First they start a site that hopes to get kids to pay them money for the possibility of “getting sponsored” and now they say they’re launching an action sports version of Myspace and facebook. It appears that Sponsorhouse.comScott Tilton and RJ Kraus have found a new way to talk action sports companies out of their money. It’s called Loop’d. They’ve even rallied Oakley’s Pat Mac (which isn’t all that difficult to do).
Patrick McIlvain, global sports marketing director for Oakley, said the promotion it’s running on the Loop’d Network is one way for the company to tap into the grass roots of the action-sports market.
Hey, with a name like Loop’d you know the kids are going to be down.
By founding the High School Skateboarding Association Jeffrey Stern just wanted to help high schools compete against each other in skateboarding. Now, he’s got 20 California schools on the program.
High schools have shied away from fielding competitive skateboarding teams because of concerns about liability. School districts don’t carry liability insurance for what some call an “extreme sport,” nor do schools want to build skate parks on school grounds for competitions. . . So Stern, a recent Ventura College of Law graduate, drew up licensing agreements for new teams. Once they are affiliated with the nonprofit association, they have insurance, and the schools are off the hook for the liability.
Finally, skaters can take part in high school prep rallies. Just what we’ve all be waiting for.
In a 10b5-1 prearranged stock sale Richard “Wooly” Woolcott reported that he sold 11,104 shares of Volcom stock at about $25 a piece netting him a $277,000 after Christmas bonus. He squeaked that in under the 2007 tax year.
It’s the grunge comeup. Vans Syndicate had teamed up with the “Portland based wool mill, Pendleton” for some flyin’ the flannel Vans. [Link: Slamxhype]
According to an email we reveived today “the Stereo Sound Agency would like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday! We wanted to give all you Stereo fans out there a fantastic Holiday present in the form of this amazing 2007 Year In Pictures Stereo photo montage put together by Yoon Sul aka Agent Poon. Click here to check it out.”
This has been a great year for the Stereo Sound Agency and 2008 will be even more epic. Look out for new features coming to the Stereo Sound Agency website, Stereo tours and of course, the much anticipated new Stereo video. Happy Holidays!
When Will Farrell launched the site funnyordie.com with his writing partner Adam McKay they launched it on the popularity of one viral video: The Landlord. A skit in which Adam’s two-year-old daughter Pearl played Will’s landlord come to collect late rent. It was inspired comedy and the site got massive amounts of traffic. Obviously the brand name celebrity and the quality content added up to success in the short term.
Now Farrell and McKay have taken the same idea to action sports and launched Shredordie.com with the help of celebrity action sportsman Tony Hawk and some scraps of video left over from his production company 900 Films. What the site ends up looking like is, well, left over footage from 900 Films. We’re sure it will get better over time, but really, Tony, is this what you want to pin your Internet hopes on?
It didn’t look that big to us, however, according to ASR official the fall 2007 Show in San Diego was big. Some said it was due to the new “moto” section, but we’re not sure. Follow the jump for the entire press release.
First they start a site that hopes to get kids to pay them money for the possibility of “getting sponsored” and now they say they’re launching an action sports version of Myspace and facebook. It appears that Sponsorhouse.com Scott Tilton and RJ Kraus have found a new way to talk action sports companies out of their money. It’s called Loop’d. They’ve even rallied Oakley’s Pat Mac (which isn’t all that difficult to do).
