— BEN POPKEN

Previously: Flog Awards 2006 thread.

We're sending the small one to Sony, and the big one to Zipatoni!

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unboxing pix, inside...

Sony takes the golden poo, because they should have known better. We know that Walmart and McDonalds are creepy and they have few scruples about exploiting a medium to gain market share, but Sony is supposed to be better. Sure, they can come across as a little cold and bitchy, but at least "cool." Not engaging in the lamest attempt to do a pretend customer blog the world has ever seen.

Now, where do we deliver this award? Do we mail it to the CEO? To the company that made the blog? Where o where do we fling our golden poo?

CONTENDERS' FLOGS

McDonald's, for 4Railroads and Mcdmillionwinner
Walmart, for Walmarting Across America
Sony, for All I Want For Xmas Is A PSP

AFTERTHOUGHTS

While pretend sites and stunts are common in video game marketing, there's a difference between spinning an engaging story virally and outright duplicity.

Douchebags are attracted by the cost/benefit ratio and they go, "Wow, we could spend $500 on a video and become an internet sensation!"

Instead, people should be asking, "How can we use these really powerful and interesting tools to tell a better story?"

To take full advantage of blogs, companies should stop hiring b-school and j-school dropouts or former web developers, and start grabbing up hungry English majors. — BEN POPKEN

Since nobody should be allowed to move on from their mistakes, we're holding a knife fight to see who had the "best" flog of 2006.

Contestants...

McDonald's, for 4Railroads and Mcdmillionwinner
Walmart, for Walmarting Across America
Sony, for All I Want For Xmas Is A PSP

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The winner receives a golden feces. — BEN POPKEN

Previously: Announcing The Floggies

We will mail the winning company a magnificent trophy. For now, we're thinking of taking a dump in a box and spray painting it gold.

For your consideration....

McDonald's, for 4Railroads and Mcdmillionwinner
Walmart, for Walmarting Across America
Sony, for All I Want For Xmas Is A PSP

Submit your nominations in the comments or tips@consumerist.com. Winners will be decided by reader vote next week. — BEN POPKEN

Our fake blog, or "flog," is a mirror image of how the site appeared as of the late evening of 12/12/06, shortly before Sony pulled it down. Comments, videos, sound files and images are included. Adding comments is disabled.

Many thanks to reader something_amazing for helping dip in amber this important piece of internet poo. — BEN POPKEN

PREVIOUSLY:
• Sony PSP Flog Removed
• PSP Flog Not Greg Meyerkord's Fault
• Greg Meyerkord Interviewed-ish
• We Reupload Heinous PSP Flog Videos Sony Removed
• Meet The Douchebags Behind The Sony PSP Flog
• Sony's PSP Blog Flog Revealed

In its place, nothing. Just white. Alliwantforxmasisapsp.com, the former gaping eyesore is now a bed of purest snow.

Good thing we had the foresight to make a copy of it. — BEN POPKEN

Take a good look because we bet five dollars the whole site is gone by the weekend. The videos were already yanked from YouTube.

Why are we posting their Myspace profiles? Because we hate liars. Also, as a warning: kids, don't drop out of B-school or J-school. Get an English degree and learn how to tell compelling stories before you inflict another viral pile on the world.

Remember, "don't just wear it - pwn it!!1!" — BEN POPKEN

We're a day late and a dollar short to this story, but the forces of the internet outed a marketing company working for Sony for creating fake PSP blog.

The ps3do site says it's written by "Charlie" who wants to get the parents of his friend, "Jeremy," to buy "Jeremy" a PSP for Christmas. The domain name is registered to the Zipatoni marketing company.

In the video above, witness the dancing and rapping skills of Cousin Pete, supposedly one of the blogger's cousins. Despite being 35 and having an empty loft to shoot his crumbelieavable marketing video in, he too wants his parents to buy him a PSP for Christmas.

Witness their friends Tomiwa & Jessie. When they're not busy loudly ordering bottles of client's middle-shelf vodkas, they enjoy wearing PSP shirts the bloggers made. Hey look, you can download the iron on here. Hey look, you can download this greeting card here. Hey look, you can download the lyrics to this hardcore video "our band" whipped up here.

Pretty pretty please, make us into a meme.

Congrats, douchebags, you're a fucking meme. — BEN POPKEN

All I Want For Xmas Is A PSP [Official Site]
'all i want for xmas is a psp' - Is this Sony's attempt at viral marketing? [Something Awful, where the video was first discovered]
All Sony Wants For Christmas Is A Better Marketing Company [Kotaku]
Sony gets ripped for a bogus PSP blog [AdFreak]

Registar's info for alliwantforxmasisapsp.com

Registrant:
the ZIPATONI co.
Gregory Meyerkord
555 Washington Ave. 3rd Floor
St. Louis, MO 63101
US
Email: greg.meyerkord@zipatoni.com

Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: alliwantforxmasisapsp.com

Created on..............: Tue, Nov 14, 2006
Expires on..............: Wed, Nov 14, 2007
Record last updated on..: Tue, Nov 14, 2006

Administrative Contact:
the ZIPATONI co.
Gregory Meyerkord
555 Washington Ave. 3rd Floor
St. Louis, MO 63101
US
Phone: +1.3142312400
Email: greg.meyerkord@zipatoni.com