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venturebeat消息:zynga装甲车爆破吸引了超过200万次点击

发布时间:2010-08-24 11:12:42 Tags:,,

上周,Zynga公司正式加入到了视频游戏营销的大联盟之中。为了记录其最新游戏Mafia Wars Las Vegas的发售,该公司在拉斯维加斯外的沙漠上引爆了一辆装甲车。该宣传举措可以与艺电有限公司(EA)或暴雪相媲美,这两家公司一向以游戏营销为名做出各种惊悚的特技表演。

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据Zynga宣称,当说唱歌手Snoop Doggy扣动扳机,引爆重达4吨的车辆时,有200多万的观众参与了Ustream的实况转播。在实况转播视频排行榜中,Zynga的这一视频仅次于6月Ustream播放的暮光之城3:月食。

该视频的收视率可以和黄金时段的电视节目不相上下。上周三,《The Office》和《30 Rock 》的收视观众数均为200万户,而Zynga的特技表演则领先于Parks和Recreation(170万户),SpotrsCenter(68万户),Tosh(55万户)。zynga将在该游戏中向63万1千名用户无偿赠送一辆虚拟装甲车。

zynga是否会变得同EA一样惊世骇俗实在是令人好奇。去年EA因为其游戏但丁:炼狱(Dante’s Inferno)“放纵欲望”(优胜者可以享受到“丰盛的晚餐,豪华车接送服务,狗仔队的簇拥,与两位火辣美女一夜风流)活动不当而不得不向公众道歉。

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我们尚不清楚zynga为这一装甲车引爆投入多少资金,但该公司显然觉得这一举措物有所值。

Last week, Zynga entered the big leagues of video game marketing. To mark the launch of its Mafia Wars Las Vegas game, the company blew up a real armored car in the desert outside Las Vegas. It was an event worthy of Electronic Arts or Activision Blizzard, which have been known to do outrageous stunts in the name of marketing games.

Zynga says that more than 2 million viewers joined the live Ustream video of the event as rapper Snoop Dogg pulled the trigger that ignited the explosion of the 4-ton vehicle. In terms of live streamed events, Zynga’s was surpassed only by Ustream’s broadcast of Twilight: Eclipse in June.

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The numbers rivaled prime-time TV viewership. Last Thursday, TV views of The Office and 30 Rock were 2 million households each. Zynga’s stunt was a bigger draw than Parks and Recreation (1.7 million households), Sportscenter (683,000 households) and Tosh.o (550,000 households). Zynga gave 631,000 users a free virtual armored truck in the game.

It will be interesting to see if Zynga becomes as outrageous as EA, which got into hot water when it ran a contest for its Dante’s Inferno game last year to get gamers to “commit acts of lust” with models working at the San Diego Comic-Con event and then submit photos via social network sites. The winner would receive a “dinner and a sinful night with two hot girls, a limo service, paparazzi, and a chest full of booty.” (EA had to apologize for that one).

It’s not clear how much it cost Zynga to blow up the armored car. But the company clearly feels it got its money’s worth out of the event.(source:venturebeat)


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