Osbourne Media Home, an organization that described itself as a “one-stop store for all Osbourne household leisure,” has shut down below one 12 months after its launch. In line with Jack Osbourne in a prolonged YouTube video, the shutdown was for 2 essential causes – getting everybody in the identical room to get something executed was very tough, and funds.
Osbourne Media Home initially launched in April 2024 and host the often-cited The Osbournes podcast and The Madhouse Chronicles, amongst different applications.
“So it is no secret Osbourne Media Home shut down,” stated Osbourne. “The rationale Osbourne Media shut down, it isn’t a easy reply; it is a very long-winded reply, however I am gonna try to make it as brief and as concise and as straightforward to digest.
“Firstly, it had nothing to do with our viewers. I imply, not that that might have been an enormous motive for us to close it down. However I discovered a lot in regards to the loyalty of our followers over the past 12 months and a half. And it has been such an incredible expertise to take away a community or a buffer between the household and our viewers. For the final 21 years, myself, my mother, my sister, we have all labored for networks, we have labored for individuals to launch content material. And so there was all the time a intermediary. We by no means had direct potential to create precisely what we wished after which launch it to our followers the way in which we wished it, how we wished it. And so it was an incredible expertise studying how to try this. The massive factor is simply that — we have been studying how to do that.
“I began Osbourne Media Home on a simply an thought. I noticed the way in which media was going, how TV was drying up — it’s drying up. I noticed that artistic content material actually, not less than for my part, is the way in which ahead for individuals like myself. I’m not an actor, I’m not a musician. I’ve all the time labored in tv, both in entrance of the digicam as expertise, and I take advantage of that phrase loosely, or as a producer. However TV’s altering. The cash simply is not there anymore.
“And the form of post-COVID shift has actually been affected not solely with me, however by your entire trade. Content material is simply altering. And so I wished to vary with it. And I believed creating some form of media firm the place we have been creating and distributing our personal content material, we had a paywall, we had OsbourneMediaHouse.com —the imaginative and prescient that’s Osbourne Media Home was one thing that myself and my group, we form of introduced out of nothing.
“It was self-funded. So my mother, myself, my father, all of us put in funds to make this factor work. And if we’re being completely sincere, we bit off greater than we might chew. It was a behemoth, and we needed to be taught from our errors as we went alongside. And whereas we have been studying from our errors, we have been counting on data from different individuals about, ‘Okay, how will we develop this? How do we alter the path?’
“As a result of the {dollars} and cents within the podcasting world modified as we have been constructing this, so we needed to change with it. Sadly, we did not change quick sufficient and we hit a wall. And my mother and father made the choice. They have been, like, ‘Hey, hear, we do not wanna maintain financially dumping cash into this as a result of we do not see this as one thing that is smart for us proper now.’ And that was purely primarily based on work schedule for each of my mother and father. It was primarily based on my dad’s well being and his potential to take part. And it was primarily based on everybody simply form of having life.”
“My sister, she loved it. She preferred taking part within the podcast, however she’s acquired a child, she’s acquired a household and he or she desires to form of deal with that. And my mother had plenty of commitments elsewhere. And so it turned very tough to form of corral everybody to at least one place to create the content material that we would have liked. We found that the content material that greatest carried out with The Osbournes was the present stuff. Individuals do not wanna sit and all the time take heed to us speak about frickin’, ‘Oh, what’s your favourite ice cream?’ Like, no matter. I believe that our viewers, you guys, I actually really feel such as you guys loved listening to us discuss in regards to the stuff that was taking place in the present day and now and retaining it present. And I loved speaking about that probably the most. It was the issues that I relate to. It is the stuff that I get enthusiastic about.
“So, [it was down to] scheduling, the financials of it, and I believe these two issues have been actually weighing on everybody. So there was a choice that was made that until we form of figured it out by August that we have been gonna should hit the pause button on Osbourne Media Home, and that is what occurred.”
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