Governor Tom Vilsack Creates Presidential Campaign Videoblog on blip.tv

Governor Tom Vilsack Creates Presidential Campaign Videoblog on blip.tv

Iowa Governor Uses Video on the Internet to Connect Directly With Voters

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Videoblogging is poised to have a major impact on the next Presidential election. Today, Iowa Governor and Democratic presidential candidate Tom Vilsack announced he is creating a weekly videoblog to highlight his vision for America. Governor Vilsack's show will be hosted by blip.tv, a service that hosts and distributes videoblogs and Web-based TV shows.

Vilsack's campaign videos will provide a comprehensive, behind the scenes look at life on the presidential campaign trail, chronicling the experiences and insights of Governor Vilsack, top campaign staff and the candidate's family. The show will enable Vilsack to communicate directly with voters about his campaign platform and to speak about the top issues of the day, while humanizing the governor without the filters of traditional media.

Governor Vilsack has already posted his first episodes, available at http://www.tomvilsack08.com/ and at tomvilsack.blip.tv. In his first videos, Governor Vilsack spoke about the war in Iraq and the 2006 mid-term elections. The day before officially announcing his run for President, Vilsack posted a personal video with his thoughts on the presidential campaign and his upcoming announcement speech.

Presidential candidate Tom Vilsack said, "Blip.tv is an innovative way to introduce myself to the American people and present my ideas to create change here in the U.S. It's time to change course and rebuild our sense of community. With the help of blip.tv, I will work to find real solutions to everyday problems we face here and abroad."

"In the past, presidential candidates who wanted to communicate with voters had to buy a 30-second television spot or speak in carefully crafted sound bites in the hope the evening news would pick them up," said blip.tv COO Dina Kaplan. "Blip.tv's unique services allow Governor Vilsack to create his own television show: a regularly updated series of videoblogs which voters can regularly tune into for personal, unfiltered news and information directly from the campaign. The curtain is being pulled back, and this can only be good for the democratic process."

Blip.tv will distribute Governor Vilsack's show to his website, at http://www.tomvilsack08.com/, to iTunes and to MySpace. The videoblog will also be featured on blip.tv's destination site at http://www.blip.tv/.

About blip.tv

Blip.tv hosts, distributes and monetizes independent Web-based TV shows and videoblogs from around the world. Founded in May 2005, the company distributes media throughout the Web: to blogs, iTunes, the video iPod, MySpace and myriad video search engines and aggregators. The company offers an opt-in advertising program and splits all revenues with its users 50/50. Blip.tv also brings videos to people's TV sets through partnerships with Akimbo and TV Tonic. In an August 2006 review, Light Reading ranked blip.tv the #1 online video sharing site. To learn more, please visit http://www.blip.tv/

Source: blip.tv

CONTACT: Todd Barrish, Dukas Public Relations, +1-212-704-7385,
todd@dukaspr.com

Web site: http://www.blip.tv/
http://www.tomvilsack08.com/
http://tomvilsack.blip.tv/

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