<div dir="ltr">What about spending 200 000 $ to make a really good flash animation that could be seen on YouTube? <div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/22 Paul W. Frields <<a href="mailto:stickster@gmail.com">stickster@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:54 +0530, Shambo Bose wrote: > about the advertisement , if it is possible or not, if possible then > what can be done . </div>I appreciate that the Ambassadors on this thread are enthusiastic about Fedora and want to see that lots of people hear about it. However, pending money on TV advertising is not an effective way of putting Fedora in front of the people who care about it. To mass-market any product takes (literally) tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising. That is the kind of advertising that you have to do just to make people *aware* of a product. And if they can't figure out from a 30-second commercial what it is, you've essentially wasted that money. There is no effective way to explain Fedora in 30 seconds, and therefore this would not be a good use of anyone's money, including Red Hat. I'm also certain that if TV advertising were seen as a viable option, Red Hat would have already blitzed the media with an ad campaign for Red Hat Enterprise Linux quite a while ago! I think the best way to "advertise" Fedora is targeted -- find the venues in which Fedora is likely to generate interest and action, and concentrate on personally getting involved in those venues. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 <a href="http://paul.frields.org/" target="_blank">http://paul.frields.org/</a> - - <a href="http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/" target="_blank">http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/</a> <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a>: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a> </blockquote></div> </div>