╠ One person can change the world ╣

A lot of importance in advertising is placed on viewer totals or hits. I think there is a fault in this though. One individual could easily be worth more or less value than another. Especially with your average internet hoax style campaign everything is rated in 'If they paid for it it would be worth...'.

This seems to be a huge mistake because it ignores the value of an individual. The individual value of a viewer or 'hit' is made up of two components. Their personal value attributed to the effectiveness of the ad on them as well as who they pass their thoughts onto.

The first point is how well a consumer fits into your target market however I want to talk more on the second. This is probably where most value is found. One person can affect others. Especially with the resilience that Gen Y faces to general advertisements peers and family members can be a huge influence. Certain people would obviously influence more people. An example of this would be someone like myself, as a marketing student people seem to believe what I say more as I have what is perceived as an expert in the market. However there are people who influence me, lectures, tutors and the louder of the student body.

An example of this is that we were discussing car brands in a lecture and someone yelled out that Toyota were unreliable. Personally I believe the opposite however as someone who doesn't have my own insight I can't help but take this thought on board even if just subconsciously.

So a hit could be say a lecturer who will pass this information on to many of the target market or it could be a random outside the target who will pass it onto noone. Hits are too random to attribute real value to. When trying online activities we all still need to remember, messages are useless if they are not hitting the right targets. People are individuals and hit numbers do not completely represent this.

╠ Viral Entertainment Vs. Product Integrity ╣

This is a bit old but some of you probably saw the original Powerthirst commercial that went so viral on the internet that it even made it onto the Gruen Transfer for being an interesting attempt at advertising a drink. The original video was created to be entertaining and not for a real product. However it became so successful that from it 400 babies were sporn, one of which was.



Brawndo is a real energy drink which can be purchased in America. I haven't seen too many more stories on it to see how succesful it is, however I did notice that my favourite online geek store had picked it up and now sell it to their American audience.

This is an interesting product launch because it is more focused on the entertainment than the product initially than the more common variety of having a product and then trying to entertain to sell it. It is also an interesting ad because via normal methods you have to be truthful in advertising however this ad claims the near impossible. Is this product simply too out there to be taken seriously enough to be in trouble, immune because it is using the internet as its advertising medium or could their unique approach to stating the benefits of the product end them up in trouble with consumer affairs?