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Peter Jackson Signs Deal With Newly-Launched Strategic Marketing Company

Veteran interactive marketing and integrated promotions executive Gordon Paddison has now launched his new global marketing firm Stradella Road, which will provide entertainment, and corporate clients a wide range of innovative marketing solutions targeting consumers and communities of influencers worldwide.

Stradella Road has signed a multi-year pact with Peter Jackson's Wingnut Films for digital brand strategy on all Wingnut entertainment products. Outreach on behalf of Wingnut titles will maximize the social dialogue while creating innovative new media opportunities to incubate licensing, merchandising and digital extensions from early awareness campaigns through ancillary windows. The unique relationship was structured by Paddison with Jackson's manager Ken Kamins.

"This partnership is based on mutual respect," Jackson said in a statement. "Gordon's stewardship of the online social dialogue and new media campaign for THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy was very impressive and contributed to the movie's eventual success. He has the utmost respect for our fans and I'm looking forward to continuing that relationship on our future projects."

In addition to the work with talent like Jackson, the goal of Stradella Road is to work with entertainment and brand clients to pioneer unconventional media/message combinations to ensure marketing budgets generate the greatest impact.

As founder and principal, Paddison leverages his 14-year industry experience as head of New Media and Integrated Marketing at New Line Cinema where he created cross-divisional integrated campaigns for more than 200 theatrical titles, including THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, the AUSTIN POWERS and BLADE series; to broad hits like SEX AND THE CITY and genre product including SNAKES ON A PLANE. Awarded VARIETY's "Integrated Marketer of the Year Award" in 2005, he has served on the Time Warner Research Council, as a member of the Board of Governors at the Producers Guild of America NMC and the interactive peer group of The American Television Academy of Arts and Sciences.