Red Bull Triumphs With Baumgartner Jump by Getting Out of the Way

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It always seemed quite risky for Red Bull to be sponsoring a stunt that could, if things went wrong, result in a human being exploding 24 miles above the Earth. But the energy drink took that chance, and Felix Baumgartner on Sunday rewarded the brand richly for it. The media exposure around Baumgartner's record-setting leap was itself astronomical—coming off relatively little financial investment. (The live-stream video on YouTube had 8 million concurrent views, the most ever on the site, and was shared almost 700,000 times in just a few hours.

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