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These photos are FREE to download, use, print, remix, adapt and use in any way under a Creative Commons license. If you use them, please credit me with my full name Paolo Villanueva and or IG handle @itspaolopv depending on where you post it.
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If you appreciate the photos and wish to support, consider donating at www.paypal.com/paypalme/paolopv.
Interested in capturing moments for your band, wedding, sweet 16, another Taylor Swift event, or a unique editorial photoshoot? I'd be thrilled to help. Reach out to me for photography services or access to my portfolio at paolovillanueva@me.com.
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These photos are FREE to download, use, print, remix, adapt and use in any way under a Creative Commons license. If you use them, please credit me with my full name Paolo Villanueva and or IG handle @itspaolopv depending on where you post it.
Don't forget to follow me on IG, X and YouTube!
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Silly #swiftie selfie because cant handle excitement over #taylorswiftYahoo! Oh oh oh this moment oh ! #meredithswift
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My son took my camera to photograph this horse, what do you think? this photo is awesome and was taken by my 7 years. via 500px ift.tt/1ym3Ar3
My time in the UK is up and I must return to Los Angeles. At least here is part of the inflight audio that United Airlines has on my flight: a playlist of Taylor Swift songs!
In 2023, I had applied to be a flight attendant with United, and also started following many United flight attendants on social media; I had noticed that many of the flight attendants were indeed Swifties - or hardcore loyal fans of Swift - as were United Airlines' own social media team. Although I did not succeed in my application (and I ended up taking a job with the California state government that I love), I continue to follow the United flight attendant social media influencers to this day.
Seeing Swift motifs and listening to Swift on my United flights is also a bit of a reminder of my coming of age days back in 1990s, when I was similarly listening to Mariah Carey on United flights - and even travelling to/from her on United.
"22" in particular had been the coming-out song for transgender United flight attendant Kayleigh Scott (1997-2023), whose coming out was indeed on her 22nd birthday. Sadly she had ended up taking her own life about a year prior to this photo. Kayleigh had been one of my favourite social media personalities, and even though I had never known her in person, her death stings to this day; one of the reasons I had ended up applying to be a United flight attendant was to help fill the void she had left behind.
"Fly the Swiftie-Friendly Skies"
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Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner
MSN: 66985
Line Number: 1126
First Flight: 4 April 2022, Charleston
Delivery: 23 December 2022, United
Making a zine. Making a zine. Tra la la #taylorswift #zine #fanzine @taylorswift @tavitulle #swiftie #taylorswiftfeelings #joygasm
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Let's talk about Taylor Swift, and what you can learn from her stunning success as you go forward into 2024.
Being named Time's Person of the Year was just the fitting conclusion to a stunning year of success, well earned over an era of far more than a decade of performing, innovating, and disrupting.
As someone who speaks about innovating and disrupting, I admit that this year, I came close to being a 'Swiftie,' as her fans are known, fascinated by her ability to shatter some norms. I first watched her Netflix documentary when it came out a few years ago, and came away fascinated by her business acumen. This year, watching the story unfold, I realized that not only is she a stunning performer at the peak of her career, but she is also one of the most brilliant business executives of our time. Her ability to completely shake things up in terms of how things should be done offers striking lessons in how to succeed on your terms. Like many, I watched the twists and turns of her Eras tour throughout the year; you can't be on social media and NOT encounter posts from Swifties. I was fascinated by how suddenly, the NFL belonged to her; and was equally stunned by the speed with which she demolished established entertainment business models by bringing her concert tour to the theater and then almost instantly to streaming services.
Check Amazon Prime today - it's there. I will probably watch it in the next few days.
But first, a story!
I will admit that this year, I twice tried to succeed in the limited concert ticket availability game, signing up for the lottery for concerts in Toronto and Vancouver. I planned to take my two daughters-in-law to the event - one is certainly a Swiftie, and the other is most definitely not. Secretly, I suspect they were quietly horrified at the thought of attending such a concert with this old man, but they did not need to worry - I was, as were many millions of others, unsuccessful in my quest.
That process provided a bit of bit of entertainment, but the most amount of fun came later.
I overheard my Swiftie daughter-in-law speak of going to the Eras theater experience shortly after it was announced. Quitely, one evening over dinner, I asked her what time I should meet them, and where.
"For what?" she asked.
"For the Taylor Swift concert movie," I said. "We're all going to watch it, aren't we?"
The look on her face at that moment in time was one I will never forget; I suppose she was immediately thinking about how she might politely tell me that I was not allowed to attend, or how she might explain to her girlfriends why her father-in-law was in attendance, singing and dancing in the aisles. (What a vision!) What a magical bit of fun I had for a few moments until I told her I was joking and that I had no plans to go.
I digress. Yes, learning from Taylor Swift's 2023 is strategy #15 of my 24 Strategies for 2024 series. Shatter some norms!
First, a recap of her success; I'm sure you've seen all the news and all the numbers, but they are worth repeating:
- Eras Tour: The Eras Tour, which kicked off in March 2023, is projected to become the biggest tour of all time, with a projected gross of perhaps $2.2 billion by the time it is all done; this includes over $200 million in merchandise sales. If you own a friendship bracelet, you'll know.
- Economic Impact: The total economic impact of Swift's tour is estimated to be close to $5 billion, including ticket sales, travel, outfits, food, and drink. Each Era show generates around $36 million in direct and indirect spending for the local economy, supporting more than 300 jobs per show. Entire national governments - Presidents and Prime Ministers have publically pleaded with her to bring her show to town
- Revenue Generation: Data indicates that the average revenue generated per room in US states during Swift's visits exceeded the national benchmark by over 4 percentage points. In these states, the revenue per room increased by approximately 7% on average during the months of her visits compared to the same periods the previous year. That's just hotels - the same thing happened with air travel, local restaurants and transportation, and just about everything else.
- Streaming Impact: Swift's tour has driven up the demand for streaming services, with her online catalog seeing a nearly 80% spike in streams in the weeks after the tour kicked off. This has also had a positive spillover effect on other artists, as her fans discover new songs and genres through her curated playlists and collaborations.
- Contribution to GDP: Bloomberg Economics estimated that the tours from Swift (and Beyoncé, another innovation superstar), combined would add an estimated $5.4 billion to the US gross domestic product.
Let's not forget that suddenly, she singlehandedly redefined the concept of social media during the year, and pretty much established the story of the year for the NFL. Countless new fans were drawn to the Kansas City Chiefs to spot her in the stands, watching her new romantic interest.
Indeed, some of the best social media moments of the year - a year driven by awful posts as the right-wing took over major platforms - came from women trolling the men in their lives as to how Taylor had suddenly elevated to prominence this unknown NFL guy by the name of Travis Kelce. LOL!
That the tour and her success were profound will certainly be studied in business courses for years to come, and rightly so, because if she has taught us anything, it's to shatter some norms.
- refuse to accept the status quo: her effort to re-record her old albums as an innovative way to regain control of her music masters is a stunning example of brilliant strategic thinking. When the ownership rights to her songs were transferred in one of those circumstances that pervades the entertainment industry, she didn't simply accept that she would have to accept it - she set out to completely re-record all of those songs in a bold move to reassert her ownership, the first artist to ever do so.
- refuse to follow existing business models: she didn't follow the traditional entertainment model of releasing a concert tour video a few years after the tour ended - she recorded and released said video while the tour was still underway. Even better, she didn't wait until years after the theater release was finished for the streaming version to come out - she released that almost immediately.
- don't back down: she refused to back down in the face of a withering campaign from the right-wing world to back away from the social and diversity issue she supports, and indeed, during the year, seemed to double down on her vocal support for LGBTQ+ rights and other issues.
- continually reinvent: the entire tour was an overview of her music career; at the age of 34, she demonstrated an amazing ability to consistently reinvent her image and musical style, pivoting effortlessly from persona to persona and genre to genre, an example that could be followed by so many as the theme of career and personal reinvention becomes increasingly critical as a success factor
- fuse leadership and emotional intelligence: Swift's ability to connect with her fans on a deep emotional level through her music demonstrates a stunning level of emotional intelligence. She writes about complex emotions and personal experiences, allowing her fans to relate to her in a way that defines the Swifie experience. This shows the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership - if only today's CEO or another leadership group could display a similar realistic connection
- authenticity, always: I'll admit I've been caught up in watching Instagram, TikTok, and other video sources of her Eras tour moments, and one thing is clear - she is authentic and genuine, which is a fact that resonates with her fans. Business leaders today could learn a lot from her as to how to achieve authenticity in leadership style, and how to play to one's strengths as a leader.
- double down on resilience: if you watch the Netflix documentary on her story, or have followed her career in any way, you will see a story of resilience in the face of determined hostility, aggression, and controversy. (Kanye, anyone?). She's faced numerous challenges and controversies throughout her career but has consistently demonstrated an ability to overcome them - with the result that her ability to bounce back from setbacks and maintain her artistic integrity is an inspiring story for all of us.
- philanthropy and kidnness. She shattered the norms of typical tour kindness, donating significant sums to local foodbanks and charities. Not only that, she didn't give her trucking tour crew a few thousand dolalrs a tthe end of the tour - she game each of them $100,000 or more, chaing their entire life trajectory in doing so.
Look, my thoughts here aren't the gushing emotions of a Swiftie, but I will admit that I am close to becoming one, particularly as someone who studies and speaks about innovation and business.
Taylor Swift offers up a stunning example of the right type of leadership qualities for today - she's a role model, innovator, disruptor, bold thinker, and transformative thinker. There is so much to earn from what she has done that others can adopt.
Above all, it's to shatter the norms.
Try and do the same into 2024.
Shake off your past, and shake it into a new future. (-;
Original post: jimcarroll.com/2023/12/daily-inspiration-24-strategies-fo...
(Slowly, inexorably, Futurist Jim Carroll is being drawn into the world of Taylor Swift.)
During the global pandemic, I spent a good part of my 10,000 hours down in my basement, working away in my virtual broadcast studio, mastering the task of virtually going live. I got pretty good at it, working with clients to put out virtual keynotes that looked pretty good. You can see screenshots of much of the work in a slideshow over at virtual.jimcarroll.com.
I continue to do some work in the studio, putting out content related to upcoming or past keynotes, topics I'm tracking, or other stuff. It's not only important to my work, but the studio has also become my 'happy place' - it's just a lot of fun working with the technology and my ideas.
Yesterday, I put out a short ten-minute show, primarily aimed at a LinkedIn group of meeting and event planners - essentially, the people who plan, organize, and manage the large-scale conferences and events I am often booked into.
The show took a look at the trends impacting the industry into 2024; I put it together to summarize some of the key trends I've seen happening all around me.
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What's in store for the meetings and events industry in 2024?
As a futurist, I had a look at this short video. From 'drone shows' to 'event workflow software' and 'digital twin immersive site visits' - and the impact of The Eras Tour on event expectations! - I take a look at a few key trends you should be thinking about!
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In my show, I took a look at a variety of the trends, technologies, and issues that might come into the industry during the year - including the impact of Taylor Swift's Eras tour staging! (That short section is in the clip above, but I had to put a big black box over the clip because it violated YouTube's copyright technology. It wasn't similarly rejected by LinkedIn, Facebook, or TikTok. Go figure!)
In any event, the point I was trying to make in that section was this - through what she has done with the Eras Tour, Taylor Swift has set the bar extremely high when it comes to the meetings, events, and conference industry going forward. The use of sophisticated and ever-changing staging setups, the lighting and video production, the massive number of set changes, the customers, choreography, and costumes - it's all way over the top. Even if you are not a Swiftie - a Taylor Swift Fan - you should go and watch the show just to see the level of production that is involved. It's available for rent on AppleTV and other streaming services.
Since the new year began, I've engrained that mindset into my work by experimenting with new virtual setups and content production from my virtual broadcast studio. Last week, I did a short show about my 23 Trends for 2023 series; yesterday I did this show about the event industry; and later today, I'll speak to close to 200 people with my good friend Paul Kurchina, with a look at my 24 Strategies for 2024 series. All of these 'shows'' involve a new set design that is a little more 'news-oriented' and has a nice, clean, professional look. I've also introduced elements of titles and production elements of production that fit within the theme. (You can actually catch that show later today - it is streamed out 'live' to several online services, and can be found at live.jimcarroll.com - although I've got a bit of work to do to make that page look better!)
My mindset for my work today? In 2024, individuals attending events - whether virtually or in person - will have higher expectations when it comes to the production value of what they watch and attend. This isn't solely due to Taylor Swift - it's the fact that the industry continues to see an influx of new technologies, ideas, design and production concepts, and more. Not only that but with the ongoing collapse of attention spans - people tune out just minutes in! - you've got to work harder to keep their interest, whether in person or virtually. This involves tight and professional production values.
I did the same thing with my slide deck design for the year, adopting a new slide deck template that to me also looks cleaner, tighter, and more engaging. I've also been, as you know, using AI to generate many of the images within these slide decks - to me, they add a new professional element to the design.
In my keynotes, I will often talk about 'customer expectations' as a key trend to watch and monitor going forward.
Overall, as the world speeds up, those expectations are accelerating and changing - customers are becoming more demanding. The example I will often use is e-commerce and online selling - the bar of expectations has been set by the customer experience delivered by Amazon, with online order tracking, instant delivery, and no-question returns for Amazon Prime customers. If you can't meet or exceed the same level of expectations, you aren't in the game.
The world is changing - and a key part of that is the expectations of those you interact with. You need to align with that reality, adapt to it, and continuously push yourself to do better than your best. This involves working with new ideas, design concepts, and more - because, in a world in which the bar of expectations is set by Taylor Swift, you've got an extremely high bar to jump!
Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/01/daily-inspiration-customers-and-br...
MAGA is playing with fire in it's attacks on Taylor Swift. Even if she wants to remain relatively politicaly neutral, they will likely force her into a partisan statement, If they really piss her off, one can only imagine what she could do with one little song!
There are probably already a few lyrics in a notebook, somewhere.
www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/01/the-twisted-log...
“The Swiftie fan is arguably the most immersive and intense fandom in the U.S. right now,” Donovan said. “And to anger them is just political folly. They are a political force that I don’t think anyone really should mess with.”
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