This could possibly be the best viral marketing use of Chatroulette in the history of the universe.
Guy walks across america! Can’t tell if this is sponsored in any way but it’s a great implementation regardless. Viral video, great music, google map spots, behind the scenes…
Awesome original idea that garnered 2,809,462 clicks in ONE MONTH! Think beyond the banner…
Walking on water is a feat accomplished by only one man; however, the Liquid Mountaineering team has found a way to run on water by means of plenty of speed, an angled run and hi-tec tennis shoes. Follow the links to the real hi-tec website.
Creative Uses of Stickers in Advertising. While stickers are not directly tech related they can still be awesome, if not awesomer, than tech sometimes!
Chatroulette phenom Merton gets his due! Epic publicity for Chatroulette, Merton, and Ben Folds results. I actually thought he WAS Ben Folds so the fact that the actual Ben Folds picked this up and ran with it makes the whole thing all the more awesome.
See what happens when you plan a Classical concert on the same night as the Champions League Match. Seriously, the team who put this together must have had a great time! See, Marketing can be fun!
MEETorDIE - Where Lousy Meetings Live on Forever. While hating on meetings is low hanging fruit, what I really like about this is that once you find out how much your awesome meeting cost the company they tell you how much of that money could have gone to support Haiti through the Red Cross. Oh snap, how do you feel now?!
Antivertising? I THINK SO! Note the prominent Stella and how many times it’s been viewed not to mention the diggs. Creative, simple, viral, and cheap to produce.
This morning DARPA launched ten red balloons across the U.S. in a Network Challenge. The first team to correctly locate all ten balloons will win a $40,000 prize. The idea is to see how people can self-organize on the Internet and how information disseminates through social and viral networks.
It would be too easy talk about what is ‘wrong’ with all the awkward in-store videos Microsoft has been releasing lately, but what if the brand knows exactly what they’re doing with all this overcontrolled, unenthusiastic content. Weird is worth sharing, and even though the mac fan blogs are tearing Microsoft up right now, maybe Microsoft is sitting back enjoying the attention.
MacHeist TweetBlast! You enter your twitter username, you follow Tap Tap Tap on Twitter, you Tweet a prewritten message, they validate, you download free app.
Meanwhile over in Japan, for the Launch of Windows 7 Burger Kings there were offering the “Windows 7 Whopper”, a Whopper with 7 patties! The reason this is even on here is because it was a crazy-simple thing to implement but generated TONS of exposure around the web for its sheer ridiculousness.
