A deep dive into digital marketing

Shake it up baby

Posted by Chris under Advertising, Flash

A good friend of mine just sent this advert for Wii that’s running on YouTube. Check it out. And more here on Adrants blog.

First blush, wow how the heck did they do this. Second look, ahh it’s one big flash file.

Next thought, very cool they made it look like a YouTube page, I wonder if it all works. Drat it doesn’t. So points for keeping the traditional functionality look but a ding for not actually making it work.

Still kudos for the work and to Google/YouTube for letting them do it.

YouTube Security?

Posted by Chris under Security, YouTube

Way too many clicks this morning to, check if this real or an ingenious art project (I even looked at MySpace TOS, well not that thoroughly). But here it is:
Has someone pimped you on MySpace and created a fake account of you, how’s a goth girl to prove she’s the real deal. Well according to these posts, track backed to death but I’ll start with ValleyWag, in order to prove ownership of a MySpace account, the company asks users to film themselves reading their account number to the camera. Brad Troemel assembled a number of these clips into Proof, a mesmerizing look into MySpace’s user base.

True or not it’s a strange reflection of either Brad or our times since the images he pulled from the larger collection seem to have a certain genre of heavy mascara, early Avril, emo/goth/punk chick-a-do’s. That and it feels like an idea concocted by some admins, as in: dude let’s have chicks video themselves to prove they’re who they are. Yeah it’s for their own security right.

Ohh, still on topic, my wandering search was paid off, in that Brad Troemel has some pretty interesting other photography on his site