Krupo

Member since: Apr 29th, 2006

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Simpsons Marketing Campaign on Crack (News Bloggers)

Jul 20th 2007 2:13AM Strange, my URL was recorded incorrectly above.

Simpsons Marketing Campaign on Crack (News Bloggers)

Jul 20th 2007 2:09AM Desperation? Anything that goes wrong with the campaign works in its favour, because you can simply write it off - or attribute it to - the Simpsons' punk ethos.

I got over-charged for Buzz Cola at 7-11. Was I upset? NO!

I ended up getting my money back, gracious apologies from the clerks, and a full-on Apu experience: I was over-charged, gouged if you will, on an unnecessary and already over-priced product.

If you can't appreciate the wicked satire from that blunder, your attitude will be as above.

Loosen up and enjoy the campaign. It's the best media bombardment I've ever experienced. I will be trolling all the local theatres this week to find out who has an advance screening so I can get in.

And you'd better believe OODLES of people will want to see this movie.

As the digg comments point out - internet buzz is rather absolutely meaningless.

Matt Groening Speaks to Jon Stewart About His Relationship With FOX (News Bloggers)

Jul 20th 2007 1:45AM I for one also love the marketing campaign.

We don't have the full-mod 7-11's here, but I bought Buzz Cola and other swag anyway. :)

Windows Genuine Advantage becomes nagware, Office gets it too (Download Squad)

Apr 29th 2006 12:38AM M$ is doing its best to encourage me to switch to Linux/Mac systems; Activation was bad enough, this is getting infuriating.

Dear FCC -Be careful what you ask for. (Blog Maverick)

Apr 16th 2006 11:13PM Interesting points on your site; but you're really focused super-heavily on the 'business' side of this all. Which makes sense, but it overlooks examples where things become popular and whether these instances can be applied to this whole new market. For example, treading over what Wildflower discussed above, consider things that become popular with essentially zero marketing budget - movies which, due to their quality or uniqueness, generate relatively huge audiences. Such as the "Yellow Fever" movie. It's on google video, and is getting much more play than most 'indie' movies, since it's funny, original, and accessible. The production values aren't huge, since it's done on a student budget; some of the humour's cheesy, but that's part of the charm. The connection to all this talk of "widely distributed content"? Perhaps a totally new business model is the only effective way to use the internet. Good things rise to the top through word of mouth, fake-artificial things sink and die.