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Lame, this is a self-link viral experiment by a marketing company:
http://brandopia.blogspot.com/2006/05/viral-experiment-2.html

HI Dag,
why is this lame? We made a nice little video for one of our clients and are posting it on video sharing websites. We are not paying anybody to blog about it, neither are we rating (or clicking like maniacs on the video) the video ourselves. We bring 30 seconds of entertainment (if you don't like the video that's something else) to anybody who wants it. We are not interrupting anybody, such as is the case with tv ads or pop-ups. Always happy to discuss this further with you. How is this different from you posting the Apple vs MS ads on this site, except that you don't work for either of them? The difference on our side is that our client doesn't have the budget to pay huge amounts of money to run it on tv or advertise it through banners. We had a small budget, made the video and wanted to share with the rest... in the hope that people will like it and (of course) think of TGV or visit tgv.com. We're really trying to be honest and transparent here (which is also the reason for my posting on my blog).

Geert

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Please read our posting guidelines.

This is a community site, and not a distribution point for marketing companies trying to get the most exposure possible for their client.

The deletion says nothing about the quality of the content itself, but the motives of you the poster.

Hi Dag,

you have a point, but where is the line between the marketing company posting an ad they made or one of your members posting an ad they found on the Internet, and I'm not talking about copyright issues! If we wouldn't have played it fair and I would have let my little nephew post the video it would be accepted, no?

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I'm not talking about copyright issues at all. If one of our members had found your video and posted it because they thought it was great - then there is no problem.

The problem I have is with your intent. This is your video, and you posted it to a community site where it's against the rules to post your own stuff. It's as simple as that.

Sure there have probably been quite a few videos that have been posted by viral marketers like yourself and made it past us. But we do our best to find these (and have found quite a few), and use all the tools we have to try and stop it.

OK, valid point. So if we post it to Google video and somebody from your community (who is not a marketeer) posts it on Videosift it's OK. Thanks for your feedback and succes with your community.