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Raunchy User Generated Video Sure to Horrify Both Political Camps

pillowfight.pngIt's raunchy, it's funny, and it's sure to horrify the humorless Obama and Giuliani campaign machines. The follow up to "I Got a Crush on Obama" is here: “Debate ‘08: Obama Girl vs. Giuliani Girl,” where consumer generated content once again far outshines anything candidates are producing - with the exception of Hillary's Sopranos send up.

A political pillow fight between girls in scanty clothes, 'Obama Girl', (Amber Lee Ettinger,) tells 'Guiliani Girl', (Adelina Kristina) "at least Obama didn't marry his cousin." The video, posted yesterday, got so much traffic it temporarily brought down the site of the videos producers, a href="http://barelypolitical.com/">Barely Political. There's even a trailer, here.

We're still over a year from the election, and as the campaign ramps up, you'll be seeing a lot more user generated videos, pro and con. But they'll all be hard pressed to beat the first Obama girl video.

Posted by B.L. Ochman


Categories: Viral Marketing
BL Ochman | Jul 17 07 10:23 | TrackBack (0)

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Power to the people. Or power to the "Pro-sumers" Producing Consumers. Like all art it is a reflection and commentary on the times.

While I think the camps are acting horrified, the videos are gaining recognition with voters who may not have known either of the candidate... and yes sadly there are people in American who still lack the awareness of who is running.

Posted by: Joanna Pena-Bickley at July 17, 2007 11:22 PM

You're surely right that there are people who don't know or care who's running. that's scary!

but i really think the campaign teams are afraid of humor or parody and so they ignore the videos even though they aren't going to stop being produced.

Posted by: B.L. Ochman at July 18, 2007 8:22 AM

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B.L. Ochman, Managing Director of Emerging Media for Proof Integrated Communications, the digital marketing arm of Burson-Marsteller, has been helping Fortune 500 companies strategically incorporate new media into their marketing mix since 1996.

She contributes to Ad Age Digital Next, Mashable, Business Week and others. On Twitter, she is @whatsnext.

She is co-founder of the pet lovers' site and blog, Pawfun.com - where you can create and send free photo e-cards of your pets and create a variety of great products featuring your pet’s photo.

This is my personal blog, where I share my own thoughts and opinions, which do not represent the views of Proof or its clients.






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