averaging 3.2 million viewers and 1.5 million Adults 25-54.* Season one’s finale is Sunday, January 15th at 10pm EST. Hell on Wheels is created and written by Joe and Tony Gayton, who also serve as executive producers. John Shiban, Jeremy Gold, Endemol’s SVP of scripted programming and David Von Ancken, who also directed the pilot, [...]
In this edition of HollywoodDrive & Talk, Content Engine’s Seth Jaret predicts the rise of the “Micro-Audience™” and explains its imperative to content creators.
Kirk Jones (Everybody’s Fine, Waking Ned Devine) directs What to Expect When You’re Expecting written by Shauna Cross (Whip It) and Heather Hach (Freaky Friday) adapted from the best-selling pregnancy instructional book of the same name. The film follows five couples dealing with the arrival of a child including Rosie (Anna Kendrick), a woman who reunites with an old flame and fellow food-truck owner and becomes pregnant, and Brooklyn Decker as the perky wife of a much older man who [...]
In this edition of HollywoodDrive & Talk, Content Engine’s Seth Jaret defines and discusses “Personal Branding” for Content Creators.
Via Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Times today makes its entry into the e-book marketplace with the release of “A Nightmare Made Real,” an expanded version of staff writer Christopher Goffard‘s gripping account of a man accused of unspeakable acts, facing a lifetime behind bars. The original two-part series was one of The Times most-read stories of the year. “As a content company, we are enthusiastic about harnessing new mediums and business models that expand the reach of our [...]
Here’s a succinct video overview of what Seth Jaret does as a manager & producer — two of the many hats he wears on a daily basis including developer, packager, Content Creator, video editor, marketer, blogger, social media marketer, consultant, guest speaker, entrepreneur and dad. This career interview was produced, filmed and edited by high school students at LACES (Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies), a magnet school, for a new organization called gigniks. gigniks is a non-profit program run [...]
Via The Hollywood Reporter: Westerns have continued to pay off for AMC. Sunday’s premiere of its post-Civil War Western Hell on Wheels, directed by Content Creator, David Von Ancken, opened to a 3.1 household rating and 4.4 million viewers, becoming the network’s second-highest series premiere in history, following The Walking Dead. Among key demographics, the Anson Mount starrer created by brothers Joe and Tony Gayton delivered 2.4 million viewers in adults 18-49, second to the Season 2 premiere of the [...]
Copyright © 2025 Content Engine. All Rights Reserved.
Subscribe
Follow us
Become a fan
Rss
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube