
Channel One News was a classroom marketing company. It grew at a phenomenal rate...
From Jim Metrock: Few schools are aware of a marketing company called OurCampus. So...
Three charter school systems around Las Vegas, NV have decided to gamble on the...
From Jim Metrock: I actually read this long document. Principals won’t read this. They...
From Jim Metrock: The controversial Skoollive marketing firm is now trying to get young people to market stuff to other young people. Students, like everyone else, are influenced by their peers. Skoollive simply wants to monetize that influence. I can see it already. “Hey, kid, try this product and tell your friends through...
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Email sent to Livingston Parish school board members. —— VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Bah4FWweSUE Dear School Board Member, It appears that some of your classrooms are still showing the controversial Channel One TV show. Only a decreasing minority of American school districts are still bringing this company’s advertising into classrooms. More than likely a previous board experimented with Channel...
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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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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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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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It’s all about the advertising, baby.
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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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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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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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Play audio: https://kjzz.org/content/613395/digital-touch-screens-display-school-information-ads-students
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Digital billboards put ads in front of students. Are they harvesting personal info, too? Anne Ryman, The Republic | azcentral.com. Feb. 20, 2018 When Perry High School in Gilbert installed 7-foot-tall kiosks with digital screens on campus last year, it joined more than 160 schools that use the technology across the country. The electronic screens could display...
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