Cobra Special Forces Are Back for “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” Dan Koelsch, February 5, 2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation was supposed to open in theaters last June, but it got pushed all the way back to March 29th of this year. Back in April, Paramount had begun the Cobra Special Forces viral campaign, but it got shelved along with the film. With less than two months until the movie’s release, the campaign is back. Get the details after the break. At CobraSpecialForces.com, you can enlist in the terrorist organization via Facebook Connect, download imagery for your social media profiles, and find Cobra events near you. Yahoo! has some cool posters to promote the campaign, which you can see below along with the recruitment video. In the sequel to the 2009 action blockbuster G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, COBRA is able to infiltrate the highest levels of American government when master of disguise Zartan (Arnold Vosloo) replaces the President (Jonathan Pryce). After most of the G.I. Joes are wiped out, it’s up to Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) and his team to take down the imposter. Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and directed by John M. Chu, G.I. Joe: Retaliation opens March 29th. ARGs & Campaigns Viral Marketing Cobra Special ForcesG.I. Joe Retaliation
New ‘Viral’ Images for “X-Men: Days of Future Past” September 5, 2013September 5, 2013The Twitter account for 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past has been tweeting pictures from Trask Industries since Comic-Con. This week, two more have been posted, including one featuring Peter Dinklage as villain Bolivar Trask. Check out the tweets after the break. Read More
Sherlock Holmes: To know, to dare, to will, to keep silence… August 21, 2009June 6, 2010Yesterday on twitter @wbpictures posted a link to a Sherlock Holmes related viral website. The website displayed a video after typing in the password IRENE, which is the name of one of the characters. Evidently the words spoken are a direct quote from a book by Éliphas Lévi called Transcendental… Read More
What Makes an Ad Campaign a Success? Viral, of Course December 4, 2009Science Daily has written an interesting article about ad campaigns online. In particular they are looking at what makes some online campaigns successful and why do others fail. The answer seems to be quite simple really, and restaurants in particular have known the answer for a long time…..Word of mouth!… Read More