Back in September of 05 TiVo announced that they were looking for somebody who could represent the company as a TiVo ambassador. Just today TiVo announced Matt Ward of San Diego was selected to be the ambassador. Matt has already started blogging on the official TiVo blog. More information on Matt as well as a link to the winning video submission and his essay submission can be found here.
I truly look forward to reading what Matt has to say.
We all know that I’ve been a little criticial of the blog before so I hope that Matt provides the site with some interesting content and discussion. In any case, I’d like to congratulate Matt!
Am I the only one who thinks this ‘promotion’ was a big waste of money? There’s gotta be better ways to spend $50k. Not to mention if TiVo was seeking blog contributors, I know/read several qualified/crebile folks who would most likely contribute for free.
I’m not sure if it was a waste of money or not. I think that TiVo probably “wastes” money on a lot of marketing expenses, yet they still seem to get an awful lot of bang for their buck on a lot of their promotions. There are probably a lot of people who would love to take on Matt’s role for free, but I’m glad that they selected him. I’m not sure why, but I found his first entry to be positively histerical. Maybe it was the Teen Wolf references or that he talks to his dog, but I’m really glad that they found a rabid TiVo fan who is a little nutty to be their Ambassador.
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