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Watch ‘Ask Pilar’: our videos show you the other Aruba

ORANJESTAD — Aruba Today offers a se- ing places and meet a lot of nice people.
ries of videos ‘Ask Pilar’ on their Facebook “I hope with it that people will get to know
page Aruba Today and on the website and love Aruba the way us locals do.”
www.arubatoday.com. Since the start, The one capturing the images with his
October 2019, more than 20 videos have camera and editing them is our videog-
been created. Let us introduce to you this rapher Juan Luis Pinto Sotter, Marketing
project and present the people behind it. Major at the University of Aruba. “I chose
marketing because I wanted a career
Why a video? Besides offering our free that kept me physically and mentally ac-
daily newspaper, posts on Facebook and tive. As a marketer there is a lot of moving
Instagram and our website content, we around, I can’t begin to imagine what the
started evaluating the plans for short vid- real world will be like.”
eo’s about a year ago. The concept was Video Director of ‘Ask Pilar’ is Editor-in-Chief
created by Editor-in-Chief Linda Reijnders Linda Reijnders, working in this current posi-
to add variety to the product Aruba To- tion since July 2017. “I love working in the
day. “There is more to this island than palm media, I love to write, create, connect,
trees and beaches and in our videos we inform and educate. Working with young,
wish to inform and educate the visitor by talented and motivated people like Juan
showing local places and characters of Luis and Pilar is a blessing to me. We really
any kind. We are all new to this, the goal enjoy making these Aruba Peeks and we
is not to deliver a technical perfect result, surely hope that rubs off on the viewer.”
more to motivate our visitors with the plac-
es we visit as well as transmitting the good Corona Street Talk
energy coming from it.” As the title of the During the pandemic a new series of vid-
video ‘Ask Pilar’ already shows, the viewer eos was launched, dedicated to the CO-
has the opportunity to actually ask about VID-19 crisis where we show people in their
the topics shown, or even suggest a loca- daily life during the corona time. Take a
tion for a video. Just ask our host Pilar on look on the website and social media for
Facebook and we will let you know. this new series called Corona Street Talk.

The team Check us out on Facebook Aruba Today
Pilar Flores, 35- years- old, is the jolly host or the website www.arubatoday.com and
of ‘Ask Pilar’. She loves doing the videos do not forget to like and share! Thank you
because she gets to know many interest- for your support.q