The run up to Christmas is seeing some really creative blogger campaigns. For a start, Three has given five “mobile mums” a smart phone to see how the technology changes their lives. In conjunction with Bounty they sent out a call for mums to participate. The result was a wide mix of mums from Scotland to the South East. As part of the promotion, the mums will appear in OK Magazine over the course of four weeks.
Five seems to be a lucky number, and eBay has set five mum bloggers against each other in an eBay Christmas challenge. Bloggers were given £250 to find the best bargains on the auction site. A special Facebook app was created so that fans could help search out and recommend items for the bloggers. The mum blogger with the most creativity and the Facebook fan that helps the most will both win prizes.
Next turned to mum bloggers to help publicise their nationwide search to find two new “super baby models”. The whole campaign took place on Facebook, where fans were encouraged to determine the top 24 babies. Bloggers were given a £30 Next voucher as a thank you for helping to promote the competition.
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Liz Burton
Monday 22nd of November 2010
Just curious to hear from any other bloggers who took on the Next Baby Competition. I wrote the post, but also emailed the promoters before posting outlining my fears about 'voting' comps on Facebook- which indidentally are against Facebook regulations. I mentioned some of my views about voting comps in the blog post itself. After a few days when the competition was clearly becoming a fiasco, I contacted the PR company to say I wished to distance myself from it and would be withdrawing my post. I wasn't happy about press reports concerning discrimination, wild internet rumours, the technical difficulties the organisers were having not to mention the outrageous behaviour from some of the people who entered their child. Not something I wanted to recommend my readers to participate in. They thanked me for my feedback, for taking the time to write the post in the first place, and outlined what they were doing to address the problems. However, I felt the damage had already been done. Oh, and of course I never got 'paid' despite doing the initial work ;0) Views anyone?