Comments on: How To Launch a NSFW Site On Mainstream Video Sites

By: billboard pro

billboard pro — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:06:30 +0000

Pure slutty genious w/ the skin billboards. Makes me want to drop my perception of morality in the can and make some scrilly-scratch

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:45:40 +0000

You gotta write it on somewhere other than the forehead though…and ya gotta be a pretty female for it to work.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:30:12 +0000

I thought it was a clever marketing ploy. Maybe it’ll turn into a fad and everyone will go nuts with sharpies, writing their website on their forehead?

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 20 May 2007 12:01:10 +0000

Yeah this was easy to get on top of digg, which is mostly made up of 825,000 13 – 15 year olds pubescent boys.

Even the top blogs couldn’t help but posting it up, because then there readers would say – Why didn’t you post it up? Like they’re obliged to.

Magic Marker Marketing indeed!

By: Maki

Maki — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:23:37 +0000

I liked the video. I’m sure Good Magazine would have gotten a lot more traffic if their URL was written on the woman’s body instead of being placed as an afternote.

I was one of those who typed in her URL instead of Good Magazine’s for some reason.. damn masculine reflex. ^-^

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By: guilherme

guilherme — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:12:15 +0000

great ideas!

By: Bucky

Bucky — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:39:31 +0000

Magic Marker Marketing…. I like that. :)

I guess the challenge is finding a hot and willing participant…well, maybe not to much of a challenge.

$$ talks!

By: mblair

mblair — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:30:34 +0000

Pretty clever.. I guess you could call this MMM (magic marker marketing).

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:20:11 +0000

This is not specific to the industry, but more the power of a URL mentioned in a video that went viral.

Something similar would be possible for other industries, possibly not with quite enough success, or potentially more if it would actually generate links.

I did see one internet marketing blog attribute all this traffic to the video appearing on John Chow’s blog.

I think appearing on Techcrunch, and the listings above might have played a larger role.