FilmTiki's Online Week in Review - Part 6

Our weekly online review for August 10-14 2009:

Social Media Campaigns for TV and Film

Laurel Papworth outlined some of his ideas for Social Media Entertainment campaigns for TV and film and helped to explain some of the differences involved between various forms of campaigns.

Films4Prizes

Continuing on from our previous post about film competitions we recently came across Film4Prizes,  it is a website dedicated to online video competitions, and offers the chance to win a variety of prizes when you submit a movie to it.

Word-of-Mouth posts proving popular

There are some intesting figures on eMarketer on the popularity and success of Word-of-Mouth Marketing.

Twitter Dominates CMO Social Network Plans

This article on businessweek gives quite an illuminating insight into a marketers view of social networks, for example Twitter users are found to be:
More interested than the other [social network users] in many subjects but skew particularly high in all news categories, restaurants, sports, politics, personal finance and religion. They also especially like pop culture, with music, movies, TV and reading.
10 Important Traits of a Great Blog Design

Here, John Urban, editor of the web-design blog Six Revisions, speaks about the ten characteristics of a solid blog-design.

Blogs That Will Review Undistributed Films v2.0

There have been some additions on Truly Free Film's listing of  blogs that will review undistributed films. This is a great blog, which all independent filmmakers really should visit.

DIY DAYS Philadelphia

Found two great videos from the DIY days in Philadeplphia, one from Nina Paley and another one from Esther Robinson.

10 Years After 'Blair Witch,' Viral Movie Marketing Grows Up

In a post on Advertising Age, Aris Georgiadis writes about the ongoing impact of Blair Witch Project for viral movie marketing.