Sunday, September 14, 2008

Facebook Widget Shows $1 million Results


Centric, an agency that seems to thoroughly understand the power of the new "collaborative" interactive marketing model, posted a fascinating blog about one of its recent campaigns for Warner Brother.

Centric was engaged to promote the new animated movie, "Batman Gothman Knight". In a superb move, Centic built a relatively full-featured widget on Facebook:

"The widget allowed people to see the trailer, browse stills, and find out more about the movie, and it had an interesting social feature: When you installed the widget, you became a member of The Concerned Citizens of Gotham City. The more people who installed the widget, the brighter the Bat-signal would glow".

Cool for sure but the numbers are even cooler. Before the launch of the movie, the widget generated more than 1MM pageviews. In a nutshell, the blog stated that this widget generated more than $1 million of responses, at a fraction of the cost. Of course, Batman Gothman Knight had one of the best orchestrated overall viral marketing campaigns seen to date, which helped Centic's results.

Nonetheless, this is a tantalizing case study of a brave new interactive marketing world developing right in front of our eyes.

Click here if you want to read the full blog.

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