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A view of the FT homepage designed for non-interactive video walls and billboards
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Feature: Change vanity URL from ft.com to big.ft.com #90

Closed JakeChampion closed 8 years ago

JakeChampion commented 8 years ago

Problem

It is difficult to figure out if Big FT is driving users to sign-up to their corporate accounts on the FT.

Solution

Make the vanity url be big.ft.com/{vanity} which redirects to ft.com/{vanity}. Before the redirect we can fire an event to spoor indicating a user came from Big FT.