Web hosting provider Globat, the company that took its recently-launched extreme marketing campaign to particularly extreme lengths last month by sponsoring the birth of a child, announced on Wednesday that it had posted video of the birth online.
The baby, born in St. Peters, Missouri, is named Samiah Wynn Francis, and was delivered a healthy 6 pounds, 15 ounces. The mother, 21-year-old Asia Francis, is scheduled to fly with her new daughter to Los Angeles later this month to meet the Globat team.
Globat says the sponsorship attracted media attention and spawned some controversy over the woman’s decision to seek a corporate sponsor for her birth. The eBay auction through which Globat sponsored the birth said Francis came up with the idea while sporting a Golden Palace ad on her abdomen while pregnant.
“I am having such a blast doing this,” said a post on the auction page, “I thought ‘Why not find a Sponsor for my Baby’s Birth!’”
Globat is apparently certain of the positive impact the sponsored birth will have on the later life of the child.
“Hopefully, Samiah will one day understand what a celebrity she has become by being the star of one of the world’s first sponsored births,” says Ben R. Neumann, president and CEO of Globat.com. “All of us here at Globat.com have enjoyed every step of Asia’s pregnancy, and now the world can get involved one more time by watching the famous birth video online.”

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