Archive for the ‘Viral Marketing’ Category

To Do or Not to Do

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Recently there have been a number of industry blog posts about Marketing in 2010. They discuss a variety of what to do and what not to do in the realm of Marketing. 

So here are a few:

A recent article on AdWeek discusses the Five Marketing Principles Brands Should Embrace in 2010. In their opinion the marketing rules we lived by just five years ago are almost obsolete. While you may not agree with all, it makes an interesting read.

Additional tips can be found on Michael Fleischner’s good marketing tips blog.

Laura Lake offers five no and low cost tips in the Marketing section on About.com. Laura has ranked “Network at events” as the first, one of the most important personal marketing tips in my opinion. She also discusses the top five marketing mistakes

Further mistakes are currently being collected by Dianna Huff who is compiling a list of “silly B2B marketing mistakes”. You can submit yours until 10th February 2010.

Judy Shapiro listed the nine digital marketing mistakes that she won’t make in 2010 on Advertising Age.  I think she’s provided a great list of “un-resolutions” and un-resolution #9 definitely brought a smile to my face! 

To provide a more visual ending to future marketing, I’d like to share a video created by Keiichi Matsuda, a designer and film-maker. This video titled Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop is part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality. It provides food (and tea) for thought…

Feel free to add your tips and comments below on marketing dos and don’ts.

Viral Video Marketing – does it work?

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Do you share videos? Anyone who has an email account, not to mention dabbles in social media knows how time-consuming it can become. Someone sends you a video or presentation. Do you open it or leave it waiting in your Inbox? Even worse do you hit “delete” before reading? What makes us open a video clip – and how well can viral marketing videos work?

The first factor in my personal decision-making process is “who sent it?”. If it is a friend or colleague whose opinion I trust, there is a good chance that I’ll check it out.
An example fresh in my mind is this “How NOT To Use PowerPoint” By Comedian Don McMillan video shared on Facebook by a friend.  My friend is currently completing her doctorate at Cambridge and if she thought it “share worthy” than I guessed that it probably is!  

On the other hand if the video clip arrives from someone who sends me four emails a day –Viral Marketing each one with an attached 4 MB video clip that takes forever to download – I tend to think twice (or more) about the value of these specific viral videos – and that’s before I’ve even viewed them.

There are other numerous factors – but what really makes viral marketing work?
Is there a recipe for a good viral marketing video? We all have our own perception of what a good video clip is and what makes us share a video but what do the professionals think?

Thanks to Kaitlyn Wilkins, VP at 360 Digital Influence who participated in the recent WPP Annual Stream Conference we can gain some insight into viral videos and how they spread.  Kaitlyn wrote a great blog post: Stream 2009: The Myth of the Viral about YouTube’s presentation at the event.

What are your “video sharing criteria”? Please comment below.