Showing posts with label product placement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label product placement. Show all posts

Friday, January 15, 2010

RedFish has focus on International Markets


There comes a time in the life of every production company that makes TV shows when the content you have made has reached critical mass and is ready to hit the road in search of other markets.

RedFish Studios is in that very era of it's existence. After three years of production, the company has entered into several distribution arrangements to capitalize on the programming that is already in the can.

In preparation of this timeline marker, about a year ago we began to brainstorm about what content we have that would be good for the rest of the world. We talked about TV distribution and mobile content, web content, streaming content. All of these options became interesting in their own right so we began to develop our content to hit all points of distribution while still building in sponsorship opportunities and localized ad revenue models.

So, after thinking through as many options for content as possible, our discovery is that we have created a more full package for almost any content distribution means available. We have web content that is backed by TV programs. TV programs that resolve themselves on the web, and interactive informative programming that calls on mobile technology to access more information than is available on the show...the circle of content has begun to oscillate sending us in new directions in search of the next show, webcast, or mobile project.

RedFish showed up in the production field at the right time and place. Our theories about content are realities now and I am glad we took the time to figure out where content was needed most before we began distribution. Now we have more to offer than most producers in the market today.


Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Why is the world going nuts for product placement?


We hear more and more about product placement these days but why is it becoming so prevalent?

1. The ad landscape is so cluttered at this point that cutting through the pollution is a near impossibility.

2. TiVo and PVRs have created another hit against 30 second TV creative. More and more viewers are able to eliminate commercials from their view entirely.

3. Product credibility is a big factor in adding value to product placement as an incredibly viable media. Simply put, if we see actors/hosts on TV and we identify with them, we find the product to be more desirable and the brand instantly more credible.

Over the last five years product placement, title sponsorships and inserted billboards have added more to the bottom line on TV budgets than any other integrated budgetary factor I have seen.

Working your brand into the show makes more sense than ever. Write me to find out more. Send your questions or post a comment:

Mike Wixson
Executive Producer
RedFish Studios
416 593 8881
mike@redfishentertainment.com
 
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