2. In every category of popular art there are dozens of
leading artists who have huge influence through
social media
As part of Ovation’s mission to inspire the world
through all forms of art and artistic expression,
Ovation should be featuring these artists on-air and
on-line
By appropriately partnering and showcasing the art
and ideas that these artists are passionate about,
these influencers will deliver their followers to
Ovation
OVATION INNOVATORS
3. A similar program was developed and executed in
the wellness space for Veria Living
In three months Veria Voices delivered:
216,000 attributable registered uniques to the website
105% increase in Facebook Likes (from 18,230 to 37,418)
24% increase in video views
30 new interstitials
A new on-air platform to reinforce the network mission and
brand
Evidence of increased viewership (Facebook comments, email,
letters, etc.)
A PROVEN CONCEPT
7. Ovation Innovators will…
Bring new artists and their followers to the network and the
site
Create localized content and local fans that can be activated
when needed
Provide a way in to the local MVPD, or a way for that provider
to take credit for shining a light on local artists
Deliver short form content and a pipeline to potential new
talent/programming (Bex Borucki is now the host of the
popular Got Zen series on Veria Living)
Make Ovation an even bigger advocate for art in each category
Deliver potential incremental ad sales revenue (each category
sponsored by…)
BENEFITS TO OVATION
8. Perfect Pitch will:
Identify 4-5 popular art categories with important social followings
Fashion
Photography
Design
Music
Work with Affiliate/Ad Sales to determine the markets of most
importance
Perform Outreach to secure 4-6 chosen artists in each category
Develop detailed requirements for all participants
Participant generated video
Minimum social posting requirements
Integrated communications/PR plan
Create Ovation Innovators page/microsite within Ovation site
Develop monthly contests and engagement tools for participants
HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS
9. FASHION
Misha, Spokane 65
Named as 1 of the 500 people shaping the fashion industry*
15,527 26,000
Carolina, New York 73
Fashion Model, Stylist, Blogger
188,019 39,000
* By Business Of Fashion 2013
36,000
345,442
10. PHOTOGRAPHY
Zak, San Francisco 42
filmmaker, photographer, social influencer
153,145 225,000 views
Richard, Oakland 68
Emmy Award-winning multimedia producer
216,236 8,557
11. DESIGN
Tina, New York 69
Swiss designer “gone NY” - blog viewed by 1 million uniques/month
40,000 383,000
Jaime, San Diego 81
Design expert - on Twitter’s “Who to follow” list of influencers in art
& design
188,019 39,000
* By Business Of Fashion 2013
1,000,000
345,442
12. MUSIC
Ed Droste, Brooklyn 81
Grizzly Bear singer/songwriter known as much for social media as
for his music
717,197 135,000
Rob Thomas, Stamford CT 85
Lead singer Matchbox 20 & solo artist. One of the first rock stars to
harness the power of Twitter.
408,000 832,487
13. Deliver thousands of new Ovation fans that will passionately
embrace your network, site and social media platforms
Provide artist and consumer advocates that can be activated
nationally and locally
Create a steady stream of relevant artist created content in
four proven genres
Can be utilized as a deep, ongoing interstitial program
Could easily be adapted as a new series
Extremely cost effective way to deliver new video content
Provides an easy path for organic ad sales integrations
Position Ovation as the arbiter of what and who’s next in
photography, fashion, design and music
Fans will make Ovation Innovators a favorite destination
Emerging artists will want to be recognized as Ovation Innovators
OVATION INNOVATORS WILL
14. Timing, Pricing & Next Steps
Timing
Perfect Pitch would require approximately two months to develop and
launch the program
Pricing
Depending on a number of variables (including level of involvement
from Ovation team members), development and initial launch of the
program would cost between $40,000-$60,000
Next Steps
Perfect Pitch will work with appropriate Ovation team members to
develop a detailed project plan to create and execute the program
The project plan will include a complete list of deliverables and a
detailed pricing estimate
Questions?
OVATION INNOVATORS
I’ve tried to pick examples of artists who are already established, artists on the rise, artists who are followed closely by their industry and artists who are followed by legions of their fans. In many cases all of the above apply.
In that way, with a program that kicks off with 20-25 artists in 4-5 categories, we are bringing not only a large number of followers to the network, but critics and industry leaders who can prove to be very important to the network, the distribution team and ad sales.
Zak Shelhamer – Adventure photog
Richard Koci Hernandez - a national Emmy award winning video and multimedia producer and worked as a photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work has appeared in Time, Wired, The New York Times, a National Geographic book and international magazines. In 2008, Richard was awarded a national Emmy award for the New Approaches to Documentary category
Part of the reason I chose Tina is that good old fashioned blogs can be more valuable than any of the individual platforms.
Tina Eisenberg – Swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg. Besides swissmiss, she founded and runs CreativeMornings, TeuxDeux, Tattly and her coworking space called Studiomates.
Jaime Derringer - Design Milk has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York, The San Francisco Chronicle, was one of the Google Reader Engineers’ Staff Picks and has been noted on Twitter’s “Who to Follow” list of influencers in Art and Design. It’s also been featured in books, and is read by many entertainers, hundreds of retailers, magazine editors, and HGTV hosts and designers. Tweets from @designmilk have been featured in Dwell magazine and on HGTV.
I’ve included music as a category for a number of reasons
Sheer size of the followers of these artists
Ease of getting compelling content for Ovation
Can create some interesting strategic partnerships with affiliate and ad sales
From indie artists to well established acts like Rob, all of them can bring significant followers to Ovation
If on average, each artist has a total of 200,000 (unique) followers and we launch with 25 artists in the program = @ 5%= 250,000 new Ovation followers/fans, @ 10%= 500,000 new followers
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