Hollywood may not be as dumb as you think
Today’s LA Times has a piece on the ensuing Lonelygirl15 controversy, one of Youtube’s best known starlets may in fact be a brilliant viral marketing ploy:
No one has publicly come forward to lay claim to her work, but she is starting to look as connected in Hollywood as any starlet. Three lonelygirl15-obsessed amateur Web sleuths set up a sting using tracking software that appears to show that e-mails sent from a lonelygirl15 account came from inside the offices of the Beverly Hills-based talent agency Creative Artists Agency.
Now that User Generated Content has lowered acceptable standards for entertainment, content can be created for incredibly cheap amounts and distributed for free off the backs of free ‘net video providers like Youtube.
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lonelygirl15 on the local TV news--
http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=51970
Posted by on 09/09 at 12:26 PM
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