By Ian, on July 2nd, 2008 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 Continue reading Viral WoW By Ian, on March 21st, 2008 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.) Continue reading Take the Test By Ian, on December 15th, 2007 A 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. Continue reading Rather Clever By Ian, on November 25th, 2007 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 Continue reading Secret Strategies or Common Sense? By Ian, on December 1st, 2006 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 Continue reading What I Learned About Word of Mouth By Ian, on October 6th, 2006 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 Continue reading Viral Spiral | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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