In May 2007, 42 Entertainment began a viral marketing campaign utilizing the film’s “Why So Serious?” tagline.
A transmedia experiment with over 10 million particpants in over 75 countres that played across hundreds of web pages, interactive games, mobile phones, print, email, real worl events, video and unique collectibles
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A couple of ads glenn miller has put out in order to get into senate. Can’t believe this is real.
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There’s Probably No God! – Richard Dawkins, Ariane Sherine And The Atheist Bus Ad Campaign.
The atheist bus journey
by Ariane Sherine, Guardian
Thanks to you we raised enough money to put ads on 800 buses across the UK, and the campaign has gone global
Today, thanks to many Cif readers, the overall total raised for the Atheist Bus Campaign stands at a truly overwhelming £135,000, breaking our original target of £5,500 by over 2400%. Given this unexpected amount, I’m very excited to tell you that 800 buses instead of the 30 we were initially aiming for are now rolling out across the UK with the slogan, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life”, in locations all over England, Scotland and Wales, including Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, York, Cardiff, Devon, Leeds, Bristol and Aberdeen.
From today’s launch, two hundred of the buses will run in London, because the campaign was originally started as a positive counter-response to the Jesus Said ads running on London buses in June 2008. These ads displayed the URL of a website which stated that non-Christians “will be condemned to everlasting separation from God and then you spend all eternity in torment in Jesus spoke about this as a lake of fire prepared for the devil”. Our rational slogan will hopefully reassure anyone who has been scared by this kind of evangelism.
In addition, we’re running adverts on two further types of media. In my last Cif blog on the campaign, I asked Cif readers for ideas on alternative ways to spend the funds, and also for thoughts on different slogans. Commenters WoollyMindedLiberal, PaoloV and Catch22 suggested that we use quotes from famous freethinkers, and we’ve done just that: from Monday January 12, 1,000 tube cards will run on London Underground featuring atheist quotations from Douglas Adams, Albert Einstein, Emily Dickinson and Katharine Hepburn (see above), alongside the original campaign slogan.
An animated version of the slogan will also appear on two large LCD screens on Oxford Street (opposite Bond Street tube station), so that you can see the advert live without having to wait for an atheist bus. And, to thank all donors and show the strength of atheism in the UK, every ABC advertisement will contain the line “This advert was funded by public donations”.
Amazingly, the campaign has now gone international. Spain’s Union of Atheists and Freethinkers are launching buses across Barcelona today with a translation of our slogan, Italy’s Union of Atheist, Agnostics and Rationalists are also planning to roll out atheist buses, while the American Humanist Association have been inspired to launch a campaign, and buses carrying their slogan “Why believe in a God? Just be good for goodness’ sake” have now been running for over a month in Washington DC. Sadly, not every country has been so open to the idea: the Atheist Foundation of Australia tried to place the slogan “Atheism celebrate reason” on buses, but were rejected by Australia’s biggest outdoor advertising company.
The campaign’s success is thanks to Cif and Cif readers. If Matt Seaton hadn’t allowed me to run with the idea here, and so many of you hadn’t been so enthusiastic about it and donated generously to it, it would never have happened. There may be further campaign developments, and the campaign website and Facebook group will be regularly updated with the latest news; but for now, I hope you enjoy seeing the adverts on the streets, and that they brighten these bleak January days just a little bit. As Charlie Brooker one of the first people to donate to the Atheist Bus Campaign says: “Public transport in Britain suggests there isn’t a God anyway, but in case anyone hasn’t noticed, or feels isolated for thinking such a thing, this campaign should help.” I hope it does.
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Greg Lenth and Morgan Miller’s New Politics and Media project. This video covers Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign during the month of October.
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Scott Stanzel responds to the April 8, 2010, POLITICO Arena topic: Media bias or campaign contributions – which are worse?
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Sudan’s controversial presidential election race has been shunned by most of the opposition parties, but one politician is determined to stay the course
Fatma Abdelmahmood is one of 11candidates challenging Omar Al Bashir for the job he’s held for 20 years.
Mohammed Adow followed the 65-year-old doctor as she campaigned in Khartoum.
April 5 2010
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A discussion by the Newsnight talking heads on what the UK’s 2010 general election campaigns could look like.
Recorded from Newsnight, 04 January 2010.
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MANNY VILLAR IN DESPERATE CAMPAIGN IN YOUTUBE USING PACQUIAO AND FREDDIE ROACH NAMES IN POLITICS
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i have an idea for a line of commercials. but i’m not affiliated with the company the idea is for. also if i do get these commercials out there what can i expect to be paid?
So let me get this straight… You have an idea for some commercials, and now you need a product or service to go with that idea?
I’d go ahead and try and make a low budge version of the commercials with good digital home video equipment and PC editing software. Try and get as close to realizing your idea as you can with a limited budget.
You might want to put some clip on the Internet and try and gather public opinion on the ads and if they prove catchy. Next take your work to the ad agency that the company in question has hired to promote their products.
Most importantly you should know that unless your idea is 100% phenomenally fantastic and revolutionary it will be rejected. They may not want to have anything to do with your idea because it didn’t come from them. They might try and discourage you in order to keep to keep you from becoming competition.
