{"id":325919,"date":"2020-07-06T06:10:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T20:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=325919"},"modified":"2020-07-06T06:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T20:10:29","slug":"youtube-channel-brings-more-exposure-for-marianas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/youtube-channel-brings-more-exposure-for-marianas\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube channel brings more exposure for Marianas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_325924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325924\" style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/YouTube-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cDeer Meat for Dinner\u201d producer Robert Arrington, right, tapes this week at the island of Pagan, the largest of the Marianas\u2019 northern islands. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>YouTube channel \u201cDeer Meat for Dinner\u201d has premiered its latest series of episodes filmed in the Marianas, bringing exposure of the islands to a new demographic of potential visitors. <\/p>\n<p>Deer Meat for Dinner features hunting, fishing, diving, and cooking of wild game and is filming and posting from the Northern Islands in the Marianas. The program has 2.5 million subscribers, and the first nine episodes on the Marianas\u2014including episodes filmed on Rota and Saipan two years ago\u2014have garnered 13.4 million views to date. The return last month of producer and host Rob Arrington, accompanied by his family, garnered 317,000 views within the first four days alone. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Northern Islands can play an important role in highlighting the incredible beauty of and promoting our islands,\u201d said Marianas Visitors Authority managing director Priscilla M. Iakopo. \u201cThe MVA regularly partners with digital influencers in Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan to promote the Marianas. In this new age of social media and platforms like YouTube and the celebrities fostered by these platforms, we want to advantage of opportunities to showcase the Marianas when those opportunities are made available to us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Arrington is in the Northern Islands accompanied by Gov. Ralph DLG Torres. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to capitalize on every opportunity to showcase the Marianas, especially during this downtime in tourism,\u201d said Iakopo. \u201cMr. Arrington, like many others who have visited our islands, fell in love with the beauty of our islands and our people. We are extremely thankful to him for showcasing our islands.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Iakopo said Torres and Lt. Gov. Arnold Palacios believe that the key to protecting the Northern Islands from destructive military use is to promote environmental protection and environmentally sustainable development, promote the northern islands role in Marianas tourism mix\/offerings\/composition, and move forward with agricultural homesteads and repopulation of some islands. <\/p>\n<p>The Deer Meat for Dinner program can be viewed at YouTube.com\/c\/deermeatfordinner, or type \u201cDeer Meat for Dinner\u201d in the YouTube search bar.<strong> (MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube channel \u201cDeer Meat for Dinner\u201d has premiered its latest series of episodes filmed in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":325982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}