A contagious blog indeed
It appears that Zenith Optimedia are big fans of the musings on the Contagious Agency blog.
So much so, that they’ve taken the liberty of copy and pasting – word for word – a clearly very Contagious post the day after it went up.
Let’s take a look at the differences between these two posts.
The Contagious blog entry on Lynx by Zoe Boalch:
And here’s a rather similar entry on Zenith Optimedia’s blog, posted the very next day:
Not much between them, is there? Oh wait, sorry. Zenith deserves credit for deleting four words from the headline to make it its own.
And here’s another post on the Contagious Agency blog about smartphone use.
An another on Zenith’s blog that looks curiously familiar.
Would have been nice if Zenith had at least asked first.
media agencies stealing ideas? never.
Pea can you put a stop to this.
Oooh… awkward!
Sorry social universe. yes we stuffed up here – a new blogger has forgotten to credit the source of these 2 articles. We wont do that again. These pieces were shared with the very best of intentions – i.e they are great campaigns and useful research.
You will find the other 201 posts we’ve made to date are all legit though.
Sorry contagious – we love you.
ps. mabe this post will get us some more traffic.
Hey Andrew, no problem – plagiarism is the most sincere form of flattery!
No hard feelings, glad you guys found it useful 🙂
They’ve clearly been stealing their source gathering methods from Mumbrella
Well handled Reevsey.
Slow week for Dr mumbo this sort of stuff is basic muckraking.
Hi Matt,
Well handled by Reevsey indeed.
But Matt, if you believe that an agency stealing entire articles from another agency and cutting and pasting them into their own blog as if it’s their own, is not comment worthy, I’d wonder about the culture of wherever it is that you work.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Fabulous content, but your website is not user friendly. Please use larger fonts on this middle column and have more white space overall. Very surprising for a business that focuses on branding, media, and marketing.
(I offer these comments without any evil intent. I would think that you would want to know how people react.)
Again, I enjoy your content and agree that stealing copyrighted material is – what a surprise – stealing.