I have gotten a second pitch from New Media Strategies about Discovery Channel’s My War Diary series (disclosure: NMS is a PR firm that does online communications work for various clients. I also work at a PR firm doing online communications).
The pitch wasn’t bad (although the guy pitching me didn’t disclose the fact that he was working at a PR firm being paid by Discovery Communications), and I think the concept for My War Diary (a television program completely made up of organic video from theater submitted by Soldiers) is very cool.
So I’m biting. They are looking for more submissions. Videos can be submitted online or by mail.
My open question to NMS though — this is the second pitch for the series I have received in 4 months. Are Soldiers not submitting video?
If you have more questions about My War Diary, e-mail Discovery Communications.
Hey Steve,
Thanks so much for posting the information about the Military Channel video initiative, and your questions. We really appreciate your support and your help, and I hoped it was clear via the email address that we were working with the Military Channel but that David was actually from New Media Strategies. Hope there wasn’t any confusion!
To answer your question that you referred to in the post, this is the second time the Military Channel has run this initiative – most recently, Military Channel showed some of the videos in May: http://military.discovery.com/convergence/mywardiary/episode/episode.html as part of My War Diary. This new request for footage is for an additional video initiative which will occur sometime later this summer. I’d be happy to let you know when it airs.
Thanks so much,
Corrie Zielinski
New Media Strategies
Thanks, Corrie! Appreciate the update. Would love to see the additional footage when it airs.
Best,
Steve
Happy to send it to you! I’ll get in touch with you via email.
CZ