Everyone has seen chat roulette now, yes it’s great fun, good for a 2 minutes of spontaneity a day – and besides the creepy male stalkers with a special surprise for you (which I have been lucky enough to avoid) – overall a huge success.
This however is the best thing I’ve seen in a while…makes me optimistic of the talent out there – thanks @curiousben for the heads up.
Happy new years everyone! What better way to start the new decade than to get busted by Google street view, picking up some friends on the shoulder of the highway – you’ve been warned – big brother is watching.
I was just having a discussion with some good people about how it seems that the “scavenger hunt” has become one of those mandatory boxes that every marketer and brand needs to tick when launching a full campaign. Call it an alternate reality game, scavenger hunt, or a massive waste of time – does the amount of PR and engagement you get with such a small amount of fans actually add up?
Slashfilm has a good breakdown of what transpired at Comi-Con in what was called “The Hunt for Flynn’s Arcade”.
“Dear Weiden + Kennedy, I am a 19 year old, entrepreneurial/creative mind. I have between 2-3 groundbreaking business or creative ideas every single day, and to say the least, I do NOT have the capability to even keep track or implement them so; I started a business. I decided that If I were to ever become successful and impact the world greatly by undertaking huge and “impossible” projects I would need a very balanced, efficient, and productive degree of discipline. Sometimes discipline and creativity/randomness sit on opposite sides of the lunch hall; however, to combine them would I assume be as earth-shattering as balancing the ying and the yang of business. Behold, my mobile billboard business in Las Vegas, NV. However, I did not have enough money to start it to I decided to sell it first, and with the profits, start it (opposite to the quote “think with your hands, and then talk about it, not in reverse”) Well I did it in reverse. I dressed up in a black and gold suite and tie, drove down to the Forum Shops in Las Vegas, NV (very wealthy shops) and started selling my ideas to the managers, converting them to my corporate sales people, and starting the damning corporate marketing man chase. I thought “wouldn’t it be awesome if I had some clout, some pull, to just pitch these ideas,”. So out of the few dozen I approached, and followed up over weeks and weeks, I ended up with about 4 hot prospective clients. I mean, one that is looking at buying a marketing package from me for $30,000 U.S. and very, very EXCITED to do so. So I have a feeling my ideas are golden, but I promised myself I would stay here until I make my business, my ad agency, my marketing consulting firm, which I named “Unique and Innovative PRO (Personal Relations Officer)”–a success. Well what does this have to do with you? Well I’m a young man, and I “stay stupid, stay foolish (steve jobs)” so I thought I would write this e-mail to someone who has done what I want to do in the advertising/marketing world. I found Weiden + Kennedy from watching everyone of your Nike MVPs videos, and found that you had internships/platform program. This is what is on my mind: Nike Factory in the forum shops needs strip advertising; I concepted a Giant Shoe on a platform truck that will drive up and down the strip with a sign in it promoting a weekly event with the local UNLV Basketball team, celebrity, athlete, or locally famous socialite, that would pull customers to Niketown to HAVE FUN. The place is built like a club and it could very well be a sales monster tool, all while the customer is not cheesed by old ad methods. So To Conclude, If you were to use me for my ideas and implementation and passion… If I were to use you as my clout vessel Your company, Your Ideas, Your advertisements would only progress, and companies that don’t keep innovative, fail. (You DO, trust me I’ve seen your advertising). I would progress, and become the next YOU, to offer more and more people opportunities to create, and jobs for everyone helping them, and in turn bread for families all over the world. This is my calling, I am the global entrepreneur. And I love advertising, Can We Team Up? What do YOU propose?”
Ahh the NBA finals start tonight – Los Angeles Lakers vs Orlando Magic, should be hell of a game. Now even though these are neither of my teams (I’m Canadian so by default I have to roll with the crappy Raptors), but I am however very patriotic and dedicated to my teams.
Seems like Undefeated in LA are also pretty dedicated to their Lakers. On the day of the big showdown they have released what I believe is a limited run of bright yellow and purple kits featuring “Orlando Sucks”. Pretty harsh, direct and too the point no? Cmon Orlando, what do you guys have in store for when the Lakers roll into Disneyworld? You have to do something now, you can’t get owned like this?
Oh, for the record – I’m going on the record right here. It will be a tough series, Lakers have shown their weaknesses and lack of passion, but they also have the more talented roster and showed promise in the last 2 games against the Nuggets – who I claim to be a better team than the Magic.
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