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Videos Of the Month

Here are our featured place marketing promotion videos of the month from around the world – a selection from hundreds of Good, Bad and Ugly clips that we have collected to entertain you. Register on this website to view the full range, to add your own excellent (of course!) clips, or to access other useful and unique stuff for investment promotion and lead generation. Enjoy!

Netherlands NFIA

Our video of the month – an excellent promotional 2 minutes!

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http://www.nfia.nl/why_invest_in_holland.html


Invest in Manchester

A 7-minute look at Manchester’s strengths and the MIDAS offer. The classic hard sell, British style :-)

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http://tv.investinmanchester.com/video/invest-in-manchester?current-channel=&page


International Business Wales

A simple and quite original “ad”, low budget and quite effective.

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Michigan Advantage

Well, how many regions are now promoting environmental technology, renewable energy etc.? Michigan sets a competitive benchmark for other locations around the world.

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IDA Ireland

A simply delivered but slightly enigmatic ad that promotes Ireland’s knowledge base. I hope investors understand and appreciate the message.

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Business Friendly Bahrain

A well distributed ad series from EDB Bahrain in 2009. Simple idea, big production and well… at least it gave Bahrain some good exposure on BBC World.

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Invest in Bangladesh

For an LDC this is a great video from BOI Bangladesh. It helps to inform, shift perceptions and develop a sympathetic mind amongst investors.

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Invest Japan

Maybe an old video but it shows how things are changing in Japan.

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Latest from our bloggers

Paul Whiteway
posted on Monday, 24 May 2010 by Paul Whiteway No Comments

Batt O’Keefe, Ireland’s Minister for Enterprise, Trade, and Innovation, is to meet with multinationals operating in Ireland after Pfizer yesterday announced devastating job cuts which saw over 700 jobs being slashed across the country. The pharmaceutical giant is to …

Christina Knutsson
posted on Monday, 24 May 2010 by Christina Knutsson No Comments

Invest NI has said it fears it could miss out on opportunities for inward investment because of public spending cuts. The agency is bracing itself for reductions in its budget over the next few years. There are already …

John Hanna
posted on Monday, 24 May 2010 by John Hanna No Comments

The UK’s conservative/liberal democrat government, which has now been in place for just over two weeks, will announce today the first measures to sort out the country’s huge public sector deficit.

Finance minister George Osborne has already confirmed what …

Christina Knutsson
posted on Thursday, 20 May 2010 by Christina Knutsson No Comments

Two of the world’s top agencies have recently said goodbye to their names.

Goodbye ISA, hello Invest Sweden

The official Swedish government agency for investment promotion, Invest in Sweden Agency, was founded fifteen years ago. It has until now …

Ruben Anton
posted on Thursday, 29 Apr 2010 by Ruben Anton No Comments

Identifying, attracting, keeping and developing investment are the key steps for professionals in the IP world… That’s is agreed… but HOW can we ensure we are doing it right?

Learning to measure results efficiently can be a useful tool. Looking at …