RiffTrax looks awesome. I was a huge MST3K fan and throught that Mike Nelson was hilarious (screw you CowBoyNeal).

It’s a good concept: Mike Nelson as sarcastic commentary track on any movie. I simply can’t tell you the number of times I wished there was a MST3K button on my remote. I’d press it and the silhouttes of Crow and gang would pop up and entertain me by mocking “Big Billy’s Bass Fishing Review”.

Anyway, this whole endeavor is just crying out for them work with NetFlix, Amazon, iTunes and the Blogging community.

They should become NetFlix affiliates, this pays between 10 to 15 dollar per signup and the RiffTrax service would likely have good success in generating new signups as they are an add-on service. Sarcastic audio commentary tracks add to the value of the movies someone would get from Netflix and may “tip” people who were on the edge about whether or not to join Netflix. It might be worthwhile to offer something like 3 free RiffTrax for each person that signs up through their affiliate link. At a minimum, they should be linking their RiffTrax directly to the NetFlix movies so people can easily add them to their queues.

Amazon’s affiliate plan pays out 5 – 10 % of the purchase price. At that rate, it’s would almost be worth it to just offer the track for free if someone purchases the DVD through RiffTrax’s affiliate link.

iTunes is the way people get audio from the Internet onto their iPods and computers. Let’s be honest, there is a large audience out there that has no idea how to get audio from the Internet to their computer and MP3 Device in any other way. Making RiffTrax available over iTunes would greatly increase the ease of use of the service, the visiblity to the target audience (people with iPods) and lead directly to more downloads and money.

[tags] RiffTrax, Amazon, NetFlix, iTunes [/tags]