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What is ARG

Handbook of Research on Mobile Marketing Management
An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants’ ideas or actions. An ARG is a game which deliberately blurs the line between the game and the real world. Players investigate the world of the game using the same tools with which they interact with the real world such as websites, email, telephone conversations and even in-person discussions with actors playing game characters. ARGs are now being recognized by the mainstream entertainment world: e.g. “I love bees” was a promotion for Halo 2 and the “Lost Experience”
Published in Chapter:
Brand Driven Mobile Marketing: 5 Theses for Today and Tomorrow
Christopher Quente (Creative Director, Germany)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-074-5.ch025
Abstract
Despite the fact that the mobile phone is a perfectly suited advertising medium also for brand campaigns a creative perspective is not only desirable but also necessary. Because: Without creativity, the latest mass medium would be swiftly rendered desolate. In the creative conceptual design of brand campaigns it is important above all to carry out advertising not only on the mobile phone but with it. On the basis of five theses it is illustrated how the mobile phone becomes the essential building block within commercial multi-channel concepts. One key issue being the telling of ‘brand stories’, told across various media or ‘stages’. If the stories being told are compelling enough one can convert brand supporters into brand addicts, who in the best case scenario wouldn’t want to miss a single performance of their favorite brand.
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