Movie Promotion via a Blog, a forum, a videoblog

Superman returns in 2006. And Warner Brothers has employed a number of online tools to promote the new film. From the main website you get to all the subsites:

  • a blog with news that started on November 9th.
  • The Bluetights Network website, which is also a blog about the upcoming movie (not sure why they have two blogs now…)
  • A forum with surprisingly many entries.
  • And, most fascinating, there are the video journals within the BTN, which are also accessible through this site, where they are nicely done up within a flash animation:
  • Superman Video Blog

    So there is a lot of stuff on the web for people to get engaged with.

    And, as a sidenote: that they are also doing TV commercials for this Movie is a bit pointless, says AdJab, however in a different context.

    Links & News – 27. November

    The first Links & News is all about advergames:

  • Pakman: a Dutch advergame. „Pak“ means suit in Dutch hence the missspelling. Otherwise the game is very much like pacman, and very entertaining to play.
  • Panasonic: an advergame promoting the new Lumix technology. Not very gripping, but apparently it’s easy to win something.
  • Ashtraymouth: this is an anti-smoking campaign from the Washington State Department of Health. Apart from the advergame you can also see the TV spots here.
  • Virgin says „Exercise your music muscle“ and asks you to find 74 bands or artists within the one image they’re showing.
  • (all via adverblog)

  • Superwalkland is an advergame by Sony with the typical 2D run and hit gameplay.
  • Last but not least: an advergame by Nestle: Lift your cups, the typical aim and shoot gameplay.
  • Ronaldinho Nike video is apparently partially faked

    In a previous entry, I wrote about the new Nike campaign showing Ronaldinho doing some „magic“ tricks with his new Nike shoes. Now the German Spiegel Online writes, that Ronalinho’s ping pong shots are actually not all real. Apparently Nike Europe admits, that only two out of the four shots are real, the other being reworked on the computer!

    While the video remains nice to watch even knowing about this fake, I am still rather disappointed. We’re used to „unreal“ ads, no doubt. But this particular one was interesting, especially because of the amazing ping pong shots.
    Or am I upset, because I believe that viral ads published on the web should have more integrity than ads on TV? Not sure…

    Amazon with wiki and tagging

    Amazon continues to set standards in e-commerce. Now they have introduced a wiki for the product descriptions. So users cannot only rate and comment the products, they can also add detail to the product features. More info and some screenshots can be found here and here.
    As not all user can see this (I can’t either), this still seems to be in beta.

    However, what I could see, was the link for tagging. Not sure for how long amazon.com had this, as I usually buy on amazon.de – and the German version usually gets the new features a lot later (the newest feature being: search inside the book! For how long did amazon.com have this already?)
    With the tags, you can organise the amazon content your way, and:

    Because people’s tags are (by default) visible to others, a great side effect of tagging is that you can navigate among items through other people’s tags. What items have people tagged „gift“ or „Tuscany“ or „robot?“

    Nice concept of commercially using two feaures associated with the so called web 2.0!