Jay Funk Dawg Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 Hey Y'all I've been keeping quiet about the Hypercube contest, but new evidence is surfacing almost every week, that I need to share, and hopefully make sense of. These links below are very telling about how the social media experiment that Nissan was undertaken was seriously flawed. I'm very shocked to read all this - you should be too! http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Hypercube - On this wiki style site - They comically go through the winners and they connect the dots that many of the winners were friends of the judges. The site alone has cause major controversy and has been getting tweeted and retweeted - causing major marketing journals and journalists to take notice. And this entry describes Nissan's attempt to contain and deny any wrong doing in a chronological order each day after the contest closed. http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Hypercube_Aftermath It mentions that at least 2 people have brought the flaws to the Canadian Contest Governing Body. I had an experience at the final party that also gave me the impression that the marketing company had set up the winners. also: Controversy Cubed http://www.marketingmag.ca/english/news/marketer/article.jsp?content=20090805_174002_6332 in this article they say... “ In mid-July, a long post went up on the wiki-style muckraking website EncyclopediaDramatica.com accusing Nissan and Capital C of a variety of ethical lapses in the running of the Hypercube contest. Given that the arguments made in the Encyclopedia Dramatica post features more circumstantial evidence and crude language than hard facts—and isn’t even backed up by an author’s byline—the post didn’t exactly meet the generally accepted definition of a reliable source. Nissan and Capital C might have reasonably expected it to create only a small ripple. But one particular accusation proved to have more than just a little grain of truth—the fact that a handful of Cube winners appeared to have links to the judging panel. Judge Leanne Pelosi in particular has connections to at least three winners, one of whom, Jeff Keenan, was alleged by Encyclopedia Dramatica to be her boyfriend. also check this: http://www.tribemagazine.com/board/showthread.php?t=155052 go to twitter and look up #thehypercube this is crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Sanchez Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 Glad your on the case Sherlock! We need closure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 I knew this was a scam right from day 1. That's why I didn't bother voting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 Who's got my heady "Scam / Fiasco" Nissan Hypercube design?Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 I saw a Hypercube thing on the road yesterday. Gotta say, that and the "Smart" car look like sandals with socks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 twitter will save the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAlphaNerd Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 OH NOESthe internet lied to us all!@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gentlemonkey Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 The real fiasco is that you didn't know a judge before entering this! its nepotism maaaan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartamophone Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 Wow.If a contest run by a major automaker designed almost solely to create hype around one of their new projects and resulting in people spamming their friends' in-boxes with free advertising wasn't done completely objectively and on a level playing field, then I don't know who we can trust anymore.Jay, I know you would have done great things with that car, and I know that you didn't get a fair shot despite putting a ton of effort into this, but I don't think it's shocking that this marketing campaign contest wasn't done on the up and up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 I heard the US Gov't planned nineeleven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAlphaNerd Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 (edited) I heard the US Gov't planned nineeleven.i heard they planned seveneleven Edited August 13, 2009 by Guest I can't spell for suck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaggyBalls Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 No, Booche - they executed it too. And it was all leading up to taking a huge chunk out of the Toronto Reggae/funk/Jam scene's potential to create world peace.fucking bilderbergers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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