Jim Metrock

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Bill Nye, the Thoughtless Guy

April 11, 2018
Bill Nye, the Thoughtless Guy

  From Jim Metrock:  Bill Nye appeared on Channel One News yesterday. He was there to promote science to young viewers.  And he was there to promote his brand. Mr. Nye has been a very successful self-promoter for decades. Having absolutely no training as a scientist, he has been phenomenally successful in creating the misleading...
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Channel One News is out of Rome, GA.

March 31, 2018
Channel One News is out of Rome, GA.

From Jim Metrock: The article below is from November 15, 2005. Since that time I have been to Italy and I still like Rome, Georgia better. I recently contacted the Rome City school district and found out that Channel One News is gone from its schools. I don’t know when it was given the...
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You can’t make this stuff up: Skoollive brings Dairy Queen ads into schools.

March 30, 2018
You can’t make this stuff up:  Skoollive brings Dairy Queen ads into schools.

From Skoollive’s website:
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SkoolLive marketing draws down on the youngest of schoolchildren.

March 15, 2018
SkoolLive marketing draws down on the youngest of schoolchildren.

From Jim Metrock: This is from SkoolLive’s newly redesigned website. Elementary kiosks.  Look at the age of these children. SkoolLive chose this photograph. This was no accident. Are two of these children first graders or younger?  What are the geniuses at SkoolLive going to sell to first-graders?
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Let’s try this again. Repackaged SkoolLive wants to be known as “The Voice of Generation Z.”

March 15, 2018
Let’s try this again.  Repackaged SkoolLive wants to be known as “The Voice of Generation Z.”

From Jim Metrock: SkoolLive is a company that refuses to die.  After closing down their website for several days, SkoolLive is back online.  Check out the incredibly resistant school marketers at www.skoollive.com.  That’s correct. They continue to insist on misspelling “school.” 
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How big is a SkoolLive ad? Yuge!

March 14, 2018
How big is a SkoolLive ad? Yuge!

It’s all about the advertising, baby.  
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Grand County (UT) school uses taxpayer money to film Channel One promo film

March 7, 2018
Grand County (UT) school uses taxpayer money to film Channel One promo film

VIDEO: Helen Knight Elementary School promo video for Channel One March 7 2018 From Jim Metrock: Each of these students should have been paid between $170 and $250 f0r their performance in a scripted commercial for Channel One.  Did Grand County school officials get informed, written consent from all parents before plastering their child’s...
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SkoolLive is “reimagining itself” for the X time.

March 2, 2018
SkoolLive is “reimagining itself” for the X time.

From Jim Metrock:  SkoolLive, those loveable kiddie marketers who just can’t seem to do anything right (thank goodness), is doing yet another “do over.” Will the public no longer see the unpleasant, frantic video that begins automatically on their home page?  What a shame, after all, somebody paid for that. Don’t get your hopes...
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SkoolLive’s new public face as of March 1, 2018 10:02 CDT

March 1, 2018
SkoolLive’s new public face as of March 1, 2018 10:02 CDT


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Channel One News devotes 1/2 of show to promoting Marvel movie.

February 28, 2018
Channel One News devotes 1/2 of show to promoting Marvel movie.

    From Jim Metrock: To understand what the marketing geniuses at Channel One did today on its in-school TV show, you have to understand the current “war” between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Expanded Universe. Two movie studios have their own cast of superheros (Marvel: Spiderman, Black Panther and DC: Superman,...
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