This message was edited on
July 07, 2011 at
05:16:03 AM by Dirt Dog TV
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Posted By: MSPN on July 06 2011 at 08:41:51 AM
Who are these guys? Where are they from? How have they hooked this up from Coast to Coast and more importantly KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!
Personally, I have gone from covering over 100 sprint car races a year to a couple and am getting over my burn out with the help of these guys. I would love to hear from one of them with future plans etc. Thanks in advance....
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Thank You for
your kind words! Let me shed a little light on who we are and what we are
up to...
Dirt Dog TV is
based in Seattle, WA but is powered by the cooperative efforts of tracks,
teams, series and fans from around the world. Our mission is simple: Report,
Celebrate and Promote dirt motorsports. We
have reporters/content producers in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and
Argentina, and are negotiating with folks in the UK, Canada, and South
Africa.
Our Facebook
page is where we have been building a global dirt community for the past
year. It is the result of tireless,
around the clock efforts of many people. Without any advertising, Dirt Dog TV on Facebook has been growing
rapidly and now averages over 800K monthly post views in 19 countries and 16
languages. I attribute the success to
the passion of our fans and the fact that we try to cover a little bit of
everything that goes fast in circles on dirt. http://www.facebook.com/DirtDogTV
Later this month, Dirt Dog TV will launch an entirely new type of media
entity that "levels the playing field" so that ANY track, team,
series and independent videographer can leverage our tools for promotion and
profit. Fans will get all the best dirt videos, news and programs in one place and how far a talented racer takes their career will no longer be determined by the size of their check-book. We will teach anyone with passion and dedication how to use video
to pursue and secure bigger sponsors and how to produce MEANINGFUL marketing
results to keep them happy. From kart racers to million dollar Outlaw teams, all will have the same ability to plug into our new network. We are starting
small, but will quickly grow to over 100 channels and categories with over
4,000 new, “on demand” videos and programs at any given time.
All Dirt - Available Anywhere, Anytime!
The new network is not a website. It is a free app that we will release
through our Facebook page.Dirt Dog TV
will always be free to the viewers and will never have intrusive, “forced to
watch” commercials or pop up ads. We are
PC, Mac and Droid ready now, will be iPhone compatible in 3-4 months and on
every web enabled television by the end of the year. All our videos and programs are interactive and
most will feature multiple layers of “bonus content” similar to Blue Ray DVDs.
WE ARE NOT TRYING TO COMPETE WITH EXISTING WEBSITES! We have worked very hard to ensure that our
technology will enhance the fantastic dirt racing sites that already exist. Our desire is to work with any web property
owner to offer a better way to distribute and monetize their video content
while simultaneously driving traffic to their site. It has taken us two years to design and build
our system because I was not willing to continue unless it benefited everyone.
A Little History:
I love racing. I have been involved in motorsports off and
on for over thirty five years as a driver, team owner, sponsor, flagman, Indy
Car corner worker, dirt track promoter & announcer, sponsor rep, PR agent
and racing school owner. I attended my
first Indy 500 when I was seven years old, started racing karts when I was twelve
and spent hundreds of my childhood Saturdays and Sundays at Hales Corners
Speedway and the Milwaukee Mile. My
first autograph was from Tom Bigelow on an issue of National Speed Sport News.
Two years ago,
the seed of an idea was planted in my head. I was irritated by the lack of dirt motorsports coverage offered by
mainstream media. Without any facts,
related experience or technical foundation, I concluded that it must be
possible to use the Internet to build an online media network for dirt track
racing. My thought was to take all the dirt
racing videos being uploaded to You Tube and Vimeo, offer the producers a
better way to organize, enhance and monetize their content and do it in a
manner that also offered more benefits to the fans and racers.
After
thousands of hours and dollars of
research and testing and a little serendipity… that little idea has grown into a
business template that allows anyone to start out for free and build their own,
branded media entity with our tools. We
have a revenue sharing model that allows us to work cooperatively with
independent media producers, participants and promoters. We offer our content partners global
distribution to the core Dirt audience plus many benefits that traditional
television, CDNs and You Tube simply cannot provide.
TOOLBOX
Networks Inc. will beta test the Dirt Dog TV interactive network in a few days
and release the full app in late July. The
main reason DDTV works so well is because I had NO IDEA what I was doing when
we started. I knew nothing about social
networking or viral sharing and had never even used a video camera. We had to learn everything the hard way and
can now teach others what works. We have
gotten to where we are today simply because we ignored what people said “couldn’t
be done” and focused on our goal of building a better solution for all four of
our user groups:
1.Fans
2.Racers
3.Independent
Content Producers
4.Sponsors
That and the fact that we are a group of people who still remember the
joy and thrill that dirt racing provided in our childhood. We’re just little kids in bigger bodies. Yes, it is a business… but it is supposed to
be FUN!
Sincerely,
Joe McConnellCEO
TOOLBOX
Networks Inc.
Dirt Dog TV
Seattle, WA
Ask any fan & viewer oriented questions in this thread.
Please direct all business inquiries to: [email protected]
LINKS:
Dirt Dog TV on
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DirtDogTV
Dirt Dog TV on
You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/DirtDogTV
GLOBAL DIRT NEWS "Bark Loud... Bite HARD!"
dirtdogtv.com
Follow DDTV News on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/DirtDogTV
Join us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/DirtDogTV
Watch DDTV on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/DirtDogTV
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