Verizon’s Fake Flash Mob Viral Ad
posted by ModeratorFiled under: Co-option (If You Can't Beat 'Em...), Publicity Stunts
Submitted by Dolph Starbeam, who says:
It looks like Verizon Wireless is getting into the viral video game. They recently did a flash mob in some park in Atlanta. It’s actually well executed and pretty funny.
Verizon Wireless Surprises Customer
The Verizon “can you hear me guy” and network show up and follow someone around, just like on TV. He and everyone else in the park were [supposedly] taken by surprise.
[Editor’s note: Exactly how was the unsuspecting cell phone user (who was followed by the entire Verizon “Network” through a city park) mic’d so that his voice is heard so clearly?]
