“Defaced” billboards across the country caused quite a stir with fans of the show The Chosen last week. But what appeared to be “vandalism” was actually a creative marketing ploy by producers to stir up some show converts.
Six weeks ago, billboards across 16 markets featured “traditional” creative advertising The Chosen. Then the creative was switched to the defaced versions last week, mocking The Chosen and driving traffic to www.thechosenisnotgood.com, a purposely primitive website designed by the “devil.”
This week, producer of the show apologized to fans fooled by the billboards, but we’re all here talking about the show so the ploy seems to have paid off.
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The Angel model has already produced three of the most successful crowdfunded shows of all time, including:
- The Chosen, the #1 crowdfunded media project in history, viewed over 300 million times to date, with a special in theaters this Christmas.
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