Phil Knight had to make a personal appearance (commercial) for his products on Oprah today and give all the screaming audience members LunarGlide 2's and Sportwatch/Gps.
Phil Knight had to make a personal appearance (commercial) for his products on Oprah today and give all the screaming audience members LunarGlide 2's and Sportwatch/Gps.
Appearing on Oprah is the final death blow to any career, I agree.
And how many millions of shoes/watches did he sell based on the appearance???
ta da wrote:
Phil Knight had to make a personal appearance (commercial) for his products on Oprah today and give all the screaming audience members LunarGlide 2's and Sportwatch/Gps.
So what you're saying is you watch Oprah??
I wanted to see Michael Douglas, who was also on the show.
Yup, nothing like launching a new product by going on a show that can inspire tons of revenue.
Not a fan or a watcher of Oprah, but I understand she turned William Faulkner into a bestselling author, which is something no amount of literary critics or professors could manage to do.
haha, I was thinking the exact same thing
Busted! wrote:
ta da wrote:Phil Knight had to make a personal appearance (commercial) for his products on Oprah today and give all the screaming audience members LunarGlide 2's and Sportwatch/Gps.
So what you're saying is you watch Oprah??
Really? This is AWESOME! Isn't Obama on later in the week?
dean moriarty wrote:
Appearing on Oprah is the final death blow to any career, I agree.
suburbanxcore wrote:
Yup, nothing like launching a new product by going on a show that can inspire tons of revenue.
What does the revenue do with all that inspiration?
Ayn Rand too.
AND you get a LunarGlide! and you get a LunarGlide! and you get a LunarGlide! and you get a LunarGlide! and you get a LunarGlide! and you get a LunarGlide! and you get a LunarGlide!
"appearing on Oprah a final death blow to any career"
Could not be further from the truth. What she touches turns to gold! Really more like Platinum.
quite the contrary - i work in corporate strategy for nike, and for the past several years oprah has been trying to get phil knight and/or mark parker (ceo, nike inc.) to appear on her show. phil is very shy of the media and did this as a courtesy to harpo studio, whose executives have close personal connections to several VPs at nike.
if you do your research, you'll see that nike's last quarter earnings of $5.1 billion were up 7% versus prior year and futures orders are up 11%... clearly nike is not struggling.
neither phil nor nike needs oprah's "blessing" or publicity; this was simply a mutually kind gesture on both parts. oprah has always been a huge fan of nike products and nike supports oprah as a female endorsement and athlete* (* nike's montra as quoted by bill bowerman: "if you have a body, you are an athlete".
You sound like a douche bag.
ta da wrote:
I wanted to see Michael Douglas, who was also on the show.
Oh, so you are a loser who follows and watches Oprah. Thread over.
P74 wrote:
"appearing on Oprah a final death blow to any career"
Could not be further from the truth. What she touches turns to gold! Really more like Platinum.
He knows, idiot. This is beyond obvious. Knight went on Oprah because it helps his company. Desperate? No more than any other ad Nike buys.
Why are you all such angry, mean, judgemental knowitalls? Do you ever think about that, or do you even notice anymore?
You really are that stupid aren't you.
Oprah begged him to make an appearance as this is her last 22 shows on a network not named OWN.
nikepdx wrote:
quite the contrary - i work in corporate strategy for nike, and for the past several years oprah has been trying to get phil knight and/or mark parker (ceo, nike inc.) to appear on her show. phil is very shy of the media and did this as a courtesy to harpo studio, whose executives have close personal connections to several VPs at nike.
if you do your research, you'll see that nike's last quarter earnings of $5.1 billion were up 7% versus prior year and futures orders are up 11%... clearly nike is not struggling.
neither phil nor nike needs oprah's "blessing" or publicity; this was simply a mutually kind gesture on both parts. oprah has always been a huge fan of nike products and nike supports oprah as a female endorsement and athlete* (* nike's montra as quoted by bill bowerman: "if you have a body, you are an athlete".
quote]knwerewr wrote:
You sound like a douche bag.[/quote]
knwerewr, You are a NIKE/Knight hate, aren't you? No need to answer. nikepdx wrote a clear, factual post and you with your "brilliance", all too common on this playground, contribute nothing.
Knight is exceedingly shy (Mark Parker almost as much). He has no reason at all to go on a TV show but he has decided to. Good for Oprah, good for Knight, good for the audience and the free stuff they get (one of the perks that people expect now for sitting in a chair), and good for us. So what if it's Oprah? Why not watch and listen? It is something you don't expect to see happen. Knight is in his 70s, successful beyond his wildest expectation. How about listening instead of popping off with nothing but crap to throw? I hardly see this as an commercial for NIKE but maybe it will be. It may end up with a waste of time just like my use of the last few minutes.