Be careful who you swear at on the train.

Evangelion said:
Transparent attempt at viral marketing. The Beeb is really slipping if they fell something so obvious.
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It happens all the time. Basically newsrooms these days, across both print and TV news, are so overstretched that they rely on PR press releases for a lot of their stories. A lot of the time they literally just copy and paste the press release directly into their own news story; some of the more scrupulous ones will make at least some effort to add some of their own words around the content. Almost none of them will check for the truth of the matter.

Read Flat Earth News by Nick Davies (the guy who broke the News of the World hacking scandal). It's really depressing how common this sort of thing is, even in the BBC.
 
Just wondering if this example is also viral marketing:

Every now and then on Facebook there will be a post saying something like "Look what this judge does next on a talent show" and when you click it is a scene from 5 years ago.
The latest one was yesterday and it linked to a young lad on Australia's The Voice from at least 15 months ago.
Are these viral ads?
 
When i was a lot younger and dumber i was raging behind a Micra driver and flashing my lights like a proper **** to press on when i saw the car turn into my parents road and into their driveway. Mum got rid of her old green polo and got a brand new Gray Micra that week and i forgot :D. She thought i was just signalling to say hello so i left it at that :D
 
Dimple said:
Just wondering if this example is also viral marketing:

Every now and then on Facebook there will be a post saying something like "Look what this judge does next on a talent show" and when you click it is a scene from 5 years ago.
The latest one was yesterday and it linked to a young lad on Australia's The Voice from at least 15 months ago.
Are these viral ads?
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That's clickbait and it's designed to generate the maximum amount of pageviews to get advertising money, that's why so many of them are 'The 10 most crazy endings to movies you haven't seen!' followed by you needing to click through 10 pages to see each one.
 
Kenai said:
That's clickbait and it's designed to generate the maximum amount of pageviews to get advertising money, that's why so many of them are 'The 10 most crazy endings to movies you haven't seen!' followed by you needing to click through 10 pages to see each one.
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Thanks
 
Justintime said:
When i was a lot younger and dumber i was raging behind a Micra driver and flashing my lights like a proper **** to press on when i saw the car turn into my parents road and into their driveway. Mum got rid of her old green polo and got a brand new Gray Micra that week and i forgot :D. She thought i was just signalling to say hello so i left it at that :D
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I did something similar back in 1983.
We'd just bought a new house and I was making my way to it when a car pulled straight out on me so I started to flash my lights and give rude signs he could see in his rear view mirror.
He turned left and I took the next left 200 yards further on and we met in the middle because he was my new next door neighbour.
We just said hello and I have no idea if he knew it was the idiot behind him :D
 
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