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Viral Marketing to Become the Norm?
An anonymous reader writes "One of the oldest advertising companies in the U.S., JWT, has just bought up all the Huffington Post's front-page ad space for a whole week. They are taking the unique approach of trying to create ad content interesting enough to make people want to watch, instead of the traditional ad agency approach of bludgeoning the user base over the head through interstitials and other forced ad techniques. Will the ad companies be able to put forth enough continued effort to make good ads that become viral, or is this just a short phase to gain publicity?"
Instead of MAKING the customer do something, you make it attractive enough for them to WANT to do something.
MPAA, RIAA: you taking notes?
I don't see the connection between "interesting enough to make people want to watch" and "viral".
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They've already succeeded. It's been posted on Slashdot. What better indicator of sucess in a viral marketing campaign designed to attract attention and publicity do you need?
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I'm sorry, I must have got something wrong...
You're not saying some time in the future I won't be forced to watch commercials because some gizmo or another preventing me from switching channels? I'll watch commercials of my own free will?
I don't believe a change of this magnitude throughout the marketing industry is possible.
It would be nice, though.
However, I fear that if I start watching commercials thinking I like it, I'll have been brainwashed. And they won't have changed.
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Most commercials here in Greece are so clever and well-made that you actually switch channels hoping to catch some of them. Their only downside is that everyone remembers the commercial but noone knows what product it's for, except maybe that it's for icecream or a phone company or something. So something for the advertisers to consider is tying the product with the ad, so it's memorable.
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...and naturally, once I click on the link, I get a forced interstitial ad from the Times.
(Not that I had an ad-blocker on or anything. They're not very annoying to me yet.)
Viral advertising works because it is rare. How could it be the norm? I seriously doubt that there is enough talent out there to regularly churn out advertising that is entertaining enough. It is, after all, only advertising. People will learn to filter it out.
-matthew
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It worked.
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Where do I sign in to become an ashtray?
and it will be dead forever. Look at places like myspace. It is pure viral marketing, friends tell friends and friends get friends to join. The amusing part is, myspace makes money off of the old, failed system of marketing, while myspace enjoys having no advertising budget of their own. they have millions of stupid kids out there spouting off how great their service is. it is an amazing feat.
if anyone is trying to market their business, i suggest they read "PyroMarketing" good stuff.
Fans of the strip will catch the drift.
In other words, the second thing- this is a short-term thing to gain publicity. First, there are barely enough agencies making good ads now, let alone sustain this kind of campaign. Second, if anyone does find anyting new and different, it only takes about 30 seconds for other marketing types to glom on. Then we're bombarded with the "new and different" for a few years.
Besides- "viral marketing" is a flawed premise, at least as far as adult audiences go. Yes, viral communication is possible if you're trying to spread an idea that's similar to those already present in the viewer's mind, but once you cross the line into introducing something that the viewer didn't know he needed, you're more likely to get a cybernetic immune response.
I came, I saw, I left. It looked better in the brochure.
Whether their selling hamburgers or deoderant or whatever the subject is as nonvisceral as the medium. There's nothing you can 'sink your teeth into'. Where's the beef?
I remember some Fosters radio ads which were more entertaining than most of the other content on the radio.
C'mon people have been doing this for years.
Gieco squirrel commercial?
Who remembers the very old "where's the beef" lady?, Little ceasers commercials etc..
They were all "Hey have you seen that commercial...?"
Thats viral enough.
There's lots of extremely entertaining tv and radio advertising. Why isn't there more? It's very expensive to make. A decent commercial for the Super Bowl has production values that would make a Hollywood blockbuster blush. On a couple of occasions I have been invited to showings of award winning commercials. An hour of watching the very best ads is way more entertaining than the average hour of any tv show you care to name.
Television sets will soon be made using a super-tough glass made from dry ice...
One ad agency tries something new for one week on one Web site and we're supposed to infer that this is the new norm for all advertising across all media everywhere? Hello?
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as a US citizen (like many others) i have been bombed and hounded by advertising for so long now that i automatically ignore all advertizing like ignoring the background noise in a factory...
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Advertising can be helpful. But, I think if I were trying to sell something, I would spend the majority of my time making a product that was so interesting and useful people went looking for it. If people really want something, they will find it.
Because of the nature of the beast. There is a fundamental disconnect between what they want and what they can get, no matter how good their ads get.
What they want is for your primary goal in life to be to consume their product. (This is especially difficult in that several hundred or thousand products all share this same goal, and best case scenario is still that only one can "win".)
What they can get at best is "an interesting commercial", at a much greater expense than just creating a standard annoying-as-hell commercial.
They'll be pleased with the initial apparent progress towards their goal, but when it caps out long before it gets to making consumption your primary goal in life, they'll become disillusioned and go back to the cheap-but-annoying model, as it has better bang-for-the-buck.
Advertising's primary problem is that they were able to fool themselves in the past that they were making progress towards making their products our overriding concern, because of the very fuzzy and indirect nature of the feedback they recieved. As they become better at figuring out the real effects of their advertising, they are becoming more desparate to "recapture" their old progress and stature, which is especially difficult as it never existed in the first place. Until they realize that it was always an illusion, and re-align themselves to think of themselves as an investment instead of an attempt to create little quasi-religions centered around products, they are always going to have this problem.
(Note that most business people already correctly think of advertising as investment and have for a long time. It's "Big Advertising" that has a very wrong mental model of their own importance.)
I cannot stand the corporate advertising bullshit that gets forced down our necks everytime we try to watch a TV show. BUY NOW! SAVE MORE! BUY, CONSUME! YOU NEED THIS! IT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR LIFE! Even "clever" advertising is still advertising. (But I will admit, I do watch a commercial (usually only shown late at night) that has hot women nearly showing T&A. I have no idea what the commercials are for - so in a sense the marketing company failed, nor do I even care to purchase their products, but will watch the eye candy.)
I buy the DVDs of TV shows at the end of the season. Besides having no commercials, there are behind-the-scenes stuff, too. Everytime I read articles like this, it keeps reminding me of George Lucas' THX-1138. "Buy more, consume more." The main character buys crap not because he needs it, but because he thinks he's supposed to "consume."
... that viral marketing just doesn't work.
but there are companies like BzzAgent that are doing organized word-of-mouth programs? They just seem a lot worse.
http://www.boredandblogging.com - yes, another pointless blog.
Just move to a tasteful, 'product placement' model of advertising in mass media and get rid of interrupt-driven advertising altogether!!! No, not THE TRUMAN SHOW style or that one (in)famous night of programming on ABC(?) that revolved around Elizabeth Taylor and her new perfume.
Consumers get longer programs/movies/whatever with real content to watch making them happy. They also don't have to watch conventional advertising which is mostly assinine, repetitive drivel with only a handfull of exceptions such as Ridley Scott's (in)famous 1983 '1984' ad for Apple Computer. Those consumers who are influenced by product placement will buy your products anyway--the rest will essentially simply ignore such placement as they ignore examples of the current advertising model that dosen't interest them.
Everybody wins.
Any other views?
P.S. Here is how it can be done: 'Place' the product in the show/movie but do not draw undue attention to it or mention it by name (no, the passing Miller Beer truck in a scene in SPEED doesn't count!)--save that for the end credits where you can list the product(s) name/website URL.
P.P.S. The program CANNOT have the veneer of an 'infomercal' in any way or else all is lost and you have failed! This is what happened in the (in)famous Boost Mobile episode of AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE -- maybe that was the desired effect for that episode. On the other hand, the 'pop up advertising' episode was a laugh riot and 'oh so true'....
In this way, the 'ad creep' can be dialed down and maybe eliminated from
public bathrooms for starters....
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The final game of the season in American football, is the biggest TV audience of the year, and the advertising is part of it.
For those people not into the sporting event, it is something for them to watch. Companies kick off their ad campaigns, and a lot of money goes into producing and airing them.
It is the TV advertising industries day to shine as well.
This is nothing new, if a particular advertising campaign really needs to grab people the agency will use viral methods, if its simply a branding exercise then it will use brand identity methods and if its a specialised niche then it will be marketed to specialised audiences. There is really nothing special about viral marketing it simply depends on how much money is going to be put in and what the end result is going to be.
Occasionally some small time advertising agency will come up with a good idea but most of the time its just the usual crap - buy up a whole load of space to look unique, have a well known director make your tv ad, make advertising 'that isn't advertising', graffiti, tattoo peoples heads etc - all these ideas are just that, advertising ideas, just like coming up with a slogan to sell something, advertisers come up with novel ideas just so that people will talk about them and better yet so will the press. The only thing that actually makes it novel is the fact that people go on falling for it, and so it will carry on being used.
The reason people carry on falling for viral marketing is because it doesn't fit a 'pattern' that people can easily filter out, because it is itself creating a new format with every new idea - people can copy past ideas like graffiti, tattoos, legal name changes etc but they will be filtered out quickly, the new ideas are what makes viral marketing work.
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Ads you want to see already exist. They're called news, videoclips, movies and other public interest broadcasts.
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Viral marketing example:
Person A: Hey, did you saw Da Vinci Code? It's a great movie!
Person B: No, I will
Simply put, Da Vinci Code movie is a big ad for the book.
The only way to really know if something is good for you or not is to try it.
It's true that eventually, viral marketing may become less effective than it is now. But since it's based on me watching because I want to watch, all I have to do is watch the ads I like. Hopefully, it'll become popular enough that the bludgeon-you-over-the-head ads go away.
As a consumer, that's really the Grail for me -- get rid of the bludgeon-you-over-the-head ads. No more spam, no more commercial breaks (or maybe one at the start and halfway through a show, instead of every 10 mins.)
I really do wish the best for people and their products, but at the end of the day, I'm going to buy the product I think is better. Your best bet to get me to buy computer hardware is to have it competitively priced and carried by Newegg, not to have an annoying jingle at the end of every Dell ad (Intel Inside). Advertising as a whole just isn't a reliable way to get intelligent people to buy your product -- there's a good chance you'll just annoy the potential customer out of buying the product in the first place. Case in point -- I, and most of my friends, stopped buying Pepsi because we were so annoyed at the Pepsi girl. We bought Coke instead, until years later, we finally learned to think for ourselves. Now I buy Pepsi because I think it tastes better.
So, take that marketing budget and fold it back into the company. Spend it on improving your product. Rely on word-of-mouth, and realize that it spreads insanely fast over the Internet. And if you must, use viral advertising, so that I don't have to watch it.
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The key thing I want to know about any "viral marketing" is WHO engineered the virus in the first place? Was it a stealth marketing shill trying to "subvert the cluetrain", or was it a truly grassroots meme like the Mentos+Coke thing?
If it's the latter, I'm fine with it, because it's genuine, but the former is just dirtier than even massmedia ads because the manipulation is sneekier and you KNOW the bastards are laughing all the way to the bank. At least with conventional ads you know someone's trying to sell you; with viral/stealth marketing it *could* be authentic, but it's more likely to be just some smirking jackasses taking everyone for a ride.
Power to the Peaceful
If people do learn to filter it out, the advantage of viral advertising is, they won't have to watch it anyway.
With traditional advertising, people filter it out, but still have to watch it, wasting their time, their power (having the TV on), the broadcasting company's time, etc. With viral advertising, only people who actually want to watch it will waste your resources pulling it down.
I've never seen anything conclusive to say that subliminal messages work, or that in-your-face ads work. I only have my own ancedotal evidence: I buy things based on word-of-mouth (reviews, Slashdot, etc), and the most effective way to get me to buy something is to make a good product and have it listed on Newegg, Thinkgeek, or whatever store I end up in.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Did anyone find it ironic that one is forced to sit through an enforced ad in order to read the article?
Isn't a wiki and is this. Humm, viral marketing from a "web marketing today" site.
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While others smarter than I have attempted to rename it, to somehow domesticate and tame it, I won't try. The term "viral marketing" has stuck.
The medium that carries your marketing message must be easy to transfer and replicate: e-mail, website, graphic, software download.
What proliferated "Netscape Now" buttons in the early days of the Web? The desire to be cool. Greed drives people. So does the hunger to be popular, loved, and understood.
Ewww & eek! Funny/scary reading this kind of stuff from a maketing
At Wendys???
/sun screen/shoes tie-ins??
Can you imagine the Possibilities of Blade razor/ car
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Viral marketing has just been rightfully seen as the best type of marketing (which it always has been), Which is good because it means developers concentrate on coming up with really good ideas instead of producing an average idea, then relying on the marketing department to convince people it is good and something they want to use. If anything i am surprised it has taken people this long to relaise this. It's common sense isn't it? If 10% of visitors tell one of thier friends you will have a million unique hits a day before the week it out.
God Be Gone
A week, bah that's childs play. Snapple bought all of WFNX's ad time for 40 days. Two more weeks before I have to listen to real ads again and not just a quick plug for Snapple.
I really don't care to become personally familiar with ANY product whose last sentance contains the last three words
Does anybody remember (think it was BBC) Comedy show used to run on Canadian T.V. "This Hour Contains 22 1/2 Minutes". IIRC
Content from Ad Agencies? I don't know. We can't get CONTENT from the mass news media...repetition, propaganda. and plenty of bull, but meaningful content is in serious short supply anywhere.
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It simply wastes your time and truely annoys the pig"
full disclosure: I work in advertising.
There are a lot of entertaining ads out there, the problem is they're only entertaining the first few times you see them, then they get boring. Then annoying. Then grating. I've seen some (supposedly) good products strangle themselves with over-exposure, and the thing is, while showing an ad more often gets you more impressionable eyeballs, it also alienates the customers you might've had, had you not bludgeoned them over the head with your thirty second spot.
The solution to this is tricky. Rather than producing a larger variety of ads, I think companies should move the bulk of their content to the internet - if people are actively looking for your information they're less likely to be annoyed by it. (Please note that I'm not talking about banner ads, here, I mean sites dedicated to providing product information in as friendly a way as possible.) There are all sorts of reasons why this won't work, namely that most people (unlike this crowd, I'm sure) don't watch TV with a laptop nearby just in case an interesting URL pops up on the screen, but it'd be a nice thing for them to consider.
They obviously think it's about the brand:
All those great clips that get emailed to me (none of which I can remember what 'brand' was involved) are +5 Funny (or at least a +3) - and that's the deal, nothing else.
So if they succeed at getting a viral ad going (depends on creativity, not on brand), they still lose marketing wise.
Mr. Jeffery has already show that he fails to see this - he thinks it's about engagement with the brand... well only if the brand is the butt of the joke (why Nike/Sweatshop, got a little traction).
Otherwise it's about the humor, and the brand is lost in the laugh (how many of you can, off the top of your head, remember what company the "Trunk Monkey" advertises? And would it influence you to buy whatever it is?).
Nice idea though, but if it works at all, it would work better just to release it (seed it) on a few well chosen 'laugh of the day' type sites.
But then, my bots look at ad's for me anyway, so what do I know - I never see 'em... so it's just another uninformed /. opine.
or is this just a short phase to gain publicity?
I'm pretty sure that most ads are made in an effort to gain publicity.
Perhaps I am mistaken but, personally, I do not believe that my purchasing decisons have ever been greatly influenced by all those advertisements which emphasize style, emotional needs and brand recognition over substance. I when I buy groceries, I read the labels and avoid anything that has the word hydrogenated in it, because I try to avoid transfats (which recent research has shown is even worse than saturated fats). I also check the label for details such as saturated fat and calories. I then compare similar items on the shelf for the price per ounce. I only purchase eggs them from the health food store and look for a label which says things like "free range" and "no hormones" partially becuase I belive "free range" is a more humane way to range chickens.
When purchasing a car or major appliance, I go to the library and check to see what consumer reports magazine has to say. When purchasing a computer or computer periperal I check a computer magazine and then go on-line and check to see if the product is compatible with Linux.
During election time I would never vote for a candidate on what was said in a campaing ad based on a few slogans and misleading one-sided brief sound bites. I always try to read up on the issues and canditates to at least some extent to make a proper informed decision or else I don't vote at all. To me it seem that it would be better to not vote at all than to base my vote on the emotional appeals and missleading statement found in televison ads.
So anyway, it amazes me to think that conventional advertising must work as well as it does. Does it acutally work equally well on all of us? Do we all make our purchasing decisons based on emotional nonsense? It is amazing how uninformative and usless most advertising is. By the way, I am not acutally, sure what this new "viral advertising" technique would be like
Take a look at the history of marketing and you'll see that every generation had its "perfect" marketing. In the beginning of TV, it was the "company sponsored broadcast", with companies sponsoring news or information, then it was the "company sponsored show", where companies, often exclusively, sponsored game shows. Then we got soap operas (that show genre even got its name from the marketing behind it), we got commercial breaks, we got targeted flyers, we got... well, you name it.
"Viral marketing" is the latest fad, the new "perfect way to reach your customer". Give it 5 or 10 years, and we'll get something else that tells us we just need to spray chemicals under our armpits and that we won't be happy with our life until we got a new car.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The customer doesn't know what he wants! He wants what we tell him to want, and we gotta make sure that he knows that if he does not want our product, he's a moron! His neighbor wants it, his aunt wants it, his dog wants it! So HE HAS TO WANT IT.
I need a chair to throw.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
And considering the way Ad companies work, it WILL be overdone.
When it's overdone, people get fed up with it. It's like those joke-mails. Remember them? You got them, some mail where someone told a witty remark or a joke, you'd forward them to your friends 'cause, well, they should have some fun too.
Yes, it's funny for the first 100 or so joke mails you get. Then it starts being annoying.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Look, companies should be able to advertise their products, but it is clearly obvious that they have grossly abused this priviledge by saturating every aspect of daily life with advertisements. As much as I hate more laws regulating society, I think that someone needs to start slapping some duct tape over the mouths of companies who abuse avertising.
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Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
What if "viral marketing" was more than just a metaphor for word-of-mouth marketing campaigns?
Some viruses and parasites will rewire the host's brain to help them propagate themselves. The rabies virus is an obvious example. What if someone used real genetically engineered viruses for "viral" marketing?
Vernor Vinge, in _Rainbows End_, imagines an all-too-plausible future in which tailored viruses are released into the population to make people more susceptible to ads for honeyed nougat. Honeyed nougat was just a test: the other possible applications were terrifying.
I have not seen an ad for years. Huffington looks exactly the same to me. You mean there are people who don't have all ads turned off ??? ... Well I just assumed ... you know it's so easy .......
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Do What Now ???
Perhaps they'd do better if they didn't jack up the volume on the commercials, I mean, they didn't used to.
Maybe it is just my cable operator, but commercials have become increasingly loud in recent years. They are so loud that now I either walk away, turn off the TV, or mute it. They had a better chance of getting my eyes when they weren't SO obnoxious that action had to be taken.
... I will tell you that it isn't dead.
I have a minor in marketing and have been invovled in marketing in some form or another since the age of 16 (I'm 24).
There are different types of marketing, direct marketing and "top of mind" marketing.
Direct marketing is designed to generate sales or leads. Top of mind advertising, sometimes called branding, is more modest but designed to have the potential customers keep the brand or company in the top of their mind. Budweiser commercials are a good example. Seeing a Bud ad isn't going to make you go to their site and order beer, or run out to their store to buy a 6-pack. But it will keep their brand, image, and logo in the back of your mind so that next time you have a choice of beer, you will possibly try Bud.
Also, if mass marketing is dead, why are billions spent on it a year?
Now, I agree that newer, more innovative and more inventive types of advertising is coming about which I think is due to complaceny and becoming jaded at seeing so many ads all the time. Also since people are starting to interact with their media and not just sit and watch or listen to a broadcast this has forced those wanting to promote or sell to evolve their methods. That is called progress.
And you are right, next to PR (un-paid for publicity from a reputiable source), word-of-muoth advertising is the best you can get bar none.
Libertas in infinitum
This thread suggesting that viral marketing will become the norm is also a form of viral marketing
Rick Mercer; the Quinlan Quints; Cathy Jones (sexiest smile on TV). Fantastically funny stuff.
Slashdot entertains. Windows pays the mortgage.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jwt/ This should be added to the main article
I hate the term "viral marketing" as it is used to represent interesting content as opposed to "forced-down-your-throat" ad propaganda. Many years ago Bell Canada got into this "viral marketing" stuff by hiring a comedian to do their TV ads in Quebec. Now I hate telecoms even more than I hate buzzwords, but the ads were hilarious and everyone either loved or hated them, but all knew of them. Many people even recorded or downloaded them.. some used them as an answering message or ring tone.. you'll be hard pressed to find a Quebecer that won't chuckle or even sing along if you say "Bonjour Toto". The ad campaign was an explosive success.
Cue to the crappier ads I've seen locally, one for a huge used car dealership "Mega Automobile". They hired some coked-out ditz to overpronunciate catch phrases from a cue card while frenetically bouncing her empty head on each syllable. Just as cheesy as the stereotypical used car salesmen that work there. At least they could have hired a coked-out bikini ditz instead.. hell just stick a picture of Kermit the Frog on the screen for 30 seconds, it would probably work better than the cookie-cutter no-budget bullshit they pulled.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
If I download a film, and tell my friends to do the same, would that be Viral marketing?
"uncoordinated white guy", supposedly funny yet unconciously perpetuates racist attitudes. "Oh you're black, you must be good at sports", "you're white? You will make an excellent accountant". All total bullshit.
Please just stop it.
For what?
Halo 3, The Legend of Simon Conjurer...what?
come for the naked robots, stay for the zombies
Of course even now the branding mindspace is getting filled. Check out "The Persuaders" episode of Frontline (PBS lets you watch it for free). The idea was that consumers got acclaimated to broad comparitive marketing and so the idea of Branding became the one true way. All products are functionally the same so you buy Nikes because they let you "Just do it" or Cheerios because it is what you ate as a child (even if that isn't true). Things are sold to you impicitly now: you see it on the street, everyone else has one, a trusted source advocates for it.
The best part about "The Persuaders" is how even that is starting to have a limited effect. The example they use is Song, Delta's regional service re-branded for the big world. The producers follow the whole branding process...
and how it doesn't work. No one knows what Song is. They remember the adverts but it doesn't link to a need (and thus no way to sell a product to satisfy it). The postscript of the episode is how Song has gone belly-up. Another dead body. Next song.
What is music when you despise all sound?
The Virus (a.k.a. Television) continues to spread its SICKNESS (a.k.a. mindless, passive, apathic consumerism). Fortunately, there are "doctors" working for a cure.
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
did forget about Poland. Thanks for coming, I'll be here all eternity.
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When it comes to goods such as hygiene products, what distinguishes the name-brands from the knock-offs is so technical that only an incredibly small fraction of people could understand. The "Buy Pantene Pro-V because our surfactants have been highly engineered to facilitate the wetting of..." wouldn't be very engaging. Big hygiene companies like Proctor and Gamble or Johnson and Johnson actually employ a large number (many hundreds) of scientists and engineers who are engaged in product improvement. The knock-offs then try to emulate the look and feel of name-brands, without the proprietary ingredients.
or is this just a short phase to gain publicity
Yes
- were stupid enough to re-relect both Bill Clinton and George Bush,
- think that the Earth was created 6000 years ago,
- think that hip-hop is music and that Britney Spears (sp?) has musical talent,
- believe that ghosts and UFOs exist,
- can quote vast quantities of statistics concerning their favorite sports team but can't make change for a dollar without using a calculator,
- feel qualified to pontificate about U.S. foreign policy (pro and con) vis a vis Iraq, but can't find it on a map of the world, even when it's labeled,
- think that Global Warming is Left-Wing communist propoganda,
- think that Global Warming is a Right-Wing capitalist conspiracy,
- think that the government should stay out of people's lives, except for banning homosexual marriages,
- think that the government should stay out of people's lives, except for giving money to people who knowingly live at or below sea level and then are surprised when the odd hurricane-fed storm surge floods their neighborhood or city,
- will give up their essential liberties for a little temporary security,
- sue fast-food resaurants for making them fat,
- don't know the difference between "its" and "it's",
- have nothing better to do than correct people who don't know the difference between "its" and "it's",
- have nothing better to do than make a stupid list complaining about slack-jawed mouth-breathers and post it to Slashdot,
and so on and so forth.Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
PES has been doing "viral marketing" techniques for years. Check out CoinStar for example.
Too little, too late, marketing drones. Years of being beat over the head with the lowest common denominators in advertising schemes have forced most people to actively shun your idiotic bullshit. I don't care how "clever" you fucks think your ads are, they're going to be blocked.
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I see a McDonalds commercial. I throw up. My friend sees the vomit, and it reminds him of McDonalds.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.