Stock photos. They’re bland. They’re boring. But they’re free. As bloggers, we can’t beat free, so we use them all the time.
The good folks behind the movie Unfinished Business (starring Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, and Dave Franco, a 20th Century Fox comedy about three men from three different generations on a business trip, in theaters today March 6) have put out a set of free business stock photos as a fun promotion for the film.
Naturally, I figured I’d use them to illustrate the intense planning that goes on behind the scenes here at the Bookshelf Battle.
“My projections show that bookshelfbattle.com will have 20.5 readers by the end of this decade!”
“Gentlemen, educating the masses about classic literature is all well and good but I think we might have to toss in some jokes about yeti punching to keep people interested.”
Photos courtesy of iStock by Getty Images. As part of the promotion for Unfinished Business, iStock will release a new set of stock images featuring the characters of the newly released Vince Vaughn comedy every week for the next few weeks. It looks funny and Bookshelf Q. Battler encourages his 3.5 readers to see it. iStock is a great website, so check it out.
As a marketing tool, what do you think? Seems ingenious to me. For the cost of a few free photos, people will be talking and posting about this movie for awhile.
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