In-Universe Marketing: Difference between revisions

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You do '''In-Universe Marketing'''. You post "found" documents from within the universe. A [[Watchmen (film)|"NBS Nightly News" broadcast from 1972 in your world]]? Great. [[Idiocracy|Advertising a drink from your setting]]? Yup. [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Showing a half hour of dull security camera footage with maybe thirty seconds of profoundly disturbing stuff going on]]? Perfect. [[Twin Peaks|The diary of one of the characters, with pages torn out]]? [[Crunchtastic|Synergylicious!]]

Websites that use ~~'''~~In-Universe Marketing~~'''~~ are usually [[Logging Onto the Fourth Wall]].

Websites that use In-Universe Marketing are usually [[Logging Onto the Fourth Wall]].

Supertrope to [[Alternate Reality Game]] (in that there is no 'game' in In-Universe Marketing, per se; rather, all there is is the ~~document~~).

Supertrope to [[Alternate Reality Game]] (in that there is no 'game' in most In-Universe Marketing, per se; rather, all there is is the advertising).

Not all [[Viral Marketing]] qualifies as ~~'''~~In-Universe Marketing~~'''~~; the product being advertised must be fictional, and the "found" document must be set in said universe.

Not all [[Viral Marketing]] qualifies as In-Universe Marketing; the product being advertised must be fictional, and the "found" document must be set in said universe.

{{noexamples|Examples should go under [[Viral Marketing]] instead.}}