Idea #10092: Organise Linux Newspaper ads

Written by Auzy the 20 Jun 08 at 11:50. Category: Marketing.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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We should get together with the other distributions and organise a donation drive towards a generic linux advert that covers all of us, and organise to show it in as many countries as possible.

Firefox had a newspaper advert in NyTimes, and it was a success. We should do the same to get our message about linux out there, because at the moment everyone from Microsoft to Sun are flaunting their gear on every newspaper, TV station and radio, yet because we are so segmented, we have never organised any proper advertising.

Doing so would help every linux distro, whilst also starting to create the mindset, that next computer purchase, maybe consider linux instead of ignoring it. And it would be more difficult for Hardware Manufacturers to ignore we exist.

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Eldmannen wrote on the 20 Jun 08 at 15:32

It would be nice if we could utilize the blogosphere, as I can imagine that being cheap and being able to ignite a buzz.

Auzy wrote on the 21 Jun 08 at 01:02

Yeah, but many people who hang around in blogs already are mostly aware of ubuntu probably.

Thats why we should go newspaper, to capture the business people, and those that generally have no idea, but want anything that helps them run their business cheaper

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