About Gary Burge
I am a graying web programmer, techno-activist, romantic idealist, who never quite left the sixties, even though I became quite successful in the Internet space.
My business philosphy is different now than when I toiled in the bigco world. About a decade ago I experienced a life-altering epiphany: I was sacrificing my personal life and health to feed a corporate monster.
More...
Categories
- Art (1)
- General (228)
- New Technologies (9)
- Politics (7)
- Strange (1)
- videos (4)
- Windows Annoyances (1)
Tag Cloud
aberdeen proving grounds ASP.Net Barack Obama cell phone connectors cell phone standards CodeIgniter Facebook Fun Google GTD Hillary Clinton homeland security Javascript libraries Jeff Pulver John Edwards John McCain joppatowne jQuery Marketing Microsoft Music music videos nomadic workers personal branding political blogs Politics programming Ron Paul Sarah Palin social identity SocialNetworking spy high Twitter us politics videos Warning Signs WordPress WordPress 2.3 WordPress category to tags WordPress tag clouds WordPress tagging working alone Yahoo YouTube Zoho
Soft as a baby’s bottom
I seem to be in a peculiar, but pleasant, preoccupation with viral marketing videos. “Fight for Kisses” is not only funny, it’s another excellent example of a company that exploits Internet video sharing websites like YouTube instead of getting mad and suing them.
The video, a minute-and-a-half commercial for Wilkinson’s “Quattro Titanium” razor, has been viewed on YouTube by 20,000 visitors since it was uploaded three days ago. If it follows the viewership trend of similar videos, Wilkinson’s effort will eventually been seen by a million or more potential customers, with an effective media buy of $0/thousand!
It is beyond me why more companies don’t follow this strategy. Wilkinson can save millions of advertising dollars by effectively bypassing television network prime time and concentrating on clever 90-second videos on YouTube and highly targeted ad buys on regional sports networks.
Besides being cute, the commercial shows how far computer animation has come since Toy Story. Thanks to one of my blogging heros, Doc Sears, for alerting me to this video.