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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. I think Slashdot just skewed the results by JaF893 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I just clicked on the #1 link and I imagine a lot of Slashdotters will do the same. This is bound to have an effect on the outcome.

  2. Why the up-to-date list? by AndreyF · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wouldn't that list give an unfair advantage to people already on top? Nearly everyone who clicks on the /. link will then check out the top one, two, or three sites... how's that fair to those trying to catch up?

  3. Re:Contest site is flawed by downsize · · Score: 0, Redundant
    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.
    agree on the ranking being displayed at the end, however, alphasort would also be a bust as the winner would create the site AAABCDEFixingToWin.com or something else starting with A's, then you have the same result as the top spot getting the most hits.

    I don't see much going on with viral marketing from those sites though - not that I looked at enough of them.

    When I think of viral marketing I think of http://hotmail.com/, http://shinyfeet.com/ or http://yahoo.com/ as they all have the tags in your email with urls, and some, like shinyfeet have ad free contests that involves viral marketing.
    --
    do you have shinyfeet?