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Demographic MySpace game 12 – – – – Comscore, Aug. 2006
YouTube, 55%, 35 – 64
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Real content (drop the polished crap)
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Mobile firm Orange is using a GPS-equipped bull in a promotion to give away Glastonbury tickets.OrangeGlastonbury The bull will have a GPS system attached to its neck and will be placed in a field with a webcam in each corner. Contestants will be able to log onto the Orange website and take a guess at where the bull is going to be at 3pm each day. If they are right they can win tickets to the festival. "We have been sponsoring Glastonbury for a few years and thought we would try something different," said Orange spokesman Matt Sears.
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2 weeks – 6,500 members, 800,00 daily page views 6 weeks – 18,000 members, 1.5 m comments, 10 m page views
#6 Pull, don’t push
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© IDM Academy 2008 Bravia sold out in the UK Ad downloaded 20,000 times in first eight weeks > 3m unique users visited Sony website Visitors downloaded Sony branded screen savers, photos and the audio track
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You MUST read: The Wisdom of Crowds – James Surowiecki Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Anything by Seth Godin The Cluetrain Manifesto by various The Long Tail – Chris Anderson The 17 Rules of Social Media Optimization The New PR Wiki Any online marketing blog (Seth Godin = v.good)
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