What am I referring to in
the post title? Is it the what was on the box of the DVD in the room of
that creepy frat guy at college? No. Oh, wait, sure ... it's the
premise to the new slasher flick from Quentin Tarantino, isn't it?
Nope.
I'm talking about the campaign launched by Diesel
Jeans earlier this week. If you missed it, here's what
happened:
Diesel put these three
models in a hotel room starting a few days ago. There are live webcams,
and - although the premise is really dumb (the two girls have taken over the
Diesel website by kidnapping a company rep in order to become
"famous") - the site traffic grew like crazy. Check out this
graph from Alexa
below.

The live video feed was cut
today, on the fifth day of this charade (probably leaving a few really creepy,
pasty looking guys crying). Besides the blatant sex appeal, the site drew
from some very successful pages posted on
YouTube and
MySpace - along with a bunch of
photos hosted on
Flikr.com.
All in all though, it's a
reminder that no matter how far communication technology advances, and no
matter how large the blogosphere becomes, how engaging social networks get or
how un-virtual our virtual reality grow to be, sex will always sell.