DriveTribe - online car community from Clarkson/May/Hamond
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Signed up a couple of days ago. Drive Tribe sounds a good name and they are obviously marketing it differently. I wonder if this name will also be used across into the Amazon show. For reach it would make sense although this appears a totally separate enterprise. We shall see but if they get this right it could be in another nail in Top gears coffin.
If Clarkson starts writing columns I will likely cancel my Times membership.
As for other competition - obv Pistonheads but also Jalopnik which seems to be struggling somewhat currently (although they have just advertised for more writers). But competition is good isn't it? It will perhaps mean that users just dilute the amount of time they spend on sites. Not sure.
If Clarkson starts writing columns I will likely cancel my Times membership.
As for other competition - obv Pistonheads but also Jalopnik which seems to be struggling somewhat currently (although they have just advertised for more writers). But competition is good isn't it? It will perhaps mean that users just dilute the amount of time they spend on sites. Not sure.
I'm beginning to feel that car forums have just about had their day. I used to post regularly on quite a few, and even set one up once that's still running, although I've no longer any involvement in it. However, PH is the only place I bother with now, and I feel any new forums have an uphill struggle to achieve a foothold, whoever the backers
Has everyone just gone to Facebook now?
Has everyone just gone to Facebook now?
caelite said:
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.No Sigs
Simple, basic, fast is the best format both for forums and cars !
I suspect a Top Gear type forum will attract the plebs - which will be handy.
Bennet said:
I don't have anything against the former Top Gear presenters but I suspect, because of the popular association with the them, the new site may attract a very lot of kids and idiots. It may even act as a convenient vacuum for them.
I'd say that's probably part of what they're hoping for. As long as they have access to a credit card or Paypal account or their parents can buy them 'credits'...Or, at the very least, they'll collect a lot of data from their subscribers and profit from it somewhere down the line.
Honeywell said:
"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 oafish, UKIP supporting, climate-change-denying, pub bores and nerdy 14 year-olds...
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 oafish, UKIP supporting, climate-change-denying, pub bores and nerdy 14 year-olds...
MarkRSi said:
V8RX7 said:
No Avatars
No Sigs
Simple, basic, fast is the best format both for forums and cars !
Agree, pretty much every other forum is more fancy but can't beat PH's KISS approach.No Sigs
Simple, basic, fast is the best format both for forums and cars !
Can't see a facebook based venture working on it's own, imagine trying to keep track of the amount of content like on PH on facebook it would be a nightmare. Forums like this have a place IMO, only way facebook would work is segregation into brands or whatever but strikes me as going down the forum route
jimbobs said:
Honeywell said:
"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 oafish, UKIP supporting, climate-change-denying, pub bores and nerdy 14 year-olds...
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 oafish, UKIP supporting, climate-change-denying, pub bores and nerdy 14 year-olds...
I won’t be bothering, I like PH's simple (and work screen safe) basic look and broad range of interests, people and topics.
Not just a bunch of spotty teenagers and “POWER” fans talking about what’s the quickest supercar on a track.
I find it hard to keep up with all the sub forums and topics discussed on PH, let alone elsewhere.
Not just a bunch of spotty teenagers and “POWER” fans talking about what’s the quickest supercar on a track.
I find it hard to keep up with all the sub forums and topics discussed on PH, let alone elsewhere.
jon- said:
Their biggest rival is www.carthrottle.com and jalopnik, they're the biggest pure community based sites.
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