Patrick Courrielche

Patrick Courrielche is an American media entrepreneur, writer, arts advocate, and political pundit, known for pioneering the pop-up retail trend.[1] He has written articles for and appeared on a variety of media outlets.[2][3][4] His writing has led to the White House issuing new federal guidelines, and the international music industry suing a website for copyright infringement.[5][6] He is the co-host and co-creator of iHeartRadio's storytelling podcast Red Pilled America.[7]

Patrick Courrielche
Born
California
NationalityHispanic
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Occupationmedia entrepreneur
Known forPop-up retail, Citizen Journalism
Spouse(s)Adryana Cortez
Websitewww.redpilledamerica.com

Career

While working as an applied physicist for aerospace firm TRW Inc., in 1997 Courrielche started the pop-up retail trend - or short-term sales spaces - with an event called the Ritual Expo. Initially a nightclub-meets-shopping experience, the event would eventually focus solely on creating temporary shopping experiences during the day and was initially called the "ultimate hipster mall." The event was known for attracting style brokers and cultural influencers in Los Angeles.[8][9][10][11] According to Courrielche, he started his pop-up retail stores with small, independent clothing manufacturers because large corporate brands did not immediately find value in the new concept, but the 2000 publication of The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell changed that dynamic. In his book, Gladwell emphasized the importance of connecting with "influencers" to sell a product or service. Companies began contacting Courrielche to create pop-up stores to reach these influencers, and he eventually sold the Ritual Expo to the creators of Lollapalooza and began working with Levi Strauss, AT&T, and Motorola to execute pop-up retail stores in various US markets. The events featured their products alongside smaller fashion brands and artworks by Shepard Fairey and Dave Kinsey. Courrielche has been referred to as "the parent of pop up."[1][12]

In 1998, Courrielche started a lifestyle marketing & PR firm, Inform Ventures, with his future wife Adryana Cortez, and in 2003 began work with Toyota launching its new youth brand Scion. He handled Scion's public relations and promotions during the launch, created and produced several branded-entertainment films, including a 2004 docudrama featuring Questlove from The Roots and a 2007 short-film featuring Biz Markie, and in 2005 helped create and launch Scion Audio/Visual - one of the first brand-funded record labels.[13][14][15] The launch was highlighted as "the most successful automotive brand launch in the history of the auto industry of North America," with several books and researchers publishing analysis on the launch for its approach.[16][17][18][19]

Along with his wife and business partner Adryana Cortez, Courrielche created, produced, and wrote a semi-scripted 2010 series of global warming debates between global warming proponents and skeptics, and moderated by comedians Sarah Silverman, Andy Samberg, Jamie Kennedy, Tracy Morgan, and singer Mark McGrath.[20][21][22]

In 2012, he created the first luxury automotive publicity campaign featuring a gay married couple, Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler.[23][24]

On November 1, 2018 Courrielche and Cortez launched a storytelling podcast with iHeartRadio called "Red Pilled America." [25][26]

On November 15, 2018, Lexus opened "Intersect by Lexus New York" and acknowledged Courrielche's marketing agency, Inform Ventures, as the lead creative contributor in the creation of INTERSECT BY LEXUS – NYC, a restaurant, art gallery, and performance venue.[27]

Writing

In August 2009, Courrielche participated in and secretly recorded a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) conference call in which the NEA's communications director, Yosi Sergant encouraged the participants (members of the media and arts community) to support the Obama administration's goals by promoting the United We Serve campaign and create art specific to areas of health care, education and the environment.[5] The White House Office of Public Engagement also participated in the call.[5] Courrielche criticized the NEA in a subsequent Breitbart News piece (which was published in part by the Wall Street Journal), expressing the view that the NEA was being inappropriately used for political purposes.[28] Eleven Republican U.S. Senators criticized the conference call and questioned its legality.[29] Melanie Sloan of the ethics group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said that the NEA's call was "terrible" and "inappropriate" although not a violation of federal law.[5] Following the news reports, Sergant resigned his position and the White House issued formal guidance and training for staffers "to make sure such a call never happens again."[5][30][31] Andrew Breitbart sponsored Courrielche for a Pulitzer Prize for his series of op-eds on the NEA.[32] In a 2017 op-ed in the 'Wall Street Journal', Courrielche advocated for the elimination of the NEA, claiming that it had become politically tainted, failed to meet its charter, had allowed the degradation of arts education in public schools, and was unable to meet the arts modern challenges. He suggested replacing the agency with an arts counsel that would continue necessary programs, while advising the President on legislation that he says could address what he perceives as systemic problems prohibiting it from flourishing.[33]

Courrielche is active in the climate change movement.[34] He participated in the investigation of Climatic Research Unit email controversy ("Climategate") at the University of East Anglia,[35] and claimed that the affair "triggered the death of unconditional trust in the scientific peer-review process, and the maturing of a new movement of peer-to-peer review."[36][37]

On August 3, 2016, Courrielche published a long form story entitled "Stream Ripping: How Google/YouTube Is Slowly Killing the Music Industry" that looked at a growing trend of alleged "music piracy" enabled by stream ripping sites - websites that rip audio from streaming music sites like YouTube - that was negatively impacting the business of selling songs. The story featured YouTube-mp3.org – what Courrielche called the most highly trafficked stream ripping website in the world – and followed its founder Philip Matesanz in his creation of the site as well as his early conflicts with YouTube and its parent, Google. By tracking the former and current success of USA for Africa and its multi-platinum song We Are The World, the investigation showed how the music industry was being negatively affected by stream ripping sites like YouTube-mp3.org and highlighted how the site and Google profit from the practice of stream ripping through advertising. "After a short visit to YouTube-mp3.org, 'We Are The World' can be downloaded for free," wrote Courrielche. "USA for Africa receives nothing. The stream ripping site eventually agreed to shutdown after being sued by major record labels.[38]

References
  1. Swystun, Jeff, (September 1, 2015) Business 2 Community. "Pop-Up Retail: Where Will It Go Next?" http://www.business2community.com/branding/pop-retail-will-go-next-01316364#O8D30UjGdcgSH2Io.97
  2. Varney, Stuart, (August 27, 2009) Fox Business. "Where's YOUR Tax Money Going?" http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3894796/wheres-your-tax-money-going/?#sp=show-clips
  3. Sanchez, Rick, (October 23, 2009) CNN. "Hollywood's New Bandwagon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyd4a3-QMlM
  4. Courrielche, Patrick, (August 7, 2009) Reason.com. "The Artist Formerly Known as Dissident" http://reason.com/archives/2009/08/07/the-artist-formerly-known-as-d
  5. Tapper, Jake, (September 22, 2009) ABCNews.com. "After 'Inappropriate' NEA Conference Call, White House Pushes New Guidelines" "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-11. Retrieved 2015-07-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. RIAA News (September 26, 2016) RIAA.com. "IFPI: WORLD'S LARGEST MUSIC STREAM RIPPING SITE FACES INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ACTION" https://www.riaa.com/ifpi-worlds-largest-music-stream-ripping-site-faces-international-legal-action/
  7. "Premiere Launches iHeart Original Podcast 'Red Pilled America.'". Insideradio.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  8. Romero, D. James, (April 24, 1997) Los Angeles Times. "Ritual" http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-24/news/ls-51710_1_fashion-labels
  9. Jones, Rose Apodaca, (August 28, 2000) WWD. "Cool Like That" http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/article-1198580/
  10. Baltin, Steve, (October, 2000) Chicago Tribune. "Ritual in the Making, Creative Fields Converge To Form Ultimate Hipster Mall In A Nightclub Atmosphere." http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-10-11/features/0010100545_1_jed-wexler-ritual-events-walk
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  12. Video compilation of some of first pop-up retail stores. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsX0f7526Zc
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  18. Halliday, Jean, (November 8, 2004) Automotive News. "Scion builds buzz with event marketing" http://www.autonews.com/article/20041108/SUB/411080711/scion-builds-buzz-with-event-marketing
  19. Halliday, Jean, (May 3, 2004) Automotive News. "Scions are co-stars at Tribeca film fest" http://www.autonews.com/article/20040503/SUB/405030722/scions-are-co-stars-at-tribeca-film-fest
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