Spraypainting London with biohazard signs and the wrong URL
Viral Marketing
Originally uploaded by Mark McLaughlin.
Picture the scene. You're part of a guerilla marketing team dedicated to finding out new ways to promote a killer-virus movie. Thus, someone has the bright shiny idea of spraying biohazard signs all over London. Great idea, full marks.
But how do you tie in the biohazard sign with the movie? Ahaaa, you say, you'll stick a web address at the bottom of the biohazard sign. This will signify to one and all that it's not a *real* biohazard - because heavens to Betsy, sticking a real biohazard sign in London would just cause panic amongst the populace.
Two ever-so-tiny flaws with this plan:
1. Spraying isn't exactly pollution or health-risk free, y'know. Plus, who's going to clean it up?
2. Someone on the marketing team forgot to knock heads with someone on the web team, and erm... actually buy the web domain in question. So take a look at what www.ragevirus.com actually does...