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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. Winning strategy No. 1: by James_G · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Get linked from Slashdot.

  2. Contest site is flawed by It+doesn't+come+easy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The contest site presentation is flawed (and therefore in this case the contest has been invalidated IMHO). By displaying and sorting links to the websites involved in the competition by rank, they are driving the leader's scores up (because people will tend to click on the leading links to see why everyone else thought it was so cool).

    They should have simply supplied the link in a non-discrinating sort (such as alpabetical) and a very brief description of the site's theme. The ranking should not have been displayed until after the contest was completed.

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    1. Re:Contest site is flawed by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Hell, if this is supposed to be a real viral meme contest, they shouldn't have the pages listed on the contest page at all until after the contest is over.

    2. Re:Contest site is flawed by kbeech · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It would be interesting to see whether the winning sites were propelled to the top more via Slashdot or BoingBoing. CryingWhileEating and IP Justice League are already linked from BoingBoing.

  3. Re:Crying while eating? by shawb · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, it's wierd. Most virals are. Odd thing is that in this case, since it is at the top of the list, more people will click on it first, and won't get bored and just go away. Being at the top ensures that you are at the top.

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  4. Stop whining by Eric(b0mb)Dennis · · Score: 1, Insightful

    To all the people whining about it being on slashdot, the link is to a site with ALL of the afoe mentioned sites..

    Although, this 'contest' isn't really a contest... It would have been better to do it in a controlled manner, let the sites spread by word of mouth et cetera.

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