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Can Viral Be Bought?

Performance Marketing

     There is apparently nothing more irritating to veterans of viral than being asked by a presumably stuffy, uptight, corporate suit to make their Brand X become the Next Big [...]


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How Levi’s sponsored ‘America’ viral video

Creativity

Earlier today, I said that the popular new "Guy Walks Across America" video would make a great tourism ad for the United States, but there was already some grumbling across [...]

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This should be America’s official tourism ad

Creativity

Earlier this year, the federal government created a program to help promote international tourism to the United States. And while I'm sure the result will be a forgettable series of [...]

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Tron viral leads fans to a real-life lightcycle

Creativity

The 2009 Comic-Con hosted, among other high-dollar nerdy attractions, a tremendous viral marketing stunt for Disney's upcoming Tron Legacy. Buzz for the effort started several days before the convention, when [...]

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Send this to a wretched, drug-addled friend

Creativity

There have been plenty of viral e-mail campaigns in recent years designed to frighten, humiliate or generally screw over your friends. (Predictably, they tend to be more popular than the [...]

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Your Hotelicopter ride isn’t going to happen

Creativity

Want to enjoy the five-star hotel experience while noisily chugging jet fuel in the skies far above the plebian masses? Well, tough, because the Hotelicopter, the "world's first flying hotel," [...]