Episode 428 - Tricking Teenagers into Buying Movie Tickets Since 1958

About this episode

The episode humorously explores unconventional methods to attract audiences to movie theaters.

How do you get people into the theaters? It's the age-old question that has plagued mankind for millennia. Is the answer to make a good movie? No way, that can't be it; that's way too hard! Maybe if you just do a bunch of stupid crap, you can trick people into going? I mean, people are basically cattle, right? This sounds foolproof to me.

Topics covered

• movie marketing
• theater attendance
• comedy
• tricks
• audience engagement

Keywords

• movie tickets
• theaters
• audience
• comedy
• marketing strategies

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