Contagious Media Showdown 114
Philipp Lenssen writes "In the Contagious Media Showdown, competitors plant addictive memes to see who's best at viral marketing. The contest pages officially launched yesterday. The grand prize (most unique visitors) is $2000, with three other prizes at $1000 each for most links, most popular entry with a Creative Commons license, or first site with an Alexa ranking higher than 20,000."
Winning strategy No. 1: (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Winning strategy No. 1: (Score:1)
Winning strategy No. 2 (Score:5, Funny)
Alright, alright, it may not be much of a "strategy" but words can't express how good it would feel.
Re:Winning strategy No. 2 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Winning strategy No. 2 (Score:2)
It's disappointing to see how meme has devolved from a real word [reference.com] coined by Richard Dawkins, to a generic term meaning little more than "thing".
Re:Winning strategy No. 2 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Winning strategy No. 2 (Score:2)
Now THIS is contagious (Score:1)
Re:Winning strategy No. 1: (Score:2)
http://ipjusticeleague.com/ [ipjusticeleague.com]
My own entry... (Score:5, Funny)
My own entry... (Score:2)
Excellent excerpt (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Excellent excerpt (Score:1, Funny)
Re:My own entry... (Score:2)
I would have never, ever guessed. BTW is this a joke?
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Re:My own entry... (Score:2)
I would have never, ever guessed. BTW is this a joke?
Uncontrollable trucker lactation is a real problem. It is as serious as the issue of auto-ocular Ingestion in small dogs. [bugshit.com]
Re:My own entry... (Score:2)
I dare say these posts are part of the contest
Re:My own entry... (Score:2)
Marketing: Incomplete
Just another SEO contest? (Score:4, Interesting)
Sounds like just another SEO contest to me. The only twist: not every one needs to use the same stupid made-up keyword.
Re:Just another SEO contest? (Score:2)
Re:Just another SEO contest? (Score:2)
The art of SEO also changes frequently as search engines try to avoid abuse. A quality viral marketing campaign can be effective whether or not you keep up on the latest "techniques."
I'd rather save a good viral marketing idea for a paying client, though. Unless you're trying to make a name for yourself, the prize money at stake is nothing compared to the profits from real client.
Re:Just another SEO contest? (Score:1)
Re:Just another SEO contest? (Score:1)
WARNING! (Score:5, Funny)
DEATH RAY OF DOOM [google.com]
How's that for clickability? Come oooon, you know you want to...
Re:WARNING! (Score:1)
Re:WARNING! (Score:2)
Re:WARNING! (Score:1)
Alexa rank can be easily manipulated (Score:1, Informative)
All they need are hits to their counting script. It's not like the Google rank which is externally weighted, you can put an exit pop-up on a website, or even just an iframe and push visitors from anywhere through alexa's counter.
My entry was called contagious media (Score:3, Funny)
Contest site is flawed (Score:5, Insightful)
They should have simply supplied the link in a non-discrinating sort (such as alpabetical) and a very brief description of the site's theme. The ranking should not have been displayed until after the contest was completed.
Re:Contest site is flawed (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Contest site is flawed (Score:2)
Re:Contest site is flawed (Score:2)
Slashdot has a big user base, but it's really nothing compared to the sheer massive numbers of people out there waiting to be p
Re:Contest site is flawed (Score:1)
To truely show the sites but not promote anyone, they would need to randomly order the links each time the page is displayed.
Aardvark on fire (Score:2)
Re:Aardvark on fire (Score:1)
Re:Aardvark on fire (Score:2)
Be honest... (Score:3, Funny)
How many clicked on the "Girls who love Geeks" link first? (the other link is better)
Re:Be honest... (Score:2)
Re:Contest site is flawed (Score:2)
Re:Contest site is flawed (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Contest site is flawed (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Contest site is flawed (Score:1)
Re:Contest site is flawed (Score:1)
Re:Contest site is flawed (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm not sure why the #1 is at first place, the best one is:
I just lost the game! (Score:2, Informative)
Reading this reminded me of something else that fits in the same realm as viral marketing, and that is The Game, a viral social phenomen. Confused? [wikipedia.org]
Re:I just lost the game! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I just lost the game! (Score:2, Funny)
There goes nearly a year's worth of not thinking about the game
Re:I just lost the game! (Score:1)
Re:I just lost the game! (Score:2)
If you want the most unique visitors (Score:4, Interesting)
then after that when someone clicks on the page
Simple principle of marketing "Sex sells". Simple principle of the internet "Its full of porn"
Re:If you want the most unique visitors (Score:1)
Re:If you want the most unique visitors (Score:2)
I was going to dash off a reply saying that such an entry would violate the TOS, but this is all they got:
"3) Your entry must comply with Datagram's terms of use.
See http://www.datagram.com/acceptable.html [datagram.com] for more details. Please refrain from submitting hardcore pornography or illegal content of any kind."
The Datagram.com page looks like the standard "don't break the law, dammit" requirement, and doesn't mentio
Re:I think Slashdot just skewed the results (Score:1)
Re:I think Slashdot just skewed the results (Score:2, Funny)
The page itself is Phillip Lenssen's own entry to the competition.
The real competition page doesn't even list the participants
Re:I think Slashdot just skewed the results (Score:1)
Re:I think Slashdot just skewed the results (Score:2)
2 minutes before:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=150148&cid=12 5 91378 [slashdot.org]
1 minute before:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=150148&cid=125 91395 [slashdot.org]
Damn you /. (Score:2)
(And yes, I have heard of grouphug.us, and I have heard of it as of yesterday.)
Re:Why the up-to-date list? (Score:1)
Stop whining (Score:2, Insightful)
Although, this 'contest' isn't really a contest... It would have been better to do it in a controlled manner, let the sites spread by word of mouth et cetera.
Re:Stop whining (Score:2)
It is a contest because real money is involved (and, looking at some of the sites, $2000 looks to be a year's worth of development).
The contest has been biased toward the leading sites because of the way they are presented.
No way to fix it now, either. Hope the sites didn't pay anything to be in the contest (even a token fee should be refunded).
Re:Stop whining (Score:1)
Re:Stop whining (Score:2)
Game Over (Score:1)
Showdown (Score:1)
Here's One (Score:2)
User agents (Score:2, Interesting)
http://cryingwhileeating.com/plesk-stat/webstat/u
Strange!
F:F:F (Score:2, Informative)
Re:F:F:F (Score:1, Informative)
viral marketing (Score:1)
'meme' (Score:1, Funny)
But it sure sounds cool, huh?
wait a minute... (Score:2)
RetroVirus (Score:4, Funny)
Change the results... (Score:4, Interesting)
Ready, one, two, three, go!!!!
Re:Change the results... (Score:1)
Re:Change the results... (Score:1)
Re:Change the results... (Score:2)
Slashdot Scooped by NPR (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Slashdot Scooped by NPR (Score:2)
Re:Slashdot Scooped by NPR (Score:1)
Or does Slashdot have a team of primary source journalists that we don't know about?
Re:Slashdot Scooped by NPR (Score:2)
I should be more explict when posting what I believed to be a tongue-in-cheek jab at our geekyness.
Considering the fact that most of NPR's audience is probably older than dirt, when they get something before the "News for Nerds" does, we are in trouble.
Maybe a smiley would help.
Re:Slashdot Scooped by NPR (Score:2)
I do understand you're making a joke, but according to the rather interesting stats from this PDF [prss.org], 23% of NPR News listeners are 18-34, and 50% are 35-54.
Not sure what the age demographics of "nerds" would be, but based on IT staffing trends I've observed, NPR's listeners probably aren't really all that much older on average. Actually, I imagine there'
Re:Slashdot Scooped by NPR (Score:3, Funny)
That is my category.
As I said, older than dirt.
Or that should be "Dir-te".
Site down - bad error message! (Score:1)
DB Error: connect failed: [nativecode=Too many connections] ** mysql://contagious:l0abck4@localhost/contagious
Is it just me, or is that their MySQL database name, username and password (password modified to protect the innocent)? I've seen too much information from error messages, but this one takes the cake
Re:Site down - bad error message! (Score:2)
Contagious Marketing (Score:1)
I won this two weeks ago... (Score:1)
7-11 viral marketing campaign (Score:1)
promoting list spam (Score:2)
Right now I can think of a few contagions I'd like to see the backers of this contest infected with.
Re:Crying while eating? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Crying while eating? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:So tell me... (Score:1)
That might sway some to make an offer.