The power of presence
Have you ever met an old friend, one you haven’t seen for a while, had a little chat, exchanged your new contact details and promised to meet up and catch up on all the latest? Have you also happily forgotten about it all for weeks until you remember that you actually met by accident and [...]
Optimizing for viral spread
When talking about viral marketing, there is no question about it - content is king. To make videos, games or applications go truly viral, there is no substitute for great content.
However, even if you can have a pretty good idea, you can never know for sure how the content will be received by the audience. [...]
Do you trust your friends?
Well, it is hardly news anymore that people trust “someone like me” the most. Nielsen’s recent study just confirms the picture. However, it is interesting to know that the numbers are actually going up. In this study, 90 % stated that they “completely” or “somewhat” trust recommendations from people they know. Jonathan Carson, President of [...]
Word of mouth throughout history
The origins of word of mouthI believe word of mouth must have originated because of some evolutionary advantage. With a foundation in the rule of reciprocity, groups of humans that gave each other valuable tips about where to find food and shelter were able to survive and reproduce to a greater extent. People love to [...]
DDB Brazil and WWF in trouble
There has been a lot of talk these last couple of days about an ad made by DDB Brazil, supposedly for WWF. It even won an award in the One Show. WWF first said they denied approval of the ad, but have later come around and said they did actually approve the ad.
Now, there’s a [...]
SlapChop infomercial goes viral
It’s really funny to see what happens sometimes when a commercial is taken online. Now, it doesn’t have to be an amazing commercial or anything. Something like the SlapChop (unless you have enormous amounts of time, just give it some 20 seconds - it’s like any average infomercial):
Not particularly interesting is it? But, then a [...]
Flutter is the new Twitter
Flutter, poking fun at Twitter.
I wonder if this video has got something to do with Betfair.com? That’s where you end up if you type www.flutter.com in your browser.
Via Judith Wolst och TkJ.
MILFyourself - a spoof on ElfYourself
OfficeMax got a huge success with ElfYourself (not active anymore) around christmas 2008 (193 million visits).
Being an obvious spoof, the site MILFYourself.com is trying to ride that popularity.
It is clear that they have not made the first of Kodak’s two mistakes on the MakeMeSuper campaign. They have managed to keep the viral loop [...]
A chance to make up for a forgotten Valentine’s gift
There is still some time left, so if you want to do something extra, if you don’t have time, or if you actually end up fouling up, forgetting all about it until it’s almost too late, here is a chance to make it up for Valentine’s. It might not get you entirely out of trouble, [...]
Facebook required changes to Whopper Sacrifice
I recently wrote about Burger Kings campaign Whopper Sacrifice, a Facebook application where you could de-friend 10 “friends” on Facebook and get a free Whopper.
Now it seems Facebook has required changes to the application due to privacy issues, according to Inside Facebook.
“Facebook has clarified that it has not shut the app down - [...]
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