Internet - the road to mainstream
Have you ever thought how easy is nowadays to get yourself into the heart of action? You can browse yourself into anywhere in just a few seconds. Internet is crucial media for minor sports and affairs. World Wide Web crushes the borders of time, size and space.
Think about Disc Golf without internet? Would you call to you buddy to hear how their local tournament went? Maybe, but would you do it consistently? Would you like to wait DGWorld to see National Tour reports and pictures? Would you like to wait that all?
Internet as a media is huge and it has more possibilities than any other media. As of January 2007, 1.093 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats. You can get the latest news, share and download information, watch videos, pictures and learn what ever you want. And As individual, you can make your own statement effective.
To Disc Golf internet works perfectly. Sharing is the key. Our sport is too small for cable TV and it is not interesting corporate level sponsorship due to ground level volume. Our future is in the hands of “inhouse” promoters and media. People spend more and more time in the web and people want to choose what they like to watch. That is our possibility. We need to create interesting content in this media. People will watch that. There is few who has got this point already DiscGolfTV and PDGA Radio to name few
Great Equalizer
People say that internet is The Great Equalizer. True. Smaller size companies and even individiuals can present their works and businesses in the same scale than bigger companies. To have a fancy website is easly and effective. Everybody can browse it from all over the world. Easy. The next big thing is streamline video in the web. At the moment there are live broadcasts in some webpages, and this will spread rapidly. Web is getting faster and faster - displays are getting bigger and bigger. We are on the egde of web broadcast revolution. who will make it first is this business gets the glory. Point is you don´t have to be a big to make it happen.
There is numerous disc golf videos in Youtube - let´s enjoy them!