The Best of the Best

While looking on the Internet for interesting social media stories, I came across this list on the Forbes Magazine Website. What did this list teach me? I need to be more up-to-date on my social media happenings. I recognize only about half of these campaigns. I do not know whether I should be proud of this, that I have not been eating up time on the Internet, or ashamed that I am not up on the trends. But as I think more about it, I realize that every single day a new social media campaign is launched on the Internet, and there is no way to keep up with the pace that they are being launched. I do think this class is making me more aware of the social media world, an important tool as I head into the business world.

The one thing that I find very interesting about this list is "The Blair Witch Project." I never thought of that as a social media campaign. For a film that was released in the late 1990s it was way ahead of its time. If you want to know how this film was really a social media phenomenon, click here.


Forbes list of the 20 best-ever social media campaigns:
“The Blair Witch Project”
Blendtec: ill It Blend?
Old Spice: “Smell Like a Man, Man.”
Burger King: “Subservient Chicken”
Pepsi Refresh
VW: “Fun Theory”
OfficeMax: “Elf Yourself”
Evian: “Roller Babies
Ikea: “Facebook Showroom”
Hotmail
Whopper Sacrifice
Target: “Bullseye Gives”
Vitaminwater
Smirnoff: “Tea Par-tay”
The Dark Knight: Why So Serious?
Quicksilver: “Dynamic Surfing”
Cadbury: Gorilla
BMW: “1 Series Graffit Contest”
Bing/Farmville
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