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Contagious Media Showdown

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-it-off-me-get-it-off-me! dept.

Philipp Lenssen writes "In the Contagious Media Showdown, competitors plant addictive memes to see who's best at viral marketing. The contest pages officially launched yesterday. The grand prize (most unique visitors) is $2000, with three other prizes at $1000 each for most links, most popular entry with a Creative Commons license, or first site with an Alexa ranking higher than 20,000."

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  1. Alexa rank can be easily manipulated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are several places to "buy" a high Alexa rank.
    All they need are hits to their counting script. It's not like the Google rank which is externally weighted, you can put an exit pop-up on a website, or even just an iframe and push visitors from anywhere through alexa's counter.

  2. I just lost the game! by meatflower · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just lost the game.
    Reading this reminded me of something else that fits in the same realm as viral marketing, and that is The Game, a viral social phenomen. Confused?

  3. F:F:F by Shky · · Score: 2, Informative

    William Gibon's book Pattern Recognition deals heavily with viral marketing and the creation of subcultures. It's a pretty interesting read, and a definite departure from his other stuff (his only book written in the present day).

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    CC Licensed Serialized Story and Podcast: Ingenioustries
    1. Re:F:F:F by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Good book, I really dug this one.

  4. Re:Contest site is flawed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    This is at least the second time you've recently advertised for shinyfeet.com and made sure you include your little referer url. How cute.