Posts tagged with ‘pop culture superfans’
SDCC 2024: Brands Descend on San Diego with Chariot Races, Bathroom Battle Stations and 2D Factories
San Diego Comic-Con returned to its former glory last week after the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes took some wind out of the event’s sales in 2023. The pop culture convention, this year July 25-28, once again served as a playground for both superfans of comics, movies, TV, gaming and multimedia, and the...
How Paramount+ Hyped its ‘Frasier’ Reboot with a 60-Foot Crane and Food Trucks
It’s been 30 years since “Frasier” first made waves on the airways, and as Paramount+ prepared to revive the renowned sitcom this fall, it became abundantly evident that fans were still clamoring for a dose of the haughty radio psychologist.
At SXSW, Paramount+ Creates a Mountain of Content at ‘The Lodge’
Contrasting Austin’s sunny spring weather, Paramount+ breezed in to SXSW 2023 with a cozy slope-side pop-up from March 10-13 to engage attendees with its latest slate of original series, movies and sports. The Lodge: A Paramount+ Experience took the concept of Paramount Mountain, central to the company’s lore, literally with activations spread across Clive Bar’s...
HBO’s In-world Immersion for ‘The Last of Us’ Wows Superfans
Generating interest in a series that has a built-in superfan base who is intimately familiar with the content ahead of time may seem like a marketer’s dream, but the intense scrutiny and pervasive demands to maintain “canon” usher in a unique set of challenges. Such was the case with HBO’s new post-apocalyptic series, “The Last...