{"id":149,"date":"2008-01-05T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-01-12T10:15:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T18:15:04","slug":"action-sports-gets-loopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Action Sports Gets Loopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/projection280.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" style=\"float:right;\" \/>First they start a site that hopes to get kids to pay them money for the possibility of &#8220;getting sponsored&#8221; and now they say they&#8217;re launching an action sports version of <strong>Myspace<\/strong> and <strong>facebook<\/strong>. It appears that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sponsorhouse.com\/\">Sponsorhouse.com<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Scott Tilton<\/strong> and <strong>RJ Kraus<\/strong> have found a new way to talk action sports companies out of their money. It&#8217;s called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopd.com\/Default.aspx\">Loop&#8217;d<\/a><\/strong>. They&#8217;ve even rallied Oakley&#8217;s <strong>Pat Mac<\/strong> (which isn&#8217;t all that difficult to do).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Patrick McIlvain, global sports marketing director for Oakley, said the promotion it&#8217;s running on the Loop&#8217;d Network is one way for the company to tap into the grass roots of the action-sports market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, with a name like Loop&#8217;d you know the kids are going to be down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/business\/20080105-9999-1b5loopd.html\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First they start a site that hopes to get kids to pay them money for the possibility of &#8220;getting sponsored&#8221; and now they say they&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}