The three-hour opening ceremony had an estimated global television audience of one billion people.
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These distant encounters produce revenue--sponsors are attracted by the potential TV viewing audience of one billion--but little passion.
Do every single media interview you can, even if it is a middle school podcast radio show with an audience of one.
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Sheila Ghelani, the star of Nurse Knows Best - which involves the audience member being put to bed and treated as a patient, says she can get a "beautiful connection" with her audience of one.
Then Diller declared that he would launch or buy a print companion to the Beast sooner or later, a declaration that looks, in retrospect, like a deliberate bluff with an intended audience of one.
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Salman Amin, senior VP and global CMO at PepsiCo, in his keynote interview, explained how a behemoth company that operates in 200 countries and territories worldwide is able to cultivate brand relationships with an audience of one, empowering consumers with ownership of brands.
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Meetings were held with broadcasting officials to discuss whether or not the country had the capability to televise the games for an estimated global audience of over one billion people.
So for now, outside of horror, Hollywood studios feel more comfortable pushing bigger budget films that they hope will attract an audience like one of the other new films hitting theaters this weekend, a new version of The Three Musketeers (in 3-D no less).
For any business, defining your audience is one of the most important first steps, but also can be the most challenging.
Daybreak - which replaced previous breakfast show GMTV - currently draws around 800, 000 viewers, around half the audience of its BBC One rival Breakfast.
And who knows, maybe one of them or one of the folks in the audience here today will be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg.
After performing a full program of Bach, Handel and Mozart, he asked the audience to choose any one of Beethoven's sonatas for him to play as an encore, by heart.
You gotta give it to him, he gave the audience one heck of a performance.
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Cutforth agrees, citing audience burnout as one of his firm's biggest fears.
He also got so friendly he threw what looked like a travel coffee mug into the audience to punctuate one of his ideas.
Pick a few engaged members of the audience, one on the right, one in the center and one on the left and make fluid eye contact with each consistently.
As a bonus, we've got giveaways for everyone in the audience, plus one of the lucky attendees will walk away with that Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle we just got our hands on!
As a bonus, we've got giveaways for everyone in the audience, plus one of the lucky attendees will walk away with that Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle we just got our hands on -- and HTC will be giving away a Droid Eris Sprint Hero as well!
And she waits for a couple of seconds, making eye contact with at least one of the audience members on the right hand side of the room.
It's ironic that an American brand that made its fortune selling "Britishness" to a U.S. audience is now outfitting one of the very institutions it based its initial premise upon.
You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.
Not only is this device coy, but it does nothing to intensify the drama or enrich our understanding of the characters, who might as well be speaking to one another instead of the audience.
Take Letterman: by invoking Kirstie Alley, the formerly svelte star of Fat Actress, he gives the somewhat abstract notion of port security a recognizable shape and offers the audience a laughable absurdity in place of a maddening one.
They also catered to their audience with different polls, one of which drew more than 800, 000 votes.
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But it's rare these days to find a movie that can so completely and utterly captivate such a broad audience, and that was one of the things that struck me about this movie.
And then you work on yourself and then luckily, by the grace of God and the audience, one day something clicks and they decide that they want to like you and your film works.
Now we know our audience isn't as big as the World Cup's, but we have a nice audience and we appreciate every one of you, and you'll be happy to know we have just figured out a way to increase our listenership by a factor of, oh, 100 trillion, without adding anybody new.
The musicians can disappear into the pit at the front of the audience, then rise majestically from the rear of the vast stage, one of the world's most technologically sophisticated performance spaces.
The event, where selected startups are each given six minutes under the spotlight to pitch their product to an audience of investors and industry veterans, is one of the leading launch pads for emerging technologies.
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