adidas and Peter Cech Give Goalkeeping a New Meaning

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Sports organizations looking to deliver new viewpoints and insights for their fan base should take a close look at a creative piece that adidas recently released on its Official Football Facebook Page. The Official World Cup sponsor teamed up with the Czech Republic's heralded goalkeeper Petr Cech to give soccer fans across the globe a unique look at what it takes to make a save in a penalty kick situation.

adidas equipped Cech with a camera on his head during a practice session and filmed him giving pointers on how to make incredible saves in pressure situations.

The camera work is simple yet provides fans with a new viewpoint that does a terrific job demonstrating the speed of the game. It would be great to see more sports organizations offer their fan base this unprecedented access!

Check it out below: 

Adidas Taps Into The Social Networking Space with Adidas.tv...

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Is your brand looking for new ways to penetrate the social networking space? Are you looking to provide consumers with additional content that they can own and share with friends?

Adidas recently unveiled an exclusive first look at Adidas.tv, a video distribution platform designed to provide online users with high quality, customizable content that they can share with colleagues and friends through social networking portals. Adidas.tv offers a large, clear display screen that features a variety of exclusive Adidas media content, including:

  • Exclusive Interviews with Adidas' Top Athletes
  • Event Footage
  • New Advertising and Viral Campaigns

The site offers an extremely easy-to-use tool that enables users to share content on the site with their family and friends. With one click of a button, users have the ability to post the site's media content on their social networking pages (MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, Friendstar, hi5, Windows Live, Wordpress, Yahoo, etc.) as a widget or send it to a mobile phone device or an email inbox.

When sharing content, Adidas provides consumers with the option of choosing whether they would like to post a specific video, an entire channel (e.g. Adidas Basketball Channel), or an Adidas.tv microsite on their preferred social networking platform.

Enclosed is a video that displays the type of exclusive content that users can expect to see on Adidas.tv:

A special thanks to Sebastien Duval of Rubber Republic for his insights and contributions to this column.