AUSTIN, Texas – (PRESS RELEASE) -- A whirlwind of media attention has
surrounded online casino GoldenPalace.com for years due to their innovative
and sometimes outrageous marketing campaigns, but their latest eBay purchase
will literally put them in the eye of the storm.
The Antiguan-based online casino and poker room paid $10,000 to advertise
on a Hummer H3 Storm Chase Vehicle belonging to The Multi-community
Environmental Storm Observatory (M.E.S.O.), a professional environmental
studies team.
"The $10,000.00 donation to M.E.S.O. will fund their research trip to the
plains during the weeks of May 5th through May 21st. Also a large portion of
the money will go to disaster relief for tornado and storm victims in the form
of checks written to people at disaster scenes, as M.E.S.O. has done on past
chases," according to Allan Detrich, the treasurer and Media Director of
M.E.S.O.
"M.E.S.O. is grateful to GoldenPalace.com for their generous donation to
our research group," says Detrich. "Donations are hard to come by in this day
and age, but with the recent increase in severe storm activity in the United
States, M.E.S.O., with the support of GoldenPalace.com, will be able to reach
out to some of the victims of those horrible storms."
The Spring storm season traditionally brings severe weather across the
United States, concentrated in what is known as "Tornado Alley," an area that
includes Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska.
"This is a wonderful advertising opportunity as well as a great way to
help the victims of these terrible storms," said GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard
Rowe. "We commend M.E.S.O. and their Storm Chasers for their courageous and
generous efforts to gather information about the storms and help the people
whose lives have been devastated by them."
Setting the standard in marketing creativity, GoldenPalace.com has devised
some of the most exciting and outrageous advertising campaigns in the past few
years. Items such as the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Britney Spears'
Pregnancy Test, and William Shatner's Kidney Stone have garnered extensive
worldwide media attention for the casino. GoldenPalace.com has also used
their items and marketing reach to raise awareness and over $1,000,000 for
various charities worldwide.
