Was The Mad Men Twitter Takedown Part Of An Advertising Strategy?
from the reverse-streisand? dept
We've talked about the concept of a reverse Streisand Effect, where a company purposely pretends to be outraged and demands to take something down in order to generate more attention for it, and now there's some evidence suggesting that last week's DMCA takedown notices for the "fake" Mad Men Twitter accounts may have been part of AMC's own marketing strategy. Buried at the bottom of a NY Times article about what happened, there's a hint that the whole thing was planned out, as following a request from the Times reporter, Brian Stelter, to one of the "fake" users for an interview, that character "referred all questions to Deep Focus, a Web marketing agency that works for AMC."Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: commercials, mad men, reverse streisand effect, streisand effect, takedowns
Companies: amc, twitter
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Why "reverse"?
Not really important, just curious.
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Streisand Effect
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DMCA Abuse?
While there might not be any direct harm done here, it does bother me that the same media organizations that aggressively use DMCA -- in ways that often undermine fair use -- would then turn around and use DMCA mechanisms in a patently fraudulent way for the sole purpose of generating free publicity.
There should be a way to punish companies that play these sort of games with the DMCA.
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Re: DMCA Abuse?
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I suspect that this business process has already been patented.
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Deep Focus
They were already mentioned in the linked article in your previous post about this (8/26/08)
Supposedly, Deep Focus "encouraged" AMC to rescind their take-down assault.
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BTW The story revolves around a PR firm so I doubt some of the marketing nuance of a Streisand effect is not lost. Although it is set in 1960 before this interweb thing came along.
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Re: Deep Focus
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Good Show . . .
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Mad Men
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