How effective is Gamification?

Gamification is no doubt the next important thing for anyone interested in motivating people, target audiences, employees, etc.

It’s not so much about making things playful so they’re generally more fun, but to design motivation experiences.

Just: how effective is it? here is a nice presentation about this:

Steve Jobs about Marketing Values

I know this has been going around for a few days already, but I had to post it nevertheless. This guy was a marketing genius, no doubt.

(What made this particularly interesting for me is the fact, that I was watching Mad Men when I found this video and started watching it)

Plot Device – a viral product demonstration

Doing a video product demonstration for a video editing software is, one must admit, fairly easy. However, in the short movie „plot device“, the execution ist phenomenal. It could have been easy, but instead the makers of this video put all their efforts into producing a nice story on a shoestring budget:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZfAQ7L_WM

And here is how they made it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw_h–tcyIo

The video went fairly viral with 550k views in 2 months.