Make A "Scary" YouTube Viral Video In Just 97,850 Confusing Steps!
This viral marketing EPIC FAIL comes to us from Sony Ericsson, who have teamed up with Facebook to attempt to lure users into making "scary" video free advertising for them. The failure begins with the tagline "Spook Your Friends With Our Scary YouTube Video Where Your (Sic) The Star," and just keeps on going and going and going. How could they possibly have made it more complicated to make your friends say "Heh. Stop spamming me, dude, I'm busy.":
I do think the inclusion of Adam Smith to the list of celebrity Facebook friends like Brad Pitt and Kira (Sic Again!) Knightley is a nice touch, but the chances that they were throwing in an easter egg for fans of the father of modern economics are as slim as a Sony Ericsson W595 handset. (Via AdRants.)
Posted by Lindsay at 4:30 PM in Ad Wizards, Viral Marketing
Tags: FAIL | Halloween
I got sent something like this the other day. It was a video from a friend where it's a fake CNN report saying that Obama lost the election because [name vairable] forgot to vote, and it was [name variable]'s single vote that swung everything in our nation to mccain. It's stupid, I hope these stop.
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But at least that one was easy and had a point. But yeah, they're cute, but they can stop now.
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i would gladly suffer 10 terrible viral "your name here" videos, for the chance to star in my very own high school musical commercial.
http://sendables.jibjab.com/category/high_school_musical_3#/teaser/202307
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I recognized Adam Smith's name from my Economics class and LOL'd in my pants.
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