The BEST Movie Marketing Campaigns

[@Mooms]

Blair Witch wasn’t the first movie to do the “actors are missing/dead” marketing campaign. The film Cannibal Holocaust had their main actors sign an NDA that would require them to hide out of public eye to keep up the illusion that they had actually died, but it backfired as authorities believed the film was actually real and arrested the director which led to the actors having to break the NDA

[@thenewbgaming6800]

Sadly this claim is false but he did get arrested for murder

[@TheJigsawKiller]

​@@thenewbgaming6800yeah I think it was for all the animals actually killed in the film like the turtle

[@thenewbgaming6800]

@@TheJigsawKiller it was added to there charges of abuse they where Able to prove the murder was false but was still thrown in prison for animal abuse

[@queencancerous5332]

Cloverfield is another great one. The trailer was played before screenings of Transformers with only the release date of the film shown and a website link at the end of the trailer. Every character from the movie also got personal MySpace accounts as well.

[@Mr.Feather130]

Oh I remember seeing a video about the marketing on cloverfield!

[@reginasweeney1159]

sorry to be that guy, but there wasn't even a website link at the end of the first teaser

[@metaeditzz6934]

I remember people were thinking it’d be Voltron, ngl I wish it would’ve been a Voltron movie

[@Mr.Feather130]

@@metaeditzz6934 well we could get a Voltron movie someday if people actually wanting it

[@DeltaSpartan141]

Also had sites for the companies mentioned in the movie, Slusho and Tagruato. Even a girl who was drunk at the main character's party got her own website, with videos for her boyfriend after he disappeared in a conspiracy involving both companies trying to study the monster and keeping it hidden from the world.

[@Foxy02016]

Dark Knight is still one of my favorite ad campaigns

[@tbp_entertainment]

Y'know, fun thing about the Why So Serious? Campaign is that the creator would later on create the company, Infinite Rabbit Holes, which makes interactive puzzle boxes with the Batman branding in the same vein as the campaign's style of puzzle solving called The Arkham Asylum Files.

[@ceciraegagnon1901]

I always immediately think of the Barbie movie. Our entire lives became barbie for a summer. Every store window in my town was barbie. All the schools had "barbie day" for spirit week. EVERYTHING WAS BARBIE

[@Mr.Feather130]

We’ll never escape the insane hype marketing of the Barbie movie

[@tsunderecat413]

the barbie hype that summer was also technically the unofficial marketing campaign for oppenheimer lol

[@Mr.Feather130]

@@tsunderecat413 lol that too

[@evecates2232]

I wouldn't say that the marketing was great. They just shoved Barbie in our faces for months with thousands of ads...

[@Mr.Feather130]

@@evecates2232 well barbie is a billion dollar toy franchise

[@sv16mm8]

Another excellent video from you. Perhaps another video could be marketing campaigns that are more notorious than their movies. A very recent example is with the Speak No Evil remake; I saw more people online talking about the oversaturation of its trailer than people looking forward to the actual movie.

[@jurassicstaff8639]

For the island ( 2005) they had a bunch of people dressed in the white outfits shouting ( down with clones) at yonge and dundas square downtown Toronto as they were the clones. Fantastic film if you havnt seen it! For Godzilla 2014 has a literal subway car look like it was coming out of the street here in Toronto aswell, also Cloverfield (2008) had an incredible online marketing campaign aswell and the trailer was very vague too couldn't wait to go see it and I still absolutely love all 3 of these films

[@fluffcake]

Blair witch marketing was so fun, even if I wasn’t alive to experience it, looking into it is a really cool experience.

[@richardord_04]

Great video! Gives off mid-2010s movie channel energy!

[@DJ_Music_Man2]

The Boys (which isn’t a Movie but is a show) has amazing marketing. They have an entire in universe youtuber channel that posts pretty much daily

[@harryxyz2982]

Don’t forget the Twitter account

[@DJ_Music_Man2]

@@harryxyz2982 too late

[@gooldenpug-yd1tp]

What do you mean in universe? It’s obvious that it is real. I don’t know what you are thinking?

[@DJ_Music_Man2]

@@gooldenpug-yd1tp :/

[@FungiGamer]

Would love to see more of this! The IT clown campaign and the Godzilla beach footprints campaign come to mind

[@Mr.Feather130]

I didn’t know Godzilla have a marketing campaign

[@ironboylegend485]

X men had a memorial website like as if the events of the movies happened irl

[@thatonesupercooltoony6192]

i came here bc i love hearing abt arg esc things or just cool things done for movies i was NOT expecting the scott the woz influence hell yeah

[@gomerjomer9209]

I was thinking “Nice video! I’m gonna check out this guys channel and see what else he made!” Then I see you made Eddsworld intro with Tord. I remember watching that video 6 years ago! It’s funny how I found this channel again all these years later. Amazing video btw!

[@safeforwork8546]

Great editing, and writing! deserves more views than it has.

[@CalTheHogNosedBat]

I remember during my Bachelor's Degree, in 2008, I remember the 1.18.08 campaign for Cloverfield. Probably because I needed something to do while studying.

[@xzpb]

Wow - this deserves so much more views than it has! Great video man

[@awesomepigthecapedcrusader663]

I think the Deadpool and Wolverine marketing campaign is the best in recent years… it also might’ve made as much as it did due to the marketing.

[@elmertalasmaki6692]

Great video didn't know about any of these campains

[@GooberMusicBand]

My dad went to the test screening of the Blair witch project they had a piece of the “wall” of the cabin in the movie that they presented as “real” they even had the vhs “tape” with the footage on it. And all of this they presented as really happened. There were people sobbing in the theater Becuase what they thought they saw was real. When my dad came out of the theater he said to his freind this movie is going to do the same thing to the woods jaws did for the water. And the next day the radio said “ a new movie coming out is going to do the same thing to the woods jaws did for the water” my dad suspected that a journalist was listening to him.

[@adamhendrick.]

deadpool 3's market campaign was insane

[@evecates2232]

I didn't hear about it... (And Im online slot)

[@zavalanovakidue]

​@@evecates2232 you cannot tell me you've never heard about the butt Xbox gamepads

[@PrinceMallow]

Longlegs is a recent movie that comes to mind that had a great marketing campaign. They released so many trailers that told you absolutely nothing as to what the movie was about that just got everyone talking and speculating. The trailers were creepy and unnerving. You had no idea what the plot of the movie could possibly be. And it ended up making bank, especially for what was essentially an indie horror film.

[@Ceszu]

yeah the movie was great but had a ton of plot points, the marketing was amazing too and overall a good movie

[@DinoBenosaurus]

For the aqua teen hunger force film they put led signs around new York which ended up having a bomb squad called to take them down .

[@jeremyriley1238]

Basically, a story of how two paranoid idiots who never knew about ATHF thought the LCDs were bombs to the point where people were arrested and Warner Bros. bowed to the will of Boston police because we can't do advertising like that in a post-9/11 world. 9/11 truly is the 24/7 excuse to force companies to censor and cancel stuff.

[@Durdoesstuff]

Great video bro

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

6:08 In San Francisco the pick up location for the cake was inside an erotic cake shop near their “leather district.” I was beaten to the cake by mere minutes, but I managed to score screening tickets.

[@Mr.Feather130]

I wish more movies should take notes from the dark knight and cloverfield on how to market the movie in a very unique way

[@fanmadestudio5705]

I remember seeing a parody for the Blair Witch with Scooby Doo that was on Cartoon Network. I never watched when it came out but I did see a recording and a restoration for it on the internet. I remember being freaked out but now looking back at it, it’s a great parody.

[@BrickPicFilms]

I always wondered what Scott the Woz would be like if he was a film youtuber

[@Bluebox87]

The most memorable for me was Cloverfield.

[@DisgustedArchive]

scott the woz of movies

[@dylan.t180]

Great video

[@rob563]

nice vid subscribed

[@TheBerger]

LONGLEGS. Also random but the Norm of the North Twitter guy honestly almost makes me want to actually go through the 7 stages of pain and rewatch Norm of the North

[@Prism_Lights]

10:43 let's go mass represent

[@Papyrusliker]

YEAH

[@rosebudding235]

Fun fact: Chronicle's always been one of my least favorite movies ever made. Glad to see it mentioned not very often!

[@cosmicspacething3474]

You could also take the minions movie approach, and *plaster the little shits over literally everything so that you CAN’T EVEN WALK FIVE FEET WITHOUT SEEING SOMETHING MINION THEMED*

[@ladbotz]

Bro theres a permanent kwiki mart in myrtle beach at broadway at the beach they even do refillable squishy cups you can just keep and use again next time you come its sick NOW GO GO I SAY NOW

[@ladbotz]

If you find yourself near you should totally go its fun

[@Mr_re461]

Its perm closed tho

[@DrIncrdblyEvlFshFce]

Guys I just found Scott the Woz for movies

[@Thorninjag]

This man has Scott the Woz energy.

[@OL25LP]

You really should be making better thumbnails because the video was fire. I was sure, that I would click off, but I watched till the end xD

[@johngamer6255]

Yea 100% agreed

[@FumoReimuGaming]

Wait is the song in the beginning from JOE DANGER

[@Soundwave-115]

10:17 This aged well.

[@RainingBeanz]

Hey Ya’ll! Deltavision Here!

[@ChickenIngot]

They should do so,E sort of marketing campaign for avengers secret wars

[@dennisterrett3903]

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[@BlueOctopi]

The Blair Witch Prpject is my favorite movie

[@baxterbunny4403]

This summer

[@CineScarborough]

How is Jurassic World not on this list?

[@INFAMOUS_ANGEL]

Soundtrack pls🙏

[@TheLibraryofCars09]

what about the transformers movies?

[@JessePinkman27892]

You are destined for success

[@Sundance967]

5:00 excuse me WRITTEN IN THE FUCKING SKY?????

[@Hunter-theEggman]

You kinda look like the deep from the boys

[@Mrfja]

Can I be in Terrifier 4 please

[@darkbow12]

it

[@DrMario_666]

Find a different gimmick.

[@Grassguyy]

At 9:29 what is the music that plays in the background?

[@DeltaVisionOFFICIAL]

@@Grassguyy The phone booth music from 'Simpsons: Hit & Run'

[@thebaker525]

A.I. Artificial Intelligence had an absolutely bonkers ARG game for the year 2001. A long running mystery over email, forum and fake websites, all solving a mystery not even featured in the movie itself.