Greenpeace Behind Shell ‘Arctic Ready’ Campaign Fail

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So earlier today we posted an article about what we believed to be a Shell advertising campaign encouraging people to post slogans promoting oil drilling in the arctic. At the time, it appeared to us that this campaign had been hijacked by trolls who commandeered these beautiful images of arctic landscapes and wildlife and added their own anti-drilling messages to them making Shell appear rather stupid indeed.

The reality of the situation however, is that it was in fact part of an ingenious campaign by Greenpeace to expose Shell and draw public attention to the environmental catastrophe that they feel the oil company are responsible for. Continue Reading

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Is Shell Social Media Campaign Troll The Best Ever?

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Sometimes trolling is a horrible thing, an excuse for people to be abusive, incite hatred, encourage prejudice and the like. However, every now and then, a trolling will take place that will have the entire internet community applauding the trolls tenacity and audacity.

Well the Shell Social Media “Arctic Ready” Campaign Trolling is just one of these incidents where it’s hats off and commendations to the trolls!

According to the Shell website they are “committed to online social media” and therefore decided to roll out a campaign where the public were encouraged add their own slogans to their “beautiful new collection of images” – a number of pictures featuring picturesque arctic landscapes and wildlife native to the area. The best slogans would then be used in a worldwide advertising campaign. According to Shell “Tomorrow is yesterday accelerated. Let’s Go!” Continue Reading

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