Fall Out Boy's UK Marketing

Website
http://www.falloutboyrock.com/
- Merch shop
- fan list emails
- Q&A
- Photos
- Journal
- Competitions

Friends Or Enimies
http://www.friendsorenemies.com/
- Photos
- Journal

Buzznet
www.buzznet.com/tags/falloutboy/
- Photos
- Community
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MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/falloutboy
- Music
- Bulletins
- Blog posts
- Add as a friend
- Fan codes

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fall-Out-Boy/
- Become a fan
- Videos
- Wall posts
- Photos
- Song clips

Clandestine Industries (Pete Wentz's clothing company)
http://www.clandestineindustries.com/

Magazines
- Frequently in Kerrang! - posters, interviews, reviews
- Had an NME cover
- Rock Sound cover and pull outs
- Teen girl magazines eg Sugar

TV
- Interviews on several Channel 4 shows eg Popworld, Transmission
- Performances on above shows
- Prize giveaways

Live shows
- Tours at least once a year
- Summer festivals eg Reading & Leeds (usually)
- 2007 Decaydance festival

Other stuff
- Free online EP for limited time with release of 3rd album
- Radio interviews
- Online adverts eg MySpace

Everything online aims to create a sense of community for fans and with adverts places on popular web pages they are able to attract new fans.

Reflections on this weekend

I think this weekend was a great success. The locations Angelie & I found on Sunday were amazing (some of them) and we walked 5 miles according to Google Maps (shows some serious dedication seeing as it was like 28c outside or something like that)
Then today (Monday) we took a lot of shots for our storyboard and some photos for us to practice changing to comic book style and it only took us a couple of hours.
But anyways I think this weekend was really good, we had fun as a group and got a lot of work done. We plan on being able to shoot asap when we get back to school so will be doing our storyboard on the 1st September to allow that

Also, there hasn't been any new posts on my blog because I've been completing old ones and I go away tomorrow night so won't be posting for another 2 weeks =]

Toodle pip!

Layout

Heyyy same as james. I missed a media lesson and copied the way you set out one of the marketing pieces of work. Is that ok? =P
-Cat

Pendulum's MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/pendulum

The top of Pendulum's MySpace has three rotating images that portray images of the band in a professional photography studio, performing at Reading and a picture taken from their album art. Beside this is another image of the band set as their profile picture. Beneath this are the usual links seen on MySpace pages; send message, add to friends, IM, add to group, block user, add to favourites, forward to friend and rank user. Under this information are links to Pendulum's pictures and videos, the URL for the MySpace and Pendulum's genre of music (Drum & Bass/Rock/Electronica). Above the main section of the profile is a banner advertising their "tour of the Americas" being on sale now.
The main profile is split into two columns. On the left is a video of them performing 'Granite' at Reading which visitors to the page can watch. Under this is the "general info" section which contains the following information:

Band Website - Pendulum.com
Fan Website & Forum - Pendulumlive.com
Pendulum TV - Pendulum TV - You Tube
Sounds Like - A Wall of Sound
Band Members:
- Rob Swire (vocals/synth/producer)
- Gareth McGrillen (bass guitar/DJ)
- Perry ap Gwynedd (guitar)
- Paul 'El Hornet' Harding (DJ)
- Kodish (drums)
- Ben Mount (MC)
Record Label - Ear Storm
Management - Jho Oakley
Agents :
- Solomon Parker (Live)
- Obi Asika (DJ)
Webmaster - Ollie Martin

Below this information is another link to buy tickets for the tour of the Americas, followed by a poster advertising the tour dates and locations with numbers to call for tickets. Following this is a link to buy tickets to the 'In Silico' tour 2008 in the UK which is accompanied by the tour promotion poster which again contains the dates and locations of the tour as well as the relevant information to call for tickets.
The remaining section of the left hand column under general info contains a link to the Band's merch store with moving images of products available followed by the logos of all the festivals Pendulum are appearing at in 2008.
This section is followed by a box where fans can sign up to the mailing list or read the band's biography which may be of interest to many visitors to the page.
The right hand column starts with the mini player which has 5 songs in it; 'Radio 1 Mini Mix', 'Violet Hill Cover', 'Other Side', 'Propane Nightmares' and 'The Tempest'. THese tracks cannot be downloaded from the page which forces fans to use legal services and pay for downloads (although some may use Limewire). Below this is a comprehensive list of events which includes times, dates and locations of gigs as well as the venue of the gig which fans can use to identify any near them. This is followed by a blog box which contains links to and titles of the latest three posts. Pendulum's "top 8" friends are below this (which appear to be written by one of their PR team as opposed to the band themselves), showing links to all band members' personal MySpaces as well as a Pendulum community MySpace.
The final section of the page is the comments left by fans and spammers. These have been set to the left to fall in line with the left hand column of the page.
The page itself is very impersonal, none of the band have revealed anything a bout themselves and the images used are all professionally shot. Interestingly, there are no links to sell stuff for the band except the merch. Usually there are links to iTunes for downloading, YouTbe for viewing videos and press quotes about bands, however none of this is present on pendulum's page.

Here's your group work on Marketing!

Hi Emma, do you mind if i use your layout for your album cover analysis. When i first saw them i thought that the your group were given a sheet so i did them the same as you. If you dotn want me to use your layout i will change it.

Thanks

James

BLK feedback

good postings recently Emma; try and get some of your analysis work completed soon