DriveTribe - online car community from Clarkson/May/Hamond

[Honeywell]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/jeremy-clarks...

Interesting.

Possible rival to PH though :-(


"Former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond are set to launch a new online venture, DriveTribe.

The content platform will be run separately to their as-yet-unnamed car programme on Amazon Prime, with the aim being to create an online community for car enthusiasts."

http://drivetribe.com

https://www.facebook.com/drivetribe

Edited by Honeywell on Tuesday 26th April 12:16

[RankAmateur]

It'll be fab

[iphonedyou]

OP sounds unhappy to have potential competition for PH. Like competition is a bad thing?

[Honeywell]

One mans competition is another mans fragmentation.

I like that PH is broad, simple and well used. Forums dies when people drift away. Half the value of Facebook is that everyone's on there.

But I'm supportive of the new venture in principal. Another nail in the coffin of the car magazine business though.

[Iva Barchetta]

Honeywell said:

Half the value of Facebook is that everyone's on there.

.

Nope....

[Charlie Michael]

looks good - I've signed up.

Ironically, this is the first I've hear of it and the OP has only broadened it's reach by sharing here.

[surveyor]

It looks interesting...

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/26/top-g...

[jjr1]

Ouch for PH

[Artey]

driveltribe.com sounds better

[DUMBO100]

Amazon have deep pockets and starting with a team of 20 in addition to celebrity wages means they are putting resources into it. I expect a lot of product placement and buying opportunities to be mixed with the content which I would expect to be video heavy. Facebook is losing traction because of it's own popularity the youngsters prefer Snapchat and anywhere their parents don't friend request them. It's an evolving market, let's hope PH evolves too

[jon-]

jjr1 said:

Ouch for PH

Not really, PH is an old school forum and will sadly probably die with its members.

Their biggest rival is www.carthrottle.com and jalopnik, they're the biggest pure community based sites.

[Impasse]

Will it have avatars?

[MrOrange]

Impasse said:

Will it have avatars?

Will it have forum software from this century. Will it be designed to work on mobiles. I'm tired in living in 1999.

[caelite]

MrOrange said:

Impasse said:

Will it have avatars?

Will it have forum software from this century. Will it be designed to work on mobiles. I'm tired in living in 1999.

I like PHs layout. Whenever people try to "modernise" forum layouts they always end up way to heavy and tend to be more difficult to use than old simple designs. The old lite design is good on data usage too.

[Rouleur]

Interesting. It would be nice to think that this will force Haymarket to put some resources into PH, but I doubt it somehow!

[Iva Barchetta]

PH works on my phone,using it now ....

[swisstoni]

Doesn't sound like a runner to me. Are they going to be the mods?

[EnglishTony]

Iva Barchetta said:

PH works on my phone,using it now ....

Me too. Perhaps we are fortunate in having mobile phones from this century.

[MrBarry123]

PH is going to appear moderate in its views compared with that...

[FurtiveFreddy]

DUMBO100 said:

Amazon have deep pockets and starting with a team of 20 in addition to celebrity wages means they are putting resources into it. I expect a lot of product placement and buying opportunities to be mixed with the content which I would expect to be video heavy. Facebook is losing traction because of it's own popularity the youngsters prefer Snapchat and anywhere their parents don't friend request them. It's an evolving market, let's hope PH evolves too

This venture isn't connected with Amazon. It's their own venture set up from scratch.