John Edwards Announces Presidential Run On YouTube
John Edwards posted his presidential campaign announcement on YouTube. Are the politicians finally seeing the potential of the interweb? The next thing you know, they’ll be buying AdWords or something. Let’s give some applause to Edwards and his advisors on being first to market a presidential run via social media.
Anticipation Marketing
Let’s define what I call Anticipation Marketing. It’s essentially the build-up of a product from preannouncement to launch. Let me explain the concept with one of the masters of this method, F/X Networks, specifically with their launch of Dirt starring Courteney Cox.
This show was announced back in April with no date set for release […]
AdSense Isn’t The New Gator
Rebecca Lieb at ClickZ says that AdSense is acting like Gator because of AdSense showing up on merchant sites attempting to pull away customers from buying on that particular site. However, the example she gives doesn’t make any sense. While shopping for cordless phone batteries, this was her experience:
The first result I click (a paid […]
Music123 Screws Affiliates
Just had this nice letter land in my mailbox…
Dear Music123 Affiliate,
I wanted to inform about what’s been going on here at Music123. If you haven’t caught the news of late, Music123 / Woodwind & Brasswind filled for Chapter 11 bankruptcy the end of November and entered into what is called a 363 Sale Process. The […]
Special Agent YouTube - Catching Criminals
It appears law enforcement is using YouTube to hunt down criminals now. Via this story a man in Canada stabbed two men in the parking lot after a concert. Law enforcement officials, knowing that a connection existed between young people and YouTube, posted the surveillance video from the venue. 30,000 views later, the guy turns […]
Get Answers….NOW!
Just stumbled onto a new answer service called Jyve. It takes the concept of Yahoo Answers to a new level. Ask a question, and you get an immediate response via IM or a phone call from someone on Skype answering your question. I’m not sure about the level of expertise of the people answering […]
