You know how songs and beats and riffs sometimes get stuck in your head on loop? This is what’s going roundabout in mine this week:
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BenDunne.com – viral marketing or careless execution?
Since spotting tweets about the suspect ads on BenDunne.com at lunch time, it seems there’s been no let up in the spamming of the website and seemingly no efforts made to stop it either.
It’s got me wondering if it’s some kind of stab at a “viral marketing” campaign or a hugely embarrassing spotlight on an overlooked step in the website’s ad posting process. I’m inclined to think it’s the latter and if so I can’t understand how a brand as (seemingly) big as Ben Dunne would fail to monitor or take action on such a potentially damaging situation.
I have to admit to taking some pleasure in the humour of some of the supposed ads, particularly after having endured the awkward and somewhat irritating ads on the radio for the website that were being run repeatedly before the website ever got up and running at all. It did provide some light relief from the dreaded Budget coverage online also.
How long will it take for the spam to be stopped? Is there anybody watching? One thing’s for sure, Ben is going to see quite a spike in his traffic analytics – let’s just hope he doesn’t count the extra few hundred or thousand hits as a milestone and fuel for his next radio ad.
BenDunne.com – no such thing as a free ad?
Why, yes there is! Free ads on BenDunne.com until the 18th of December. No fees, no catches and by the looks of things, no vetting either.
Poor old BenDunne.com is getting spammed like it’s going out of fashion. Twenty Major has been following some of the fun as have the robots on BeenDunne.com
Well it certainly lifted my spirits ;P
Budget day – C’mon Everybody!
From the ‘Self Aid’ gig in 1986. For those of us too young to remember Self Aid, here’s the Wikipedia story:
“Self Aid was a benefit concert held in Dublin, Ireland on 17 May 1986. The purpose of the concert was to highlight the chronic unemployment problem in Ireland at the time, with nearly 250,000 people unemployed. The 14 hour concert was the largest that had ever been staged in Ireland.”
Dolly Mixture 02.12.09
This made me giggle yesterday:
I’m loving David’s daily Lego Advent Calendar and the fact that he’s got snow on his blog
Check out the National Concert Hall for fantastic festive events and performances over the next few weeks
Devious Theatre‘s latest work Accidental Death of an Anarchist kicks off tonight – good luck folks!
Etsy’s Holiday Guide