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Online Distance Learning ForumWednesday, January 25, 2006Marketing Movies Seems Like an Easy Job at the Moment
I have written a lot on marketing and the movies since I’ve started my blog, but it’s just fantastic to see how many good movies are being made right now and the interested ways that methods such as Internet marketing are playing their part in their promotion. Only a couple of years back, people in the movie marketing business seemed to have a tough job on their hands. Only a few years into the age of truly awesome special effects and animation, all we seemed to be getting were formulaic blockbusters or tired comedies called Mom I think I Murdered the Milkman, or something like that.
Last year, there was a surge in quality movies that almost seemed capable of marketing themselves. Behind the scenes, however, just as more subtle techniques (such as using good writers) are being used to produce quality movies, techniques such as Internet marketing (which worked so well with TV series like Lost and movies like Donnie Darko) have seen a constant buzz being created where movies are concerned. Movie marketing is everywhere right now, without actually being in your face. Visit any media website and you’ll see movies being marketed by Internet marketing. Yet the traditional marketing methods go hand in hand. Walk down any street, and you’ll see movie marketing on billboards or posters. TV and movie theaters themselves still have their role too. Movie marketing is a great area to get into at the moment. I just hope that that the movies stay good and the marketing stays clever. I hope no one ever rings my home about a movie. Now that’s one type of marketing I really hate!
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Well they better start marketing a little more since the big movie studios aren't making as much money. There definitely seem to be tons of cool sites that go up for each movie. I'm looking forward to the X-men 3 movie and its Web site no doubt part of other Internet marketing strategies. Can Wolverine help rebound the studios or are people just moving away from movies? Should be interesting.
Thanks for letting me know about Xmen 3 - definitely one of my favorite franchises! You're right though. All the marketing in the world won't help a bad movie, and Disney has been seeing this all too clearly of late. TV is sooo good at the moment - with excellent marketing strategies, that movie makers will have to work harder with their marketing. But I still think the movies are more interesting and varied than they have for years. Maybe we have to face the fact that all products have a saturation point - look at the classic product life cycle in marketing. Maybe there'll be degrees devoted to movie marketing soon.
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