Viral WoW

Blizzard, the company behind the most suc­cessful and prof­it­able enter­tain­ment fran­chise in the world*, World of Warcraft, held a mini-​​​​conference in Paris last week to announce that a second sequel to its Diablo series — Diablo III — was in devel­op­ment. Unlike a lot of press con­fer­ences, they invited along lots of fans, active forum members

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Take the Test

I was totally taken by surprise by this one.

(A little further research has revealed that it was created by WCRS, and that there is some con­tro­versy over the ori­gin­ality of the idea. What a shame.)

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Rather Clever

very nice website created to promote Orange’s unlim­ited texts on on one of its tariffs. It goes on forever and is full of fun stuff … geddit?

Created by digital agency Poke, who’ve doc­u­mented the site here. Apparently, there’s a Christmas version on the way soon.

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Secret Strategies or Common Sense?

The secret strategies of viral mar­keters seems to have caused con­sid­er­able upset among the Techcrunch faithful, regis­tering 444 comments to date. Clearly author Dan Ackerman Greenberg hit some­thing of a nerve with the 2.0 faithful. Many readers, including head honcho Michael Arrington, seem to be very naive about what mar­keters are going to do with

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What I Learned About Word of Mouth

Thanks to Simon from Green for sorting me out a press pass to Word of Mouth Communications. A very inter­esting day which I thor­oughly recom­mend the next time it comes around. I’m going to write about three cough… two of the present­a­tions in three … two posts, to keep me stocked up with new material

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Viral Spiral

While mar­keters are keen to test the waters with viral cam­paigns, the evidence for their effect­ive­ness remains pretty shakey. Remember Snakes on a Plane anyone? From Internet Retailer:

20% of online advert­isers surveyed by Jupiter Research say they plan to test viral mar­keting in vehicles such as blogs this year, but Jupiter also found that

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