Vancl; Expertly Planning a China Viral Buzz Campaign.

Advertising is maturing; I’ve mentioned before someplace in this blog that the future isn’t the traditional campaign, but rather a series of conversations that take place with users. In its more obvious form this expands toward branded content, where the ratio between entertainment /advertising is about 80 /20. I’ll cover this in-depth in a future post, but now I want to talk about something way simpler.

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  1. k.y.: There certainly is a lot of buzz, but what about? Is this idea still Vancl's when there are more parodies?…

    • Rand: Depends on how you define "success"; most people will know that the ad is a parody of the original vancl…

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