New Marketing Summit: The New Media Rollercoaster

Keynote: The New Media Rollercoaster, Cynthia Gordon, VP of New Media Marketing from Universal Orlando Resort

• The internet has completely revolutionized and transformed people’s lives.
• It’s like a giant collective brain, and we’re sending messages back and forth to each other.
• The consumer is in control.  Blogging has become mainstream.  The past couple of years has shown me that I need to pay attention that.  I also needed to find new and innovative ways to get in front of the audience.
• CNN is an adaptable channel, they partnered with YouTube to bring the debates to the masses.  They figured out the concept of citizen journalism.
• John Stewart and CNN iReporting video.
• We went from 3 channels to over 100 channels doing multiple shows a year.  It’s must more difficult to be a marketer at these companies.
• Ultimately, TV is still people’s preferred medium of watching shows, and that will drive online viewing.
• You can’t stop technology, you have to make it easier for people to get your content.
• Discussed Halloween Horror Night
• Brought up efforts for Harry Potter theme park opening.
• Both of these did happen some time before a Press Release was put out.
• To promote the opening of a new Simpson’s Theme Park, Universal leveraged the millions of avatars that were made in the wake of the Simpson’s movie and made an online world for them to play in.