guest post by Doctor Popular
“In a year of firsts for presidential candidates, a phenomenon that’s taking even seasoned analysts by surprise. A growing grassroots movement, born on the internet, to elect a virtual unknown to the highest office in the country.”
The brilliant folks at Paltalk have created an awesome viral video campaign that allows anyone to insert their own name into a newsreel about America’s next hot presidential candidate, for instance “Frank Chu”.
The video is slickly produced and the customizable graphics fool most folks upon first watch. To create your own campaign news footage, go to news3online.com and follow the steps to either email a video to your friends or create an embeddable flash file. Note: To embed the file in WordPress, you may need to turn off your WYSIWYG editor in your WP options before posting.
Despite titling their page “Viral marketing interface”, the advertising is actually minimal and non-obtrusive, they don’t even require a sign up or email. Kudos on the cool prank.
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Even thoughI first saw this over a month ago, having Frank Chu run for president just makes sense.
i think its a swell video