Yoon Campaign Premieres YoonTube
Launches New Hub for Online Exchange with Voters

August 12, 2009

BOSTON – Boston City Councilor-at-Large and mayoral candidate Sam Yoon today debuted YoonTube, a new portal for online video communication.

“We can bring Sam’s message directly to voters without the filter of the news media or a 30-second time constraint,” said Jim Spencer, Yoon’s media strategist. “You don’t need $100,000 and a professional crew to shoot an advertisement anymore. With just a cell phone and a Twitter account, people can create their own messages and share it with the world.”

YoonTube is housed on the Yoon campaign website and allows people to view messages from Yoon and upload their own videos to the channel.

“Choosing the next mayor of Boston is a decision voters don’t take lightly,” said Yoon. “People are finding new ways of sharing information, and it’s our duty to run an open and accessible campaign.”

The first YoonTube video features Yoon speaking on the Greenway in Chinatown about the need to tap into new and locally developed technology in city government.

“We have a city government that not only doesn’t believe in voicemail, but doesn’t use basic technologies that are common in every other city in America, like 311,” says Yoon in the video. “We are a center of innovation and good ideas; we just don’t take advantage of them in city government, and that’s unfair to the people who live here.”
Visit http://www.samyoon.com/yoontube to view the video.

Yoon will release several new videos each week.