Jon Morter

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Who is Jon Morter?

Jonathan "Jon" Morter is an English rock DJ and social media campaigner whose hometown is South Woodham Ferrers, Essex. He is best known as an award-winning social media pioneer, for launching, with his ex wife Tracy, various internet campaigns specially during Christmas season, in order to stop, most notably, The X Factor hits from becoming almost automatic Christmas number ones on the UK Singles Chart through organizing of grassroots campaigns to garner support for rival hits to overtake The X Factor winning song. The Morters have supported alternative singles by Rick Astley, Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, and The Justice Collective. Jon Morter was also involved in campaigns to save BBC 6 Music and helped in The Rolling Stones get a number one on the albums chart with a 2010 rerelease. Jon Morter co-runs with Jamie Turner the social media company Big Other, and has launched the Condescending Corporate Brand Page, a sarcastic page of a fictitious corporation to lampoon actual corporate techniques in social media sites.

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on July 23, 2013

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