The literary world of gaming tie-ins is wide and varied.
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"We absolutely understand the perception [of movie tie-ins]," said Johnson.
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It's commonplace now for toy manufacturers to prepare movie tie-ins.
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Rob: Perfect for really forcing tie-ins to other characters too.
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And as branding tie-ins go, it's definitely hipper than golf balls.
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Plus there are sponsorship deals and brand tie-ins to think about.
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The massive marketing campaign featured tie-ins with more than 100 partners.
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Marvel has tried more gimmicky tie-ins, both on- and off-screen.
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At a demonstration of "Star Wars" tie-ins in September, 2015, Wired.
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As with professional sports, social sports leagues often have commercial tie-ins.
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The startup plans to announce more celebrity content tie-ins later this summer.
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Marketing tie-ins are a growing way advertisers can work with Netflix shows.
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Samberg: And also fun, little things like corporate tie-ins being so normal.
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Installing such a system requires tie-ins to a facility's pipes and electrical systems.
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Perhaps there's room for television tie-ins to bring HQ to a wider audience.
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Earth VR has obvious tie-ins with other parts of Google's virtual reality efforts.
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JPMorgan has previously used tie-ins with Sapphire Reserve to promote its mortgage loans.
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Star Wars has had this level of close-knit kinship with their tie-ins before.
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Though he now lives in Berlin, his work still frequently has New Zealand tie-ins.
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There were no huge festivals, no branded tie-ins, no Zac Efron-starring Hollywood movies.
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Surprisingly insightful activism tie-ins in the art, plus astrological associations printed on each card.
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Although the Supreme Court has treated some tie-ins as per se illegal in the
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All the best tie-ins and ideas for this Lil Wayne blog come after the fact.
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Movies with merchandise tie-ins must walk a fine line when working with their licensing partners.
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Betty and I run through other promotional channels—ads, radio, tie-ins, public appearances, even print.
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And, if successful, we could see more tie-ins between Stories and other core Facebook features.
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It's how you end up with conventions full of mediocre Samsung Gear VR movie tie-ins.
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The show had it all—brooding teens, complex romantic subplots, and obscenely lucrative musical tie-ins.
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Microsoft France has the answer: weird limited-run special edition movie and TV show tie-ins.
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Some of the coverage included tie-ins to Uber, on whose corporate board Ms. Huffington sits.
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Educated consumers should demand more from a wine than cute-sexy labels or celebrity tie-ins.
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The turning point for Lego, though, was the introduction of themes and pop culture tie-ins.
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E3 is officially upon us, and it's time for all of the shamless product tie-ins.
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Now, the tie-ins won't simply expand from movie to movie, but from platform to platform.
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Many speculated that the ad would have tie-ins to Marvel's upcoming Captain America: Civil War.
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Nor have tie-ins with the "Captain America" and "Avengers" films appreciably goosed those shows' mediocre ratings.
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NASA's PR machine is a big fan of using science fiction tie-ins to excite the public.
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I'm all for toys, tie-ins, and spending all kinds of money on Star Wars-related merch.
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Female superheroes are often left off the T-shirts and other merchandise tie-ins for superhero films.
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Marketing tie-ins and licensing deals are typically handled by Netflix's brand partnership and consumer-products teams.
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On a recent afternoon, Ms. Meynell and Ms. Crockett were busy planning the Jack Wills tie-ins.
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Disney has also hauled in billions in sales of merchandise, theme-park passes and promotional tie-ins.
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The circus didn't have savvy product merchandising tie-ins or Saturday morning cartoons to shore up its image.
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Are you interested in using this as a workshop for tie-ins to District 9, Elysium, or Chappie?
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There are also opportunities for tie-ins with other apps, like pushing people to certain ride-sharing services.
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In the last year, as Instagram's growth has exploded, we've seen more Facebook tie-ins than ever before.
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A few years ago, I wrote about how VR was turning into a vehicle for media tie-ins.
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But whichever retailer wins, they're going to want Hasbro's merchandise because they have the best media tie-ins.
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All bowls have conference tie-ins, but those are broken when conferences can't fill all of their slots.
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The company's first product line, Equal Parts, will be comprised of cookware sets with cooking-class tie-ins.
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Genuine victimhood here is hard to nail down; weep not for the integrity of fast-food tie-ins.
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The film had 186 licensed products stemming from tie-ins with Kodak, Mattel, Burger King, Payless ShoeSource, and Nestlé.
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The feature will also have developer tie-ins, so app makers can integrate their service with a particular status.
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This model has a lot of potential for quick and seamless tie-ins to popular content already being released.
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Some Nest integrations are mundane, but others are super useful There's also a slew of energy-saving tie-ins.
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But with movies come movie tie-ins, and this one is being talked about for all the right reasons.
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It's attracted a passionate following around the world, leading to lucrative merchandising and product tie-ins for the creators.
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Likewise, the other investors have a dedicated early-stage presence which could also mean more potential for tie-ins.
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That means no references to Tony Stark, no relationship between Aunt May and Happy and no Avengers tie-ins.
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Payoffs and tie-ins are everywhere: in eyeballs, ad dollars, recording sales, ticket sales, media buzz and sheer unquantifiable attention.
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You have the tie-ins with popular movie franchises, basic construction boxes for kids, STEM focused sets, and much more.
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That's not even accounting for the series' extensive cultural permeation, on a level that far transcended superficial product tie-ins.
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Subsequent tie-ins, and potentially an investor, would be notable developments and perhaps positive signals that the market is seeking.
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Facebook's participation, meanwhile, will include a lounge and plenty of exposure and tie-ins across Facebook's website and mobile apps.
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Most shows in the genre were animated tie-ins meant to sell toys or cash-in on a film property.
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GND legislation could also facilitate private-sector tie-ins for federal green infrastructure investment with green bonds and investment vehicles.
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There were just three brand partner tie-ins over the three-day event: Nerf, chicken restaurant chain Fuku, and YouTube.
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But it is not clear if it would protect NBCUniversal if Olympics-themed commercials and promotional tie-ins were scrapped.
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So while this wave of corporate tie-ins might be a cynical move, it's not exactly a surprising one either.
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Last week, Epic launched an in-game skin based on Ninja and said that more creator tie-ins were coming.
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From car companies and apparel to restaurants and real estate, there have been many clever tie-ins to the event.
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It introduced clothing, theme parks, video games, original films, and popular tie-ins with Star Wars and Harry Potter-themed kits.
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Adult coloring books were devoid of the movie tie-ins and cartoons and fairies and princesses that characterize children's coloring books.
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Payment enabler Stripe just announced two significant tie-ins that could help its pool of merchants make money from consumers in China.
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By comparison, the second season of "Stranger Things" had just two promotional tie-ins, one with Lyft and one with Kellogg's Eggo.
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Pinterest's pitch to brands is getting more sophisticated, with targeting tools, fancier ads, and more robust e-commerce tie-ins, Digiday reports.
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"Every company should be doing something to show what the tie-ins are between trade and job growth in the U.S.," Okun said.
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Apple stresses that none of these new features and hardware tie-ins for Playground are dependent on brand new or tie-in hardware.
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Yet when movies have a line of happy meals and other tie-ins attached, it's advisable not to sound too pretentious about them.
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They can show up in TV shows or theme parks, appear as tie-ins on ESPN, or be part of an interactive toy.
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Batman Forever Bebe's Kids Beethoven's 2nd Wayne's World The Wizard of Oz The SNES catalog is crowded with cash-grab movie tie-ins .
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Revenue can come through microtransactions, but also marketing tie-ins — drawing users to businesses with the release of location-specific pokémon, for example.
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"Toys with movie tie-ins will continue to contribute to the increase, stemming from those released both in 2015 and 2016," Lennett said.
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It's developing high quality movie tie-ins and corporate education software such as recreation's of sets from the upcoming Ready Player One movie.
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The ad was actually part of a larger campaign that featured Cuba Gooding Jr., Sheryl Crow and Elizabeth Hurley and various charitable tie-ins.
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But the classics are tucked into a cornucopia of lazy movie tie-ins, mediocre sports games, and even a handful of forgettable Mario adventures.
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It had just lost the attention of popular media for a few years when there had been no tie-ins, like books and movies.
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This comic also shows IDW Publishing really going out on a limb as the company usually sticks to legacy reprints and licensed tie-ins.
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You can download Aladdin, The Lion King and The Jungle Book's game tie-ins for PC, Mac and Linux from GOG starting Thursday morning.
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Not every summer release will hit the multiplex with hundreds of millions of dollars of marketing and various fast-food tie-ins behind it.
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Film companies will release 25 movies with toy tie-ins this year, according to Bloomberg analysis, up from roughly eight annually in the past.
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He also has plans to hawk other tie-ins to his daily life, including branded t-shirts, bottles of wine, coffee and hummingbird feeders.
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And in 2019, the game amped up its promotional tie-ins — everything from "Star Wars" to "Marvel&aposs Avengers" ended up in the game.
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Here he had this whole world mapped out, with all sorts of stated plans for tie-ins, spin-offs, and sequels spanning every medium imaginable.
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"Toys with movie tie-ins will continue to contribute to the increase," said Juli Lennett, senior vice president and U.S. toys industry analyst at NPD.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is due to reach cinemas in less than two weeks, and that means many many merchandise tie-ins before then.
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The story was also updated to include additional information about the potential for the company to work on merchandise tie-ins for other Netflix programs.
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Yes, Monday's episode contained tie-ins to an overarching story, but anyone can sit down and enjoy this creepfest without any foreknowledge of the series.
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And Kelly really did go all-in, making Southland Tales feel like a summer blockbuster—with comic-book tie-ins that expand his fictional world.
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Those deals provided the foundation for blockbuster movies, but also merchandising and theme-park tie-ins, feeding the company's coffers on a variety of fronts.
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"Management companies, booking agents, music releases, product launches, commercial campaigns and brand tie-ins have all emerged as aspects of this new drag industry," says Bailey.
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With franchise tie-ins like World of Pandora and an Avatar-themed Cirque du Soleil show, the film isn't being relegated to the archives just yet.
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Over time, the company plans to roll out more monetization options for those in the affiliate program, including subscriptions, ad revenue splits, and merchandizing tie-ins.
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If Netflix enhances its understanding of its own base with interactive programming, it will be able to offer more cost-effective tie-ins with partner services.
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Though a surprising number of junk food companies have tried their hands at cosmetic tie-ins, there are a few big names missing from this roundup.
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The way that movie was marketed and promoted, with tons of tie-ins from cereals to shirts and toys … created a new blueprint in movie marketing.
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Not only will it get viewers to tune in, a popular new series means new toys and merchandise tie-ins, another stream of revenue for Disney.
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Vidpresso could help these creators look more like TV anchors than selfie monologuers, but also help them earn money by integrating brand graphics and tie-ins.
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You can, of course, continue using Apple's services, but adding a few Google tie-ins can free your life from being viewable on only Apple's hardware.
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Granted, superhero stuff — the countless movies, television shows, comic book tie-ins and crossovers — enjoys a home court advantage of sorts when it comes to criticism.
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Then sequels to the spin-offs, and then tie-ins based on popular Japanese franchises like Gundam and One Piece, Berserk and Fist of the North Star.
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You have to be a member in order to post in Imzy's sections, and there's a developer platform with tie-ins to services like Twitch or YouTube.
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Bloomberg reported that Line is in discussions with a number of potential partners, including bitcoin exchange Upbit, over possible tie-ins around Line Pay and other products.
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Also in the works: turn-based games in chats (ahem, Facebook), new tie-ins with Cortana and other "intelligent" features that leverage Skype's new in-app camera.
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The only phrase you'll need to say once the Evil Furby movie drops next October is "movie toy tie-ins just in time for the holiday season."
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The menu was revised to offer tie-ins with movie greats, like six-foot strands of spaghetti with tomato sauce that were a favorite of Rudolph Valentino.
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Sequels and tie-ins, afraid to stray too far off-brand, stick to variations on familiar designs and revive old characters, so there's nothing new to discover.
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I hadn't heard of developer Shin'en Multimedia before Fast RMX, but the studio has been producing well-received tie-ins, action, and racing games for over 15 years.
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These new third-party tie-ins will start working with the release of Swift Playgrounds 1.5, which Apple tells me should hit the App Store on June 5th.
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"The core focus is, create all these merchandising opportunities, tie-ins, touch points, so that you feel the 'Stranger Things' energy so that more people join," Hastings said.
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Netflix is paving the way for more marketing tie-ins to streaming shows, marketing and agency execs who have worked with Netflix and its productions told Business Insider.
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The cutest (right in time for Christmas tie-ins) are Porgs, saucer-eyed mewling creatures with plump, puffin-like bodies that are mainly on hand for easy laughs.
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Its list of collaborations and tie-ins includes the addition of NFL skins last November, quirky Avengers: Endgame styles in April, and the incomparable John Wick's addition last week.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is due for release in June—presumably, Playmates' line of toy tie-ins will make their own debut shortly before that.
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It's a detail that's perhaps lost on many promotional VR tie-ins, but seems core to Dreamscape's mission of creative experiences that could only exist in a virtual environment.
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These are a fun feature that'll probably get a lot of use via promotional tie-ins like this one, but their long-term usefulness still remains to be seen.
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But it remains one of the most ambitious pieces of VR video so far, in a landscape that's still dominated by documentary filmmaking, advertising tie-ins, and virtual tourism.
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Mass-produced and joylessly prone to corporate tie-ins, it's the ultimate iteration of the theme park's overriding mission: to separate you from every last dollar in your pocket.
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And then there are the storytelling compromises that inevitably arise with this style of heavily serialized, committee-driven filmmaking, where sequels and tie-ins are scheduled years in advance.
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All bowls have conference tie-ins, but those are broken when conferences can't fill all of their slots; here's a good look at the tie-in and selection process.
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The top four teams go to the Playoff, regardless of conference, and the remaining New Year's Six bowls are filled out with conference tie-ins and at-large bids.
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Netflix is working with brands on product placement, integrations, consumer products, and other tie-ins to its flagship properties, like "Stranger Things," which could become new sources of revenue.
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Amid the concurrent marketing gimmicks, app tie-ins, and Halloween costume trends surrounding the show's return, there arose an obvious question: Can Stranger Things 2 possibly live up to expectations?
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But some couples did a few last minute tie-ins: Kevin and Anne Kitchen, who married in Minneapolis on Saturday, had a royal wedding-themed Snapchat filter for their wedding.
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Yet even the director, J.J. Abrams, called it "preposterous and wrong" that Rey's action figure was missing in action from some game and toy tie-ins — a traditionally male realm.
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In recent days, there have been Stranger Things Snapchat filters, Spotify tie-ins with characters playlists and spooky interactive experiences, haunted rides on Lyft, Stranger Things clothing, and much more.
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It's an effort to tap into obvious marketing and merchandise tie-ins that haven't yet been realized, such as team-branded headphones, which Beats promises to release in due course.
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The massive advertising campaign and the volume of merchandise tie-ins gives you a glimpse of what Netflix could be capable of if it actually licensed more of its content.
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Like most movie tie-ins, the makeup collection will feature plenty of collectible items, though Cargo's first sneak peek doesn't offer up anything more than some shots of the packaging.
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Some of these, like Pandora controls and Uber Eats ordering, are holdovers from Uber's previous app, but the company is also building new tie-ins with other apps and services.
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It's pretty easy to scoff at corporate tie-ins for "Game of Thrones"— as one of the most popular franchises in the world, everyone wants a piece of the action.
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Again, it would be easier to dismiss "Descendants" as kiddie fare if Disney didn't have so much wrapped around it, including the conspicuous tie-ins to its heralded animated predecessors.
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The real-world tie-ins and New York references, and not to mention all the cameos (Like making Bill Murray the ghost naysayer) made the movie feel really self-aware.
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Combine all of this with bright-red colors, warm lighting on the food, and brand tie-ins, and it's tough to walk away from the counter with just one thing.
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We got a brief look at the app, big promises about engaging content, discussions about valuable IP, and bundled tie-ins with affiliated corporations — Comcast and Cox, in this case.
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The game is bursting at the seams with purposeful nostalgia for its earlier, simpler times; off-the-wall features and items; and whatever news advertiser tie-ins Epic can manage.
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The benefit for Disney, Netflix Inc, Viacom Inc and other media companies is clear: Hook viewers when they are young, with content that often has merchandising and theme park tie-ins.
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Thanks to this patient, world-building approach, tie-ins to the Breaking Bad universe — most notably this season with the introduction of Hector, alive and not wheelchair bound — are incredibly gratifying.
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Tie-ins with retailers like Suning, which Alibaba invested $4.6 billion into last year, could help physical retailers improve their use of the web to grow their customer base and engagement.
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Hollywood properties have been getting VR tie-ins frequently over the past few years, but now The Walking Dead is stepping things up with an entire series of virtual reality games.
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It's a place where niche products that have a fanbase can live on without paying for expensive retail space, and where gimmicky movie tie-ins for chips and soda can thrive.
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Based on their sister Kim's successful game, it consists of social network tie-ins, in-app purchases and a storyline that throws you into the fast-paced world of the Jenners.
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Pokemon Go again doesn't use social media account tie-ins, but it almost inverts the Sonar model, since its players frequently take to those networks to broadcast out their own Pokeplans.
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The wines were each named after a character on the show, and their descriptions, while apt for wine, seemed just a teeny tiny bit inappropriate as tie-ins for the show.
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Short video tie-ins to blockbuster movies are popular right now, but there are also some longer and more interactive pieces, like the cooperative four-person game Star Trek: Bridge Crew.
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Basing a VR title on a successful motion picture isn't a terrible idea, but it's one that should be acted upon with caution, considering the checkered history of franchise tie-ins.
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While unofficial, this 1991 Amiga game series did a much better job of capturing the lonely panic of Aliens than the plethora of other official franchise tie-ins from the era.
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According to Pacini, artists, designers, and engineers from Microsoft Studios work on ReCore every day, including writer Joseph Staten, best-known for his work on Halo and its novel tie-ins.
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The benefit for Disney, Netflix Inc, Viacom Inc and other media companies is clear: Hook viewers when they are young, with content that often has merchandising and theme park tie-ins.
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While trying to grow HQ Trivia with tweaks to the game and advertiser tie-ins, Intermedia is also launching other games, including a "Wheel of Fortune" type app called HQ Words.
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Mr. Urman helped draw attention to films through creative promotional tie-ins and release schedules, sometimes arranging for openings in cities off the beaten paths of New York and Los Angeles.
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But here's an argument for making it Lego: the toy tie-ins might have made it easier to get the intellectual property rights all the non-Batman-franchise characters who appear here.
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BMW used the company's app and device tie-ins to create an app called M-Laptimer, which analyzes driving stats — like speed and location — when a GoPro is connected to a car.
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On the one hand, they create blockbuster TV show tie-ins (like the PAW Patrol line of canine first responders) and buy up vintage brands like Erector Set and Etch A Sketch.
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More than ever, successful world-building seems to require of creators a transmedia commitment to spin-offs and prequels and various other increasingly extraneous tie-ins like comic books and card games.
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When we first talked to the team last year, it was clear their focus wasn't simply on the kind of promotional tie-ins or gaming experiences that have been VR's baby steps.
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This is harder to achieve than it might appear, and it's ... also something that's getting harder to find these days, now that Hollywood has taken to doing remakes and franchise tie-ins.
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Add all that up and Google Fi is one of the better deals in wireless, with bonus features that are actually relevant to wireless service instead of corporate media TV tie-ins.
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There's also the somewhat curious fact that Apple is releasing the app well ahead of WWDC, when it typically shows off new software, which could be a sign of future developer tie-ins.
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If Waymo is the only game in town, we'll all probably pay more for rides and be subjected to a lot of forced Google tie-ins, ads, and data sharing about our movements.
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While Disney doesn't receive any box-office money from the film, it does still own the merchandising rights to the character — toys, clothing tie-ins and other merchandise all go into Disney's pocket.
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To celebrate her historic milestone, DC Entertainment is winding up a supersize superhero blowout, with a bustling slate of new releases, merchandising rollouts and tie-ins for fans new and die-hard alike.
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But automakers are more excited by the revenue possibilities when vehicle-generated data creates a more customized experience for riders, generating higher premiums, and lucrative tie-ins with third parties, such as retailers.
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But the bean boom is the least of the coronavirus shutdown's potential climate tie-ins: As social isolation has ramped up, people are traveling and consuming less, and carbon emissions have fallen dramatically.
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And finally, because every puzzle was made a few days before its publication date, the puzzle naturally felt more topical, with tie-ins to modern news or politics appearing days after they happened.
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In the meantime, while you feed the volcano and wait for season 9, Fortnite is currently filled with Avengers: Endgame tie-ins, including a thrilling new mode and skins based on the iconic superheroes.
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Sphero's BB-8 has been one of the most interesting tie-ins to Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which, given the sheer quantity of Star Wars merchandise this past year, is no small feat).
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Beyond these, however, there are easy tie-ins within a number of key categories of Fifth Wall Anchors [sic] that regularly ship or receive freight—developers, of course, but also retail, office, homebuilding anchors.
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There was the awful and now infamous Superman 64; the icky Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis; the disappointing X-Men: Destiny and a bunch of other tie-ins that were nothing more than cash grabs.
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In "Vice," his image briefly flashes by during a montage of the 1980s, though it surely was meant to convey a larger point about the tie-ins between Dick Cheney's politics and Donald Trump's.
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The original film has gotten two poorly regarded sequels, released in 2000 and 2016, as well as three poorly regarded video game tie-ins, including a crossover with the essentially unrelated survival horror game Nocturne.
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Though Wroblewski declined to say whether developer tie-ins may be on the roadmap for the future, he said the company is thinking of Spaces as a platform, just like the services it ties into.
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With its rising hit single "Shallow," the release also continues a run of blockbuster albums with movie tie-ins like "The Greatest Showman" and "Black Panther: The Album," another Interscope release (overseen by Kendrick Lamar).
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Devon said its oil production missed its own forecasts by about 143,000 barrels per day during the period, citing delayed well tie-ins in the United States and temporary steam-plant problems in its Canadian operations.
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Overall, there are currently some 70 oil and gas discoveries being evaluated by license owners for potential development, said Nyland, adding that most of these were candidates for tie-ins to existing platforms via subsea technology.
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It would seem likely that HQ has — or will very soon have — more advertisers lining up to work with the company on crafting custom trivia questions, ad spots, and any number of other marketing tie-ins.
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"It's just becoming a default activation dimension," Haidamus told me recently over the phone, explaining that VR tie-ins are becoming as much of an expected part of movie promotion as websites or social media accounts.
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Overall, there are currently some 70 oil and gas discoveries being evaluated by licence owners for potential development, said Nyland, adding that most of these were candidates for tie-ins to existing platforms via subsea technology.
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Even so, the new HyperAdapt 1.0 are going to be a heck of a lot easier to get your hands on than the ultra-exclusive Back to the Future tie-ins the company raffled off recently.
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That's all starting today, with what Disney is calling Force Friday II. It's actually a three-day promotion, with retailers around the globe now selling new action figures, toys, and other tie-ins connected with the franchise.
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San Diego Comic-Con has become an informal virtual reality testing ground over the past couple of years, with many fans getting their first exposure to the technology thanks to TV show activations and movie tie-ins.
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For the existing titles, it is planning to introduce a 'world map' feature for War Dragons, and expand its partnerships for Episode, which has already landed tie-ins with Mean Girls, Pretty Little Liars, and Demi Lovato.
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But despite the barrage of tie-ins and awkward corporate tweets, or the years of fast food restaurants, candy makers, and car manufacturers co-opting beloved imagery, there's actually something noble at the heart of it all.
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While that service does have tie-ins with the Moglix platform, it also allows any customer to bring their existing sales channels into a digital environment, therein preparing them to get their needs online, ideally with Moglix.
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The last partner is Lionsgate, which is currently working on multiple VR game tie-ins to movies like John Wick and Now You See Me 2 — though we don't know what might make it over to Daydream.
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As was true with previous tie-ins, I began by asking myself when and where the full story began, and I went in search of the younger versions of the characters we're introduced to in the film.
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The focus is to get more people excited about Stranger Things ... the core focus is create all these merchandising opportunities, tie-ins, touch points so that you feel the Stranger Things energy so that more people join.
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There's simply no provision in the proposed Section 245A, as was in the case of its close 'cousin', Section 936, that will guarantee tie-ins of tax revenue with the creation of new and well compensated jobs.
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Brands like working with Netflix showsAs viewers spend more time with ad-free platforms like Netflix and HBO, brands are exploring other ways to get on-screen through product placements or broader marketing tie-ins to TV shows.
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But while other apps might have more features, Google does offer a compelling vision for what a podcast app can be, thanks to tie-ins with some of the other things the company tends to be really good at.
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Just as the post-credit sequence of a Marvel movie proves that each chapter connects to the next, the films within The Conjuring franchise includes oodles of tie-ins to the established players and pieces of the franchise's universe.
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While it may not be immediately obvious how this scheme links into those plans, think about the business model here: leasing cars out rather than selling them; discounting for heavy users; tie-ins between car manufacturers and software providers.
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While it's unclear exactly how Facebook plans to pitch Live to developers — new developer tie-ins seem unlikely given the relative youth of the platform — we'd be surprised if Facebook didn't use F8 to extol the virtues of Live.
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Apple is only dominant over iPhones, and even though the company makes it hard to switch away from iOS and its related services and ecosystem tie-ins, the Android alternative is always there (and getting better all the time).
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You know, not to pick on anyone in particular, but games where the title would have its "s" replaced by "z"s, all those terrible television tie-ins, crossword and casino compendiums, most things starting with "Imagine," and Sprung.
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Most of the product placements in Netflix shows, for example, and handled by the individual productions rather than Netflix staffers, though the streaming giant does have a growing team devoted to striking bigger marketing tie-ins and licensing deals.
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For many comic book enthusiasts, the measure of being a true fan is knowing every single thing that happens to your favorite characters — from every issue to the writers, the artists, the tie-ins, and references in other comics.
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There was a lot that Stevenson liked about the Filmation original, from its action figure tie-ins ("it really felt like playing with toys") to the crazy characters ("there's a princess who can turn her legs into a fishtail").
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Yet in the rush to remind audiences that Peter Parker and Tony Stark exist in the same universe, the solo MCU Spider-Man films have sometimes sacrificed what makes them unique, in favor of pushing bland franchise tie-ins.
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You've been hiking prices on many of your products, not just your iPhones, and putting an emphasis on things that appeal to higher-end consumers like leather cases and watch straps and tie-ins with luxury brands such as Hermes.
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Who cares if giving a beloved hero an unearned arc of evil does nothing but add needless, vacuous fight scenes in overblown issues existing purely as a cash grab with inevitable merchandise tie-ins (get your Nazi Cap action figure today!)?
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Movie tie-ins are rarely exciting, but Frontier has a good deal of experience in the theme park sim genre — including titles like Planet Coaster, Scream Ride, and the adorable Kinect-enabled Zoo Tycoon — so there's reason to be optimistic.
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While virtual reality was once the medium of choice for marketing events, now physical immersive experiences appear to be the trend, as evidenced by the numerous escape-room tie-ins popping up for TV shows, video games, and other projects.
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This isn't Facebook's biggest branded AR experience — that might be the Thanos mask created for Avengers: Infinity War — and Facebook has previously let people scan posters of A Wrinkle In Time and Ready Player One to see AR tie-ins.
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In order to make a living doing what they do, their choice is to enter this increasingly harsh world of clicks and traffic and corporate tie-ins and it's a much more competitive space that's about taking attention and holding attention.
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Line's Friends characters have long helped it make sales — its sticker packs make more than $250 million per year — so it makes sense to monetize them beyond digital sales and into physical products, which includes tie-ins with major consumer brands.
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Hollywood talent and entertainment giants and companies with their roots in talent management, including Creative Artists Agency, Endeavor, and United Talent Agency have been branching out into advertising, helping big-name brands with talent tie-ins, strategy, and distribution deals.
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As its second season dropped last week with much fanfare and many merchandising tie-ins, it's clear that Stranger Things has achieved something increasingly rare in the age of streaming TV: the Netflix show is a full-fledged pop culture phenomenon.
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Epic has called back to the game's history — it named the island's new power plant "Kevolution Energy," for example — but the studio has leaned more into a different, though probably more profitable, approach to in-game events: sponsored tie-ins.
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He said consumers already use Amazon for more than 50 percent of all product searches in the U.S. "We believe [ad business] will create halo effects for the core eCommerce business as it creates greater tie-ins to brands," he wrote.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)The Pixel Stand even has tie-ins with security gadgets like Nest's Video Doorbell, so that anytime the camera senses motion, it will automatically send the video feed straight to your phone, assuming it's sitting on a Pixel Stand.
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Twitter introduces 40 adorable Avengers emoji, including Korg from Thor: Ragnarok Twitter might be slow to addressing any of your personal concerns about the platform and its relationship to democracy, but it's moving fast when it comes to big movie tie-ins.
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But this one might just be their saving grace: amidst all the Sonos and "mixed reality app" tie-ins, the promise of a TV show, and the official "online event of the century," it's easy to forget that fundamentally, Gorillaz are a band.
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Of course, it wouldn't be Ubisoft if it didn't include some tie-ins, which in this case involve the requirement to sign up for the company's (free) Ubisoft Club and use its Uplay platform to download your copy of Prince of Persia.
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Talks with the owners of the Scarborough gas resource off Western Australia, led by ExxonMobil Corp, as well as drilling of an exploration well, Ferrand-A, around March, and other tie-ins could help underpin the expansion, Coleman told Reuters in an interview.
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When Star Wars came out back in 1977, there was no merchandise — the toys came a year later — or fast-food tie-ins, or Funko Pops, or "character posters" or endless reels of online trailers to pore over in search of a fix.
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The very landlords who actually own the space from which WeWork is plying its wares can set up, and are setting up, their own "lemonade stands" in the form of short-term, flexible occupancy coworking space with copious support services and tie-ins.
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Snapchat has already done a lot with creators to build shows, including tie-ins for big broadcast hits like The Voice and The Bachelor, and it's also working with A&E on reality TV via Second Chance, a dating show featuring exes.
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"Fifty Shades of Grey" kicked off the trilogy in 2015 with X-rated toy tie-ins and $85 million in opening-weekend ticket sales, an astounding total for an erotic drama, a genre that had long been out of favor at multiplexes.
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Photo company Kodak is now selling crypto miners, while other bit players like iced tea companies and Hooters franchises have all announced weird blockchain tie-ins with the hope of cashing in before investors wake up sober the next day and realize what they've done.
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Disney has said new games more updates are coming to the app, most likely tie-ins with "The Last Jedi" hitting theaters in December, so there's hope for new updates and potentially an earnest commitment to AR. For now, it's just a fun diversion.
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The publishing slate will also include a number of kid-oriented books, picture books, and comics, as well as some non-fiction tie-ins like The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary, and others.
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An experienced VR creator, Denton has worked on tie-ins for projects like Guillermo del Toro's film Crimson Peak and the Syfy series Nightflyers as well as the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality experience for Legion that ran at last year's San Diego Comic-Con.
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The episode had a few tie-ins to the larger mythology of the story, specifically regarding William, Mulder and Scully's son who they gave up for adoption to keep him safe after he began exhibiting some, err, non-human traits (eyes don't move that way…).
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The involvement of Shigeru Miyamoto and established anime studios has made The Battle Begins more watchable than some of Nintendo's other cartoon tie-ins, even if it is hard to shake the fact that the planet Corneria now looks like a furry paradise world.
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This project is a more highly evolved version of the movie tie-ins that are common in VR, including a video experience for the Reese Witherspoon film Wild — the first title from the Fox Innovation Lab, one of the companies behind The Martian VR Experience.
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Product tie-ins for Star Wars: The Last Jedi seem to have hit the market just in time for the holidays — along with the movie you've probably just seen — but there's already a car that pays homage to next year's Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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The prequel series is drawn carefully from the existing lore of the franchise, which the Henson Company has expanded very haltingly and deliberately over the years through carefully chosen and slowly added franchise tie-ins, including a novel series and a two-volume manga.
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It's not new or news that movies have long sold stuff, including studio tie-ins and toys, as Walt Disney explained by example decades ago, though, like Pixar, he was also in the business of storytelling and not merely corporate-brand storytelling and building.
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Then there are the tie-ins: a children's book (from 2000) and an animated film (22014), along with endless online content, from a GQ video in which Carey expounds on her love for Christmas to an Amazon Music mini-documentary on the song's endurance.
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Yet unlike most auto or boat shows, this one inspires a spate of commercial satellites and a frenzy of tie-ins, with liquor brands, real estate groups, app developers and fashion labels all piggybacking on the ephemeral concentration of HNWIs, or high-net-worth individuals.
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Skybound Entertainment, the production company co-founded by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, has made a point of bringing the property to VR tie-ins, a lineup of new VR games, and is also exploring the medium with other projects like the immersive theater adaptation Delusion.
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I was wrong, of course, because the future of video games ended up looking a lot more like Assassin's Creed 2 (and its immediate sequels.) Collectibles, mobile game tie ins, a major division between "main" and "side" content, and lovable-if-we're-lucky white guy protagonists.
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This applies to the Facebook and Instagram tie-ins, too — you can print photos directly from those accounts, but they show the caption, number of likes or hearts, and the logo of the service you printed them from, all in about as unsubtle a manner as possible.
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"We don't do point to point or on demand so it's synergistic on both ends," he said of potential tie-ins with Grab — which is already working with OYO — while he cited Klook's ongoing work with Alibaba, which has relationships with Tokopedia and Lazada in Southeast Asia.
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Tie-ins between campus speech and appropriations or research funds are meant to strike fear in the hearts of administrators, prompting them to consider the political leanings at the state and federal level in deciding which speakers to invite and how to adjudicate speech-related controversies.
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No word on any sort of follow-up promotion for Rogue One (though the Moto Z would lend itself well to a little space opera cosplay), but SoftBank customers in Japan will be able to get their hands on a pair of pretty solid tie-ins early next month.
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Rather than packaging his discoveries as a luxury brand or with celebrity tie-ins in the fashion of tequila, mezcal's agave cousin, Mr. Cooper emphasized the cultural significance of mezcal, highlighting its ability — through traditional, laborious methods of production — to transmit the character of a place and a people.
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These have included tie ins with The Simpsons and the Wes Anderson film Isle of Dogs, as well as original films such as Help (from Fast and the Furious director Justin Lin), Aardman Animation's Special Delivery, and Pearl — which was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 2017 Academy Awards.
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Basically, this looks like Netflix liked what it was getting from the Marvel tie-ins it's created, including Jessica Jones, Daredevil and Luke Cage, but decided it might be a good idea to own the whole stack, including the comics side of the equation and the in-house creative genius.
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The company brought Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman and star Dan Aykroyd on board last year as part of the newly formed Ghost Corp, a unit inside Sony Pictures that seems set to follow the course laid out by Marvel's Cinematic Universe with films, TV shows, and other tie-ins planned.
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The streaming-video service is opening the door for more marketing tie-ins and licensing deals around streaming TV, approaching brands with more opportunities than competitors like HBO or Amazon Prime Video, Business Insider found based on interviews with eight marketing and agency execs who have worked with the streaming giant.
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"It's not a secret that the Hispanic and Latino communities have been waiting and hoping and looking forward to our introduction of a princess that reflected their culture," said Nancy Kanter, the Disney executive overseeing the show, which will begin on July 22 with toy and theme park tie-ins.
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Previous Trek shows with tie-ins to earlier iterations sometimes struggle to keep the story their own — see the "Voyager" episode "Death Wish" involving Q. But the best ones ("Unification" in "The Next Generation") keep the tone the show has already established while also properly integrating external elements from its forebears.
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I think it's particularly fascinating that a book series whose resistance movement was so frequently compared to Occupy Wall Street spawned a movie franchise that yielded absolutely straight-faced marketing tie-ins that aligned so unironically with the brazen capitalism of the Capitol that they caused fan protests in response.
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If the Batman franchise has always been defined in part by its villains (see a multiplex near you for a current example), the central threat here proves weak, as do the mythological tie-ins to the Kanes' complicated family history, which includes Kate's dad (Dougray Scott), who oversees a private security force.
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Whereas many companies release rushed, free-to-play mobile tie-ins to coincide with the release of big console games, Square Enix was doing something very different, dedicating an entire studio to making more crafted experiences designed to evoke the same kind of feelings as their console counterparts, but on a smaller scale.
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"The core focus is, create all these merchandising opportunities, tie-ins, touch points, so that you feel the 'Stranger Things' energy so that more people join," Reed Hastings, Netflix's CEO, said during a July earnings call, in which he added that Netflix wasn't trying to build a new revenue stream from these deals.
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For Padda, who at present is the Lego Group's Chief Operations Officer, he intends to keep the core values of Lego and its brick during his time as CEO, adding that Lego's connected brands and tie ins with popular franchises such as Star Wars, help complement the business' core value of the physical brick.
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In the wake of the cord cutting era, where pay TV subscribers are dropping subscriptions and many young customers never sign up to begin with, major sports organizations have been experimenting with new ways to increase viewership, ranging from streaming deals on Facebook and Twitter, to tie-ins with popular apps like Snapchat, and more.
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For a deep dive into Netflix's relationships with brands, check out Business Insider's recent coverage: 'It gives a sense of elitism': Netflix is pioneering brand deals for streaming TV, but some partners bemoan its approachHow Netflix's experimental approach to marketing tie-ins creates new opportunities for small and mid-sized brands'Stranger Things' is back.
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It had a $2245 million production budget, a $22008 million domestic advertising budget and product tie-ins that included two roller coasters — one at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey, and the other at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California — and a sequel already green-lit a full year before the first movie had even come out.
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Lore is part of a wave of immersive tie-ins that have emerged this year, including an one-night-only show for the home-video release of Big Little Lies, and most recently, a re-creation of the Neibolt House from Stephen King's It that popped up in Hollywood to promote the release of Andy Muschietti's film adaptation.
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These tie-ins encourage coordination with other federal investments, such as: the Justice Department's Byrne Grants that address crime, safety and reentry and Department of Education's Promise Neighborhoods that encourage school choice and school infrastructure, Treasury's New Markets Tax Credits that support economic development and job creation, and Transportation and EPA programs for rehabilitating deteriorating infrastructure and public services.
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CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wasted no time getting to the "punchline," a new computer for cars he's calling the Drive PX2, the follow-up... Sphero's BB-8 has been one of the most interesting tie-ins to Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which, given the sheer quantity of Star Wars merchandise this past year, is no small feat).
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Showtime just gave the sequel the green light for its new season, which will pick back up in the same sun-kissed queer world of the original, only this time with a contemporary crew of new characters that have tie-ins to the lives of some women from the original series.
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Snap will focus on likewise original, but also pre-recorded shows, many of which are tie-ins of existing content broadcast on network TV. Twitter's looking to replace a 24-hour live TV service, while Snap's looking to build something new, and complimentary to existing TV. But both companies face similar problems, though they're at different stages of their maturation.
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While nostalgically binging on old internet comedy from my childhood, I was struck by an epiphany: just as the comical repacking of 1980s nostalgia during the 2000s made cheap toys and crummy cartoons into flashy movies, so too will the web videos of the late 1990s and early 2000s become fodder for shallow, rushed movies and brand tie-ins over the next decade.
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The execs who have worked with Netflix don't expect to see as high a volume of promotional tie-ins as the company had around the third season of "Stranger Things" when Netflix releases its next slate of original series like "The Witcher," Ryan Murphy's "The Politician," and new seasons of international hits like "The Crown" and "Elite," during the busy fall TV season.
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Developed by Tangentlemen, a studio that includes Spec Ops: The Line co-director Cory Davis and Tomb Raider series designer Toby Gard, it promised something unique in a lineup of abstract games, unconventional sports titles, and tie-ins to non-VR series: an original, full-length psychological horror experience created specifically for PlayStation VR. Unfortunately, Here They Lie doesn't live up to its potential.
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Netflix's partnership strategyHow Netflix's experimental approach to marketing tie-ins creates new opportunities for small and mid-sized brands'It gives a sense of elitism': Netflix is pioneering brand deals for streaming TV, but some partners bemoan its approachNetflix doesn't want to 'get distracted' by trying to make money directly from deals with brands like Coca-Cola and NikeCoca-Cola was the biggest brand winner from Netflix's 'Stranger Things' season 3.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts I and II — WINNER Everything about Harry Potter is outsize: the number of books sold (more than 21917 million, making it the best-selling series of all time), the blockbuster film adaptations (which have grossed nearly $21990 billion), the innumerable tie-ins (theme park attractions in Florida, California, and Japan; board games, video games, so much merch), the vast and obsessive fandom, and, of course, the epic narrative itself.
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Last week I got to spend a short time playing the game at Niantic's office in San Francisco, and while they didn't reveal all their secrets, I saw enough to convince me that HP:WU (I await a catchier nickname, like PoGO) will be a huge time sink for any Harry Potter fan and will probably convert or cannibalize many players from GO. If you were worried this would be a slapdash cash-in effort like some of the HP tie-ins we've seen… don't be.
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