Brand immersion is the result of an interactive marketing campaign. Encourage your target audience to interact with your brand on their terms, not yours. Give them something useful, something meaningful, something that provides them with entertainment. Content must be useful within the context of how and where it is delivered. Consider mobile content vs. online content. How and when are people using their mobile phones? What is the context? This should determine the nature of the content that gets delivered.
Brand immersion is about pull, not push, it’s about encouraging your target audience to become emerged in your brand. Provide them with the tools, information and entertainment that they find valuable, and you will succeed in immersing them in your message.
December 10th, 2006 12:00 pm
I once saw an ad about this institute of soul purification and it really seemed weird. I typed the URL, got the newsletter and I was trying to figure out what was it all about. A broken htlm code came and I recognized a login and password. Got back to the wesite and logged in. Everything was still a mystery and the searching on orkut I figured out it was an Alternate Reality Game set by MTV - that was immersion! And when I realized it was a game (the moment ARG players call ‘being sucked on the rabbit’s hole) the fun just went on - I wanted to find out what was it all about!
I think ARGs are just an absolutely cool entertainment media that brands can provide.