Viral Contest Campaign Case Study

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 by Jeremy Luebke

Viral Contest Campaign Case Study

I’m a huge fan of case studies. I find it inspiring to hear success stories. Sverre SjÃ¸thun of SEOBomb has posted about his most recent viral campaign success for Crestock.com.

Sverre coordinated a photoshop contest with some very high profile judges and the results were amazing.

Crestock.com got 200,000 unique users from the contest, went on Digg, doubled their average daily traffic after the contest, got over 5000 new customers and increased their organic search engine traffic by 1258% – in one month!

With so much talk about linkbait and social media marketing lately, we tend to forget there has always been that traffic magnet for the web, viral campaigns. They are separate but the same. Most viral campaigns are linkbait but very few pieces of linkbait can be considered viral campaigns.

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9 comments on “Viral Contest Campaign Case Study”

Brian Clark Says:

January 23rd, 2007 at 1:40 pm

>>Most viral campaigns are linkbait but very few pieces of linkbait can be considered viral campaigns.

Well put.
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January 23rd, 2007 at 2:04 pm

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Brian Turner Says:

January 24th, 2007 at 6:02 am

1258% sounds great, unless it’s 1258% of 50, or 10.

Marketers love to spin statistics – that’s why IMO only cold and hard figures will do.

Whenever I see percentiles being presented, a big red flag goes off. Percentiles, IMO, are a common method of putting a big spin on little numbers.

2 cynical British cents.
Sverre SjÃ¸thun Says:

January 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

I hope you understand I can’t be too specific with the numbers, but we’re talking about a substantial increase from an already fairly decent starting point.

I’ll be this specific: They get over 50K but under 100K visits from search per month after the contest.

Sverre
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January 30th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

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