NWA Owner and President Billy Corgan recently appeared on Busted Open Radio and made an announcement about two new TV deals for his pro wrestling company. While he was sharing the news he slammed NWA Powerrr’s current home YouTube for being a terrible partner. He expressed:
“YouTube is a terrible partner for wrestling. I’m just going to say that flat out and lately, because who knows how these A.I. systems work? They’ve been squeezing all the wrestling content creators. No one can quite figure it out but everybody’s numbers are down and that’s across the board.”
Billy went on to share his frustration about not being able to have adds. He added:
“So God knows why YouTube’s doing what it’s doing but it’s very mercurial and we can’t even put ads on YouTube because they keep labeling — even if it’s just Jim Mitchell saying, ‘Come watch Samhain,’ the pay-per-view, it gets banned for being offensive and we can’t find anybody to talk to-to tell you why you can’t put an ad on there so even when we’re trying to spend money to get people to watch our programming, we can’t.”
Even though he is not happy with YouTube’s current algorithm, the Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman did point out that the platform helped ‘build the brand’ from the ground up. Billy continued:
“So, five years ago, yes, YouTube, great place to start. It helped us build the brand. Starting with the debut of Powerrr which we just past our fourth anniversary and thanks to people like The Rock for putting it over. It kind of put us on the map and so it’s been an effective way.”
Although Powerrr will still work with YouTube, the singer vaguely announced two deals with television networks for the upcoming year. He explained:
“But now…I can now say for the first time and I have to be a bit vague because there’s some other political aspects to this but I can now say that we finally have signed not just one, but two television deals and an announcement as far as where and who will be coming soon but we finally now will be available to move off YouTube. Not exclusively because we still want to do stuff on YouTube but we now will be moving with a network partner…”
Billy also added that fans should be excited for 2024 as new projects are on the way for Powerrr. The rocker said:
“I can say it’s a top 20 network and very excited. I’ve been working on this for over a year and like I said, not just one but two television deals are involved. Two totally different wrestling-related products we will be offering so 2024 is looking very, very bright. We’re very excited…”
You can read Billy Corgan’s appearance on Busted Open Radio here.
