ooVoo Assists Candidates in Israeli Elections
I would like to share with you a recent experience of how politicians in Israel have been using ooVoo to assist in communication their messages. Due to the recent events in Gaza, Israel’s election period was suspended for 3 weeks. Following the Gaza operation, the politicians had a very short time to convey their messages to the public.
One of the most important voting sectors in Israel has become the Israeli Russians who today comprise about 15 – 20% of the voting rights. Many politicians are retaining special advisers to this sector and deploy numerous efforts to reach them, especially during election time. ooVoo has been partnering with leading Israeli Russian Internet portals in Israel during the elections, including Zahav.Ru, the leading portal. Zahav.Ru asked its users to use ooVoo video messages to send in questions to the politicians. Then, ooVoo was used by Zahav.Ru reporters to conduct interviews with the leaders (VIEW HERE).
The activity was very successful and as a result Tzipi Livni, head of Kadima and Israel current Foreign minister, as well as Avigdor Libeirman, head of "Israel Beiteinu" and the leading Russian Israeli politician who succeeded to gain 15 mandates and to become the 3rd largest party in Israel, each have had a 20-minute interview on ooVoo.. These interviews were posted on Zahav.Ru (http://otvet.zahav.ru/elections2009/) as well as in Google Video (Livni video, Libeirman video) where thousands of people have viewed them. We continue to work with Zahav.Ru and other portals and media outlets on ways to use ooVoo to bring people together, face-to-face, to discuss, debate, communicate and connect.
Danny Yelin
GM, Israel
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