Digital Podcast» Digital Podcast | Kina Grannis http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews Digital Podcast focuses on using new and social media to build real businesses. We help publishers build new media businesses that use best practices to market content, build audience and monetize the results. Give us a call at 562-824-5193. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:23:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 © digitalpodcast@gmail.com () digitalpodcast@gmail.com() 1440 Digital Podcast focuses on using new and social media to build real businesses. We help publishers build new media businesses that use best practices to market content, build audience and monetize the results. Give us a call at 562-824-5193. digitalpodcast@gmail.com No no http://www.digitalpodcast.com/images/digitalpodcast144.jpg Digital Podcast http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews 144 144 Social Media Star Kina Grannis Wins Super Bowl Contest http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2008/02/03/social-media-star-kina-grannis-wins-super-bowl-contest/ http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2008/02/03/social-media-star-kina-grannis-wins-super-bowl-contest/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:18:42 +0000 Alex Nesbitt http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2008/02/03/social-media-star-kina-grannis-wins-super-bowl-contest/ Kina Grannis, a big Digg fan, used social media and some great content to win Dorito’s Crash the Super Bowl Contest. She just appeared on the Super Bowl in a 60 second music video and has won a recording contract with Interscope Records.

If you want to see more you can go to SnackStrongProductions.com to watch behind the scenes footage and download Kina’s winning song. And you can buy her winning single on iTunes.

Congratulations to Kina!

Here’s her video

[tags]Kina Grannis, Super Bowl, social media[/tags]

]]> http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2008/02/03/social-media-star-kina-grannis-wins-super-bowl-contest/feed/ 0 Kina Grannis One Step Closer to Crashing the Super Bowl http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2008/01/08/kina-grannis-one-step-closer-to-crashing-the-super-bowl/ http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2008/01/08/kina-grannis-one-step-closer-to-crashing-the-super-bowl/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:06:24 +0000 Alex Nesbitt http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2008/01/08/kina-grannis-one-step-closer-to-crashing-the-super-bowl/ Kina Grannis, who I interviewed just before the New Year, has advanced to the final three contestants in the Crash the Super Bowl contest. On the line is a record deal and a 60 second video promotion of the winner during this year’s Super Bowl. I was looking into what was going on around the web when I ran into a post about Kina. Kina sprang to fame at Digital Podcast after a post at Digg for a song called Gotta Digg skyrocketed her to the top of Digg and generated over 289,000 views on YouTube.

Here’s a new video from Kina. Do what you should VOTE FOR KINA to Crash the Super Bowl.

[tags]Kina Grannis, Crash the Super Bowl, music, social media[/tags]

]]> http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2008/01/08/kina-grannis-one-step-closer-to-crashing-the-super-bowl/feed/ 0 Digital Podcast 28: Will Kina Grannis Crash the SuperBowl? http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/12/28/digital-podcast-28-will-kina-grannis-crash-the-superbowl/ http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/12/28/digital-podcast-28-will-kina-grannis-crash-the-superbowl/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:33:36 +0000 Alex Nesbitt http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/12/28/digital-podcast-28-will-kina-grannis-crash-the-superbowl/ Kina for the Super BowlKina Grannis, an aspiring singer songwriter, caught my attention along with a lot of the tech community with a post over at Digg. The post linked to Kina’s YouTube page and had a song called “Gotta Digg”. The Digg fans went crazy for Kina and voted over 10,000 times for collection of posts linking to her blog and to the video at YouTube. Kina’s YouTube traffic skyrocketed up and “Gotta Digg” has gone over 180,000 views.

Kina is trying to win a contest and NEEDS YOUR VOTE. The contest is called Crash the Superbowl and the winner gets a recording contract and their video played on the Super Bowl broadcast. Kina was kind enough to spend some time with me on the phone discussing her career, the contest and the impact of her most recent experience with social media.

If you want to hear more of Kina’s music you can visit her YouTube page, KinaGrannis.com or sign up for voting reminders at a site she set up for video blogging about the contest called Two Weeks for Kina.
Vote for Kina

Kina also has some CDs for sale on iTunes including One More in the Attic, sincerely, me and In Memory of the Singing Bridge

Gotta Digg Video

The Myspace Video

So GO VOTE FOR KINA.

[tags]Crash the Super Bowl, Kina Grannis, MySpace, Digg, YouTube, social media, social media marketing[/tags]

]]> http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/12/28/digital-podcast-28-will-kina-grannis-crash-the-superbowl/feed/ 1 9:40 Kina Grannis, an aspiring singer songwriter, caught my attention along with a lot of the tech community with a post over at Digg. The ... Kina Grannis, an aspiring singer songwriter, caught my attention along with a lot of the tech community with a post over at Digg. The post linked to Kina's YouTube page and had a song called "Gotta Digg". The Digg fans went crazy for Kina and voted over 10,000 times for collection of posts linking to her blog and to the video at YouTube. Kina's YouTube traffic skyrocketed up and "Gotta Digg" has gone over 180,000 views. Kina is trying to win a contest and NEEDS YOUR VOTE. The contest is called Crash the Superbowl and the winner gets a recording contract and their video played on the Super Bowl broadcast. Kina was kind enough to spend some time with me on the phone discussing her career, the contest and the impact of her most recent experience with social media. If you want to hear more of Kina's music you can visit her YouTube page, KinaGrannis.com or sign up for voting reminders at a site she set up for video blogging about the contest called Two Weeks for Kina. Kina also has some CDs for sale on iTunes including One More in the Attic, sincerely, me and In Memory of the Singing Bridge Gotta Digg Video The Myspace Video So GO VOTE FOR KINA. [tags]Crash the Super Bowl, Kina Grannis, MySpace, Digg, YouTube, social media, social media marketing[/tags] Music,,Podcast,,YouTube,,social,media digitalpodcast@gmail.com no No Can Social Media Marketing Break a New Artist? http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/12/24/can-social-media-marketing-break-a-new-artist/ http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/12/24/can-social-media-marketing-break-a-new-artist/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:21:07 +0000 Alex Nesbitt http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/12/24/can-social-media-marketing-break-a-new-artist/ MySpace. It's called Crash the Super Bowl and it's a contest to win a record contract and a 60 second video to be played at the next Super Bowl. The contest is down to 10 artists and the clock is ticking down in this round of voting. Kina Grannis, one of the 10 artists still in the running, is working hard to win. She has her blog, Two Weeks for Kina, going full steam and she has made a play to get out the tech vote using social media marketing. With the help of Digg, TechCrunch and Robert Scoble she seems to be breaking out with the tech fans. The Cute Girls Sing Awesome Song About Digg post at Digg has over 4000 votes as I write this and is the top post of the day.]]> Vote for KinaThere’s a contest over at MySpace. It’s called Crash the Super Bowl and it’s a contest to win a record contract and a 60 second video to be played at the next Super Bowl. The contest is down to 10 artists and the clock is ticking down in this round of voting.

Kina Grannis, one of the 10 artists still in the running, is working hard to win. She has her blog, Two Weeks for Kina, going full steam and she has made a play to get out the tech vote using social media marketing. With the help of Digg, TechCrunch and Robert Scoble she seems to be breaking out with the tech fans. The Cute Girls Sing Awesome Song About Digg post at Digg has over 4000 votes as I write this and is the top post of the day. TechCrunch has picked up the story, Scoble has added the post to his shared feeds and Kina should get a lot more support from the tech fans. In the time it took to write these few lines the post at Digg has climbed to 4,185. The views at YouTube have climbed to over 36,000.

Here’s the video Gotta Digg

And the lyrics:

When I’m feeling lazy, at school or when I work
I sneak to my computer, and then I like to shirk
I don’t go online shopping, I don’t email with my mom
I open up my browser, and go to digg-dot-com

Chorus: Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg
Gotta make this story big!
Did you hear that awful sound?
Another server’s down!

I always dig up Apple, and I bury Microsoft
But when I said I was a girl, all the diggers scoffed
And when I see those stories about Senator Ron Paul
I don’t even RTFA; I just digg them all!

Chorus: Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg
Gotta make this story big!
Did you hear that awful sound?
Another server’s down!

The fanboys can be tiresome, they always are outspoken
And if you’re listening Kevin Rose, the comment system’s broken!
I know digg isn’t perfect, but be thankful for what we’ve got
It’s just like daddy always says: “At least it’s not Slashdot!!!”

Chorus: Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg
Gotta make this story big!
Did you hear that awful sound?
Another server’s down!

So why not, vote for Kina.

[tags]Kina Grannis, social media, digg, social media marketing, crash the super bowl, discovery, music[/tags]

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