Film Industry: Using Internet Marketing

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Film Industry: Using Internet Marketing The Internet has changed the way businesses advertise. As more people connect to the World Wide Web, the market place grows for Internet marketers. With the Internet film companies and their marketing teams have a massive venue to advertise and promote their films. But the Internet serves not only as a billboard to place advertisements. Innovative websites create simple ways for communicating and exchange of information. In the film industry, Hollywood film companies and Independent film companies advertise and market differently. Hollywood’s signature marketing, mass exposure marketing campaigns, spending on average of $30 million to market a film using traditional media, newspaper, radio, television, and web media. Although the film company’s non-web marketing can reveal effective results on talk shows, and posters on the street, the Internet offers films the opportunity to increase the film’s fan base. Also the online social networking aspect has transformed consumers into marketers. Online marketing expand Hollywood and Independent film companies’ marketing strategies. Consumers provide information that film companies use to enhance marketing strategies. And the Internet along with search engines gathers consumer information. The revolutionary algorithm created by the most used search engine on the Internet, Google. Google’s algorithm collects and records the data of web users that surf the web. The data reveals a behavioral pattern of where and when web users use the Internet. “It tracked the viewing habits of individuals by age, zip code, income, and ethnicity. After a short while, it collected trillions of bits of information, enabling the company to predict when specific groups of users would view what Web sites and for how long” (Conlin 2). By analyzing the behavioral data film companies can pin

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