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  • Curated, crowdsourced advertising?

    05 July 2011

    Crowdsourcing is big. Whether it is harnessing the wisdom and enthusiasm of the crowd to design a new toy, or tapping into the creative views of the many in the name of art, the notion of exploiting the latent energy and ideas of your consumer base has become a powerful one for marketers around the world.

    But what about crowdsourced advertising? Or, more specifically, a crowdsourced ad network?

    It's not as crazy as it sounds. It's pretty well-accepted that traditional online ads are annoying. Display banner ads are not really anything but clutter on the landscape of the web. Users don't like them. But - the truth is, it's these ads that make much of what we do on the web possible. Without  advertising, free online content wouldn't be viable. How to solve this intractable contradiction has long been a topic of heated discussion.

    Enter InfluAds, a Copenhagen-based startup, whose elegant solution to this problem is to crowdsource an ad network. Put very simply, the idea seems to be that publishers (blogs, news sites, anything) will create and join networks based on the topics they write about. These networks are attractive to advertisers seeking relevancy for their audience and will thus pay a premium price for targeted exclusivity.  

    It's crowdsourcing meets close curation. It's very zeitgeist.

    Will it work? No idea, but I like it. One to keep an eye on.

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    Posted by: Stuart Lambert

    Tags: Ad exchanges, Business models, Crowd-sourcing

  • A visual explanation of crowdsourcing

    21 June 2011

    Crowdsourcing is all around us, used by brands we use everyday. But what is crowdsourcing and how are companies taking advantage of the powerful collaborative abilities of the internet?

     

    This is a re-post from The Social CMO Blog (@TheSocialCMO) reposted by Mark Burgess @mnburgess co-founder of Blue Focus Marketing

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    Posted by: Juliet P. d'Arguesse

    Tags: Crowd-sourcing

  • VW jumps on the crowd-sourcing “band wagen”

    15 June 2011

    Volkswagen has launched a new real-time crowd-sourcing initiative in Canada to promote its latest Golf.

    Fans will be able to get involved through Facebook, and have the chance to sit in the director’s chair by picking everything from the script, to the car, the cast and the music, as well as getting the chance to edit the spot and have their name featured in the credits.

    The crowd-sourced ad will be the third in a series of ‘Drive Until ________’ ad spots. The first two ads were created by Red Urban Canada and follow a handsome chap in his early thirties as he takes two very important steps in his life...

    Chapter 1: “Courage” – the first ad features the guy driving around in his Golf until he finds the courage to propose to his girlfriend. As he parks up outside her house, the words ‘Drive until you find the courage’ appear on the screen.

     

    Chapter 2: The second ad spot “Time” carries on from the first, where the same guy drives about in his Golf with his three best friends the night before his wedding. As he prepares to head into the church, the words ‘Drive until it’s time’ pop up on the screen.

     

    Chapter 3: And this is where the public comes in... ‘Drive until ________’

    It can’t be too difficult to see where this one is going. He got engaged, he’s now married... Whatever could come next? I’m off to think of a good catch-line...

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    Posted by: Jenni Baker

    Tags: Crowd-sourcing