TV Show "Lost" Viral Marketing

[mikebeech]

Hey guys, anyone from the UK here see the premiere for season 2 of Lost tonight?

In each break during the show there was an advert advertising a company called "Hanso Foundation"

the advert pointed to a web-site: Hanso Foundation

i've done some research on the web and apparantly this viral marketing campaign is occuring in the UK

America and Australia as of now.

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this or has any opinions on it.

[iverson0881]

wow that's pretty crazy. damn lost people fscking with all our minds. haha

[RadishTM Veteran]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_Hanso

Weird indeed.

Radish?

[troist]

i saw that too... it got me wondering, i've never seen it before and it was a terrible ad... as though it was trying to stand out... it didn't say anything about the company, and just basically confused you... i think its the start of the lost game or something.

[mikebeech]

I think it's pretty impressive that any viral marketing campaign got an actual advert up there on prime time TV.

[_kane81]

^

hmm the UK is behind the times... it such as shame that they dont sync episode air dates around the world at the same time or close to it.

Lost has a ton of officail websites such as the Hanso Foundation with interesting information and hidden information

[mikebeech]

^ Don't worry i've seen everything you guys have seen :p just felt like watching the first episodes again as it was being premiered tonight, then i saw the advert and was like woah what's that lol.

[Guest]

^

hmm the UK is behind the times... it such as shame that they dont sync episode air dates around the world at the same time or close to it.

Lost has a ton of officail websites such as the Hanso Foundation with interesting information and hidden information

Even ireland is about half way into the new series by now.

Ive been downloading them every week since september, but its become a real pain in the ass to be honest with all the breaks they take throughout the year. In retrospect i would i would of rathered wait a few months till the series was finish then be guarenteed an episode every week.

Thats what im going to do for series 3 anyway.

[Japlabot]

.org domains are meant to be reserved for NPOs, someone should inform the domain registrar

[kev64]

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1882439

;)

[sundayx Veteran]

i dont know about the campaign but the site is SPECTACULAR OMG LOVE

[Rob2687]

Anybody figure out a login for the Hanso site?

And what's with those African nation that's blanked out under the MFI project? I think it says Zambia...not sure what the other two blanks are..

Edited May 3, 2006 by Rob2687

[Porp]

I love the show Lost!

[Pc_Madness]

Don't forget to visit Joop. Dunno what it all means though :\

[mikebeech]

Well according to the site there are like 6 different active projects? Life Expectency Program, Electromagnetic Program etc. etc. and on the map which locke sees in the hatch isn't there 6 bases drawn on it with the "?" in the middle.

[Rob2687]

Maybe the Orangutan is sitting in the center of it all :p

[mikebeech]

Maybe the Orangutan is sitting in the center of it all :p

:laugh:

[Stephen Veteran]

has anyone looked at the RSS feed?

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity

Location: http://www.thehansofoundation.org/feed/the...ofoundation.xml

Line Number 17, Column 26:<title>Joop the Orangutan’s 105th birthday</title>

teh RSS feed buton is NEXT to the user field

EDIT: view the soucre of teh xml file

Edited May 3, 2006 by s-t-e

[GatorV]

:p

[Stephen Veteran]

how the hell did you do taht?

[jmc777]

how the hell did you do taht?

Edit: Made a boo-boo :angry: See GatorV's post below folks!

Edited May 3, 2006 by jmc777

[Rob2687]

It just tells me to call the center and that's it.

[GatorV]

Go to the news letter section, type yes as the user, when asked type yes, and when it asks you for the password, type breaking strain

[meamog]

Go to the news letter section, type yes as the user, when asked type yes, and when it asks you for the password, type breaking strain

that's pretty cool... the orangutan looked ****ed, though. :rofl:

[Nick Sheldon]

I posted this in the US thread too, but it's actually more relevant to this thread.

Michael was in Matrix Reloaded!

He was Link.

Mad as, as he looks well cool in that.

Proper threw me when I saw him in it last night.