Flickr, A New Tool for Targeted Marketing
A movie production company added me as a contact through Flickr last night. I looked through the pictures on their account, and noticed the labels were quite odd. The shots were awkwardly titled using the name of their latest motion picture. Say the movie is called “Gronky”, and its big star is “Intellectually Bankrupt”. A photo’s title would read, “Intellectually Bankrupt signing an autograph - GRONKY”. It took me about two minutes before I realized that this was sophisticated spam. I subsequently sent an email to Flickr’s abuse address regarding the offender.
I respect the brilliance of this subversive advertising as it probably wasn’t just a random spamming. The marketers may have targeted their message because my profile lists me as a fan of one of the stars of their movie. I can’t believe that Flickr would sell profile data in bulk to guerilla marketers, however, the scenario is plausible. Either way, the movie production house is now a dirty spammer who must be destroyed at all costs.
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Wow. A step up from Myspace camwhore spam.
Yeah, I haven’t got any of those in quite a while. Rupert must have shut them down.
Flickr reminds of that movie Flicka, or was that A Horse named Flicka, or maybe it was like the flea-flickr in football. You know in once in 1992 we used the flea-flicr play 17 times resulting in 32 touchdowns and 12 total yards. Go figure never thought that would come up in conversation. When you say “Gronky” are you trying to use that there what they call alliteration or some literary thinga mo bob. Cause I think what you wanted to say was Honky, like some kind of white bread chicken sh*t that’s off making movies while I’m in the freakin war. 74 charlies on my arse running through a damn land mine field i’m dodging left right, them sum bingos can’t hit Haxballas. You know why … cause I was filled on Spam and had to sh*t like you don’t know, we are talking a big pile. Good talking to you … share alot of similiar interests. We should meet ———>