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Magazine readers focus on the future with Harry Potter-style ads

By Kenneth Li in New York

Published: August 20 2009 03:00 | Last updated: August 20 2009 03:00

When readers of Entertainment Weekly open their magazines next month, they will discover characters from US television programmes speaking to them from a wafer-thin video screen.

The marketing experiment - by CBS, the US broadcaster, and soft drinks maker PepsiCo - recalls the fantasy newspapers of the Harry Potter films. It works much like a singing greeting card, with the video starting once the reader turns the appropriate page.

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