North Korea Attacks – Homefront Ad Scares YouTube Visitors

[Commander Fury]

 

Australian visitors of YouTube on Friday might have noticed the big video banner splashed across the top of the homepage “BREAKING NEWS: North Korea Attacks”. This was not in fact real world news but a video for the upcoming THQ game Homefront; it still however scared a few people when they saw this, not knowing that it was actually an advertisement.

 

The Homefront video banner which seemed to cause a bit of confusion amongst visitors on YouTube was basically a cut down version of the Backstory trailer that we all saw last year. Hilary Clinton can be seen at the start addressing media with the text “BREAKING NEWS: North Korea Attacks” overlayed onto the video.

While the Homefront video banner was labelled as an advertisement, it still didn’t stop people from rushing onto social media sites to either spread news of the attack, or comment on the approval/disapproval of the marketing direction which was a negative stance for the majority of people.

 

“Almost freaked out at the YouTube homepage banner ad for Homefront, thinking it was a real headline on a North Korean attack. Not cool.

 

“HOLY SHIT I thought North Korea ACTUALLY Launched a nuclear ATTACK! FUCK YOU YOUTUBE AND YOUR SHITTING GAMING ADVERTISINGS!”

 

“I find the front page advertisement for “HomeFront” on Youtube to be offensive. I thought North Korea had actually attacked. Misleading.”

 

“not sure if the ‘North Korea Attacks’ Youtube banner ad for #Homefront is the most tasteful use of advertising i’ve ever seen.”

 

Below is the backstory trailer which was partially shown on the YouTube homepage, so if you want to have a look check it out. Homefront is due out tomorrow for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

 

Here’s also the full Youtube Ad Pic:

 

 

 

 

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[willywonka159]

Pretty awesome. Those people need to chill out. Does H.G. Wells bring anything to mind?

Edited March 15, 2011 by willywonka159

[Hellraiser]

lol...i can imagine people calling their family!!

[Nemesis]

I hope the game is worth all the hype. Im picking it up during lunchtime today. This is pretty funny though.

 

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[GeneralSarcasm]

i like it.

[Pillorian]

Hey, when your game sucks... next best thing is to generate paranoia based off your product, right?

 

I've heard nothing but terrible things about this game. They probably need advertising like this and their balloon stunt to sell the game. I hope I am wrong though.