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Post-it Pranks

November 8th, 2007 by Edward Dron

If you do a quick search on Youtube for Post-it Notes, you’ll find a large collection of videos where people are using Post-it Notes to orchestrate pranks. I don’t know if some of these videos are the work of a marketing department; however, as a viral marketing concept, there’s a number of things I like about it:

  1. The fun nature of these videos translate into a favorable brand image.
  2. It has the potential to inspire others to do their own prank.
  3. It’s easy to do.
  4. After completing a prank, people might want to post it on the web.
  5. It encourages people to use up a lot of Post-It Notes.
  6. They’re interesting enough to watch that YouTube visitors might share them with their friends…or post it on their blog.

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It would be great if 3M had a Post-It prank contest to display and encourage all this creativity.

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See more pranks.

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2 Responses

  1. Mario Parisé Says:

    I agree that if a PR person isn’t behind this, they should be. BUT, there is the potential environmental backlash for wasting so many Post-Its.

  2. Edward Dron Says:

    That’s too funny. I guess we do live in a different world now.

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