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Lights out: Local company makes Earth Hour go viral

by Courteney Stuart
published 2:54pm Friday Mar 12, 2010
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A Scottsville film company is responsible for recruiting and filming arguably the most beautiful couple on Earth– New England Patriots QB Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen— for youtube videos posted this week promoting Earth Hour, an event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund that encourages everyone in the world to power down their homes for one hour on March 27 at 8:30pm (local time) to promote energy conservation. (See Brady’s version here.)

“Last year, a billion people participated in Earth Hour,” says Tayloe Emery, founder of the Scottsville company JTE Creative Group, which created the videos with a goal of going viral. Emery, who has worked internationally with U2 frontman Bono’s charities, says he has a “large rolodex” that made him an ideal marketer of the event– particularly after his success marketing the event last year, when he signed up actor Kevin Bacon and his wife, actress, Kyra Sedgwick, model and actress Isabella Rossalini, and several NBA players to film similar youtube spots.

In less than 24 hours, Emery says, Brady and Bundchen’s videos– which he filmed in L.A. and Boston– had been watched about 30,000 times, a number he hopes will grow to 500,000 by the actual event. He plans to launch similar youtube videos promoting the event in coming days featuring NBA great and Olympic torch lighter Steve Nash and actor Ed Norton.

7 comments

  • Paul March 12th, 2010 | 9:03 pm

    Thanks. Now I know which day and what time to turn on all of my lights…

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  • Greene Cabin March 13th, 2010 | 7:36 am

    Paul your trailer home could only have but so many lights…

  • sue March 13th, 2010 | 9:40 am

    Very cool. I think I’ll do this once a month…..It’s not that much of a sacrafice……….but every little bit helps…

    I like that Giselle and high profile people like her take interest in the earth and world around them…..very cool.

  • Light up ???? March 15th, 2010 | 11:26 am

    Candles? Great - that will keep the fire department busy….

  • Wanna hurt the environment... March 15th, 2010 | 12:02 pm

    … then participate in Earth Hour:
    http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2642/

    Candles? Really?

  • basking in the glow March 15th, 2010 | 11:33 pm

    Greene Cabin… if Paul has fewer lights then you do then HE is MORE “green” than you are every day so s#@k it.
    Come one by on the 27th I will keep the porch light on for you. (100w)

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