Sasha Stone
speaker
2,833 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Sasha Stone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 12 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.
Appearances
David Carr became a mentor of sorts and encouraged me to sell ads for myself rather than piggyback off bigger sites.
I was working three jobs by then, as a horoscope writer under a pseudonym, Laura Wild, a janitor working my dad's routes because he was a good guy and knew I needed the money, and a freelance film critic.
Right around then, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sued me for trademark infringement, and my site was renamed AwardsDaily.com.
Now, I was cleared to start making real money.
David Carr was horrified that I was working as a janitor while the trades were raking in millions on Oscar ads, and encouraged me to start sending out RFPs.
But I didn't have to, because before long, the studios were sending them to me.
My site became so influential that I never really had to pitch to them.
They all wanted real estate on my site.
Who could have ever imagined that?
Certainly not me, someone who got online in 1994, back when no one thought you could make money on the Internet.
One of the first studios that bought ads was Fox Searchlight, an awards subsidiary of Fox.
I called it Big Fox and Little Fox and both advertised on my site.
When I got my first $15,000 just to run ads, I was stunned.
That was more money than I had ever seen on a check.
I was just kind of faking it, pretending I knew what I was doing, but I really didn't.
Of course, it was also about promoting the films the studio wanted to place in the Oscar race, and that's still what it's about.
It's not exactly pay-to-play, but most of the bloggers making money in the Oscar game are grateful and help keep the advertisers' movies prominent.
I did too.
I barely noticed in 2019 when Disney bought Fox for $71 billion.
The Writers Guild objected to the merger, just as they have to the Paramount Skydance merger with Warner Bros.,
Showing 461–480 of 2,833 · page 24 of 142
← Previous
Next →