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1A particular form of ViralMarketing.
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3You have a science fiction movie coming out. What can do you do to promote it that goes that extra mile?
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5You do InUniverseMarketing. You post "found" documents from within the universe. A [[Film/{{Watchmen}} "NBS Nightly News" broadcast from 1972 in your world]]? Great. [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} Advertising a drink from your setting]]? Yup. [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Showing a half hour of dull security camera footage with maybe thirty seconds of profoundly disturbing stuff going on]]? Perfect. [[Series/TwinPeaks The diary of one of the characters, with pages torn out]]? [[{{Crunchtastic}} Synergylicious!]]
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7Distinct from the AlternateRealityGame in that there is no 'game', per se. Rather, all there is is the document.
8Websites that use InUniverseMarketing are usually LoggingOntoTheFourthWall.
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10Not all ViralMarketing qualifies as InUniverseMarketing; the product being advertised must be fictional, and the "found" document must be set in said universe.
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12Examples should go under ViralMarketing; this entry just defines the term.
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