Most marketers have heard
how Rage Against The Machine fan
Jon Morter
organized a Facebook campaign
to stop a favored X Factor single
from being the “Christmas number one.”
Supposedly it started
as a way to stick it
to Simon Cowell.
It didn’t end that way,
even though Simon Cowell was ‘defeated.’
Why?
Because Simon Cowell phoned Morter
before the winner was announced
to wish him the best.
Cowell was nice.
He was charming.
He won Morter over.
So much so
that when Morter did the interview circuit,
he had only nice things to say
about Simon Cowell
and about X Factor.
Simon Cowell may have lost
the contest
but he won the PR game
and he won over an influential.