TYRA BANKS INVITES VIEWERS TO HER WORLD -- TV LINKS TO VIRTUAL WORLD

TYRA BANKS is "HOT" -- and she knows how to sell that sizzle. By Joyce Schwarz, JCOM, blogging at www.hollywood2020.blogs.com. Amazing, Tyra Banks can turn around an unflattering photo of her in a bathing suit to get great publicity! She even convinces her whole audience to show up in red bathing suits! Awesome. Now she becomes one of the first television personalities (if not the first) to create her own Virtual World. Tyra's world. Here's the story in the news and photos follow:

TYRA'S VIRTUAL STUDIO -- join in the fun...

According to news reports, Tyra Banks, former supermodel and host of America’s Next Top Model, who has now established her own 3D virtual world called "Tyra’s Virtual Studio". “The studio is a free virtual world where you can listen to music, chat with your friends, get insider info about what’s happening at the Tyra Banks Show and just hang out,” according to the site.

Tyra’s Virtual Studio is virtual world program which can function on Windows and Mac. It  enables users to create cool and unique avatars and customize almost everything from shoes, clothes, hair to accessories. Users can express feelings like laughing and flirting to name a few, as well as interact with other people all over the world and attend exclusive events.

TELEPICTURES & DOPPELGANGER PRODUCE TYRA'S VIRTUAL STUDIOAccording to one report, Tyra's Virtual studio is produced by Telepictures but I have seen reports that the world is created by Doppelganger, the SFO based virtual worlds creator that also has a virtual night club they created in cooperation with a major recording company. I blogged about this earlier.

YOUR OWN BRANDED VIRTUAL WORLD -- versus just an island or a slice of SECOND LIFE? Tyra and her production people chose to create her own branded virtual world (or in this case virtual studio) versus going to an online location like Second Life and 'buying an island' or decorating a small slice of Second Life. I like this approach because it gives you plenty of opportunity to do your own merchandising --meaning $$$$$ and you can always link to other virtual worlds that are evolving. At the same time, it allows your people to download their own proprietary software and you can control the customer support- both a nightmare and an opportunity for CRM (customer relations management). Plus it allows you to sell more STUFF -- videos, tickets for events/seminars/workshops, downloads of shows etc.

VALUE OF YOUR OWN BRANDED VIRTUAL WORLD!

I've written about the value of branded virtual worlds in an imediaconnection article I did last fall-- here's the link to that story: iMedia Connection: Bold New Opportunities in Virtual Worlds. It's a small world out there and it's best if you own it all in my humble opinion! js.

Comments

[Adheer Singh]

Tyra is a product of American Capitalism! - She is a has been model that has re-invented herself as some sort of animaniac morf from a 1/2 Negro [Black in Latin!] + white [ where do u get blacks with green/blue eyes?, and straight hair ? we call this a coloured in SA] into soem sort of Icon that dumb assed american girls follow with no brains ? - I am a South African of Indian Origin living in South Africa and I can tell you Americans that what you'll sell to our TV stations [ ur soaps, Oprah And Tyra ] is rubbish ! you'll are shoving 2nd grade capitalism into parts of the world to simply raise your domestic profits! the only reason your economy can supply wastes like Typra and Oprah is becasue your economy was not directly affected by the destruction of WW2 and hence between white & Black America you'll have stolen enough of the original inhabitants to declare youselves as a garbage can of the world ! where all rubbish is dumped into! your society is only techonolgically advanced becasue of the Jewish Germans you'll captured in WW2 the Blacks do nothing in the world except complain and stick their hands out with a begging bowel ,look at Zimbabawe ! and every other country on Africa - its a joke ! so Tyra please don't do shows tha tyou do not have the mental capacity to comprehend even with that half baked staff you employ and on topics u don't understand ! stick to lipstick and little girls dreams leave the running of the world to true intellectuals and stop selling rubbish from America to the rest of the world to provide an income to support your hair straightening excercises .
Ps : All of the above applies to that racist Oprah !

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