| The seven winners were chosen from 21 candidates, which had been whittled down from 77 choices by a panel in 2006 | From left to right, top to bottom: , , , , , , and New7Wonders of the World was a campaign started in 2000 to choose from a selection of 200 existing monuments |
|---|---|
| The list of the 8 New Wonders of the World will be the result of a private undertaking, reflecting only the opinions of those with access to the Internet and not the entire world | External links [ ] Wikinews has related news: |
Additionally, leading corporate sponsors including and spent millions of in the effort to have the statue voted into the top seven.
12| World of New 7 Wonders | An airplane message, with a huge inscription "4916 VOTE FOR CHRIST" flew in Rio de Janeiro for a month |
|---|---|
| Weber's mediatized campaign and the scientific and educational work resulting from the inscription of sites on UNESCO's | " The same pitch had been popping up all over the city since late January—flashing across an electronic screen every time city-dwellers swiped their transit cards on city buses and echoing on TV infomercials that featured a reality-show celebrity posing next to the city's trademark Christ the Redeemer statue |
— UNESCO Brazil [ ] In Brazil there was a campaign Vote no Cristo Vote for the Christ which had the support of private companies, namely telecommunications operators that stopped charging voters to make telephone calls and SMS messages to vote.