Contagious Media Showdown

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday May 20, 2005 @05:16AM 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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Winning strategy No. 1: by James_G · 2005-05-20 05:17 · Score: 5, Insightful

Get linked from Slashdot.
My own entry... by EnronHaliburton2004 · 2005-05-20 05:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Cowboyneal's Boobies.

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Just another SEO contest? by dos_dude · 2005-05-20 05:21 · 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.
WARNING! by Capt'n+Hector · 2005-05-20 05:22 · 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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Contest site is flawed by It+doesn't+come+easy · 2005-05-20 05:23 · 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 · 2005-05-20 05:27 · 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.
Winning strategy No. 2 by RobotRunAmok · 2005-05-20 05:38 · 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 · 2005-05-20 05:47 · 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!"