Celebrity Gossip: A Marketing Tool

Celebrity gossip is no more something that you keepthe very casting will guarantee a huge opening for
folded in your bag to read when you are alone. Celebthe movie. The publicists of the movie have to just
gossip is slowly but steadily throwing off the grab offeed the rumor mills with fodder once in a while!
secrecy to emerge as a potent and importantCelebrity gossip magazines work great for other
marketing tool. Celebrities are fast waking up topromotion and advertising purposes as well. An
realize that entertainment news portals are popularexample here would be the Carl Jr. burger ad that
and they can be used to marketing and promotion.had Kim Kardashian. The celeb gossip industry went
Suddenly the dreaded paparazzi started receivingdizzy writing about the ad and how Kim was
exact locations of the celebrities.projecting the act of eating a burger look like making
This ushered a new age in which celebrities usedlove! Thanks to the enthusiasm of the entertainment
celebrity gossip sites to promote their movies, musicnews portals, the ad got more visibility than it could
albums and sometimes products which they arehave got without it. It became a regular feature on
endorsing. When a movie is about to release, youYou Tube. The star-struck viewers didn't care about
find all these date alerts on celeb gossip sites aboutthe fact that if Kim was actually having those
the lead pair of the movie dating in real life as well.burgers, she could never maintain the body that they
This sparks off curiosity in the leading stars of theare dying for!
film. That definitely translates into sales for theCelebrity gossip portals receive updates from the
movie. Entertainment sites are provided with otherstars about their upcoming activities through Twitter,
trivia related to the film. There are press junketsFacebook or MySpace. They have their profile pages
organized to showcase the film to the press.on these social networking sites, more to connect
Celebrity gossip magazines and portals are used towith celeb gossip sites than their fans. They post
cook up controversy surrounding a movie as well.pictures of their recent dates, sometimes even
Before the release of a movie, celeb gossip columnsanonymously or with the help of fake profiles,
go abuzz with reports about the intimate scenes thatmaking them come off as leaked snaps.
the movie contains. It could be between actors whoEntertainment news sections have proved their
don't see eye to eye. It could be betweenimportance by demanding this importance from the
performers who are rumored to be dating, butcelebrities by the strength of their popularity. It does
there's no official word for it. Entertainment sites lovemake a difference to the celebrities when they are
it when an actor is romancing an ex onscreen. It'stalked and written about and that is exactly what
taken for granted that if a director is able to bringthey want!
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston for a movie together,