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dear katz group. re: arena promotional video.
Category: Alberta Politics, Tags: Daryl Katz
Dear Katz Group,
I watched the promotional video that your wholey-owned subsidiary (Revitalize Edmonton) created in response to a public campaign by critics of your downtown arena proposal. My first thought after watching it was that whoever you are paying to make your videos, you are probably paying them too much.
To add some context to that comment, here is a video response that I made on my Macbook in 25 minutes.
Enjoy.
For some reason, some people cannot see the embedded video. Here is a link to the YouTube page.
20 Responses on dear katz group. re: arena promotional video.
I don’t think that I’ve laughed that hard yet this week. Fantastic!
LET”S MAKE IT HAPPEN
Ummm… for some reason I can’t see the video you made as a response. Am I missing something? Thanks!
Glad I could make you laugh!
Jodie: Not sure why it’s not showing up. Here is a direct link to the YouTube page.
OMG, as my 14-yr-old would say — I laughed so hard I scared my dog. I don’t know, though, which video was funnier.
(And I’d just like to say, no one should EVER use that yellow typeface. For anything.)
Great work Dave. Video doesn’t seem to render in Firefox, but fine in IE.
Cheers,
Andrew
@Paula – That was certainly the desired effect. They yellow typeface says it all. Glad you enjoyed it!
@Andrew – I updated the embed code, so it may work on Firefox now (I usually use Safari, so I didn’t know until you & Jodie commented). Thanks.
awesome. Short and sweet.
Yah!!! It works now. (I have firefox) Thanks so much.
Super funny video
Great job!
Lol! Wow you are awesome! Good Job on putting it together.
Hurry now before the price goes up!
Great work.
Brilliant. Hilarious and brilliant, Dave. Thank you.
Nice Job Dave, fair and too the point. This is a private company getting public dollars ! something wrong here!!
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So epic.
Win.
don’t stop at one, we want a sequel, thank you !
Hmmm, I fail to see the humour in this… where is the logic? Isn’t he paying 100 million dollars? 100 Million Dollars? 100 Million dollars? 100 Million Dollars? How is he getting money?
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