BlampCo Monthly Debrief - June 2025

Greetings, employees!

Time for your monthly rundown of how, where and why we've spent your kindly-donated cashola, as well as outlining all the fun developments that have happened in the last 30 days, and plans we have for the immediate future!

Good times forever!

MERCH:

This is by far the thing we're most excited to talk about. Within the next few days, we'll officially be launching the BlampCo shop! We've partnered with Fourth Wall, who'll be printing and shipping all t-shirts, mugs, socks, notebooks, pins, and stickers - designed by BlampCo's resident drawsman, Geoffrey Stanfield!

We're just waiting on the final samples to be delivered to us (hopefully tomorrow) and once they've been quality-approved the shop will go LIVE! We can't wait for you to see everything that Geoff's designed to cover your hideous bodies.

Keep your eyes peeled for a notification in the next few days!

A Brief Pause To Bookings Commissions:

Honestly, we weren’t expecting this tier to be as popular as it’s been; guess we’ll take it as a compliment that people are enjoying the Fantasy Booking videos we’ve been making. However, we’ve found ourselves at a point where we have a queue that’s five videos deep. As such, to lock our schedule in as best we can and avoid disappointing people with long wait times, we’ve briefly suspended the booking tier. It’ll be back in a few months time, once we’ve had a chance to clear a bit of the backlog.

Here's a hint as to the next four bookings we'll be releasing:

Equipment:

It's actually been a relatively light month for new equipment purchases, which is most likely what the company standard will be for the forseeable. We're hiring another, pricier wide-angle lens from LensPimp before we buy it. The wide angle lens we bought last month is great for wide shots of players sat at the table, but we need a slightly sharper one for the overhead angle. The one we've got our eye on looks great, but is mega spenny so we want to give it a test before we buy it next month.

We've also bought an extra kallax for the studio. This serves two functions:

1) It means we can do a wider-shot around the table for The Board Room, which gives our players so much more breathing room

2) Adam has too many games and now he has a place that he can put them until he buys 250 more and eventually he has to live in an apartment made solely out of game boxes

(the detectives amongst you might be able to figure out what we'll be playing for the next Office Bromance video...)

We also bought some storage shelves and (more importantly) a big-ass fan for the studio because JEEZY PEETS is it hot in the UK at the moment. Five people in that teeny studio and, without more air con, we might as well be calling it The Soup Room.

Admin/Donations:

One of the major payments this month has been to our lawyers, who've been ferreting away making contracts for us. Over the next few months we'll be paying them a good few grand to draft a number of agreements for us, including merchandising agreements, intellectual property agreements, and freelancer contracts. It's a big expenditure, but it's important to us to get our legal affairs in order early, so that onboarding new merch and new collaborators goes seamlessly for all parties.

We've also made a donation of $280 (roughly £200) to Sami For Syria, £100 for each of the bits of coverage we made about Night of Champions - the predictions, and the What Just Happened, which will be coming out very soon.

Payroll:

As usual, our biggest chunk of change is payroll. We now have a freelance editor producing all of the How Adam Would Book videos and we've worked with a raft of freelancers once again, from Ivan in the upcoming episode of A Rad Time, to Tom for the Amnesia: The Bunker livestream, to our usual bevy of freelancers for the Board Room - both online and in-person - to the amazing Dan Felton and Tom Wiggins who designed our new intros for The Board Room and How Adam Would Book!

Loads of cash outlayed, but we know that you'll agree with us that it's money well spent!

Subscriptions:

Subscriptions are the same as last month - Epidemic Sound, Adobe Suite, Zoom Pro, BoardGameArena (have we mentioned that one before?), Motion Array, Taurus Insurance, Netflix, and of course, The Pandemonium Institute’s Patreon

Grand Total:

Approx. £17k

Future Plans:

We have big plans for the future, mostly revolving around new formats and new concepts that we want to try out. We’re working on a fun Blood On The Clocktower idea, a tournament concept for one of Adam’s favourite games, as well as trying to nail down cast and a shooting schedule for an upcoming series based entirely around two-player games. On the wrestling side of things, we’ll be doing another 10 list from the last 10 years as the first one did so well, as well as keeping an eye out for new ideas (and new people) we can work with. 

All of this stuff is finally feasible with the studio pretty much finished, we just now need to save up enough money in order to pay for each projects’ casts. BOTC is wonderful content, but expensive to pay 9+ freelancers a proper rate. Even so, we’re hoping that merch and our continual, gradual rise in patrons will enable us to get these projects off the ground sooner rather than later.

We’ll always work to make sure that we’ve got the entire budget sorted before any new project can start, so as ever, we love and appreciate you all, helping us make great stuff!

Until next month, get back to work!

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