Extend Your Cloverfield Knowledge

Other than the unique cinematography, Cloverfield is also an expert in viral marketing. For the benefit of those who are new to this marketing technique, here’s the explanation from Wikipedia:

Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. [...] Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily.

Cloverfield had its first exposure as an unnamed trailer before the movie Transformers. The subsequent online viral marketing campaign for the film is remarkably complex, making use of everything from fictitious company websites to MySpace profiles for the film’s main characters. This even includes an appearance of Slusho in the TV series Heroes. This caught much attention and soon after, several web sites bloomed to provide full coverage on hints and developments of Cloverfield.

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