Good Good Golf’s Garrett Clark critiqued the PGA Tour’s method to the primary Creator Traditional in an interview with the Colin and Samir Present.
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Welcome again to a different prolonged version of the Scorching Mic Publication, GOLF’s weekly ship masking all issues golf media from me, James Colgan. The subject of this week’s publication is an enlightening interview between Good Good Golf and the Colin and Samir Present. As all the time, if you happen to’d prefer to be the primary to obtain unique insights like these instantly from me, click on the hyperlink right here to subscribe to our free publication ship. However first, we work the telephone traces again to Comcast’s newest earnings name.
NOT SO FAST
I’ve averted writing an excessive amount of concerning the PGA Tour’s first-ever Creator Traditional — a nine-hole, made-for-TV influencer outing on the Tour Championship — largely as a result of I haven’t discovered a satisfying reply to a very powerful query: why?
What enterprise case was the PGA Tour utilizing to justify the printed? And why would influencers give up their manufacturing rights — basically the core purpose for his or her model’s success — to Peacock/NBC? With out understanding the solutions to these questions, it felt incorrect to be overtly crucial of the product.
In a latest interview with the fashionable YouTube Channel the Colin and Samir Present, although, the Good Good group supplied a pointed critique themselves.
‘IT MISSED WHAT MADE US SPECIAL’
Clark and the Good Good gang argued the Creator Traditional missed the mark on delivering an genuine viewer expertise.
“It missed what made us particular,” Clark stated.
“The battle is that mix [of traditional golf broadcast style and YouTube broadcast style],” stated Max Putnam, a Good Good artistic producer. “We discuss how do you carry extra character to it, but it surely’s one thing that we need to maintain engaged on. That’s one thing I seen through the Creator Traditional as nicely, I need to see a Cart Cam, I need to hear them discuss.”
“You have to be mic’d up,” Clark stated. “Everyone must be mic’d up.”
The Creator Traditional wound up delivering fairly robust numbers for the PGA Tour, together with its largest day of subscriber progress ever, and a few 2 million views. But it surely simply wasn’t very attention-grabbing, largely failing to offer the form of leisure worth that leads viewers to both the Tour’s broadcasts or Good Good’s movies.
Fortunately, there’s room to experiment and enhance from right here on out. One simply hopes the powers that be don’t let ‘ok’ be the enemy of nice.
ALTERNATE OPTIONS
As for a way a future Good Good telecast may look?
“You’re additionally lacking the engagement that you may have with a livestream,” Putnam, the producer, stated. “There’s a half there that could possibly be actually cool, is getting engagement in real-time with the viewers. It’s one thing that could possibly be large.”
“It’s an enormous work in progress, however one of many points was we didn’t know after we have been speaking on digital camera, we didn’t know when the Cart Cam was on.”
A PEACOCK MEDIA RIGHTS DEAL?
Clark additionally dropped a tidbit I hadn’t heard reported elsewhere: that Peacock signed a rights settlement with Good Good to broadcast every of the group’s stay occasions.
“They’re doing our occasions,” Clark stated. “The stay occasions we broadcast goes to Peacock, in addition to YouTube.”
That’s the primary little bit of influencer distribution rights I’ve seen bought within the trendy sports activities media world — and speaks to either side’ efforts to broaden the scope of their audiences. It’s additionally purpose for optimism that future Creator Classics will enhance from an leisure standpoint.
“I believe, if we’re good about it, we are able to bridge the hole between [YouTube] golf content material and conventional golf,” Clark stated.
That’s a lofty objective, and if we’re being sincere, a need which may not be shared by a lot of golf’s viewing viewers. However as a lot of the trade obsesses over evolution, I believe it’s solely cheap that professional golf seems to steal one thing from YouTube. With Bryson DeChambeau, we’ve already seen a few of how which may look.
To observe Good Good’s complete interview with the Colin and Samir Present, which I extremely suggest, take a look at the hyperlink under.
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