I won a ticket to the about to be released Godzilla 3D movie and of course I had to find out just how much is being done on Social Meida to market and promote this movie.

Of course the first thing I checked out was their Facebook page, started on July 18, 2012 for the release date of May 16, 2014. Two years of building up to this movie. They have a very engaging page with over 1.2 million fans AND 500,000 fans talking about them, that’s a lot of fans in just under two years.

They have used a number of different engagement techniques, the picture below asked me to mention the person I would be seeing the movie with so I had to participate and add two people from the YVR Bloggers group, Ricky Shetty and Matt Astifan. As I have mentioned in previous posts Facebook engagement has become more and more challenging as they drive us all to spend more money on Facebook.
This strategy works, I did it. 🙂

The YouTube Channel is optimized to the nine’s! We all know just how powerful video can be and they are taking advantage of as much as they possible can, building towards the opening. When you take a look at the channel you see that it is optimized to make the most of the time each viewer spends on the page.

Twitter, moving as always at the speed of light. The Godzilla Movie it doing a very good job of taking advantage of all of the Twitter posts about the movie by Re-Tweeting (RT) them! There are contests and draws mixed in with all the tweets, which include text, pictures and videos, a very powerful combination. Plus there are give aways for the special products, such as t-shirts, hats, bags, jackets, etc mixed in with all the other great tweets. Take a look at their Twitter stream prior to the movie opening, an awesome strategy for building the momentum.

All we YVR Bloggers met at the Bosley’s Pet Store in New Westminster, we wanted to take pictures and give them some online love as a way of demonstrating our thanks for the free tickets. There is an awesome crew at the store, not only did they provide the free movie tickets they also handed out goodie bags, both dog and cat goodie bags. My pets were all be very excited!

Then we all trooped over to the Landmark movie theater, ready to be Roared!

It was definitely fun to be a part of the VIP advance screening of the movie. There was a Roar Meter in the waiting area and of course the whole group had to get together and give it our best shot. Unfortunately there wasn’t a prize for the best group roar. I’m sure we would have won.

The movie was excellent! I read a great review from the Toronto Sun, here is a little snippet…

One singular moment shows that director Edwards — who is known only for his small-scale, indie sci-fi movie Monsters — had some big-time mojo. He wanted to make this mostly-made-in-Canada production more emotional than just another big monster movie. At one critical point, Taylor-Johnson is in the foreground, with Godzilla’s bloodied head nearby in a cloud of dust. The two have a “moment” as two creatures communing in a crisis. It is actually kind of beautiful.

Once the movie is over, sit a few moments, let everyone else get caught in the stampede to leave. Watch the credits and see just how many Graphic Artists were involved in making the movie. There were a few of us in the group who noted that it was 100’s but we didn’t start looking soon enough to be able to count. When you stop and think, even just the graphics in the trailers, there really were tons of people were involved. However that doesn’t mean you can’t use the same techniques.

You too can implement all of these strategies in your business. Likely not to the extent the “Godzilla Movie” has, but all of the strategies and techniques mentioned here will work for your business too!

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