The Official “LOST” Facebook Page Updates Timeline to Match Events Within the Show Dan Koelsch, March 30, 2012 You may not be following the Facebook page for ABC’s LOST considering it’s been off the air for almost two years, but you real fans may want to start. In honor of castmember Henry Ian Cusick (a.k.a. Desmond Hume) starring in the new ABC series Scandal, the LOST Facebook timeline has been updated to include some events from the show involving Desmond. It’s not surprising to see ABC use the Facebook page of another series to cross-promote, since LOST has over 9 million likes on the social networking site. The page was also used to help promote ABC’s other mystery drama The River to mixed results. While the premiere had a decent 7.59 million viewers, only about half of that those viewers remained by the season finale.The timeline includes images with each added event, including Desmond first meeting Jack, when Desmond killed Kelvin, and of course the day Oceanic 815 crashed. Check out the page to see more.The political drama Scandal debuts on April 5th at 10/9c on ABC. Social Networks Viral Marketing ABCFacebookLOSTScandal
Watch a Live Webcast for “The Social Network” On MySpace September 25, 2010September 26, 2010Talk about a perfect idea. Columbia Pictures is having a live webcast on Sunday, September 26th (tomorrow!) for The Social Network, and it will be on the film’s MySpace page. This is quite the jab at Facebook, as the film is a dramatization of the sordid rise of the 2nd… Read More
UPDATED: Warner Bros. Kicks Off Viral Campaign For “Man of Steel” With a Countdown December 10, 2012April 14, 2013This is possibly the greatest news I’ve heard in a while, given that I am such a huge fan of Superman. Warner Bros. has a new website that is the homepage for the fictional Deep Space Radio Wave Project, and it appears to be viral marketing for Man of Steel…. Read More
Potential Viral: Buried Starring Ryan Reynolds January 24, 2010January 24, 2010Update: Lionsgate has won the bidding war to distribute the film domestically. In June 2009, /Film reported that Ryan Reynolds (Waiting, Smoking Aces) was going to participate in an small independent thriller called Buried, a movie about a civilian contractor who is abducted in Iraq and wakes up buried alive… Read More
While the premiere had a decent 7.59 million viewers, only about half of that those viewers remained by the season finale.