Posted by Peter Brady on Thu 12th July 2007 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Viral Marketing
If you’re a brand looking to utilise a viral element to your blog marketing you should take a look at the Simpsons Avatar page for the forthcoming movie.
The opportunity to generate your own Simpsons likeness has not only swept through the blogosphere, but is also fast making inroads into it’s target audience. Something that must be the aim all marketing campaigns.
The interesting thing is that I actually saw this process in action recently. Having heard about the Simpsons Avatar I introduced it to my nieces and nephews who avidly created their own likenesses. A week later I understand their friends and freinds of friends have done the same and by all accounts the craze is also sweeping through their respective schools.
The power of viral marketing never ceases to amaze me.
Here’s my avatar below:
If you’re interested in creating your own avatar go to the downloads page on the Simpsons Movie web site.
The revolution is here! Or at least that’s the way it feels in light of the latest research from eMarketer.
As old media continues to decline, people media such as blogs and Social Networks look set to become big business over the next 5 years.
According to Media Week:
“Ad spending on Web sites that have built their traffic on user-gen staples like social networking, photo sharing and amateur video is expected to soar to $4.3 billion in 2011, according to a new report issued by eMarketer. That’s a whopping increase of 330 percent versus the $1 billion expected to be spent in the space this year – which is itself more than double the $450 million in ad revenue tracked by eMarketer in 2006.”
There were fears that this sea change in user generated content would run out of steam and ad revenues with it. However, a rapidly growing army of marketers and PR companies are realising how this brave new world is here to stay. Why? Simply because the figures are now speaking volumes:
eMarketer has estimated that by 2011, there will be 95 million Web users creating content online, up from 64 million last year.
The point to note from this is that users do not only generate, they also consume content. That’s a growing and powerful target audience for business to tap into. The demographic of these users is interesting too. We know they are predominantly young, discerning early adopters - viral heaven!
