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Snakes on the Internet

on August 16, 2006 by Martina Comments

Snakes on the plane: send (voice) message to a friend from Samuel L. Jackson. It’s supposed to be a viral idea. You decide…

File under: movie promotion, snakes on a plane, viral marketing

The new episodes of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean is promoted online in partnership with Google Earth. Basically they have created a map of a fictional island in the Caribbean, on which users can navigate and discover the movie related content. I must say I didn’t spend much time browsing the island… maybe because I didn’t find it very interesting… maybe because it appears to simply be a sort of external (unusual) menu to navigate the movie’s content (trailer, downloads etc…).

File under: google earth, movie promotion, Pirates of the Caribbean

Tv ads no longer work to promote movies

on August 19, 2005 by Martina Comments

The Wall Street Journal writes about the disappointing summer movie season and its tight relationship with network-television advertising which appears to be no longer able to deliver results in promoting new films. It would be too simplistic to blame TV ads for movies’ failures. The problem is not (only) with the medium, but also with the target audience: Hollywood is eventually discovering consumers are changing, they spend more time online and/or playing videogames, they don’t watch much TV and they don’t like the idea each movie is always promoted like a huge marketing event. Studios should rather rely on Internet marketing, which can be especially effective in reaching a pre-existing audience. For example, the WSJ points out the online campaign for Batman Begins was successful also because it unveiled the movie trailer online about a year in advance, using a variety of corporate and fan sites. [Advertisement] Subscribe to The Wall Street Journal Europe and save 50% off the cover price.

File under: movie promotion, tv advertising

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