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Uh oh, the Oklahoma City Chamber has made a new “Relocation” video…
Jan 28
2013
The Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce aired its 2013 relocation video during last week’s “State of the City” event. It’s the video that’s supposed to convince “job creators” to move to Oklahoma City. The video is a stock photographers wet dream, but as far as cheesy chamber of commerce videos go, it’s actually not that bad. Hell, I kind of like the thing.
Check it out:
In case you’re the CEO of a large national corporation that’s looking to relocate to OKC and stumbled across this blog while doing a cursory Internet search, let me say that everything you saw in that video is 100% accurate. Most Oklahoma City residents are white, we really like the Thunder, and we all have an eerie infatuation with tall buildings, fine dining and the performing arts. We also enjoy rowing… or at least the people who fund promotional videos for the Chamber of Commerce enjoy rowing.
Plus, 90% of our females look like the girl in the pink dress from the 4:27 mark:
Okay, I’m kidding about some of that. We’re not all white and everyone loves rowing, so move your business to Oklahoma City! We’re number one in a lot of things and there’s literally no traffic. The lack of traffic may be the best reason to relocate there. It only takes about 20-minutes max to get anywhere in town. The chamber didn’t really focus too heavy on that aspect of OKC because we have a world-class rowing facility, one tall building and (in case you didn’t know it) an NBA team, but it’s the truth.
Also, totally disregard any and all other videos that were produced by the Oklahoma City Chamber. You may have seen them. They feature some chubby bald guy harassing innocent people as they walks the streets of Downtown. He looks like the son of the Six Flags guy after going on a corn dog binge. I think they were uploaded to YouTube by accident. They’re supposed to be humorous, but they’re about as funny as watching a video of the Pioneer Woman pooping. They belong in the Bad Idea Hall of Fame. I wouldn’t recommend you watch them, but here they are if you care:
Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed the bias in the advertisement. Although I can appreciate its sentiment I thought it could have been done much better to reflect the majority of the City.
Where is the part where they encourage OKC residents to travel to Enid to shop at Ross and Staples??
The Enid video was all “hey y’all, we got a Ross Dress for Less!” and the OKC one replied “Whole Foods, bitches,” then dropped the mic and walked off the stage.
Exactly. That gratuitous shot of Whole Foods screamed “We’ve made it to the big time, now!”
And, contrary to popular belief, the citizenry does not clammor for the right to openly carry firearms because they believe a Socialist dictator wants to enslave them, our teachers are not the lowest paid in the known universe, and our local news media focuses almost exclusively on investigative journalism aimed at rooting out corruption in local and state government. In other words, relocate here and you’ll have a highly educated workforce that insists on reasonableness in political debate, emphasizes quality education, and refuses to tolerate a good-old-boy system that attempts to keep the populace focused on Washington rather than 23rd & Lincoln. Yes. That’s exactly how it is here.
^ FTW!
Awesome.
Well played!
I totally read that in the voice of the guy in the video in my head. Nice.
I think the word to use is… “SNAP!”
Hey DON’T LAY THAT TRASH ON OKLAHOMA city!
Yee haw……..back to Noodlin!
If you take off your “critic hat” for a moment, the video of Pioneer Woman pooping is not that bad. The production values aren’t great, but the storytelling makes up for it.
Take home message from the ad: OKC added a basketball team so it wouldn’t be 100% caucasian.
Hey chamber, maybe OKC should get a professional soccer team so it will have some hispanics?
moved from Tulsa to OKC a decade ago and the biggest difference in racial mix from there to here is … the races mix together more here. Tulsa’s N/S division is drastic compared to OKC. It was refreshing. So, it isn’t as bad as it seems to many … can’t we all just get along?
I’m pretty sure Saxum did not do that Chamber video, as this video from Saxum’s new website is a bit disturbing in a trying too hard to be cool way: http://vimeo.com/55458109