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The #GiftRapping livestream from RingTagz
Valentine’s campaign from RingTagz sees first ever proposal via a livestream rap
February 15, 2012
RingTagz offered loved up Twitter users the opportunity to express their feelings with a live, personalised rap just for their Valentine, resulting in the first ever livestream proposal
Yesterday saw RingTagz, the company behind the personlised ringback tones, launch its online Valentine’s campaign, #GiftRapping. The campaign urged Twitter and Facebook users to send in messages to their Valentine’s, for it then to be rapped live by freestyler, Jimmy Crackstar and made into their very own RingTag.
Along with hundreds of entries and over an hour of rapping, in a campaign first #GiftRapping also resulted in the first ever gay proposal via a livestream rap and RingTag, with Becky Rigby from Bath using the campaign to ask her girlfriend, Samantha Herrick, to marry her.
- The rap consisted of the message Becky wrote to RingTagz outlinging why she was proposing to Samantha
- The proposal rap was quickly wrapped up into an MP3 RingTag and sent to Becky’s phone so they could keep the reminder for as long as they wanted
- Hundreds of other tweeters were also involved in the #GiftRapping campaign, with the website www.giftrapping.co.uk hitting views in the thousands
- RingTagz allows subscribers to customise ringback tones with a library of exclusive media, from chart music to television theme tunes
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Becky Rigby (26), commented:
“I had wanted to propose to my girlfriend, Sam, this Valentine’s anyway, so when I saw RingTagz post about #GiftRapping I was over the moon – this was the perfect way to do it! We both love hip hop, and are constantly glued to our phones, so I didn’t think twice when writing out my proposal message.
All I did was link Sam to the livestream and cross my fingers! Almost instantly, the freestyler rapped my proposal live. I was so nervous! I then got a text message telling me my personalised rap was live on my phone as a RingTag, so when Sam called me about the livestream – she heard the proposal again! It was such a unique way to propose. And the icing on the cake? She said yes!”
Freestyler rap artist, James Greenway commented:
“When RingTagz asked me to be involved in this campaign, I jumped at the chance. It’s an extremely innovative campaign which goes hand in hand with the art of freestyling. It was a huge bonus that two people got engaged during the livestream, I wish them all the luck in the world.”
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