
Video Series: VendrTV
What: Web Video Series about the best street food in the USA
Where: All Across the USA
When: 2009 - 2011





Why Street Food?
When I was in college in Philadelphia in the early 2000’s, street vending was rarely more than a curbside hot dog or cheesesteak. Vendors competed one on one, with largely the same fare cart to cart. To graduate art school, I decided to focus my thesis on how design could change the viability of a curbside entrepreneur. Simultaneously, I was inspired by folks like Ze Frank, RSS technology, and podcasting. I wanted to be in that club. I also felt that there was no reason that food programming on the web couldn’t match the quality of what we saw on TV. Of course, today it does. But in 2009, when I started making web videos, it was a far cry from what we’re seeing on YouTube today. So, I rallied a few buddies from college and childhood, and decided to create a show about the industry I now knew a ton about. The timing was good, because little did I know the street food scene was about to explode.
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When Daniel Delaney graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia with a degree in design and multimedia, he thought he was going to spend the next few years of his life in London designing interfaces for a well-known social media network. These days, he's living in Brooklyn, N.Y., hosting and executive producing "VendrTV," a popular web series dedicated to "discovering the world's best street food, one bite at a time."
From YouTube star to New York barbecue-house owner. That’s the story in a nutshell of today’s guest, Daniel Delaney. Listen in if you’re keen to discover smart restaurant marketing ideas … or how creating helpful marketing on YouTube can open up some amazing opportunities.
I first heard of ya ka mein from a fellow traveler, Daniel Delaney of What’s This Food?! and VendrTV, on my trip to New Orleans early last month. Just a few weeks later, I opened the first issue of Lucky Peach to find a whole article dedicated to the food.
Vendr.TV discovers “the world’s best street food, one bite at a time” via webisodes. I’d like to thank them for asking me to be a part of the episode featuring the Yellow Submarine. It was a great blast to film which I think comes across during the webisode and during the outtakes shown after the credits.
Nearly a year and a half ago, I set out on a mission to meet, profile, and support America's best street vendors.
Pods, carts, trailers, and trucks. If your meal isn't served on asphalt these days, is it even worth eating?
I invited Daniel Delaney to Mixergy because I wanted to learn how he makes his self-produced online show feel like something that a team at a big TV network put together.
About a year ago, this guy calls me and asks if he can meet me to talk about producing a video show for the web. We met, and he talked about this show he wanted to do about street food, and how he would grow it on the web.
Tonight was the 1st Birthday Party of VendrTV, and what a year it’s been! In the past year, Dan has posted fifty episodes, visited twelve states and eaten tons of delicious food. His webisodes are always entertaining and informative, and I look forward to another year of watching them.
Awesome party for Daniel Delaney’s video food blog, VendrTV. He had Calexico Carne Asada, Schnitzel & Things, and Wafels & Dinges parked outside, dishing out the food. I’m ashamed to say I’ve been turned off from their long lines in the past and never tried them, but now I believe. I believe in them all. One of the better juicy pork tacos I’ve eaten. The chicken schnitzel was really good. I gotta try the deep fried schnitzel burger next time. I had a bite of everyone’s waffle. Yes, eat fresh waffles! Dinges? I think I corrected someone how to pronounce it, but I think I was wrong.
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