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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. My own entry... by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cowboyneal's Boobies.

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  3. Just another SEO contest? by dos_dude · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Viral marketing? Addictive memes?

    Sounds like just another SEO contest to me. The only twist: not every one needs to use the same stupid made-up keyword.

  4. WARNING! by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 4, Funny
    Do NOT click here what EVER you do, do NOT CLICK on the following link!

    DEATH RAY OF DOOM

    How's that for clickability? Come oooon, you know you want to...

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  5. My entry was called contagious media by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    All proceeds go to help fund MPAA/RIAA efforts. Thank you for your help.

  6. 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.

  7. If you want the most unique visitors by FidelCatsro · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Free Lesbian porn , hot naked girls on motor bikes " as a title .
    then after that when someone clicks on the page ,, a big bold "Can not be found here , but what we do have is..." no-one is going to return and if the "But what we do have is.. " bit is intresting then you will get lots of links by people who found it funny and were not too narked off you didn't have a heap load of porn
    Simple principle of marketing "Sex sells". Simple principle of the internet "Its full of porn"

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  8. Winning strategy No. 2 by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 4, Funny

    Round up everyone who still drop the word "meme" into conversation and beat them bloody with aluminum softball bats.

    Alright, alright, it may not be much of a "strategy" but words can't express how good it would feel.

    1. Re:Winning strategy No. 2 by Soybean47 · · Score: 4, Funny

      The worst part about the whole "meme" phenomenon was that it was hard to complain about it without calling it a "meme." As in, "The 'meme' meme is the most annoying meme ever memed!"

    2. Re:Winning strategy No. 2 by tool462 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Come on, what's wrong with "meme?" You need to change your paradigm or you'll find yourself unable to synergize and compete with the mindshare of more proactive entities. Contemporize, man.

  9. RetroVirus by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Funny

    What a great idea! I'm going to start my own "Contagious Media Showdown".

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  10. Change the results... by It+doesn't+come+easy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Everybody, let's all click on the lowest ranking site together...

    Ready, one, two, three, go!!!!

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