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Viral Marketing Breeding Cynicism

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the flogging-it dept.

New Media Blogger writes "First Lonelygirl15, now Bridezilla. Canada's National Post provides an interesting perspective on the newest trend of using viral videos as marketing tools, and how these fake blogs or 'flogs' are having a pernicious effect on our tendency to trust what seems genuine."

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  1. Re:Marketing by Monoman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That is pretty much what I was going to say.

    The way to ruin a good thing is for someone to try and make a buck from it. Just about every time the marketing industry gets wind of a free way to advertise they destroy they system they exploit.

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