Why Online Video Has Forever Changed PR

The top European market Auto viral videos from last year: From Media Post:Businesses Embracing Online Video Will Fuel The Web’s Revolution by Dave Dutch IF VIDEO KILLED THE radio star, online video will surely kill the static Web.The following are a handful of ways video is impacting corporate Web strategies and business models: Company news…

YouTube Going Corporate

This story was just posted on the Bulldog Reporter: YouTube Absorbed By Corporate Machinery: The Amateur-Video Pioneer Begins Transition to Hollywood VehicleYouTube will soon unveil a redesign that clearly separates its premium and long-form programming from the user-posted videos that account for most of its activity. According to two sources familiar with Google’s plans for…

A little positivity doesn’t hurt…

I try to keep this blog focused on PR and Marketing, but I’ve got to make a comment on a media trend that’s becoming more and more difficult to deal with. I’m fed up with the non-stop crisis reporting. September 11th was a terrible event and a true turning point in the trajectory of our…

Wagoner Out

GM CEO Rick Wagoner just posted a note on the GM Media site explaining that he resigned after being asked to do so by the White House. I won’t get political on this blog… but its a shame to see Wagoner go. He was a dynamic and thoughtful leader for GM, more of a politician…

InsideFacebook.com just posted the following report on new users for the social media site. In the past two months, the number of people over the age of 35 (Gen X and Baby Boomers) on facebook has DOUBLED. Also of note is the fact that more women appear to be signing up for accounts then men.…

Lexus Backs First Consumer-Customized Magazine

THIS is very cool, and quite possibly the future of the publishing business. Lexus is sole sponsor and advertiser of a new effort with Time Inc., and American Express Publishing (AEP) that constitutes what the companies say is the first-ever consumer-customized magazine. The magazine, called Mine–with the tagline “My magazine, My way”–comprises content from Time…

Portfolio: Meltdown, A Marketing Opportunity

Jeremy Dann has penned an excellent piece for Portfolio.com where he interviewed Dominique Hanssens, the marketing chair at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business. This is the most pertinent excerpt from the interview: Dann: What are some companies that have “upped the ante” during down times? Hanssens: You can easily point to examples of companies who…

NYT Video

This is a worthwhile video about three small businesses in the NYC area, and how business is slowly getting back to normal for them.

The long Winter is winding down…

Just got back from a four day trip to Las Vegas, working the Mopars at the Strip car show for Hotchkis Performance. It was an interesting experience. Someone on a forum described this show as a “Star Trek Convention for Chrysler fans”, and that seems to be the most fitting description I’ve heard. The three…

K.I.S.S.

I’ve noticed my last few posts have been pretty wordy and drawn out. Sorry ’bout that. Here’s a video we just posted on Streetfire where an old client talks about a new one. We’ve been shooting a LOT of new video content, and hosting it on both YouTube and the car-specific video channel StreetFire.