2008 Woodie Awards
Watch it, Record it, Share it: This is Sports-Tube
Jake Madrigal
Issue date: 6/11/08 Section: Sports
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"We have always been thinking of a Web site to start, a funny video site like www.ebaumsworld.com, or something in that area is what we were originally aiming for," said Arakian, but as they sat down and began to brainstorm their ideas it suddenly struck.
With experience in business 106, Written Business Communication, and business 120, Business Law, Arakian said, "it has helped me a lot with writing more effective and professional e-mails, and has helped with my knowledge of the legal aspects. We are also in the process of becoming an LLC (limited liability company), so it was good timing to take business law this semester."
"I was watching sports on TV one night and it hit me: a sports video site like YouTube where you could upload your own videos and share them with the world. So I told Sion and he was up for it," said Arakian.
As the two started to put their dream into action they realized it was a lot easier than they had predicted.
They agreed on the fact that they were going to make a sports-based version of YouTube and that they were going to call it sports-tube.com, a site through which users would be allowed to upload their own sports videos, comment on others, and watch them all.
Starting with the idea of the site last January, Arakian said, "three long months went into this process before being able to launch it on Mother's Day."
Now just a few weeks later their site is up and running "at about 98 percent (completion)," said Arakian.
In order for the two to start their own site there was a fee of $40 per month for the domain server and additional cost for the advertisement of the site, but with the growth of the site over the last few weeks Arakian predicts that their domain fee will rise to about $200 to $300 due to the increasing number of views per day and storage space.
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