14/10 Borderline Marketing via Mobile Phones
| Category: Mobile Market By editor at 23:31 |
Dreamworks has created a viral market site for the horror film sequel "The Ring 2". The site is www.7daysleft.com. Here is Adfreaks description of how the site's viral campaign works:The idea is good on first sight, but if anybody would give out my email "and" my cell phone number to such a site, I really would get angry at the one who did do that.
You enter a friend’s e-mail address and cell-phone number. The site then sends the friend an e-mail, inviting him or her to view the Ring Two trailer online. As the video plays, the friend’s cell phone rings, and a voice on the other end whispers “seven days”—which, if the friend has seen the Ring movies, might just prompt a soiling of the friend’s trousers.
This viral campaign is very interesting to me because of its use of the cell phone as the central technology. A trailer is played and then the call comes. Dreamworks is not currently doing this program in the US.



