“Tower Heist” Facebook App Lets You Steal Facebook Credits Dan Koelsch, October 16, 2011October 16, 2011 Universal Pictures’ Tower Heist is an action comedy about workers of a high-rise who conspire to steal $20 million from their employer who swindled them out of their life-savings. You can start your own heist on Facebook with the film’s Heist It Back Facebook App. Get the details after the break. There are one million Facebook credits up for grab, and you can easily steal some for doing even simple tasks. This official press release sums it up pretty tightly in this snippet:Fans are rewarded with Facebook Credits when they click a “Heist” button, get their friends to join the heist, or share a story of how they got their own brand of payback. Facebook Credits received through the “Heist it Back” promotion will be immediately deposited into the user’s Facebook account, and can be used in Facebook games and apps to buy virtual goods.So, get your Facebook fortune and blow it on Farmville supplies!Tower Heist, directed by Brett Ratner, is in theaters nationwide November 4th. The film’s star-studded ensemble cast includes Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Judd Hirsch, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, and Gabourey Sidibe. Follow the film on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Social Networks Viral Marketing FacebookTower Heist
Last Minute Funny People Viral – Cute Kittens July 31, 2009July 31, 2009Jonah Hill plays Leo Koenig in Judd Apatow’s Funny People. If you’ve seen some the footage and trailers for the film, you may remember Leo talking about making cute kitten videos and posting them on YouTube. Well he did it. On the character’s official YouTube channel, this video (uploaded today)… Read More
Repo Men: 4 Artiforgs On The Run, The Hunt Is On February 26, 2010February 26, 2010If you’ve been following our coverage of Repo Men, you’ll know that Universal, in conjunction with Wired and Lone Shark Games have launched a real world ARG pitting Artiforgs (people with artificial organs) against Repo Men (employees of Unicare who really want those organs back). Check out the latest developments… Read More
District 9: MNU and Christopher Still Updating! August 18, 2009August 18, 2009Update: Christopher’s blog has been back-dated to 8/13/09. District 9 was released this weekend, and usually (with a few exception), that would mean the viral campaign would be over. That is apparently not the case here. Both the Multi-National United and MNUSpreadsLies Twitter and Facebook accounts are still updating so… Read More