Movie marketing news, reviews and opinion by Chris Thilk.
Thursday September 2nd 2010

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Based on a work at MMM.

Best of MMM

03/11/05 – Movie Marketing and Emerging Technology

11/08/05 – Movie marketing and the 30-second spot

01/23/06 – Movie campaigns lose influence closer to release date

02/24/06 – Movie Marketing and Consumer Control: Part 1

02/28/06 – Movie Marketing and Consumer Control: Part 2

03/09/06 – Movie Marketing and Consumer Control: Part 3

03/25/06 – Success, budgets and reaching influencers

05/23/06 – Movie marketers hold back on TV upfront buying

05/30/06 – Where’s the promotional swag?

07/08/06 – Paramount’s bad week and the power of word of mouse

07/13/06 – Movie marketing, the Long Tail and incentives

09/22/06 – Internet is where people go for movie information

10/15/06 – Creation and distribution in a new media world

10/26/06 – Studios still off-track when it comes to online advertising

11/27/06 – Making it worth the audience’s time

02/21/07 – What does it cost to market an Oscar contender?

03/13/07 – Change your thinking, change the world

05/16/07 – Totally expected backlash from theater owners materializes

07/18/07 – Bringing widgets to your movie marketing efforts

09/10/07 – Movie download market still has room for growth

09/25/07 – How online ads influence movie-going

10/26/07 – Indie films finding success hard to come by this fall

10/31/07 – “Movies for no one”

11/01/07 – As movie marketing shifts online, so does influence

11/05/07 – A glut of both quality and quantity

11/05/07 – Social network ad-targeting and its specificity

11/07/07 – What Facebook’s new ad formats mean for movie marketers

11/21/07 – The distruptive emergence of a new entertainment model

11/28/07 – Disney outstrips all other entertainment companies in ad dollars

12/31/07 – The overture to 2008′s changes has begun

01/3/08 – Supply and demand still rule, even in the movie market

01/18/08 – Living and working in the community

01/19/08 – Bonus features as marketing tools

01/29/08 – Blogs suddenly important to studios

03/24/08 – How social media can help when the audience does research

08/22/08 – What’s appropriate advertising for R-rated films?

10/02/08 – The stagnating social media landscape

10/28/08 – Flux

11/04/08 – Oscar advertising not nearly what it used to be

12/08/08 – Customer Releations 2.0

01/02/09 – Identifying the right blog

01/05/09 – Because Twitter is where the conversations happen

01/15/09 – Be a social media learner

01/16/09 – The answer, of course, is marketing

02/05/09 – Super Bowl movie ads get online buzz

02/09/09 – Public relations supports advertising

02/17/09 – Same old mistakes

03/03/09 – Don’t stop with hyper-local to save the media business

03/06/09 – What sponsored conversations mean for movie studios

04/09/09 – Embrace the buzz as a component of your movie marketing

04/15/09 – Counteracting a movie’s negative word of mouth

04/20/09 – Knowing where your audience is

04/27/09 – When directors get personal about marketing

04/28/09 – Bringing personalization to marketing and recommendations

04/30/09 – Crisis communications

05/06/09 – $5 Cover: A community time-capsule and cross-platform case study

05/11/09 – Crisis communications part 2

05/11/09 – Using staff to drive sales

05/18/09 – Remaking the press site

06/01/09 – At what point do we begin to do harm?

06/23/09 – Finding your built in audience

06/25/09 – The “sponsored conversations” issue finally comes to the forefront

06/25/09 – Dispelling the “free advertising” myth

07/08/09 – Book/Campaign Review: Personal Effects – Dark Art

07/10/09 – Movie studios on Twitter

07/15/09 – Don’t think about Twitter – Think about word-of-mouth

07/20/09 – Studios try to tap into “Twitter effect”

07/30/09 – Crowd-sourced movie ratings

08/03/09 – The other side that needs to be considered about Twitter

08/24/09 – Marketing ends where the product begins

09/23/09 – Festival buzz

09/30/09 – New research on the influence of movie marketing

11/16/09 – Crowdsourcing the audience

11/18/09 – The “junket mentality”

11/20/09 – Exclusives in a distributed world

12/04/09 – So you didn’t make it into Sundance

01/10/10 – Territorial BS

01/12/10 – Movie marketing budget or drunk sailor?

01/20/10 – Film Festivals as the ignition point

02/02/10 – Marketing timing

02/03/10 – Sub-communities

03/05/10 – No bounce for dramas

03/11/10 – Location awareness apps and movie theaters

03/18/10 – Niche outreach doesn’t have to be the final option

03/19/10 – The evolving role of SXSW

03/30/10 – The Conversation and the need for more cross-industry talk

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