Upgrades and Promotions
- Bolt2.com was to be called classicbolt.com
- The Badge Race Club featured Bolt members in reality series based eliminations for collecting badges.
- A club was created to promote a FOX show Wonderfalls in February 2004. A badge was given to members who joined to help spread the word of the show to increase viewership and the show's ratings. The show was canceled in early April and the club was quickly deleted.
- Bolt Radio had "radio stations" and members who submitted songs that they wanted to hear on Bolt Radio received the bolt DJ badge.
- On April 29, 2008, Bolt decided to use the classic Bolt logo again.
The American Idol Effect
In 2003 Bolt was the official message board for Fox's American Idol during the second season. This created a swarm of new members signing up to only talk about American Idol. This did not sit well with the veterans, as the quality of discussion on the site greatly dwindled. FOX later created and maintained their own message boards for the third season, but cross promotion still continued with AI sponsored quizzes, avatars, and badges. By the fourth season, the cross promotion was gone, but the message boards were still created and maintained. There were no message boards created for the fifth season of American Idol.
See also in the list.
- List of social networking websites
External links
- Bolt.com
- BoltAgain (newest Bolt) powered by Ning
References
- ^ Adsidea.com About Bolt.com Retrieved April 22, 2008
- ^ Bolt.com "Bolt is Shutting Down" Retrieved September 30, 2008
- ^ The Wall Street Journal"NBC Battles, and Joins With, Video Web Sites"
- ^ NewTeeVee.com"Bolt.com Selling to GoFish for $30M"
- ^ Mashable.com"Bolt.com RIP: Files For Bankruptcy"
- ^ Digital Music News GoFish report
- ^ Prweb.com press release
- ^ Whois.Net