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 Worldwide Media Corporation 500 Office Center Drive Suite 400 Fort Washington, PA 19034 USA Support: 800-920-8258 Ext.57 Support@World wideMediaCo.com WorldwideMediaCo.com For Immediate Release: Savvy Medium Provider Turns Ad Industry Upside Down With New Medium That Cuts Through Traditional Media’s Clutter – Gets Results Hype? Here's PROOF! Imagine our new affordable, remotely-piloted FLEET of 121 ADVERTISING AIRSHIPS dominating the 67 largest major metropolitan areas in North America year round, cutting through all the traditional media's clutter, delivering your unforgettable sales messag e, dominating your competition and GETTING YOU THE SALES RESULTS YOU WANT AND NEED! The Advertising Airships Media Group’s AdvertisingAirship.com A Worldwide Media Corporation Business Unit Humans are fascinated with things that fly. Airplanes, Blimps and Hot Air Balloons have always caught the hearts and imaginations of people everywhere. Aerial advertising is so effective because it is mobile, it is flexible, and highly visible. The most effective "flying advertising medium" is an airship - a BLIMP! Years ago, Advertising Age surveyed thirteen thousand people and asked them to recall a single ad.

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Worldwide Media Corporation

500 Office Center Drive Suite 400

Fort Washington, PA 19034 USA

Support: 800-920-8258 Ext.57 [email protected]

WorldwideMediaCo.com

For Immediate Release:

Savvy Medium Provider Turns Ad Industry Upside Down With New

Medium That Cuts Through Traditional Media’s Clutter – Gets Results

Hype? Here's PROOF!

Imagine our new affordable, remotely-piloted FLEET of 121 ADVERTISING AIRSHIPS dominating the 67

largest major metropolitan areas in North America year round, cutting through all the traditional media's

clutter, delivering your unforgettable sales message, dominating your competition and GETTING YOU THE

SALES RESULTS YOU WANT AND NEED!

The Advertising Airships Media Group’s AdvertisingAirship.com A Worldwide Media Corporation Business Unit

Humans are fascinated with things that fly.

Airplanes, Blimps and Hot Air Balloons have always caught the hearts and imaginations of people everywhere.

Aerial advertising is so effective because it is mobile, it is flexible, and highly visible.

The most effective "flying advertising medium" is an airship - a BLIMP!

Years ago, Advertising Age surveyed thirteen thousand people and asked them to recall a single ad.

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The top two ads mentioned were for Coca Cola and Pepsi respectively and COMBINED they only accounted for

10% of the responses.

Compare that with a recent survey asking about giant airships (blimps).

An amazing 75% of those surveyed recalled seeing the ship and a full 60% of them could identify the company

using it.

Can aerial advertising with a blimp really be that much more effective than traditional forms of advertising?

Well, ask yourself these questions:

- What is the last newspaper ad you saw?

- The last TV commercial you can recall?

- The last billboard you passed on the highway?

- The last blimp you saw flying in the sky?

Could you answer them all?

Even if you could, now ask yourself this: how long ago did you see or hear them?

Chances are your answers for TV, print, radio and billboards range from a few minutes or hours, to a few days

ago and you still had trouble remembering them.

The last time you saw a blimp may have been months or even years ago, but you probably remember where

you saw it and what it said.

That, in a nutshell, is advertising effectiveness!

Stephen Amoroso, Director of Corporate Communications for the Advertising Airships Media Group said, "Our

Advertising Airships North American fleet will be used in 5 specific strategic marketing areas:

1. Aerial Advertising - massive floating billboards positioned where and when they are needed.

2. Aerial Filming - for live or tape TV and Internet exposure generating media value and enhanced audience

reach.

3. Attracting Additional Media - generating media opportunities including print, radio, TV and Internet.

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4. Sales Promotions and Direct Solicitations - driving sales through point-of-sales links such as call centers and

web sites.

5. As A Corporate Flagship - driving the corporate image."

Aerial Advertising  – The Advertising Airships fleet will be positioned to target a different audience every day,

whether it’s at the high consumer traffic sports arena, the mall, a concert or special event or cruising overhead

capturing every eyeball during rush-hour traffic.

They can generate highly memorable advertising campaigns with awareness approaching an incredible 81%

for campaigns that last at least four weeks.

People like airships.

They are fun and can be spectacular, especially at night.

Aerial Filming  – The Advertising Airships fleet are the ultimate camera platform for major sporting and

cultural events.

Live filming of major events generate huge media value for advertisers.

Aerial advertising dramatically increased audience impressions which can be seen regionally, nationally and

internationally.

Attracting Additional Media - Wherever the Advertising Airships fleet goes, it will generate print, radio and

television media opportunities and interest.

Airships are unique, and people can't help but marvel at them.

Media flights result in local, regional, national and international press coverage.

Media opportunities are limited only by one's imagination.

Sales Promotions  – The Advertising Airships fleet will be the attention-getting centerpiece linked to sales

promotions to drive sales through point of sale links to increase their effectiveness.

The Advertising Airships fleet will directly assist in increased sales due to their formidable ability to generate

brand awareness and recall.

As A Corporate Flagship  – The Advertising Airships fleet will be utilized to drive the corporate image and logo.

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Public recognition and recall of corporate brand name and logo is greatly enhanced as the company becomes

synonymous with blimps.

"Our mission was to make our Advertising Airships fleet easily affordable to a majority of corporate businesses

and create a fleet of high-impact Advertising Airships that would generate maximum results for our clients.

After a year and a half of dedicated work by our staff to develop a North America Advertising Airship fleet that

was highly affordable, we have accomplished that objective. We will begin building an international

advertising business around our airships fleet and marketing and advertising systems," said Ron Schmidt,

Founder and CEO of the Worldwide Media Corporation and parent to the Advertising Airships Media Group 

business unit.

The Advertising Airship Media Group provides remotely piloted, unmanned airships for use in advertising,

crowd entertainment, surveillance, photography and videography.

The Advertising Airships Fleet is only available for long-term contracts.

The Advertising Airship Marketing Group will also provide a complete turnkey package including blimp and

trailer, professional pilots, custom banners, flying time and travel time as well as any additional marketing/

advertising/promotional services as need by their agency clients.

Here’s Even More Advertising Value

Research reveals statistics on the aerial effectiveness of blimps is impressive.

Here are just a few examples:

Picture courtesy of Airship Management Services, Inc.

1. In 1984, Fuji Film increased their market 7%, taking market share from Kodak in only a two-month period as

a result of their aerial advertising campaign covering the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

The campaign was so successful that Fuji is still using BLIMP advertising today - twenty years later!

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Fuji continued it’s program and in 1986 purchased their own airship.

Picture courtesy of Kraft Foods

2. In 1992, Kraft increased it’s sales by 87% in Germany alone during the Kraft Blimp promotion tour.

Based on this success, Kraft renewed it’s airship program for '93 and '94.

Picture courtesy of The Family Channel

3. The Family Channel Blimp generated $5 million of spin-off media value during it’s first year.

Family Channel studies show the total media value outweighs total cost of blimp operation by 3 to 1.

Picture courtesy of Blockbuster Entertainment

4. Coverage of nineteen TV events by the Blockbuster Blimp resulted in $1 million worth of on-air time and

$45,000 of spin-off local media.

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 Picture courtesy of The Lightship Group

5. In 2006, the world's first video airship, Holden's Video Lightsign Lightship* was flown throughout Australia

as the centerpiece to General Motor's new car launch.

The aerial campaign was so effective, grabbing everyone's attention, that anxious competitors petitioned the

Australian government to ban it.

6. The following results of independent and in-house studies reveal a high percentage of both airship (recalled

seeing blimp) and product (recalled message) awareness:

Consumer

Advertiser Locale Airship <Awareness> Product

Swan Beer Australia 82.0% 73.0%

Novo Snacks London 72.5% 86.2%

Miller Lite Texas 63.1% 72.6%

7. Studies indicate that in a typical city of about 1 million people, during a 5-day flight period, 65% recall the

message presented on the airship.

As the effectiveness of the traditional advertising media continues to erode, advertisers need to explore

innovative solutions to make an impact on the public consciousness.

Why Do These Companies Spend Millions On Airships?

Through the years Metropolitan Life, Outback Steakhouse, Goodyear, Fuji Film, Anheiser-Busch, Budweiser,

Hood, Mazda, Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Whitman's Chocolates, Blockbuster, Nokia, Phillips, Sanyo, 20th Century

Fox, Accenture, Horizon Blue Cross-Blue Shield, The Family Channel, Syngenta, Nissen, Saturn, M Resort Spa

and Casino, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Tommy Hilfiger, Mastercard, Konica, Japan Air Lines, DHL, Boeing, BMW,

Konica, Lowenbrau, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and many, many more throughout the world have spent

millions on airships.

Why?

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Because Every Aerial Marketing Campaign Has Been Successful – They All Get Results!

What do these savvy marketing executives have in common? 

Tony Ponturo, V.P., Corporate Media Sports Marketing, Anheuser-Busch, Inc.

Colleen McGrath, Senior Manager of New Concepts, Monster.com

Alan Foster, Vice President, Sanyo North America Corporation

Micky Wittman, Manager of Airship Operations, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

David Heslop, Managing Director, Mazda Cars (UK) Ltd.

Fred Hillmann, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

Peter Yates-Round, Sales Director, Eastgate Mazda

Scott Ballin, Director Of Business Development, Milton Samuels Advertising

Taylor Ingraham, Marketing Director, Virgin Atlantic Airways

John G. Barclay, President of Olympic Advisors, Barcelona '92

Eileen Carpenter, Director of Media, The Family Channel

Roger Woods, Director of Corporate Relations, Philips Electronics, UK LTD.

Henry Inman, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

They all were instrumental in and benefited greatly from their airship advertising campaigns.

What did these savvy marketers and advertisers have to say?

• Highly Visible Marketing Tool “The Airship provides opportunities to entertain Anheuser-Busch's key

customers and serves as a highly visible marketing tool, encouraging consumers to visit the Budweiser.com

web site for information on upcoming campaigns, promotions and sweepstakes.”

• Feel Good Factor “The intangible but immensely valuable "feel good factor" of the Lightship, whether seen

through the eyes of the Sanyo employee, a Sanyo trade partner or a Sanyo customer is quite remarkable.”

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• Outstanding Audience Reach “It has reached a potential audience of more than 22.5 million viewers

worldwide.”

• Corporate Icon “The Lightship has become a corporate icon. Its use as a promotional vehicle and generator

of impressions has been incredibly successful.”

• The Most Effective Promotional Tool  “I am now certain that the Mazda Lightship is the most effective

promotional tool I have ever worked with . . .”

• Nothing Short of Magic “I have never been able to build such a fully integrated advertising and promotional

program . . . we have been experiencing nothing short of magic.”

• Memorable and Intrusive “The intrusiveness of the Lightship reduces the need for frequency of exposure,

which is critical to other media buys.”

• Outstanding PR Response “Quite frankly, we have never had such a positive response to the other public

relations events we have organized over the years.”

• Tremendous Spin-Off Media Coverage “From the multi-million television audience impressions and the in-

video sitings generated, to the tremendous levels of spin-off media coverage we received.”

• Media Value “The media value alone generated is three times greater than the actual costs of the blimp

program.” 

With that kind of success rate the obvious question is:

Why isn't everyone using airship advertising?

The even more obvious answer is: COST.

Full sized airships cost several million dollars to purchase and several hundred thousand dollars per month to

operate and typically have crews of 20 to 40 people.

The average cost to an advertiser on the world's preeminent airship, The Goodyear Blimp, is upwards of 

$400,000 per night for lighted pixel board advertising!

Bob Weinstein, Director of Advertising for Metropolitan Life has said: "The cost of running the blimp for a

whole month is equal to the cost of just one or two prime time commercials."

He thinks the blimp is an absolute bargain considering one prime time commercial can cost well over

$300,000!

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One blimp aerial advertising has been sometime even too expensive for even most Fortune 500 companies,

but that's where the Advertising Airships Media Group comes in.

Up until recently, this medium was limited to mostly indoor venues - but not anymore.

Remotely piloted blimp technology is ever evolving and now outdoor airships are being built specifically for

the Advertising Airships Media Group large enough for effective advertising and small enough for cost

efficiency.

The Advertising Airships Media Group’s outdoor Airships Fleet will now provide a unique advertising platform,

effectively and efficiently continually dominating every major, at very competitive costs.

Smaller airships can mirror the effectiveness of full-size manned airships at a fraction of the cost.

The Bottom Line

"The bottom line is this. Our smaller remotely-piloted, affordable, nationwide Advertising Airships Fleet will

mirror the effectiveness of their full-sized cousins, with an investment cost that is very manageable for a

Fortune 500 or mid-sized business. We will get better results than traditional advertising, with a huge added

bonus being that we will get the traditional media’s coverage for free," said Ron Schmidt, Founder and CEO of 

the Worldwide Media Corporation, the corporate parent to the Advertising Airship Media Group. 

The company will offer airship advertising fleet services throughout North America to selected clients.

All of the details will be provided for and include everything from flying the airships at high consumer traffic

venues to providing the marketing and promotional strategies.

They will design and produce reusable banner graphics with effective calls to action that will drive anxious

consumers to web sites, audio sites, call centers and store locations.

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Every last detail in planning and implementing an ongoing successful nationwide advertising airship aerial

campaign, coupled with free coverage by the traditional media, and streaming online video that will get

results will be handled by the firm and our client’s agencies.

"We will be the definitive source in advertising airship fleets for our clients, agencies and principals alike.

Unlike typical brand awareness campaigns that traditional large scale airships like Goodyear, Fuji and

Metropolitan Life have promoted, we're testing the results of flying an Advertising Airships Fleet that

promotes companies, brands, products, and special events for a select group of high profile national

companies.

As we launch our airship fleet in the U. S., and throughout the rest of the world, agencies and corporate

advertisers will come along and participate with us in each strategic location we position an Advertising

Airship. 

We see the unique combination of traditional media, Internet, and video with our Advertising Airship Fleet as

the centerpiece to a multimedia campaign as a natural way to add value to any advertising campaign.

Unlike most traditional media campaigns which are quickly forgotten, consumers will long remember the

name of the company or product on the banner just like they do now with Goodyear, Fuji Film, Metropolitan

Life, Budweiser and the other larger airships.

In an ever-changing advertising and promotional environment, our Advertising Airship Fleet will be highly

effective because they are memorable, they are mobile, they are flexible and they are highly visible, in other

words, they cut right through the clutter.” says Schmidt.

“A nationwide Advertising Airship Fleet will always attract news coverage and other forms of free publicity!

In short, just like all of the traditional mediums, our Advertising Airship Fleet combines all the best attributes

of traditional advertising and even more - offering customers and advertising clients a movable front-page ad

in the sky that just can't be turned off by changing the station, deleted at the click of a mouse, or like print

mediums simply thrown in the trash," said Stephen Amoroso, Advertising Airship Media Group's Director of 

Corporate Communications.

For additional information about the Advertising Airships Media Group, a Worldwide Media Corporation

Business Unit, e-mail our professionals at [email protected] or call our Support Staff at 800-

920-8258 Ext. 57, and we will answer your questions and handle all the details for you.

Discover how our Advertising Airships Fleet will help you get the results you need.

For additional information contact:

Ron Schmidt, CEO Worldwide Media Corporation

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Phone: 800-920-8258 Ext. 77

E-mail: [email protected]

*Video Lightsign Lightship is a trademark of  The Lightship Group. Quotes and pictures are provided courtesy of

The Lightship Group. All worldwide rights reserved. Copyright 2013

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