Ze Frank
Comedic Digital Savant
Highlights
Ze Frank (pronounced "Zay") is one of the most influential
online entertainers, turning out one online hit after another for years. He brings audiences an experience they will never forget, a truly entertaining and yet insightful look at how technology and creativity intersect, especially in web design, marketing and new forms of media.
He has frequently appeared at such annual technology events as Pop!Tech and the TED Conference and his online projects have attracted international attention. He created a series of video commentaries for Time.com entitled That Makes Me Think of …
What a genius the man is. #TED
— @TEDChris (TED curator, 2010)
Ze has unique experience doing new media design and marketing for important customers, helping them understand how to create contagious and viral media, how to leverage social media, and how to think about creative development in general.
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He has filmed a pilot for the Discovery Channel and written a feature film script for Universal Studios. He was Artist in Residence at MSN, helping them develop strategies for creating and maintaining online community spaces—his specialty.
He serves on the advisory board of Bazaarvoice.com and Buzzfeed.com and consults to a wide range of clients on a wide range of issues, from the future of television to online marketing to social media.
Ze has been an adjunct at New York University, Parsons The New School for Design, SUNY-Purchase, and has guest lectured at Pratt Institute and the Royal College of Art in London.
Ze is very funny and energetic as a presenter. He’s full of valuable ideas and he inspires ideas through his own creativity.
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Very few speakers so effectively combine style with content, humor with ideas and insight.
He is a very effective moderator and host, with special interest in social media, digital marketing, viral media, and online community.
Some Online Projects
Zefrank.com: a large collection of online projects dedicated to understanding how to connect with audiences and how media becomes contagious.
The show with zefrank: one of the most influential video blogs; set a standard for audience interaction.
Colorwars: a large scale multi platform game that is organized in twitter, including photo, video and text based challenges; over 4 million people visited the site in 2008.
Contagious Media Festival : a contest in which participants competed for hits for three weeks starting on May 19th, 2005, with the winners receiving cash prizes.
Infectious Exhibition: Science Gallery in Dublin—three day workshop on how information spreads and an ensuing competition to get the most hits possible.
MC or Conference Wrap Up
Ask Ze to host or conclude your event. For conferences with multiple speakers, Ze can observe every presentation and comedically regurgitate each to wrap up your event with a bang. Here are just a few of the reactions to this year’s TED finale:
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Let me explain my 'off the charts' rating for Ze, who is, admittedly, a friend of mine. It gets that rating because he watched every performance, took notes, talked to other people, and over the course of 3 days — probably most of it done in 24 hrs at the end — compiled fantastic visuals and spot-on parody of most of the presenters in a hilarious but not tacky or mean way, with seamless rapid-fire execution ... it was a tour-de-force! WHO else can do that? Unbelievable!
Ze Frank — brave and inspired choice to wrap things up.
And Ze Frank? Wow. Where did he find the time to put that together. He's scary smart/funny.Terrific session - a great way to end the conference!
Ze was smart and funny — hit all the right critiques.
Ze Frank was a hit. He should be performing every year doing the same synopsis of the TED talks. His clever humor really does a good job at a quick refresh of everything we saw. It can get so mind boggling with all the information that is shared. His humor is a great tool to solidify the past talks into memory.Ze Frank was the perfect ending.
Ze Frank was phenomenal — a great way to end our shared experience.
Quotes About Ze
"Ze Frank is a rare gem, a brilliant comedian with an artistic undertaste" ~ Jack Black, LA Times
Listed as a "Comic Digital Savant" in The I.D. Magazine 40 to Watch
An "Internet Impresario" ~ The Courier-Mail
"Internet Legend" ~ The Guardian 2008
"An internet fixture since 2001" ~ The Globe and Mail
Forbes Top 25 Web Celebrities
Time Magazine’s Top 10 Video Blogs 2006
Ze Frank’s The Show was the "It's the best sustained comedy run in the history of the Web." ~ Slate (2007)
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