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Invisible Advertising

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154 feature instances
6 referencing feature instances

Invisible Advertising	type	FeatureClass
Invisible Advertising	label	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising	page	InvisibleAdvertising
Invisible Advertising	comment	Movies and TV shows are expensive. To be viable investments, they need to turn a pretty sizable profit. To make that money, they need to make people aware of TV and movies. This is where advertising comes in: billboards, television and radio commercials, interviews on talk shows, online ads and so on. Without this promotion, many people simply don't know a movie exists. This is how tickets get sold, and why people tune in at prime time. Sometimes, however, the studio or network just doesn't think it's worth the bother. Figuring that the money is going down the drain anyway, they simply slip the work into theaters, into its timeslot, hoping that it will just quietly go away, and they will have fulfilled their legal obligations. So the movie/show/book/game does get released, and serious fans who know about it can find it and see it/buy it. But the studio doesn't make it easy. These are cinemae non gratae. This often happens when Executive Meddling slams headfirst into a creator who really, really wants to create the work he wants without interference, but is too green to have Protection from Editors. This leads to a flawed end product with a tacked-on happy ending (to please audiences) or other significant changes that mess up the creator's vision. A variant of this trope developed with the COVID-19 Pandemic, which waylaid the releases of numerous major 2020-2022 films and even led to many shifting distribution strategies entirely. Several films that had been heavily advertised in the months leading up to theater closures, such as Mulan, No Time to Die and A Quiet Place Part II, wound up having wasted massive amounts of ad money. As a result, many films in this era held back on major promotional campaigns until two months or less before their final release date, as a precaution against overspending at a time when a film's release strategy could change in the blink of an eye and with box office numbers having not yet reached pre-2020 levels on average. On TV, this is one part of being Screwed by the Network. These are frequently Not Screened for Critics. Fans who actually liked them will be the ones who Keep Circulating the Tapes. Compare to Never Trust a Trailer, when a work is intentionally mismarketed in a misleading way, as well as No Budget when the work itself is made on a shoestring budget, and Surprise Release, when the very existence of the work itself isnâ€™t revealed until its release day.
Invisible Advertising	fetched	2024-03-16T11:45:47Z
Invisible Advertising	parsed	2024-03-16T11:45:47Z
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Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to Beyonce: Not an Item - IGNORE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to BigTrouble: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to Boruto: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to ChannelHop: Not an Item - FEATURE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to DavidBowie: Not an Item - IGNORE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Not an Item - FEATURE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to Eminem: Not an Item - IGNORE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to FreeSpace2: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to FridayNightDeathSlot: Not an Item - FEATURE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to HistoryRepeats: Not an Item - FEATURE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to Irony: Not an Item - FEATURE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame: Not an Item - IGNORE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to Narm: Not an Item - FEATURE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to Radiohead: Not an Item - IGNORE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to ScrewedByTheNetwork: Not an Item - FEATURE
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to StrangeWorld: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to SubvertedTrope: Not an Item - CAT
Invisible Advertising	processingComment	Dropped link to TheNewTens: Not an Item - FEATURE
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Invisible Advertising	processingUnknown	BigTrouble
Invisible Advertising	processingUnknown	FreeSpace2
Invisible Advertising	processingUnknown	StrangeWorld
Invisible Advertising	isPartOf	DBTropes
Invisible Advertising / int_100aff60	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_100aff60	comment	Police, Camera, Action! and Police Stop! - which were barely advertised at the time. Ironically, the likes of World In Action, The Cook Report and Coronation Street got a mention. But they were still popular...
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Police, Camera, Action!	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_100aff60
Invisible Advertising / int_10175749	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_10175749	comment	Aquaman (2018) waited five months until release before releasing the very first trailer, thanks to a combination of long post-production cycle and executive upheaval at DC Films. Director James Wan himself insisted on waiting until SDCC 2018 to release the first trailer as he wants to make it as faithful to the final movie as possible, especially given how previous trailers for DCEU movies have misled fans on the final product. The result ended up gaining positive reviews from critics and audiences, and the first film in the franchise to make over $1 billion worldwide.
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Aquaman (2018)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_10175749
Invisible Advertising / int_1056a7	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_1056a7	comment	Factory Showroom by They Might Be Giants just sort of appeared out of nowhere in the fall of 1996. Elektra Records had basically given up on the band after a 1994 management shakeup had robbed TMBG of their staunchest supporters at the label, and did nothing to promote the album outside of releasing one single ("S-E-X-X-Y") that was ignored by alt-rock radio. It didn't help matters that the band was in the middle of transitioning its promotion efforts towards the then-embryonic World Wide Web. They'd largely stopped mailing newsletters to members of their Info Club, which had been a major vehicle in the past to keep fans abreast of new album plans. The first any fans heard of a new album in the works was a post by John Flansburgh on the TMBG Usenet group in June of 1996, which left people who weren't hardcore fans and/or lacked internet access out of the loop. After the album's poor performance, Elektra agreed to release them from their contract.
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Factory Showroom (Music)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_1056a7
Invisible Advertising / int_11fd7982	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_11fd7982	comment	Metroid Prime Trilogy: The Compilation Rerelease received no TV commercials, and saw highly-limited internet advertising beyond the official website for the series being updated for the first time in years.
Invisible Advertising / int_11fd7982	featureApplicability	1.0
Invisible Advertising / int_11fd7982	featureConfidence	1.0
Metroid Prime Trilogy (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_11fd7982
Invisible Advertising / int_12d03b27	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_12d03b27	comment	Gunstar Heroes was doomed to this fate on account of a feud between Mac Senour and the guy in charge of marketing the game.note Senour did not mention the guy's name. The game received no marketing whatsoever, leaving third party magazines to pick up the slack.
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Gunstar Heroes (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_12d03b27
Invisible Advertising / int_14d1012d	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_14d1012d	comment	Law & Order: Trial by Jury suffered a similar fate, but circumstances were ready playing against the series from the get-go: aside from its limited advertising and the belief that the characters didn't have much chemistry with one another, tragedy struck when Jerry Orbach, who had both his presence and his character, Det. Lennie Briscoe, to be considered by most fans to be The Heart of the entire franchise, passed away from cancer in late 2004 after filming only two episodes. After that, quite understandably, both fans and the network lost interest and the series barely lasted one season.
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Law & Order: Trial by Jury	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_14d1012d
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Invisible Advertising / int_1a0449f0	comment	While the failure of Return to Oz is often blamed on Nightmare Fuel that didn't sit well with the target audience (and not without reason), a lesser-known factor was Michael Eisner taking over as CEO. The film, along with other projects championed by the former regime, got dumped into theaters with little advertising, save for reviews that criticized the darker aspects. While a few high-profile fans, such as Harlan Ellison, encouraged audiences to see it before it vanished, the film flopped as expected, putting an end to the directing career of Walter Murch.
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Invisible Advertising / int_20eec977	comment	Being a niche series about living on a farm, Story of Seasons games generally have no advertisements or televised commercials. The main form of advertisement throughout the 1990s and 2000s were articles and paper ads. In the 2010s, Marvelous and XSeed began frequently using online marketing to advertise the series.
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Story of Seasons (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_20eec977
Invisible Advertising / int_2237705a	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_2237705a	comment	Osmosis Jones received an odd case of this in that it DID get a decent marketing budget, but Warner Bros. dumped it almost entirely onto Cartoon Network. Hence, commercial breaks on Cartoon Network were flooded with commercials and trailers for Osmosis Jones, but if you didn't watch Cartoon Network, chances are you never knew it existed. Even when it received a TV series, Ozzy & Drix, much of its audience was unaware it was a continuation of the movie - and the series in question aired on a different network from the one that had advertised the movie.
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Osmosis Jones	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_2237705a
Invisible Advertising / int_25305527	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_25305527	comment	Project .hack was well-advertised to begin with in the US, but every release after the first game, including the sequel series .hack//G.U., experienced this, in addition to getting the Friday Night Death Slot if it was an anime other than .hack//SIGN.
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.hack (Franchise)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_25305527
Invisible Advertising / int_272f78f0	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_272f78f0	comment	Tigerland: Zero advertising.
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Invisible Advertising / int_272f78f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Tigerland	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_272f78f0
Invisible Advertising / int_27faf621	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_27faf621	comment	After Season 8, advertising for Cyberchase became near non-existent, even on PBS stations that still air the show and its new episodes. This is especially odd, as the series has been going for 20 years now.
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Cyberchase	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_27faf621
Invisible Advertising / int_284a7891	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_284a7891	comment	Apex Legends is a rare intentional example. It was the studio Respawn Entertainment, not their parent company Electronic Arts, that made the decision to announce the game on the day of its release. Respawn's leadership didn't want to start a conventional marketing campaign out of fear that it could alienate their fans, mislead audiences about the final product, or place unreasonable expectations. As such, they wanted audiences to try out the game for themselves and promote it via word-of-mouth. However, after the game came out, EA did advertise in the form of a wide variety of sponsored streams.
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Apex Legends (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_284a7891
Invisible Advertising / int_2d321e16	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_2d321e16	comment	The 2008 feature film The Midnight Meat Train. Based on the short story by Clive Barker and directed by Japanese cult favourite Ryuhei Kitamura (Godzilla: Final Wars), the movie is a complete and utter bloodbath with the built-in typical horror movie demographic, and it didn't have a high budget. What happened? The company that was releasing it, Lionsgate, switched management while the film was nearing completion. Rather than continuing his predecessor's work and fulfilling the obligations, the new exec shunted the film into a handful of cheapo dollar theaters, without a whit of advertising. It was Kitamura's first American film, and in interviews, he had indicated that he wanted to switch to making films in America permanently, despite being quite bankable in Japan.
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Invisible Advertising / int_2e569790	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_2e569790	comment	The western release of the first Gungriffon had essentially no marketing from Sega, a fact that some publications lamented in their reviews of the game.
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Gungriffon / Videogame	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_2e569790
Invisible Advertising / int_3068e486	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_3068e486	comment	Unlike most Sony movies, Wish Dragon wasn't advertised months prior to its release, which was only announced two months prior, and the ads didn't start until a few days before the launch.
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Invisible Advertising / int_3068e486	featureConfidence	1.0
Wish Dragon	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_3068e486
Invisible Advertising / int_30a5ebfd	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Toonami has gone to good lengths to prevent this from ever happening again. Any time the schedule is updated, a whole commercial to advertise the entire lineup is aired. The commercials air at all times, during Cartoon Network's, Adult Swim's, and Toonami's own broadcastings. Even beyond that, more popular series like Bleach, Naruto, and Space☆Dandy are given their own advertisements.
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Invisible Advertising / int_30a5ebfd	featureConfidence	1.0
Naruto (Manga)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_30a5ebfd
Invisible Advertising / int_30bfcfd8	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_30bfcfd8	comment	Bleeding Edge received essentially zero advertisement outside of an E3 reveal, to the point that when it launched on March 25, 2020, many were unaware that it had even launched, and some were unaware that it even existed in the first place.
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Bleeding Edge (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_30bfcfd8
Invisible Advertising / int_30d9627b	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_30d9627b	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) originally aired in — as Douglas Adams himself put it in a foreword to the collected edition of the books — "a dramatic blaze of no publicity at all. Bats heard it. The odd dog barked." It was wildly successful anyway.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) (Radio)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_30d9627b
Invisible Advertising / int_31c81891	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_31c81891	comment	Averted in the case of Law & Order: Los Angeles. The network advertised the shit out of the show, had one of its lead characters appear on an episode of SVU in an attempt for a successful lead-in for their spinoff, Wolf enthusiastically saying that the show was meant to serve as a replacement for the original series and airing numerous TV spots for it even before the Mothership was cancelled. In spite of all this, ratings lagged considerably and even killing off one of the main characters or executive producer Rene Balcer practically begging fans to ask the network to save the show did nothing to bring in viewers before it ended after one season.
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Invisible Advertising / int_32483a45	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_32483a45	comment	MirrorMask barely turned a head on its cinema run. Consider the visual style of that film and you'll get some idea how heavily you have to bury it for no-one to notice it. The entire cinema run was basically an afterthought, as the studio was banking from the outset on it making its real money as a cult hit on home video.
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MirrorMask	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_32483a45
Invisible Advertising / int_3558eaa2	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_3558eaa2	comment	This is how Community was promoted when it aired on Thursdays:
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Invisible Advertising / int_3558eaa2	featureConfidence	1.0
Community	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_3558eaa2
Invisible Advertising / int_36397555	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_36397555	comment	Madworld had a damn good TV ad, but unfortunately it got very little airtime, most likely due to Sega believing that such an immensely violent and gory game would tarnish the Wii's image.
Invisible Advertising / int_36397555	featureApplicability	1.0
Invisible Advertising / int_36397555	featureConfidence	1.0
MadWorld (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_36397555
Invisible Advertising / int_39446804	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_39446804	comment	Natsume only advertises their Harvest Moon (Natsume) titles online.
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Harvest Moon (Natsume) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_39446804
Invisible Advertising / int_39b7671e	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_39b7671e	comment	Metroid: Other M: While the game received a high-budget live-action-CGI commercial and a website, ads in the West only started running a few days before the game's release.
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Invisible Advertising / int_39b7671e	featureConfidence	1.0
Metroid: Other M (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_39b7671e
Invisible Advertising / int_3ae518ad	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_3ae518ad	comment	Idiocracy: Zero advertising (of course, given that it was on the contractual-minimum six screens nationwide, almost any ads would have been a waste of money).
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Invisible Advertising / int_3ae518ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Idiocracy	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_3ae518ad
Invisible Advertising / int_3cd90f30	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development got almost no promotion from FOX, even after it became a critical darling and Cult Classic. Given how little publicity it got, it's a miracle it lasted 3 seasons (and unsurprising FOX ended up killing it). Netflix later revived the series for two more seasons.
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Arrested Development	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_3cd90f30
Invisible Advertising / int_3d9aadc9	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_3d9aadc9	comment	Eric Church released his 2015 album Mr. Misunderstood to his fan club with no advance warning to anyone that he was working on a new album.
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Eric Church (Music)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_3d9aadc9
Invisible Advertising / int_3e96b159	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_3e96b159	comment	Cats Don't Dance suffered this, lost in the shuffle of the Turner/Warner merger.
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Cats Don't Dance	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_3e96b159
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Invisible Advertising / int_411acd6e	comment	Outside of Japan, The Wonderful 101 had lots of Internet Ads, but no television or print advertising at all. Even worse is the fact that the internet ads kept emphasizing the fact that it's on the Nintendo eShop, which led people to believe that it's an eShop exclusive title. Because of this, and heavy amounts of promotion on the eShop, it has sold exceptionally better on the eShop than it has in retail. When PlatinumGames took the reins themselves to publish the remaster for Switch, PC and PS4, there was barely any promotion for the game following the initial Kickstarter. Though this can be justified by Platinum having little in terms of a marketing budget.
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The Wonderful 101 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_411acd6e
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Invisible Advertising / int_43f0c559	comment	Anarchy Reigns got no advertising outside of Japan, save for a Gamestop pre-order ad.
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Anarchy Reigns (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_43f0c559
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Invisible Advertising / int_455e3038	comment	In its last few seasons, King of the Hill especially got the brunt of this. In network promos for the Animation Domination lineup, the formula was to show what's happening in that week's episode of The Simpsons, then the announcer would say, "Then, after (a new) King of the Hill" over at most a few seconds of footage before immediately going over that week's Family Guy.
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King of the Hill	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_455e3038
Invisible Advertising / int_468a39a9	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_468a39a9	comment	Intentionally invoked by Paramount for Brain Donors to sink the movie after the Zucker brothers left the studio before its release.
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Brain Donors	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_468a39a9
Invisible Advertising / int_490e100	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_490e100	comment	13 is the theatrical example of this. It didn't have any television commercials, instead relying on a few print ads and internet videos.
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13 (Theatre)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_490e100
Invisible Advertising / int_49c05a1a	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_49c05a1a	comment	The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss was stuck in awkward time slots and premiered on Nickelodeon around the same time as Blue's Clues and Hey Arnold!, which were heavily advertised.
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The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_49c05a1a
Invisible Advertising / int_4b7a599c	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_4b7a599c	comment	The Last Express suffered from this, despite stellar reviews, due to the whole marketing team quitting as BrÃ¸derbund was being acquired by The Learning Company (who was only interested in their educational titles, such as the Carmen Sandiego series).
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The Last Express (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_4b7a599c
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Invisible Advertising / int_4f73ef26	comment	Welcome to the Wayne heavily suffered from this, along with a more than year long gap between episodes and little to no reruns.
Invisible Advertising / int_4f73ef26	featureApplicability	1.0
Invisible Advertising / int_4f73ef26	featureConfidence	1.0
Welcome to the Wayne	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_4f73ef26
Invisible Advertising / int_4fc1c922	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_4fc1c922	comment	Most theatrical works get little in terms of televised advertisement, but this is because of how the American theatre industry works. Posters and such are commonplace, but commercials and trailers are not, as outside of New York, this requires travel to see a show and television advertising would be mostly wasteful. Only major blockbuster (usually Broadway) musicals like Wicked get ads, with 'road show' companies of musicals getting local advertising to spread the word about their performances. The Tonys and late-night talk shows also allow a much better form of advertising in scenes of the shows themselves.
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Wicked (Theatre)	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_4fc1c922
Invisible Advertising / int_4fc3c258	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_4fc3c258	comment	Donnie Darko: Not, for once, because the studio was trying to sabotage the movie, but because between the small budget and the unfortunate timing of the release of a movie in which a jet engine falling into a house is a key plot point within two months of 9/11, there was neither the resources nor the will to widely promote the movie no matter how much buzz it had gotten at Sundance.
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Donnie Darko	hasFeature	Invisible Advertising / int_4fc3c258
Invisible Advertising / int_524f646e	type	Invisible Advertising
Invisible Advertising / int_524f646e	comment	The only marketing that the short Ratchet & Clank: Life of Pie received was a single tweet by the animation studio Mainframe Entertainment the day it released. Not even the official Crave Twitter account mentioned it at all when it was made available.
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Invisible Advertising / int_559e9fc	comment	Westworld Season 4 gets very little marketing given that the teaser trailer was released a month before the premiere while the official trailer was released a week before along with a small promotion event in New York. There's also only one promotional poster and no character posters which is a huge contrast to the heavy promotion that HBO did with the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon. Because of these, very few people knew that there was a Season 4. It doesn't help that the two-year gap between Seasons 3 and 4 and that House of the Dragon would debut right after Westworld killed the momentum of the hype. Many fans believed that poor marketing is one of the factors that led to the show's cancellation.
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Invisible Advertising / int_569dc211	comment	Terry Jones' version of The Wind in the Willows. In America, it played on seven screens without advertising, and the rights got dumped to Disney due to Columbia Pictures executives simply having no faith in it (the film's poor box-office in its native UK most likely was a factor).
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Invisible Advertising / int_56e3f4ef	comment	Poor Zokie of Planet Ruby never even got a chance on the network, being dumped to Amazon Prime without a trailer or even an announcement of it being there.
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Invisible Advertising / int_58532c2b	comment	Atomic Puppet received literally zero advertising from Disney XD; in fact, the show was not even listed or mentioned on its official website in any way, shape, or form. Pretty much the only way people could find out it existed was by randomly stumbling across its lone mid-afternoon timeslot or by checking the scheduling on Disney XD's official website. Unsurprisingly, the show only lasted a single season because of this and was immediately removed from the network's lineup once its finale aired.
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Invisible Advertising / int_588b7241	comment	Sonic Forces didn't get televised ads outside of a few Japanese commercials and an American commercial collab with Chuck E. Cheese.
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Invisible Advertising / int_5a79ecef	comment	My Little Pony: A New Generation had a cast trailer released in June 2021, but not a full trailer for the actual movie until August 12.
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Invisible Advertising / int_5ae078da	comment	ECW was famously Screwed by the Network in this way with TNN refusing to run a single ad for them, giving Paul Heyman ammo for his anti-network rants. They even created a character named Cyrus who was supposed to be part of the network and kept screwing them over!
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Invisible Advertising / int_5c81b025	comment	After the first two Yo-kai Watch games underperformed in sales (with the second game losing out to competition from PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon and Final Fantasy XV), Nintendo opted to largely not promote the Yo-kai Watch Blasters spinoffs and Yo-kai Watch 3 outside of web ads. The former was launched the same day as Spider-Man (PS4), and the latter launched in Europe the same day Super Smash Bros. Ultimate; and the US in the wake of Kingdom Hearts III as well as Resident Evil 2 (Remake). The games were also subject to a much smaller print run than the first two, making them hard to find outside the eShop or paying absurd prices at resale. To date, Yo-kai Watch 3 has reportedly only sold around 4,000 copies in North America.
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Invisible Advertising / int_5e6fb55a	comment	Most of the gamesnote specifically Pocket Card Jockey, Tembo the Badass Elephant, Giga Wrecker, and Little Town Hero made by Game Freak under the "Gear Project System", its initiative during the 2010s to create new IPs outside of PokÃ©mon, was victim to this, having little-to-no social media presence or press coverage. The financial failure of these titles, combined with most of them receiving mixed critical reception and PokÃ©mon titles requiring increased numbers of staff, resulted in Game Freak completely abandoning the initiative at the end of the decade.
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Invisible Advertising / int_5ebd9db6	comment	The March 2022 episode premieres of Donkey Hodie were advertised like this, with most episodes not getting advertised until after PBS aired them, with the exception of "A Night Out; Poetry Problem" and "Swoop-A-Rino; Duck Duck's Great Adventure" (likely due to its use of "You've Got To Do It" from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood). To make matters worse, the latter was advertised only 10 minutes before it aired on TV.
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Invisible Advertising / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad! didn't have it much better after its first couple of seasons. In its last season alongside King of the Hill, it tended to only get vague footage that didn't provide much context to the episode's plot. King of theHill ended in 2010, but American Dad kept getting this treatment until it moved to TBS.
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Invisible Advertising / int_61d4e874	comment	Conker's Bad Fur Day received limited advertising due to Nintendo's reluctance to promote the game, with its marketing being confined to late-night TV commercials and men's magazines, and Nintendo Power refused to review the game or acknowledge its existence. This was a contributing factor in its poor sales.
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Invisible Advertising / int_62126ef1	comment	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes went through a period in its second season in which Marvel stopped sharing online previews. The show also had a surprisingly scant amount of merchandise during its run.
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Invisible Advertising / int_625e571	comment	This is pretty much what hosed Law & Order: Criminal Intent no matter what channel it was on. While Dick Wolf had always intended to keep all three main shows in the Law & Order universe afloat, the network had little to no interest in the other L&O series since it did not have a respectable decade-and-a-half run with a good fan following or focus on pretty people solving rapes and murders and gave it no advertising. This came to be to the dismay of many cast members, especially Chris Noth, so the series' move to the USA Network in its seventh season came as a breath of fresh air to both the crew and the fans. Unfortunately, while it did receive much more advertising and attention from the network, it ended up having to compete with SVU again which by then was adored by that network, as well (and ironically enough, their advertising of "do you prefer the Special Victims Unit or Major Case Squad?" did not help), in addition to USA's other popular original programming. It carried on for another few years before ending in 2011. Law & Order: Trial by Jury suffered a similar fate, but circumstances were ready playing against the series from the get-go: aside from its limited advertising and the belief that the characters didn't have much chemistry with one another, tragedy struck when Jerry Orbach, who had both his presence and his character, Det. Lennie Briscoe, to be considered by most fans to be The Heart of the entire franchise, passed away from cancer in late 2004 after filming only two episodes. After that, quite understandably, both fans and the network lost interest and the series barely lasted one season. Averted in the case of Law & Order: Los Angeles. The network advertised the shit out of the show, had one of its lead characters appear on an episode of SVU in an attempt for a successful lead-in for their spinoff, Wolf enthusiastically saying that the show was meant to serve as a replacement for the original series and airing numerous TV spots for it even before the Mothership was cancelled. In spite of all this, ratings lagged considerably and even killing off one of the main characters or executive producer Rene Balcer practically begging fans to ask the network to save the show did nothing to bring in viewers before it ended after one season.
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Invisible Advertising / int_63cecfd3	comment	Batman: Dark Tomorrow was released right as Kemco lacked funds for marketing, so outside of a comic tie-in, there was barely any promotion, only hoping positive word of mouth could boost sales. Given it was a shining case of The Problem with Licensed Games...
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Invisible Advertising / int_6418fc5	comment	In 2007, .Hack//Roots was randomly aired on Cartoon Network at Saturday morning at 4:30 AM EST. The only way anyone even knew it was airing was because someone noticed it listed on the scheduling and started to tell the internet about it. It wasn't even given a "Coming Up Next" bump like the network often announces for all its programming - bumpers during the show claimed the viewer was watching My Gym Partner's a Monkey of all things. There wasn't even an announcement of its licensing, let alone its broadcast. In other words, it really was that random and went away just as quickly (and randomly).
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Invisible Advertising / int_684d2b8e	comment	Infinite got its first trailer less than two weeks prior to its debut on Paramount+.
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Invisible Advertising / int_6a54faf8	comment	After lukewarm ratings for the first season of IGPX, Cartoon Network decided to move the show to Friday at Midnight, with exactly one ad detailing the change of the schedule.
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Invisible Advertising / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	In particular, there's the last two X-Men Film Series releases, no matter if they were reliable moneymakers. Dark Phoenix already had bad buzz, but with Fox's marketing team being mostly fired in the takeover, it was so underpromoted that awareness for the much lower profile Rocketman (2019) was higher, resulting in it becoming a $133 million bomb. And The New Mutants didn't release its official trailer until less than three months before its long delayed spring 2020 release date (and even then the movie got delayed yet again to that summer as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic closing down movie theatres and messing with movie production and keeping most audiences at home).
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Invisible Advertising / int_6c47db4e	comment	Generally considered by the (tiny) community of the online version of Dynasty Warriors to be its downfall. The only people who knew about the game were those who already had an Aeria Games account, were lucky enough to find an advertisement while browsing the internet in things completely unrelated, or saw an article detailing the closure of the servers. Naturally, just like all of their other failures, Aeria Games has gone on the record to say it's Koei's fault, not theirs for not providing the necessary funding for a better advertisement campaign.
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Invisible Advertising / int_70163e71	comment	Madame Web (2024) had just one major trailer released three months before its release (all prior Sony's Spider-Man Universe movies had at least three trailers and more than seven months between the first teaser and theatrical release), and only about two weeks before the movie hit theatres did Sony start releasing smaller ads.
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Invisible Advertising / int_7164f636	comment	Goodbye Volcano High was announced at Sony's June 2020 PlayStation 5 reveal event. Following the immediate anti-LGBT backlash and the game's subsequent period of Development Hell, Sony hardly promoted the game since; the number of times they've done so can be counted on one hand. Because of this, many assumed the game had quietly been cancelled and were surprised when it finally released in late August 2023.
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Invisible Advertising / int_7203e5dd	comment	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas was barely advertised on its original release, and ended up flopping at the box office.
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Invisible Advertising / int_7406344d	comment	Unlike the lavish production values afforded to most games in the series, both the freely-downloadable Grand Theft Auto: London 1961 and Grand Theft Auto Advance saw barely any advertising from Rockstar Games, if at all. The only mention of London 1961 on Rockstar's website was a minuscle "FREE" link on their London 1969 minisite and nothing else, and there's not much in the way of R* actively promoting GTA Advance either, apart from a few screenshots and just one trailer showing gameplay.
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Invisible Advertising / int_7438c47	comment	Helstrom was very badly advertised by Hulu, with very little in the way of press junkets as well. This is presumable due its status as a Contractual Obligation Project before Marvel Television folds into Marvel Studios.
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Invisible Advertising / int_747dc664	comment	Fangbone!, which perhaps not coincidentally also aired in the exact same timeslot as Atomic Puppet, had the same miserable fate. Even worse, this was exacerbated by the fact the series was abruptly removed from the channel barely halfway through its only season to make room for Atomic Puppet and returned to the channel with zero fanfare before ending on a cliffhanger.
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Invisible Advertising / int_75487dcd	comment	Style Savvy games seldom get much advertising, especially in North America.
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Invisible Advertising / int_76d45579	comment	Sonic Mania only received ads online.
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Invisible Advertising / int_76e1ae72	comment	Much to the dismay of the fans, Nickelodeon did not even bother promoting the third/final season of CatDog. The only way to discover new episodes is if you got up early in the morning or accidentally come across one of them during SpongeBob's Nicktoon Summer Splash. Nick did something similar to ChalkZone and The Mighty B! years later note The latter didn't last that long..
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Invisible Advertising / int_788cda89	comment	Dillon's Rolling Western games have suffered from this, due to being eShop only titles. The third game in particular, despite getting a retail release (in Europe and Japan), flew completely under the radar. This was especially the case in North America - where a lot of people shelved their 3DSes in 2017 once the Switch came out (With some only taking them out for PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.)
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Invisible Advertising / int_7a1f55a5	comment	One of the reasons, along with not bothering to stock the cards, that the American release of Battle Spirits failed.
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Invisible Advertising / int_7b2ca7a2	comment	Bayonetta received a huge ad campaign in Japan. In other countries, Europe only got a magazine ad which gave very little indication to what the game was about, while the U.S. got a great magazine ad that was rarely printed, and a mediocre television ad that was rarely aired.
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Invisible Advertising / int_7b984b3	comment	Bowie recorded The Next Day in secrecy and dropped its debut single, "Where are We Now?", on iTunes with zero fanfare. The sudden appearance of the single and its parent album came as a severe shock to fans and industry reporters alike, due to this being Bowie's first new material in roughly a decade; everyone had assumed he had retired after suffering a heart attack on tour in 2004.
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Invisible Advertising / int_7bff7264	comment	Ask a person what games launched with the original Xbox. Almost all of them will say that there was only Halo: Combat Evolved, Amped Snowboarding, and sports games. This is all thanks to the fact that these were the only games advertised at launch; games like Cel Damage and Mad Dash Racing were swept under the rug by both their publishers and Microsoft alike.
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Invisible Advertising / int_7c63d7e	comment	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen had only 117 prints made for the entire US distribution. Gilliam sourly noted at the time that minor arthouse films got 400 prints; the culprit was a regime change at Columbia Pictures.
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Invisible Advertising / int_7d3b246c	comment	Jungle Cruise had the misfortune of its first trailer being released right before the COVID-19 pandemic. After that event happened, nothing was heard about it (aside from a release date change) until May 2021, when it was announced that it would be released on Disney+ as a Premier Access title. Instead, Disney decided to focus its marketing on Black Widow (2021) and Cruella.
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Invisible Advertising / int_84d1021b	comment	NEO: The World Ends with You, the 2021 sequel to The World Ends with You (which was already overlooked by its more popular contemporaries in Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy), received no advertising during the lead up to its release. It's especially damning when it released a month after that year's E3, and had two showcases it could've been shown off at (Nintendo and Square Enix's), and yet it got nothing. Ironically, it's Square's financial report that noted that the game "underperformed", that brought more attention to the game, when that's something they could have done something about and just didn't. It's also worth noting that the advertising and promotion in Japan actually averts this, by way of merchandise and making an anime series of the first game to lead up to this game. But then the problem there is that the game just doesn't sell as well in Japan in spite of that effort. Even though the games have been well received critically, this game only sold roughly 27 000 copies note (18 000 on the Switch, 9000 on Playstation 4) in its opening week in Japan, so they neglected to actually market the game in the areas that it actually would sell well.
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Invisible Advertising / int_890f6a72	comment	Space Jam: A New Legacy: The first trailer for the film was released only three months before its July 2021 release date.
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Invisible Advertising / int_8be4ae39	comment	America: The Motion Picture got no advertising aside from one trailer released three weeks before the film's release.
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Invisible Advertising / int_8d001a97	comment	Universal hardly promoted Slither despite its critical acclaim and later tried to blame the film's failure on Gunn for not making it more accessible.
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Invisible Advertising / int_8e93a13d	comment	The Phantasy Star series at least got a couple of print ads here and there, but in terms of TV spots, the most it ever got was an offhand mention of the original game in an ad that was far more focused on Thunder Blade.
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Invisible Advertising / int_8ebd23f4	comment	Disney partially did this with Muppets Most Wanted: The Muppets conquered social media websites by force but peculiarly abstained from doing real-life ads. As a Muppet fan pointed out, its release period rival Mr. Peabody & Sherman did the exact opposite with its marketing and proceeded to defeat underperforming Muppets at the box office, showing why you shouldn't put all your eggs in the Viral Marketing basket, especially if you're trying to reach a family audience. (That Muppets Most Wanted opened up against the Critic-Proof teen phenomenon Divergent AND that Disney had a blockbuster of their own to unleash just two weeks later really didn't help.)
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Invisible Advertising / int_8f4185	comment	The trailer for PAW Patrol: The Movie was released two months before the film's release. In addition, the trailer's online premiere had been delayed twice before the official release. One of the original dates for the trailer's release was mentioned in this article.
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Invisible Advertising / int_924bb56e	comment	Once Dollhouse started airing the second season, the only way to see any promos for the show were minutes before the episode aired.
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Invisible Advertising / int_941bd079	comment	South Park (Not Suitable For Children) only had advertising consists of an unlisted trailer on YouTube, as well as posters in public spaces showing the kids with Cred. Nobody knew the special was coming out until the day before it did. This was likely intentional given the special's anti-social media stance.
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Invisible Advertising / int_95818d99	comment	Capcom was very bad about this during the sixth-gen era of console gaming. Neither Killer7, Ōkami, nor God Hand got any kind of advertising in the West. Okami did get promotion years later for its Wii, XBLA, and PSN re-releases, though.
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Invisible Advertising / int_961b37e0	comment	DC Extended Universe: Aquaman (2018) waited five months until release before releasing the very first trailer, thanks to a combination of long post-production cycle and executive upheaval at DC Films. Director James Wan himself insisted on waiting until SDCC 2018 to release the first trailer as he wants to make it as faithful to the final movie as possible, especially given how previous trailers for DCEU movies have misled fans on the final product. The result ended up gaining positive reviews from critics and audiences, and the first film in the franchise to make over $1 billion worldwide. Zack Snyder's Justice League got hit with this as Warner Bros. Studios's only efforts being merely to retweet the trailers with the heavy lifting being done by parent company AT&T, their streaming service HBO Max, Zack Snyder himself and fans on social media. Reasons speculated for this include Interservice Rivalry (AT&T dictating that new releases be shown on HBO Max at the same time as their theatrical runs) to those at DC Films who decided to move away from Snyder's vision for the film franchise after Justice League (2017) trying to ensure it doesn't come back (which gained traction after WB CEO Ann Sarnoff said shortly after its release that there were no plans to pick up on it). By comparison, WB put way more effort into promoting Godzilla vs. Kong, Mortal Kombat (2021) and Space Jam: A New Legacy. For some reason, WB also kept the "Own it now!" home video trailer unlisted on Youtube, preventing it from reaching a large viewership (though the film still sold well, word of mouth and it being a Justice League superhero ensemble film greatly helped). Blue Beetle (2023) received little promotion ahead of release, with only two trailers ahead of release and relatively few TV spots. The film ended up having the second-lowest opening weekend in entire franchise.
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Invisible Advertising / int_976efc02	comment	The Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie. The studio behind it, Gramercy Pictures, put everything into advertising the Pamela Anderson film Barb Wire, a Pamela Anderson vehicle in the superhero action genre which, to add insult to injury, didn't sell very many tickets.
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Invisible Advertising / int_985ad25d	comment	This is basically Cartoon Network Latin America's stance on anime during the late 2010s. Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Z Kai had NO ads for them AT ALL on the channel itself, with all publicity for the show being done via YouTube (show in singular since that channel only advertised Super while Kai was outright ignored). The Captain Tsubasa 2018 series only was advertised on ads that were for the channel as a whole; meanwhile Beyblade Burst was even more ignored than Kai, not even having re-runs and airing without ads. Needless to say, PokÃ©mon: The Series was treated the same way it was on the States, except Disney XD never took over it and thus PokÃ©mon the Series: Sun & Moon aired without ads. Bakugan: Battle Planet, interestingly enough, is the only anime airing on the channel that has both ads AND re-runs, even if few. And in case you are wondering, those are ALL anime series that aired on the channel since Digimon Fusion ended its runs, and that one ALSO didn't have ads.
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Invisible Advertising / int_988ab3c7	comment	Delgo though it became clear this was more a result of Not Screened for Critics.
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Invisible Advertising / int_996d6ce0	comment	The X's was a victim of this. Reruns were practically non-existent on the main Nickelodeon network, and it was often preempted with other shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents!. It was dropped after one season a year after it premiered and reruns were dumped on Nicktoons Network, who also preempted it with other shows.
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Invisible Advertising / int_9a1a8272	comment	The reason for this, outside of government funding, is because every month, PBS Kids has a 'tentpole event', and that specific event will get the lion's share of promotion while everything else gets ignored. For example, PBS didn't advertise the Nature Cat episode bomb in January 2018 because they were too busy focusing on Odd Squad: World Turned Odd.
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Invisible Advertising / int_9edddc9a	comment	Despite Nintendo publishing quite a bit of new IPs, a lot of them tend to suffer from invisible advertising - which is why you rarely see people referring to Ever Oasis or Fossil Fighters.
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Invisible Advertising / int_9f02efb1	comment	When was the last time you saw an EverQuest (not EverQuest II) advertisement? You might not even know the game is still around and they are still releasing expansion packs every year.
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Invisible Advertising / int_9f89a5f0	comment	One of the many reasons Nintendo's games don't sell quite as well in the UK, is because Nintendo of Europe's attempts at advertising them are, in a summary, "on their website, in the official magazine and maybe on the Disney Channel if you're lucky". Okay, the most important games ever (think PokÃ©mon, mainstream Super Mario Bros. platformer, or perhaps The Legend of Zelda or even Kirby if you're lucky) might get a commercial during a lesser-known TV show, but anything else may as well not be advertised at all in the region. It's even worse in Poland, where there are absolutely no advertisements for Nintendo's games. The only Nintendo advertisement in the country since a long time was a commercial for the Wii, which played way after the console's original launch, and a commercial for the Nintendo 3DS, which was one of the international ads with terrible dubbing. Both commercials received very little air time. As a result, Nintendo made no effort to advertise the Wii U, and finding the console at a retail shop is a borderline miracle. Likely as a result of the massive failure of the Wii U and learning from their mistakes, Nintendo has averted this trope with an absolute vengeance with regards to their follow-up console, the Nintendo Switch. Their extremely aggressive advertising of the console and its big hit games is one reason why the Switch sold so staggeringly well during its opening monthsnote The Switch has sold 906,000 units in the US alone during the first 29 days, making it the fastest-selling console in Nintendo's history.
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Invisible Advertising / int_a12cd9cf	comment	When Big City Greens released the promo for the final episodes of Season 2B, the only episode that did not get any scenes in the promo was "Chipwrecked". This was probably done to avoid spoiling the episode's dark nature, and the fact that Chip Whistler wins in the end.
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Invisible Advertising / int_a201a0af	comment	Hi-Fi RUSH was announced and released on the same day in January 2023, though this was deliberately done because the developer and publisher both believed that the game would actually be harmed by a longer marketing cycle, and that an immediate release on Xbox Game Pass after the trailer would allow for players to instantly get their hands on the game and for positive word-of-mouth to spread.
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Invisible Advertising / int_a33d799a	comment	Paradoxus (Winx Club, World of Warcraft): It's pretty common for stories, fanmade or original, that are posted on Wattpad to be promoted on other social media such as Facebook groups by means of book mock-ups, memes, banners, etc. Paradoxus, however, isn't advertised by its authors. Its popularity is all due to "mouth-to-mouth" and the admittedly mediocre Wattpad algorithm. Lila Gaela, a fellow fanfic creator with a greater follower base, recommended Bloom_Farella's works (this fanfic included) in her reviews book since she liked them so much.
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Invisible Advertising / int_a3748187	comment	Toonami is doing very little to promote JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind. They're given more promotion to Paranoia Agent, a show that is not only over 15 years old, but it aired on [adult swim] 15 years ago. The fact that it airs at a 2:00am timeslot doesn't help matters either. The COVID pandemic delaying production of the dub led to it being removed entirely in June 2020. At least My Hero Academia, which also has a dub still in production, still airs reruns. This was later averted when the show returned to the block in August.
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Invisible Advertising / int_a4ae80d6	comment	What caused Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath to bomb on release, despite its positive reviews. This caused it to be somewhat of a Franchise Killer until an HD remake for Abe's Oddysee was released eight years later.
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Invisible Advertising / int_a52dae31	comment	In an odd variant, most fans of Guru Larry were not aware that he was a member of Channel Awesome until the #ChangeTheChannel scandal of March-April 2018 drew attention to it, as the site had done nothing to promote him until that point despite Larry joining the site in 2009. Nevertheless, he managed to attain a respectable fanbase through YouTube and social media alone. When the scandal struck and sparked a mass exodus of Channel Awesome's contributors, Larry deliberately chose to stay with the site till the end specifically as a form of protest against the site for not promoting him for so long. For what it's worth, Channel Awesome continued to deal with him exactly as they had done before (perfunctorily uploading his videos to the site but otherwise not promoting or even interacting with him at all) until 2023, five years later, when the site stopped updating. (It was shut down altogether the following year.) This is despite the fact that for those entire five years, with the exception of Brad Jones (who is close with the Walkers and part of their inner circle) he was literally the only remaining contributor to the site.
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Invisible Advertising / int_a6bce733	comment	With Astral Chain, the studio was both aware and invested in averting the unfortunate trend by barraging the audience with dozens of gameplay trailers and development updates for months, up until the game's actual release.
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Invisible Advertising / int_ab4f6c9	comment	Batman: Mask of the Phantasm was originally going to be a straight-to-video film. However, partway through production, Warner Bros. decided to give the film a theatrical release. The film was completed in just 8-months, but Warner Bros. executives didn't give the film any marketing to speak of, so very people knew the film was in theaters even though Batman: The Animated Series was extremely popular at the time.
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Invisible Advertising / int_ab515a31	comment	The Typing of the Dead: Overkill, of the House of the Dead franchise, got almost no advertising outside of a Twitter post when it was plopped onto Steam. The developers were apparently hoping to ride the wave of hype and the cult status the series has gotten for the very cheesy second game, which also had its own even-more-cheesy Typing of the Dead game, and its own cult following.
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Invisible Advertising / int_abfe2c6d	comment	The sequel to 1-2-Switch, Everybody_1-2-Switch! received a Twitter announcement without any in-game screenshots or a trailer, a month before its release. A trailer would eventually drop almost two weeks before the game's release on Nintendo's YouTube channels, but would see zero other acknowledgement. This is likely due to leaks about the title, prior to its official announcement, revealing that it was doing surprisingly poorly with test audiences and was outright disliked by staff outside of NCL.
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Invisible Advertising / int_ae14ae02	comment	The Snack World, from the same developer, was also subject to this for its English release, receiving only a handful of online trailers and no other ad forms ahead of its February 14 release date. Said release date was also in direct competition with Darksiders Genesis, the Champion Edition of Street Fighter V and the Live-Action Adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog (2020). The anime was also quietly put on Crunchyroll the same day, with the "Jara" toys not getting localized at all.
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Invisible Advertising / int_b0793848	comment	The Boondock Saints. Justified, given that the More Dakka-filled movie was released shortly after the Columbine high school massacre.
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Invisible Advertising / int_b1d37e86	comment	Tomb Raider was barely promoted (despite that being an established film reboot of the 2001 film, and like that being based on a successful game series - namely, a 2013 reinvention). Not even any information or details on the production were given. Though as expected, it debuted on opening weekend on March 16 being a financial flop; earning $22 million in second place behind Black Panther, and was a domestic bomb. This made matters worse given its studio, Warner Bros., was heavily promoting Ready Player One (released two weeks later) more than the Tomb Raider reboot.
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Invisible Advertising / int_b368511a	comment	Anna had already suffered delays, but with director Luc Besson caught up in accusations of sexual assault, got released with very little marketing, such as press junkets or screenings for critics.
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Invisible Advertising / int_b3708359	comment	In an unusual case for a big-budget tentpole release, Solo, which was a Troubled Production and fired its directors shortly before photography was scheduled to wrap and was almost entirely reshot, was frequently cited for its complete lack of promotion. Scheduled for a May 25, 2018 release, it wasn't until early February, less than four months before the release date, that Lucasfilm finally put out a trailer and promotional material for the film. For reference, the trailer for the prior Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, debuted eight months before its release date. The result was the first film in the saga to be considered a financial disappointment, leading to Disney putting any further spinoffs on hold (at least for the time being).
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Invisible Advertising / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Forces didn't get televised ads outside of a few Japanese commercials and an American commercial collab with Chuck E. Cheese. Sonic Mania only received ads online.
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Invisible Advertising / int_b56da2f8	comment	Though a juggernaut of a franchise and being very well-reviewed, the Winnie the Pooh (2011) got buried twice by Disney's lack of confidence through limited publicity and being releasing against the second part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, effectively ending the idea of Disney creating any more traditionally-animated films. It was fortunately later Vindicated by Video.
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Invisible Advertising / int_b9abccf7	comment	Below got delayed for over eight months and was deliberately under-advertised by Dimension Films; not only did it still not have a trailer or a poster less than two weeks prior to its release, David Twohy had to create the official website himself.
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Invisible Advertising / int_baa2b041	comment	It happened again with Super. After IFC Films spent over a million to buy the rights, they sat on it and only released a trailer four weeks before opening. Other than a few posters, there was almost no marketing on the film and it died in limited release (also some theatres won't play it due to it being unrated, as the director and studio expected an NC-17 rating).note It eventually got an R rating for its home video release Thankfully, the movie did really well during its simultaneous Video On Demand release, where it was IFC Films' highest-grossing VOD title for a while.
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Invisible Advertising / int_c1e096c5	comment	The vast majority of BEMANI games get promotional material and location testsnote a test version of the game made available to the public at a specific arcade for trying out the game and feedback; basically the arcade equivalent of an open beta roughly half a year prior to release. pop'n music peace, however, got the short end of the stick, with an announcement of the game shown only one day prior to the game's release, with no location test. This comes off as a little suspicious, given that SOUND VOLTEX, another BEMANI game, got announced and was given the usual pre-release routine the same month that peace was released.
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Invisible Advertising / int_c2e3fd44	comment	Though that sounds like a large number, it's a drop in the bucket compared to its competitors, both in moviemaking and in streaming. Disney, in particular, spends tens of billions of dollars every year in marketing, including Hulu advertising. Netflix actually almost completely avoids offline advertisement in some major metropolitan areas. Ironically, one of those areas is Los Angeles, where its production studios are located and where outdoor advertising is dominated by its competitors—Crunchyroll has more outdoor advertising in Los Angeles than Netflix. Because most of Netflix's advertising budget is online and social media, it will remain completely unseen and unnoticed by people outside of "the Netflix ecosystem" (that is, people who don't subscribe to Netflix and don't hear about Netflix programming from other people).
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Invisible Advertising / int_c451df2a	comment	Advertising for the Disney Junior show The Chicken Squad didn't start until a few days before its premiere. Also, note that unlike many other modern Disney Junior shows, it didn't get a premature Season 2 renewal.
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Invisible Advertising / int_c781e69e	comment	Blue Beetle (2023) received little promotion ahead of release, with only two trailers ahead of release and relatively few TV spots. The film ended up having the second-lowest opening weekend in entire franchise.
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Invisible Advertising / int_c8ae6f7f	comment	Ravenous (1999): Very little advertising which also mismarketed it as a teen-oriented horror film.
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Invisible Advertising / int_c911df7d	comment	Strange Magic: The trailer was released only two months before the release, which was in January.
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Invisible Advertising / int_ca03e3a5	comment	The US version of The Mole fell victim to cancellation at the end of Season 5 after ABC's marketing department did so little to promote the show that even many die-hard fans were completely unaware that the show had returned for the first third of the season.
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Invisible Advertising / int_cae89dd0	comment	Chaos Walking (2021) got a bit of media buzz when it first went into principal production in 2017, but after it was delayed for reshoots once Lionsgate reportedly declared the original cut to be "unreleasable", the only thing most media outlets talked about was 'what went wrong'; it then got no coverage for over two years before a trailer was finally released in November 2020, by which point a lot of people had forgotten this movie even existed save for the occasional "So when is this thing coming out?" And this was only two months before its original January 2021 release date until it got shunted to March. Aside from that trailer, a handful of teasers and clips, and a few interviews with the cast and crew the same month it was released, the movie got little advertising at all.
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Invisible Advertising / int_cf23ee17	comment	Tom Laughlin, the director/star of Billy Jack, was able to win distribution rights back from the original company when he realized they were doing this. He then started one of the first examples of saturation advertising and made it a hit.
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Invisible Advertising / int_d03a0164	comment	Polly Pocket: Season 5 dropped on Prime Video early in 2023 with no announcement, with many fans unaware that it was there. The previous three seasons premiered on Netflix.
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Invisible Advertising / int_d371eaa5	comment	The Klonoa series, despite being well-received by critics, barely got any advertising outside of Japan, and what little that the US did get involved print ads like this one◊. No wonder the series is an Acclaimed Flop.
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Invisible Advertising / int_d4ff6c40	comment	A certain MMORPG called Flyff is slowly dying out, partially because of this and partially because of... interesting decisions being made by its developers and host.
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Invisible Advertising / int_d5eca558	comment	Averted and played straight with Zyzzyx Road: It played briefly in a theater to get around a pay scale loophole, inadvertently getting attention as the lowest-grossing film in history. The film was released to DVD internationally later in 2006 as intended, earning over 10,000 times its box office receipts (not that high bar to jump through as the receipt was $30 — which the director personally refunded). However, it still hasn't been released domestically and hasn't made back its $2,000,000 budget by foreign sales alone.
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Invisible Advertising / int_d68df17d	comment	Top Gear one had an In-Universe example. The hosts are tasked with putting on an automotive-themed art show. Richard goes on the radio to promote the show and talks about several things... except the art show. Jeremy is listening and is not pleased.
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Invisible Advertising / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: The series was treated horribly starting with the second season (or 'book'). Nickelodeon didn't acknowledge the show for 15 months after Comic-Con 2012. When it released news of its 2013 schedule, it only stated that Korra would be premiering later that year, but gave absolutely no estimate of when it would premier. Finally, at Comic-Con 2013, it was revealed that Book 2 would premiere in September... in a Friday Night Death Slot. Between Comic-Con and the premiere, Nickelodeon rarely aired trailers and still didn't even after the premiere. After a few episodes, the show was pushed back to 8:30 with almost no warning. After the much-anticipated Beginnings 1 and 2 aired, the show was then moved to 8 pm with the only warnings being an occasional commercial on TV, a tiny video in a corner of the show's page on Nickelodeon's site, and various TV schedule guides. The season finale premiered on midnight on a Friday night online, after a very blatant and dirty campaign by the network for viewers to "unlock" the premiere with Tumblr reblogs. Knowing that the goal would easily be reached meant they had to do no promotion for the actual airing on television for it the next week as the diehards had already watched it online. Book 3 fared no better, as the only time Nick advertised it at all was the day it premiered. This was because Nickelodeon's Mexican sister network somehow managed to upload three episodes to their website well before the show was ready to air. Most networks would have just ignored it because the episodes were in Spanish and in the middle of the season/book, but Nickelodeon's at the time chaotic management panicked and threw them on the air with zero promotion and absolutely none of the traditional Comic-Con buzz-building, no matter how confined the leak and how bad the fandubbings of them were. Not helping also was Nick deciding not to stream the episodes after they aired, meaning with Nick's then-policy of "we'll never repeat anything but SpongeBob and our sitcoms", you had one shot to watch and that was it. All that wonderful non-advertising and self-piracy cut the ratings in half, and with four episodes remaining, Nick decided to shunt it off to the Internet. It streamed to various web presences, and this left the possibility of the final book never being seen at all. Good news: the fourth season was seen. Bad news: it was seen online and rushed out in October, with a pity marathon of Book Three on Nicktoons (a network not in HD for most of the country) beforehand. The last few episodes of the series also got the Nicktoons pity treatment in the same Friday night timeslot.
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Invisible Advertising / int_dc0b9dcc	comment	In the US, Dragon Quest: Legend of the Hero Abel was shown as Dragon Warrior, broadcast on Sunday mornings with no advertising.
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Invisible Advertising / int_dda72858	comment	Warner Bros. didn't really know what to do with The Iron Giant; the studio kept putting off scheduling the release date several times to the point that the film's crew were worried that it would never be released. Warner eventually scheduled the opening for August 6, 1999, then gave it sparse advertising and practically no merchandising causing it to be a miserable flop in theaters; but gained a higher profile on home video and became a sleeper hit and cult classic, aided partly by the Cartoon Network marathoning the movie on Thanksgiving, thanks to head honcho Ted Turner seeing the movie during a flight and discovering he really liked it.
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Invisible Advertising / int_dfa2160d	comment	Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken was given very little promotion ahead of release (the first trailer only debuted three months ahead of its June 30 release date), and ultimately resulted in DreamWorks Animation's lowest opening weekend to date. The film wound up on digital just 18 days after release.
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Invisible Advertising / int_e21e4293	comment	This may be why Kubo and the Two Strings flopped at the box office despite universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Laika's films normally receive plenty of advertising, but Kubo's ads received barely any exposure on television and online. The studio's following film, Missing Link, suffered a similar fate, and being an even bigger flop than Kubo.
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Invisible Advertising / int_e22c949c	comment	Dragon Quest games post-ninth installment (which had Seth Green in commercials) have gotten very little, if any, publicity outside Japan, which may have contributed to the beginning of a new dark age for the series outside Japan.
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Invisible Advertising / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Trailers for the Pretty Cure movies don't usually get released until two to three months before their release to avoid showing the Sixth Ranger too early. Despite this, the films tend to do well at the box office.
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Invisible Advertising / int_e4b5d35b	comment	Galaxy Trail is one indie developer that is becoming notorious for relying almost entirely on word-of-mouth marketing due to budget constraints. This eventually worked-out for their first game, Freedom Planet, which managed to become a surprise indie hit after dropping in 2014. But relying on the same strategy for the sequel Freedom Planet 2 turned out to be a mistake, as the Platform Game scene became much more crowded since then. The sequel ended up being released so quietly that even many long-time fans of the first game remain in the dark about the game finally leaving Development Hell in September 2022.
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Invisible Advertising / int_e500f417	comment	Harvest Moon: Being a niche series about living on a farm, Story of Seasons games generally have no advertisements or televised commercials. The main form of advertisement throughout the 1990s and 2000s were articles and paper ads. In the 2010s, Marvelous and XSeed began frequently using online marketing to advertise the series. Natsume only advertises their Harvest Moon (Natsume) titles online.
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Invisible Advertising / int_e60954ea	comment	One of the biggest problems that Armored Core had was that it was almost never advertised past E3. This caused the game to be thrown between publishing companies like a spiked ball. To elaborate, the series had been taken up by three different companies after the original dropped it (after Last Raven). Sega picked the series up for 4, only to drop it and for Ubisoft to pick it up. Ubisoft dumped it, so then Bandai had the ball for Armored Core 5.
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Invisible Advertising / int_e7656139	comment	With the 1971 movie Wake in Fright, United Artists did nothing to promote the movie outside one trailer for it. To make matters worse, the film opened in America in a single theater on the east side of New York, on a Sunday night, during a blizzard.
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Invisible Advertising / int_e7afca1f	comment	Infinite Space got no advertising outside of Japan whatsoever, and the advertising it got in Japan was very, very limited. The game was shipped out to stores without any announcement beforehand, which resulted in god-awful sales, and it has now become one of the rarest games for the DS. note It's $40 for the cartridge only, which is the same price that a new, complete-in-case 3DS game sells for.
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Invisible Advertising / int_ebf385d8	comment	Twice Upon a Time was given an incredibly limited release, aired once on HBO and twice on Cartoon Network, then disappeared from the public entirely, despite support from George Lucas and Henry Selick.
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Invisible Advertising / int_ede28baa	comment	Vanquish got advertising in Japan and France, but not America or other parts of Europe, due to Sega choosing to promote Sonic Colors instead.
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Invisible Advertising / int_efc9da0b	comment	Despite getting tons of merchandise and promotion online, Olaf's Frozen Adventure was only mentioned in one television commercial for Coco, which was rarely run. Because of this, most audiences did not know about the feature and were surprised to see it take up the first 20 minutes of the film.
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Invisible Advertising / int_f01a02ab	comment	Face's Music Party barely gets promoted, even on the 24-hour Nick Jr. channel. When the promos do air, they're usually few and far between.
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Invisible Advertising / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: While the game did have a TV commercial or two, most of the marketing was mostly limited to a dedicated Metroid Prime 3 Preview Channel Wii Channel. The game saw scant mention in media briefings and press events prior to release, and the official website for the series was never updated to mention the new installment. Metroid Prime Trilogy: The Compilation Rerelease received no TV commercials, and saw highly-limited internet advertising beyond the official website for the series being updated for the first time in years. Metroid: Other M: While the game received a high-budget live-action-CGI commercial and a website, ads in the West only started running a few days before the game's release.
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Invisible Advertising / int_f3ae2950	comment	With the exceptions of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Bayonetta 2, and NieR: Automata, this has happened to PlatinumGames with every game they put out: Madworld had a damn good TV ad, but unfortunately it got very little airtime, most likely due to Sega believing that such an immensely violent and gory game would tarnish the Wii's image. Infinite Space got no advertising outside of Japan whatsoever, and the advertising it got in Japan was very, very limited. The game was shipped out to stores without any announcement beforehand, which resulted in god-awful sales, and it has now become one of the rarest games for the DS. note It's $40 for the cartridge only, which is the same price that a new, complete-in-case 3DS game sells for. Bayonetta received a huge ad campaign in Japan. In other countries, Europe only got a magazine ad which gave very little indication to what the game was about, while the U.S. got a great magazine ad that was rarely printed, and a mediocre television ad that was rarely aired. Vanquish got advertising in Japan and France, but not America or other parts of Europe, due to Sega choosing to promote Sonic Colors instead. Anarchy Reigns got no advertising outside of Japan, save for a Gamestop pre-order ad. Outside of Japan, The Wonderful 101 had lots of Internet Ads, but no television or print advertising at all. Even worse is the fact that the internet ads kept emphasizing the fact that it's on the Nintendo eShop, which led people to believe that it's an eShop exclusive title. Because of this, and heavy amounts of promotion on the eShop, it has sold exceptionally better on the eShop than it has in retail. When PlatinumGames took the reins themselves to publish the remaster for Switch, PC and PS4, there was barely any promotion for the game following the initial Kickstarter. Though this can be justified by Platinum having little in terms of a marketing budget. The video game of The Legend of Korra got no advertisement, all thanks to the show itself being Screwed by the Network. With Astral Chain, the studio was both aware and invested in averting the unfortunate trend by barraging the audience with dozens of gameplay trailers and development updates for months, up until the game's actual release.
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Invisible Advertising / int_f3d889f7	comment	Zack Snyder's Justice League got hit with this as Warner Bros. Studios's only efforts being merely to retweet the trailers with the heavy lifting being done by parent company AT&T, their streaming service HBO Max, Zack Snyder himself and fans on social media. Reasons speculated for this include Interservice Rivalry (AT&T dictating that new releases be shown on HBO Max at the same time as their theatrical runs) to those at DC Films who decided to move away from Snyder's vision for the film franchise after Justice League (2017) trying to ensure it doesn't come back (which gained traction after WB CEO Ann Sarnoff said shortly after its release that there were no plans to pick up on it). By comparison, WB put way more effort into promoting Godzilla vs. Kong, Mortal Kombat (2021) and Space Jam: A New Legacy. For some reason, WB also kept the "Own it now!" home video trailer unlisted on Youtube, preventing it from reaching a large viewership (though the film still sold well, word of mouth and it being a Justice League superhero ensemble film greatly helped).
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Invisible Advertising / int_f4bc8de	comment	Let Me In got this due to a distributor change less than three months before release (Relativity Media bought original distributor Overture for their distribution outlet). Rather than give an ad campaign given to most wide releases, Relativity spent most of its money promoting the movie it was facing that weekend, The Social Network (which was co-financed but not distributed by them) while the studio was completely quiet about the film (it wasn't even mentioned on Relativity's website while The Social Network was). The film grossed only $12 million in the USA.
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Invisible Advertising / int_f5c936a3	comment	In contrast to the lengthy but cryptic lead-in to the original Cloverfield, Paramount waited until two months before release to announce 10 Cloverfield Lane with a surprise trailer in front of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, blindsiding film journalism completely. Tropes Are Not Bad, however, and the surprise trailer led to significant hype for the film, which became a notable box office hit. Two years later, Netflix, which had purchased The Cloverfield Paradox off of Paramount, one-upped the 10 Cloverfield Lane ad campaign by launching a Super Bowl ad for Paradox that announced the film would release as soon as the game ended. This led to the title becoming a ratings hit for the streamer, terrible reviews and audience reception be damned.
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Invisible Advertising / int_f94f0f08	comment	Economy Watch had little advertising for its first few seasons.
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Invisible Advertising / int_f98eaa6	comment	They barely marketed The Big Year (only putting out a trailer a month before opening and having very little television exposure) despite having three big names in the cast (Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson), an established supporting cast and a director whose last two films grossed over $100 million. Also, the marketing hid the film's entire plot (three men on a year-long birdwatching journey, which was based on a non-fiction book).
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Invisible Advertising / int_fbec28e2	comment	Rock and Rule had no advertising for its theatrical or home video releases. American distributor MGM acted like the movie didn't even exist. It went on to become one of the worst Box Office Bombs in animated film history as a result, making back only about $30,000 of its $8 million budget.
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Invisible Advertising / int_ff9ca30	comment	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: While the game did have a TV commercial or two, most of the marketing was mostly limited to a dedicated Metroid Prime 3 Preview Channel Wii Channel. The game saw scant mention in media briefings and press events prior to release, and the official website for the series was never updated to mention the new installment.
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