A Christmas Miracle in Real-Time: YouTube’s feel-good holiday sensation

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“A virtual Santa, 175 WestJet volunteers, 16 cameras in 3 airports and one on a plane, set up a miracle for the passengers of two Calgary-bound flights.” Canadian airline WestJet and studio m created a heartwarming campaign that couldn’t help but become viral. It touched all the bases: the joy of giving, the excitement of those receiving and […]

The Key Ingredients of the Best Digital Campaigns of 2012

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How to make your videos as shareable as possible for ad agency new business. I had the opportunity to meet the video team for McDougall Interactive Marketing in Boston. They excel in creating viral videos. Their work has been seen on MTV, G4, and Comedy Central. One of their recent creations, a comedy video, “Cat-Friend […]

Forbes: 20 Best-Ever Social Media Campaigns

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“The Blair Witch Project” has been ranked by Forbes and a panel of marketing experts as the best social media campaign of its type. Other social-media campaigns making this “best-ever” list include Old Spice’s “Smell Like a Man, Man,” Burger King’s “Subservient Chicken” and OfficeMax’s “Elf Yourself.”

Build Ad Agency New Business Virally

Viral marketing campaigns are a great way to generate awareness for your agency and provide opportunities for agency new business. Instead of happenstance, viral marketing is becoming a science. An emerging industry dedicated to understanding what makes marketing viral. GoViral, is just one example of a company that specializes in launching viral campaigns by ”seeding” clips […]