Transformers & Google Street View

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: September 12th, 2012 Published in: Google, Viral Marketing

A nifty little viral site for the new Transformers game coming out soon uses Google Street View.  You type in your postcode and you can see two tranformers fight it out on your street!  Yeh! Check out the site here: http://www.transformersonyourstreet.com

Sky hitting back at VirginMedia

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 9th, 2007 Published in: Marketing, Public Relations, Viral Marketing

Well more drama in the Sky v VirginMedia battle – Sky have launched a new ad campaign commenting that VirginMedia have “dropped” Sky channels.  Check out this page encouraging users to switch over. “VirginMedia, (formerly ntl:telewest) are doubting the value of TV you love and have dropped Sky One, Sky News and Sky Travel.  We [...]

Digg & your social marketing strategy

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 22nd, 2006 Published in: Blogging, Link Baiting, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Traffic Generation, Viral Marketing

There has been a lot of chatter on various blogs and forums lately about Digg banning domains (a lifetime ban it seems).  Some sites have received this response from Digg: “When submitted stories are consistently reported as spam and users complain via our feedback email about submission spam, we ban the domain. The domain will [...]

Zipatoni & Sony flog update

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 19th, 2006 Published in: Branding, Public Relations, SEO Agencies, Viral Marketing

Well it’s been less than a week since marketing firm Zipatoni were outted as being the “brains” behind the Sony Xmas viral site for their PSP.  Zipatoni did respond briefly as mentioned in my previous post, but it was as bollocks as the whole marketing campaign itself. The site has since been taken down – [...]

Blog Tag Game

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 14th, 2006 Published in: About Fused Nation, Blogging, Viral Marketing

Just had this passed on to me and thought it was a bit of fun so worth a play around with.  The idea is to post 5 things that people might not know about you, then tag 5 fellow bloggers so they can do the same.  A kind of viral marketing thing, and certainly some [...]

Sony / Zipatoni and bollocks web marketing

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 13th, 2006 Published in: Branding, Link Baiting, SEO Agencies, Spam, Viral Marketing

Hat tip to DG for this one – Sony hired a marketing company to churn out a shitty fake “fan site” for the PSP on the run up to Xmas.  Just reading the story churns my stomache, but when I actually had a look at the site I laughed my ass off. OK Sony.  So [...]

Animator vs Animation 2.0

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: November 27th, 2006 Published in: Viral Marketing

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/06111608.html Great follow up to the original flash animation. MG

Awesome M&Ms Hallowe’en Viral

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 31st, 2006 Published in: Viral Marketing

http://www.mms.com/us/dark/index.jsp Really nice little Flash viral from M&Ms – basically you have to look about the static painting and click then type in the name of the horror film that the part of the image is representing. Easy example: click on the blue M&M and type in “The Ring” and it greys out showing you [...]