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By Dabitch
Created Aug 8 2006 - 12:05

Like Tim over at Adfreak [1] we too received an email from someone who said:

Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:51:01 -0700
From: Dan Mulder
To: hostmaster*ad-rag
Subject: News: Pop Secret Mountain user generated ads

It appears a group of users who love Pop Secret popcorn have a created a new website showcasing short films, ringtones, and a crazy character called Kaptain Kat at http://www.PopSecretMountain.com/ [2]. They say they aren't making a dime on the website, but is merely a creative tribute to the popcorn they love. It's a fine example of what the user generated ad space could become.

Cheers, Dan

And that pretty much makes our delete-button-pushing-finger twitch so we ignored it as we do with all coy little lying emails that claim "someone else did it" and "they didn't get a dime". Yah, rrrright. Sure.
The only reason we're posting this now is because someone at Adfreak pointed out that the pop secret stuff comes from yourmediacoverage/projects [3]. "Your Media Coverage was founded to create creative commercials, films, television programming and cutting edge Internet content" reads their about [4] page. That's nice guys. Please grow up, next time you submit something to ad sites like this one, do us all a favor and take credit for your work.


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Links:
[1] http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2006/08/whats_the_deal_.html
[2] http://www.PopSecretMountain.com/
[3] http://yourmediacoverage.com/projects/
[4] http://yourmediacoverage.com/about/
[5] http://technorati.com/tag/marketing mishaps