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Funny or Die Takes on Tom Brady’s Accent

Funny or Die Takes on Tom Brady’s Accent

By Chris Richardson May 30, 2012

Tom Brady may play football in New England, but that doesn’t mean he sounds like he’s from Boston, a town famous for its use of the northern cities vowel shift. Considering he’s from California, there’s a good reason why Brady …

Amazing Spiderman Launches Viral Marketing Campaign Amazing Spiderman Launches Viral Marketing Campaign

It is being reported that this poster is being seen around Wondercon: The poster prompts you to go to webbedmenace.com. When you go to the supposedly anti-spiderman website, you get this viral video: You can also submit your sightings, which …

Paranormal Activity 3 Turns to Twitter to Increase Buzz Paranormal Activity 3 Turns to Twitter to Increase Buzz

Viral marketing for movies has been apart of our consciousness dating back to The Blair Witch Project. From there, we’ve seen successful ventures from The Dark Knight and Cloverfield, to name a few. Now, Paramount has turned to Twitter for …

Nike Gets Viral For Back To The Future Shoes Nike Gets Viral For Back To The Future Shoes

When it comes to viral marketing, Nike may very well be one of the best of the big boys. Whether it’s creative uses of Charlie Murphy, or having Kobe Bryant “jump over” a moving car, Nike’s marketing department is incredibly …

New NBC Sitcom Experiences Viral Marketing Failure New NBC Sitcom Experiences Viral Marketing Failure
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There’s a thought that no press is bad press, and while that maybe true for folks like Marilyn Manson, someone from the land of music who was as concerned with shocking as he was entertaining the masses, it’s not true …

iPad Head Girl – The Next Step in Viral Marketing iPad Head Girl – The Next Step in Viral Marketing

When the video was viewed for the first time, my initial thought was is this one of Clive Barker’s new Cenobites? Is this who he’s selected to succeed the timeless Pinhead for a new generation of Hellraiser movies, or is …

Beastie Boys Debut New Video on Funny or Die Beastie Boys Debut New Video on Funny or Die

Although the Beastie Boys previously used MTV’s online arm to promote their return, they’ve turned to another, perhaps more popular outlet to promote their new music video for the song “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win.” Instead of …

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Kenny Powers Becomes CEO of K-Swiss, Launches Viral Ad Campaign Kenny Powers Becomes CEO of K-Swiss, Launches Viral Ad Campaign

California-based footwear makers K-Swiss have just debuted a bold new viral advertising campaign this weekend starring Danny McBride in his role as Eastbound & Down‘s Kenny Powers. Verdict: The foul-mouthed baseball player makes one hell of a spokesman. Here’s the …

Does Viral Marketing Include TV Show Editing? Does Viral Marketing Include TV Show Editing?

As the explosion of social networking completes itself — hey, Mark Zuckerberg agrees — viral marketing is a very real aspect of today’s world. The best examples of successful viral marketing attempts normally comes from movies, with examples like The …

Happy Fathers Day From The Beastie Boys Happy Fathers Day From The Beastie Boys
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The Beastie Boys have sure embraced viral marketing in past few months. They made a splash back in April when their star studded “Fight For Your Right Revisited Trailer” blew up the interwebs. The video, which served as a promotion …

Did Poor Customer Service Doom Dell? Did Poor Customer Service Doom Dell?
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The outsourcing of customer service is a topic of much consternation, silly sitcoms be damned. The horror stories of customer service call centers are to numerous to detail here, so much so in fact, it seems people have learned to …

Beasties Boys Go Viral Beasties Boys Go Viral

We all know the Internet has fundamentally changed the way people are marketed to. Whether it’s a barrage of promotional tweets, online coupons, Facebook product pages, or the J.J. Abrams method of promoting a movie, without the Internet being such …

Viral Content 101
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At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Huffington Post and Buzzfeed co-founder Jonah Peretti detailed his philosophy on viral content.  After years of testing how and why things to go viral, Peretti decided that the key is “thinking of …

Tips for Getting Found in Real-Time Searches
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Update: Now the game is really on with Google rolling out real-time search results into regular search results pages.

Original Article: Real-time search is still an emerging concept. At this point, using a real-time search engine will bring you results by time/date. This doesn’t always cater to relevancy, which is why there is still a lot of work to be done in this field.

New Bing Commercial Inspired By The Shining
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Microsoft must be really into Halloween this year, as they’ve relesaed two "Halloween oriented" commercials for their latest search engine, Bing.

Online Marketing Leads Paranormal Activity to Wide Release
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Paranormal Activity is a movie that has made its way to a wide theatrical release this weekend as a result of some clever online marketing. The movie is described as a "Blair Witch"- type film, in that it is told through fake "realistic" video footage. This is a cliché that has been used numerous times in the horror genre.

The film boasts some pretty bold quotes from some well-known sources. For example:

Fanning the Flames of the Viral Marketing Fire
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Social news is the largest source for igniting campaigns, according to Greg Finn, Director of Internet Marketing at 10e20. This was discussed in a session called Igniting Viral Campaigns: Leveraging Consumer-Generated Content at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose.