Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
February 2nd, 2010
Red Bull Better Give You Wings
It came to me first via @scobleizer.
And then there were some other tweets. Talking of this new site.
Featuring Red Bull.
And Silverlight.
And some crazy mother’ who is going to jump out of a balloon at 120,0000 feet in a spacesuit. Some crazy mother named Felix Baumgartner.
It is called Red Bull Stratos . And it just might be ‘The Bomb’. But not for the reasons you might think. It is astounding, crazy, freaky and powerful that a man is willing to ‘jump’ from such a height. I once jumped from 4,000 or so feet and though it had it’s moments of beauty that was enough for me.
Yes. There is the question of, “How do you brake?” But that hopefully will get solved.
As a media observer what is fascinating about this is the marriage of content, technology and brand, all of which is accomplished with nary a 3rd party distributor like a Yahoo!, MSN, YouTube or Hulu.
Red Bull has been ramping up the role that content plays in their marketing, and as we near the opening of the Winter Olympics this is only escalating with their sponsorship of fan favorites Lindsey Vonn and Shaun White. But with Red Bull Stratos you have something remarkably different, so different that it bears mention.
Here you have a one-of-a-kind activity (space jumping) with an ‘athlete’ in the Red Bull fold (Felix Baumgartner) creating a media event that is being powered by a technology company (Microsoft).
And this is to be the first of many, here’s an excerpt from blogger David William’s site outlining where Microsoft hopes to see this partnership go.
In parallel, Microsoft is in the process of developing a broader media technology and marketing partnership with Red Bull, where they want to bring together Red Bull’s premium content and innovation-in-marketing with our technology platform and worldwide reach with consumers. The goal of this partnership is to develop a cutting edge media distribution and marketing platform on our stack that will allow Red Bull and their +400 athletes and artists to run super targeted media and experiential marketing campaigns within their broad portfolio of events, including Formula One, Red Bull Air Race and Red Bull Music Academy and many others.
So, hat’s off to Red Bull. And all you Media Companies who think you make the content and then marketers have to pay you to be associated with it? Take a look at this slice of the future – the disintermediation of your role hasn’t simply begun, it’s in full swing.
Posted in Advertising, Strategy, Video, Web | 1 Comment »
August 5th, 2009
Why the CBS Research is so Important
The blogosphere is certainly abuzz right now with the news out of CBS (via PaidContent.org) that there may be more value in online that in live TV. While there are some things that rub me the wrong way, getting the ad dollars to merely move over online is NOT the answer, the fact that a research guy from a major network dared to say that online might be more valuable is incredibly powerful. It suggests that the somewhat dodgy digital future of content may be getting less dodgy. Go CBS Research guy David Poltrack – Go!
Posted in Advertising, Research, Sea Change, Strategy, Video | No Comments »
August 5th, 2009
Loving Kurt Andersen is Easy
Capture via twitter from Mr. Andersen himself. Here is some Kurt meets Stephen love. I especially love the premise that the crises are causing a reset. It is the best case scenario that we find true value and our values post crises. That is the most positive way to view our world today.
Here they are in their matching gray suits, blue shirts and red ties (with patterns).
Posted in Art, Economy, Humor, Recovery, Satire, Video | No Comments »
July 15th, 2009
An Opera Singer Breathes Anew
This past Thursday I flew to San Francisco with Ms. Jacquelyn Richey to see my brother-in-law accept his appointment as a chair in Thoracic Oncology at UCSF. Alongside the professional and personal honorifics bestowed on Dr. Thierry Jahan there was genuine love, admiration and respect all on ample display. And just when a sublime evening seemingly could not get better – the Mezzo-Soprano Zheng Cao came forward to give a surprise performance.
What is remarkable, notable and other-worldly about this performance, aside from it happening to fall on her birthday, is that Ms. Cao’s vocal pyrotechnics were made possible due to her being treated by Dr. David Larson using a technique called the cyberknife, something that is so impossibly sci-fi as to not be believed. But, the point being that between the two of these doctors they saved this woman’s vocal chords. And by saving her vocal chords – we all get to hear this…
Happy Birthday Zheng!
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July 2nd, 2009
Bienvenue, Wilkommen
Hi. Welcome to Hi-TEK Communications, a T.E. Krieger production. This little corner of the Internet is where you will find the insights, musings, and unsolicited advice on how to navigate the Class IV and Class V rapids of being a content creator/marketer/business owner in this tweethappy, facebook sappy, revenues being somewhat crappy time we call the Best Years of Our Lives.
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