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Viral is getting sexier

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watch the hi-res clip here at the dog­house site.

I have to say I’m impressed with the qual­ity of online pro­duc­tions these days. The ante has been upped by agen­cies who have real­ized that the inter­net is a viable medium for video mar­ket­ing, and that con­sumers are a lot more dis­cern­ing than pre­vi­ously imag­ined. These are heavy chal­lengers to the youtube crowd.

The Dog­house is the recently launched cam­paign by JC Penny, cre­ated by Saatchi & Saatchi NY in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Razor­fish. The high qual­ity of the online video helps take the sting out of the fact that you’re watch­ing an ad for mid-range retailer JC Penny [and their jew­elry depart­ment at that. I’d have to say that if my hus­band bought me jew­elry from JC Penny, the Dog­house is where he would hope to wind up].

The cam­paign also includes Face­book Con­nect that allows FB users to place their net­work friends in the poocher; plus the abil­ity to send email noti­fi­ca­tions to those fac­ing banishment.

The cliché idea of putting your man in the dog­house is not one I sub­scribe to, nor usu­ally find funny, but this did make me laugh, and big ups to the cre­ative minds behind it.