Final Fiesta Movement Mission Video: Saying Goodbye

Noah said:

Great slideshow. Loved seeing the compressed adventure. At the end it looked like there was a lot more ST agents. Did they just never bother posting on the forums?

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Most agents weren't members of the forum since the forum isn't affiliated with Ford or the Fiesta Movement. A handful of agents joined either Fiesta Faction and/or here when they started, but few posts were made and they fell off the forum and some with the whole thing really. I kept up on FiestaMovement.com and there wasn't much going on from some agents after the first couple months. That's still why I think Ford should have picked some more forum members than just social media celebs, the forum members would have been more relevant to the ST scene in particular because Bryan and Brandon were really the only active FM agents on here for people to ask questions directly.

Sara Parker was an agent I followed because I found her daily vlogs interesting. She was an ST agent, but she wasn't really gunning for an ST when she applied, she just happened to get one. She put her car in her daily vlogs all the time, but as far as being a relevant ST agent she really wasn't.

I liked JoeNation's mission videos. Mark Kleis was on here for a short while I believe, but he fell off and you'd have to follow his posts on FM.com. Michael Berenis (chrome car) posted a lot of videos and pictures, but otherwise didn't say a whole lot about the car that I saw. I didn't really follow many of the others too close.

The ST side of things would have been more successful if they would have brought in more guys from the forum with how big this forum has gotten with all the people asking questions that for awhile only Bryan could answer since more people looking at the ST would be wanting to know more about the car than to watch the mission videos which usually didn't have a lot to do with the car.

There was 100 total Fiesta agents and 20 ST agents. I would say about 5-8 of them knew what the ST was, and less than actually used the ST for what it was designed for. Since the celebs could get massive YouTube views without knowing anything about the car, I was online talking about the technical stuff instead. Brandon and I knew from the beginning that getting 100k+ views a week from our content was never going to happen, so we concentrated on what we do best. Technical stuff and real reviews. So much of the technical stuff was either never filmed or never got edited. The 8 mission videos sucked up all of our free time that we wanted to allocate to doing videos about the suspension, brakes, engine, transmission, and chassis. Thankfully, we were able to get an interview with Tim Smith for a 30,000 foot level look at the engineering of the ST.

In the end, we were happy that our reviews were well liked and had a good number of views. The mission videos took weeks to film and edit, and get very little views. I figure our reviews helped inform potential buyers, for which some actually bought cars, instead of adding mindless entertainment for the internet.

It was a wonderful program, and Brandon and I were thankful to be a part of it. We loved going to Brazil for the X Games and spending time with one of the best sport compact cars ever created. I am glad we could connect with the enthusiast crowd in the way which we did, since that was our main focus from day one.