MTV: SWITCH Blog
Friday, May 23, 2008
Connors has been working on a blog project with MTV for a few months now. The project is a campaign the music television giant has launched called MTV SWITCH, which promotes a green lifestyle and presents a cool image of how to fight global warming. MTV has teamed up with ad agencies to create commercials and PSAs about climate change that they have been airing on their international channels. They have also tapped a company to create the main MTV SWITCH website. And we created the blog that accompanies their efforts. It’s an important topic, a great name behind it, and there’s a lot to write about.
So what’s been happening? The first posts went up in late December and since then we’ve been populating the site with content. The search traffic is coming in and that means we can use the HitTail suggestions to supply ideas for additional posts. So far we’re at just about a hundred unique visitors a day. It’s a beginning, and we expect the numbers to go nowhere but up.
As a brand new blog in the crowded “green” space, we are working to separate ourselves from other environmental sites by adding an MTV edge.Labels: blog, Connors Communications, HitTail, MTV Switch, music industry, politics, seo
Welcome 2008
Friday, January 04, 2008
The New Year is upon us. In the past couple of weeks, we have been bombarded with predictions for what 2008 will bring. The common theme among them, of course, is the notion of change.
Perhaps this feeling is propelled by our political climate. After all, we will be ending the year with a new President. But along with that, we are also seeing that the technologies and industries to which we have become accustomed are morphing instep with the future.
The music industry, for example, is being transformed. In 2007, we saw popular artists such as Radiohead and Madonna reject the old conglomerate music machine by taking more of an active role in how their music is sold. With news yesterday on album sales at record lows - down 15% from 2006 - they are probably doing the right thing.
And just today, Catherine Holahan from BusinessWeek reported that Sony plans to sell its music DRM-free, meaning their songs will be sold without the copyright protection software that makes it impossible for songs to be bought online. Sony is the last of the top 4 big music companies to do so, solidifying what we already knew. Buying and sharing music online is not a fad and if you don’t get on that boat, your ship will sink.
It is thus probably safe to say that we will see more artists taking control in new creative ways in 2008. What’s not certain, though, is if the quality of music will improve. With Britney in the hospital, there is some hope.
Another interesting development to watch this year is the impact the g-phone or Android will have on mobile telecom. The iphone made mobile web browsing truly possible, but the expense and having to be an AT&T subscriber kept many from being able to take advantage of the technology. 2008 might mark the year we all go online on the go.
From these few examples, it is clear (and not surprising) that the Internet is going to play an even bigger role in our lives this year. It’s a good thing we’re in this business!Labels: 2008, Internet, music industry, telecom
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