News Publicity competition

In a move that scientists are calling 'blatantly sneaky', BUCK is proud to announce its first ever Media Invasion! "What the hell is a Media Invasion?" I hear you cry! Never fear, all shall be explained...

What the hell is a Media Invasion?
It's a sneaky way for us to crowdsource publicity for the convention without having to do any additional work ourselves.

Um, okay. What do I have to do?
Publicise BUCK in the most original/effective/hilarious way possible. No holds are barred, but keep it PG. Also, don't do anything illegal, like spray painting a stencil of Britty onto a building. Especially not a government building. Especially not one on Downing Street. Wink wink, nudge nudge*.

*provided for the sake of humour; do not actually do this.

What can I win?
The prize is 2 free Standard tickets to everyone's favourite British brony convention. That's right, you and a friend, because sharing is caring, and friendship is magic. The entries will be judged by the BUCK committee, and will be judged on originality, humour, and effectiveness (we have analytics on the site, and can pages that are referring traffic to us). Extra points will be given for original artwork and creative content, especially if it involves our mascot, Brittania.

If you've already booked a Standard/Early-Pegasus ticket, we will refund it and issue you a complimentary one. If you've booked a 20% Cooler ticket, we will refund the price of a Standard ticket to you. Both of these apply to up to 2 tickets.

Okay, you got me. How do I enter?
If your submission is physical, take a picture/ recording and send it to us. If it's online, send us a link (must be publicly accessible). Screenshots will not do, because they can be manipulated. All entries must be live and available to the general public, so they actually generate publicity for us. Entries can be submitted by e-mail to [email protected] or posted here on the forum , Facebook page and twitter -no later than 11:59pm on 17/08/2012. Winners will be announced on the forum, and prizes will be sent via e-mail.

Isn't this just a ploy for you to generate more ticket sales?
Yes. We fully and utterly acknowledge that it is. But remember, more publicity means more tickets sold, which means more attendees, which means a bigger, more lively event, and more money that we can spend on making this an awesome convention! (We are a non-profit event.)

That's the kind of honesty that garners respect! Not that I even mind, supporting BUCK is an honourable cause for any activity ;D

The question is How... I do LPs, so I could mention it on those... I don't have a huge number of subscribers though xD

Maybe I'll do a machinima O:

*say no more, say no more.

I might have a crack at this.

You've been plugged constantly on the podcast WHERE ARE MINE AND BOBBY'S FREE TICKETS

Try plugging it somewhere that dosen't get most of it's viewer pool from a place where everyone already knows about buck.

Yeah! Try doing something like getting the podcast featured regularly on EQD!

Oh wait.

im not sure if it counts could do.....but regardless you should so do it anyway.... do post links i would love to see such a thing XD

This would be hilarious and therefore totally counts. But only if you video it. And preferably spam the video everywhere.

please please please!!
infact ill come and help!!!

Can we say flash mob?

This also sounds amazing.

How about this for an excellent publicity campaign? The Tube Map is one of the UK's most well-known icons of Britishness, and I've thrown in a Britannia reference by deliberately arranging the lines in a trident pattern:

The choice of certain TfL line colours is intentional: whilst representing the Union Flag at the same time, the Central Line (red) is the longest on the Tube network, the white-blue DLR (according to Denegoth) is the most confusing, and the dark-blue Piccadilly Line is the most convenient (in my own opinion), due to the fact that it has the reputation of having the closest connections to London's tourist attractions, which is why the Piccadilly is nicknamed the 'Tourist Tube'. Coincidentally, Piccadilly is also the name of the main station in Manchester, which is where probably most of the country down south would be travelling to in order to get to BUCK.

There a list of whats happening at the con, you know so we know what to advertise being there? seems like something that might be helpful

Psshhh... Like anything as boring as "facts" and "content" might be needed to publicise something

Well we dont want to be promising massive cake fights if they wont be happening.

im already preping my frosting... secret ingrediant you guys wont know what hit you muhaha!

Ive just finished my thing to help advertise the event ^_^ and posted it to deviantart to gather interest towards the event hopfully and ill be spreading the work for a while, ive already asked afew large groups to feature the poster around the sites brony groups so heres hoping ^_^