Stallone’s Explosive Expendables Interview on YouTube Dan Koelsch, August 4, 2010May 12, 2011 If you’ve been on YouTube since yesterday, you may have noticed the banner advertisement on the homepage for The Expendables. Specifically, it directs you to an “explosive” interview with director, writer, and star Sylvester Stallone that is on YouTube. However, what you see isn’t exactly what you get. The link directs you to YouTube.com/Expendables, which would usually mean that’s the profile page for the film, but what you see is a video of the aforementioned interview, which was posted by Insider Hollywood. However, there is no such thing as Insider Hollywood (the profile doesn’t even really exist), and you can’t click anything on the page, so you may see where I’m going with this. Just watch the interview and you’ll see what’s going on. Sly has to stop his interview to take care of some enemies in the video thumbnails to the right. While it’s all a bit over-staged and corny, it’s still a cool idea from The Visionaire Group and is definitely a different approach to marketing. What do you think? The Expendables opens August 13th. Viral Marketing ExpendablesThe Visionaire GroupYouTube
Mouth-Taped-Shut.com Reveals New Photos and Artwork for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” September 21, 2011September 21, 2011If you love ambiguous and perplexing marketing, then you must be following mouth-taped-shut.com, the viral site for David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. So far we’ve seen odd photos and some links to interviews. But in some recent updates, we have seen a brand new poster for the… Read More
Right Turn You Must: Yoda’s TomTom Recording Session July 27, 2010The latest in TomTom’s clever viral videos promoting their new line of Star Wars voices for GPS devices has hit the web. This time, it is Master Yoda himself who went into the studio to record his lines. Like Darth Vader before him, the process was less than smooth, but… Read More
Follow “New Girl” Jess On Twitter September 27, 2011Briefly: FOX’s new comedy New Girl starring Zooey Deschanel has become a hit, and its second episode is tonight at 9pm if you are looking to catch up. To help promote the show, FOX has created a Twitter account for Deschanel’s character Jess. You can follow her adorable tweets at… Read More