eROI Days Email Agency » Subservient Chicken http://eroidays.com Web Design + Email Marketing Agency, Email Design, eROI, eROI Days Blog, Email Marketing Strategy, Email Inbox Blog, email days, interactive agency culture, email marketing blog, Funny Email, viral marketing, Spam Archive Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:36:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 http://eroidays.com http://eroidays.com/wp-content/themes/eroidays/images/favicon.ico eROI Days Email Agency Praise to the Barbarian Group http://eroidays.com/2007/03/01/praise-to-the-barbarian-group/ http://eroidays.com/2007/03/01/praise-to-the-barbarian-group/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:15:46 +0000 Ryan Buchanan http://eroidays.mu.eroi.com/2007/03/01/praise-to-the-barbarian-group/ Last night, I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Rick Webb, co-founder of The Barbarian Group, speak on driving the whole viral marketing world forward. As the creators of Burger King’s “Subservient Chicken” and Milwaukee’s Best “Beer Canon” shown below, these guys continually prove that being original is the only game to play.

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Rick’s prognostications of the top 4 trends for ‘07 in the web marketing world:
1. Niche Social Networking
2. Games (adver-games)
3. Branded Utilities (widgets)
4. Entertainment (where video truly becomes interactive again rather than just YouTube)

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In his presentation, Porter brought up examples of how the world is moving so fast that a big news story hits for a few hours and then that person / story is forgotten about. This is often true of ”memorable” ad campaigns. The lifespan of great ad campaigns has gotten shorter and shorter with so much noise out there, especially with user-generated content. In fact, one panelist on ”The Creative Panel” pointed out that 90% of big box-office Hollywood films fail, so why expect all TV advertising to succeed? Coming up with and executing upon a big idea is exceedingly difficult and there needs to be a tolerance around how to define success.

The Secret of Viral Marketing

  • No one wants to be bored. Follow Plato’s advice where he wrote “There is NO learning without emotion.”
  • It needs to be creative, entertaining, or informational – enough for people to feel third-party validation from sending something unique, authentic to a friend.

    • Case Study: Burger King’s Subservient Chicken
    www.subservientchicken.com
    This site launched 3 years ago and within 12 days, there were 100 million hits to the site and the average amount of time spent on the site per user was 7 minutes. 3 years later, there have been a total of 460 million hits and it completely resonates with the 16-25 year old male demographic who are powereaters at Burger King.

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    More Chuck Porter advice:

  • You can’t hide online.
  • Stay loose and back winners – as long as a campaign is HOT, back it. But, be very sensitive to pull the campaign before it gets stale. This is a tight balancing act.
  • Have one voice.
  • Go overboard with your idea.

    • To see the video clips of Chuck Porter’s presentation AND to see his entire presentation via video, go to OMMA’s specific webpage here to check it out>>

    ]]>     http://eroidays.com/2006/10/11/chuck-porter-speaks-about-the-secret-of-viral-marketing/feed/ 0     It’s Official: 2006 is the Year of YouTube and MySpace http://eroidays.com/2006/10/04/its-official-2006-is-the-year-of-youtube-and-myspace/ http://eroidays.com/2006/10/04/its-official-2006-is-the-year-of-youtube-and-myspace/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:08:15 +0000 Ryan Buchanan http://eroidays.mu.eroi.com/2006/10/04/its-official-2006-is-the-year-of-youtube-and-myspace/ YouTube graces the cover of Forbes magazine and has a write up in Newsweek. It seems everywhere I turn, I hear about YouTube and MySpace defining the next wave of growth of the Internet. The Online Marketing Media and Advertising show in New York City had 20+ speakers, panelists, and breakout sessions over 2 days that reinforced this message at every opportunity.

    Crispin Porter & Bogusky and other ad agencies are creating such compelling ads (e.g. VW ad below) and online experiences (Burger King’s SubservientChicken.com), that loyal fans are uploading it to Web 2.0 superstars like YouTube and creating communities around these advertising concepts on MySpace.

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