Everybody loves a smile!
If there is anything that is contagious to humans it’s a smile. If there is anything a company can do, totally free, to get more satisfied customers, it’s giving them a smile (NOT a faked one). And if there is anything Coca Cola has done right in this movie, it’s getting both the one’s participating [...]
The Funnyness Theory - an initiative to create change
Here’s a funny campaign integrating guerilla marketing stunts with “how did we do it”-videos and even a “coming soon” video, that will be followed up by the shooting from the third guerrilla stunt. I can imagine quite a buzz was generated by the people actually trying the piano stairs in the first video.
Publishing these [...]
Viral amplification loops - the secret for virals?
A viral campaign - everybody wants one. Few ever gets one.
I am the first to admit that it isn’t easy, but there are things you could to to better the odds of ever creating a campaign that goes viral. I prefer calling it “a campaign that goes viral” rather than “a viral campaign”, because, by [...]
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 [...]
Danish mother seeking - and the spoofs
Just like Daan from ViralBlog suspected, MediaCulpa confirmed, and Resumé writes about it was a hoax, the Danish mother seeking video that got so many people talking and posting these last couple of days.
VisitDenmark, the danish agency promoting Denmark as a tourist destination, that was behind the campaign, has now taken the video down. But, [...]
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 [...]
Viral marketing - Guest lecture at Berghs - School of the Year
This Friday I spent the afternoon away from the day to day business of JMW, and once again gave a lecture about viral marketing at Berghs School of Communication, the world’s best communication and advertising school.
The last time I was there, things had just started moving for businesses offering services around viral marketing, like seeding [...]
Content, context and predicting viral spread
Molly Flatt from 1000heads pointed towards an article in New Scientist lately. Spanish researchers José Luis Iribarren from IBM and Esteban Moro at the Carlos III University in Madrid developed a method to accurately predict how quickly and widely new pieces of information, or “memes“, will spread.
“The secret, they say, is to recognise the fact [...]
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 [...]