Casey Neistat has ended his daily vlog :(

I stumbled across Casey and his vlogs somehow in February or March of this year.

He was my first exposure to electric skateboarding and instilled the desire to go out and get one for myself.

Without his vids I'd never have come across Evolve skateboards or met all the great people in the Evolve community that I've had the pleasure of meeting and riding with over the last 8 months or so.

Andy Evolve Mat Glow Ball Jimbo Chris crowder Kevsey D Dave SoCal Legend mrjonnyjones B3NWO1R + all the others whose username I can't think of.

He was and is an excellent ambassador and promoter of the use electric skateboards and I'm sure the e-skate following will continue to grow rapidly even without his vids.

I'm sad to see his vlogs end, but pleased about the difference they've made to my life this last year and looking forward to seeing what other cool vids he comes along with next.

Let's keep on riding

 

For past year odd I've had to put up with loads of people asking if my board was a boosted. Which is as good as coming up to me and swearing. Every single one of them knew this guy I made a point of asking ha ha he really put them on the map.

I watched occasionally, liked the way he edited his videos. That boy nailed it with the opportunities and freebies so big respect for that alone

 

Interesting, he just sold his video app Beme for $25M to CNN.

CNN Buys Casey Neistat’s Video App Beme

 

12,500 boards at $2k a pop if he were to receive all the money

 

Wait, they're shutting it down?

What's the point of CNN buying it if not for the userbase?

I signed up to test it, wasn't that impressed and haven't been back.

 

Yeah, I guess.

Perhaps they're using the existing codebase of the app to create a new CNN News version.

Seems odd they would try to build up a userbase from scratch though. I wonder how many users and MAU it had

 

Update here. Seems like the Beme team are still about and will be working from NYC and hiring additional staff in order to create a new tech product for CNN.

What that is, they haven't actually figured out though.

 

He still uploads occasionally, but more usually videos that require more planning and production, such as his Christmas drone special.

I posted it in the drone thread

The Drone Thread

I imagine he's also busy working on content for his new CNN gig. He added a new personal vid yesterday I think, but not had time to watch it.