#FreedomForWill Fannibals Chase Thank You!

Hello Fannibals!

Please tell everybody to Watch LIVE and watch their DVR recording within 3 days (DVR + 3). The show must be watched in its entirety on DVR and NOT deleted before viewing. Online viewing does NOT affect the Nielsen ranking. Here's a project to help pull in more Nielsen viewers: 

http://hannigramthings.tumblr.com/post/79179687265/hannigramthings-hello-dear-fannibals-as-you

This week's ad sponsor campaign:
1) Please send a thank you tweet to @Chase during Friday's episode, including both hashtags, #FreedomForWill AND #Hannibal. (#Freedom is a Chase credit card, so we're supporting that.)

2) Optional: if you are a Chase customer, or if you have some funny ideas, feel free to tweet a photo or Vine video. If we get some really creative submissions, a little bird told me the producers might give out a prize! 

Here's a great NBC Community Yoplait Vine video from @Gurty: https://vine.co/v/MKxlgb20QP7

3) We're actively encouraging submissions of Hannibal/Chase themed art to be shared on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Anything you tweet to @Violincatherine or @DelaurentiisCo along this line WILL be shared!

4) Please use our #FreedomForWill hashtag leading up to this week's episode.

A couple of things to mention, since there are a lot of questions: 

5) We're not panicking here over cancellation, okay? We're just trying to keep Hannibal on NBC, and there are several successful past fan campaigns that managed to do things like that. Focusing on the ad sponsors is a proven method to stay on US broadcast TV. Participation is not mandatory, it just helps us a lot.

6) If you tweet #FreedomForWill, PLEASE include #Hannibal in the same tweet. This will help keep the Nielsen twitter ranking #1. Worldwide Fannibals can help the most, because the Worldwide twitter trend is extremely valuable to ad sponsors. I'm actually trying to mention all the ad sponsors during the broadcast, so if you see any of those tweets on http://www.twitter.com/ViolinCatherine, PLEASE join in and say thank you, too. An ad dollar is now buying a twitter trend and brand recognition overseas through the Fannibals: that's HUGE.

7) Check into TV tag once during broadcast, since it is an "unofficial" Nielsen ranking (we've been #1 every week, so keep up the good work!): http://tvtag.com/tv_shows/hannibal

Please share the attached images (see below) across all social media platforms, okay? And feel free to create a special avatar to be used on Friday -- perhaps something with Hannibal and Chase.

Thank you, love you, owe you,
Team Hannibal

@ViolinCatherine

@Aughmonica

@M_Verger

@Nwahs086

@HannibalCafe

@Hannibal_TH

@MadsSource

@CarolinaLopez_C

#FridayNightmare: NBC Grimm and NBC Hannibal back to back!

Good Morning, Fannibals!

Two quick notes:

1) Please tell everybody to Watch LIVE and watch their DVR recording within 3 days (DVR + 3). Here's the ongoing Nielsen campaign, running on Tumblr/Facebook: http://hannigramthings.tumblr.com/post/79179687265/hannigramthings-hello-dear-fannibals-as-you

2) Here's this week's #UnleashTheFannibals TMobile ad sponsor thank you campaign (please include #UnleashTheFannibals AND #Hannibal in your tweets): http://hannibal-hq.blogspot.com/2014/03/unleashthefannibals-tmobile-thank-you.html

NBC has a fun campaign for us, to live-tweet with the Grimm cast and the official Grimm account. (Yes, it's an attempt to help pull up Hannibal ratings, so it's wonderful from that angle, too.) Attached at the bottom is the promo image from NBC for 2/28, which you can also use across all social media every Friday (especially tumblr and Facebook) to help bring your real-life friends along to the party.

Here are a couple of tweets if you'd like to help spread the word on twitter. We can kick off Grimm at 9pmEastern/8c with the hashtag #FridayNightmare:

https://twitter.com/DeLaurentiisCo/status/443889286547374080

https://twitter.com/NBCGrimm/status/443883389138247680

Bryan Fuller (@BryanFuller) and Martha De Laurentiis (@neoprod) will be live-tweeting during NBC Hannibal's broadcast at 10pmEastern/9c on Friday. A couple of cast members are rumored to be on board (yay, Aaron!), and there may be some mystery guests, so stay tuned!

NBC Grimm will air at 9pmEastern/8c, and many cast and crew members will tweet along. Please follow these accounts and let's enjoy our NBC neighbors!

Sean Hayes: https://twitter.com/theseanhayes

Todd Milliner: https://twitter.com/tmilliner1

Spiro Skentzos:  https://twitter.com/spirographo

Grimm Writers Room :  https://twitter.com/GrimmWriters 

https://twitter.com/NBCGrimm/show-cast-and-crew/members

Love,

@ViolinCatherine

@Aughmonica

@M_Verger

@Nwahs086

@HannibalCafe

@Hannibal_TH

@MadsSource

@CarolinaLopez_C

Hey Nick, do you think you can spring Will out of jail?

Spread the word: #WhyWeLoveHannibal

Hello Everybody!

This campaign is going directly to NBC, one way or another. It would be nice if it could be crazy and loud, right?

You know the buzzwords "Water cooler"? How people at work stand around the water cooler and talk about some cool thing they saw on TV last night? I'd like to stimulate that kind of discussion by putting quality posts about Hannibal out in the world.

I'm using Tagboard and Pinterest to organize the campaign, but ALL social media networks are eligible. Here's how it works:

1) I'm looking for the best critic reviews of Hannibal. If you find one on a search, twitter, youtube, Facebook, you name it, please repost it for me with the link, a photo from NBC Hannibal if you can, and the hashtag #WhyWeLoveHannibal. I think every social media network will go on this board. If it goes right, it will appear here. If it doesn't, please tweet me at @ViolinCatherine so I can help you: https://www.tagboard.com/WhyWeLoveHannibal

2) I'm also looking for high-quality fan testimonials (think academic approach versus squealing, although there is a time and a place for squealing), videos, fan art, you name it. Tag anything you want with #WhyWeLoveHannibal. It should automatically go on the TagBoard, as listed above. In addition, if you'd like me to pin the work on the campaign's pinterest board, tweet me and I'll put it there for you on permanent display: http://www.pinterest.com/violincatherine/why-we-love-hannibal/

3) Please find examples of "If you love xyz (crime procedural), you'll love NBC Hannibal" and tag as noted above.

Yay, Fannibals! Let's spread the word!

xoxo
@ViolinCatherine
and Team Hannibal

Copy of email from Mads Mikkelsen's agent to Augustina

I think it's beautiful that Mads sent a message to the Fannibals through Augustina.

Here's a copy of the email.

Enjoy; it's for all of us!

xoxo

Catherine

#EmbraceTheCulture Fannibal Yoplait Thank You!

Dear Fannibals!

As you know, a big part of what keeps any TV show running on broadcast networks in the US is its ad sponsors. In the past, when fan groups worked on extensive ad sponsor campaigns, the ad sponsors lobbied the network to keep the show around. We need to line up every bit of support from NBC that we can, okay? And no purchase is necessary; just a tweet helps us. 

Also, if you can tweet ad sponsors while Hannibal is on air with active global hashtags, that is worth serious money to each ad sponsor (a sponsored US tweet is $200K), so please try to help us do that on a weekly basis.

We will select a different ad sponsor every week to thank during the remainder of Hannibal Season 2. This week, please join us in thanking @Yoplait (from parent company General Mills, who also creates Progresso soup, Cheerios, Muir Glen pasta sauce, and natural food line Cascadian Farm).

Please share the attached image (see below) across all social media platforms, okay? And feel free to create a special avatar to be used on Friday -- perhaps something with Hannibal and Yoplait.

Here's the strategy: 

1) Please send a thank you tweet to @Yoplait during Friday's episode.

2) Optional: If you can, please consider purchasing some Yoplait yogurt this week, and then tweet a photo or short video or Vine with your yogurt. If we get some really creative submissions, a little bird told me the producers might give out a prize! 

Here's a great NBC Community Yoplait Vine video from @Gurty: https://vine.co/v/MKxlgb20QP7

3) We're actively encouraging submissions of Hannibal/Yoplait themed art to be shared on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Anything you tweet to @Violincatherine or @DelaurentiisCo along this line WILL be shared!

4) Please use our #EmbraceTheCulture hashtag leading up to this week's episode.

Thank you, love you, owe you,

@violincatherine

and Team Hannibal 

He's the most cultured person around, amirite?

NBC Hannibal Season 2 Ad Sponsors

Hello Fannibals!

Welcome to Season 2! If you have a moment, please thank our ad sponsors on twitter. If you have the inclination and budget to purchase anything from one of them, or are a regular customer, please take a Vine video or photo and say hello to them on twitter.

They are our bread and butter!

Here's a permalink to a spreadsheet of Hannibal ad sponsors; click on tabs at the bottom for each week's list (East Coast US):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsNSI1VswwvvdEZBRFlEcHJQZi1ZY1Z5YklxTDBCTEE&usp=sharing

UPDATE: Here is the list of SF Bay Area ad sponsors (West Coast) from S02E01 and S02E02, courtesy @HannibalCafe!

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s0u78e

Here is S02E03, from @HannibalCafe:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s130sr

S02E04:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s14crh

Love,
Catherine

I said asparagus, not esophagus! Bad Hannibal, Bad!

Four #HappyBirthdayMads Activities This Week!

Translations of this post (Use this link for time zones: #HappyBirthdayMads Event Time Zones):
Spanish (via @Tatylosophy): http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rrtkff
Italian (via @GogaJuss): http://willgrahamslosthealth.tumblr.com/post/67460306532/happybirthdaymads
Greek (via @WeirdyMcWeirder): http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rrttc4
French (via Sherhannilock.tumblr.com): http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rrvh58
German (via @CoolChuipp): http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rs0l5s
Portugese (via PE @DoutorLecter): http://enterprisescaptain.tumblr.com/post/67685213779/four-happybirthdaymads-activities-this-week
Indonesian (via @NBCHannibal_ID): http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rs43m5
More to come! If you would like to translate, please contact me at @ViolinCatherine. THANK YOU!

Hello Fannibals!

Mads Mikkelsen's birthday is on Friday, November 22nd. Yes, we love all the other actors and we'll celebrate their birthdays, too. But @aughmonica felt it would be a fun thing to celebrate Mads's birthday this week, so she came up with four ideas. Everybody is welcome to join us!

UPDATE AT 5pmET: 3 MORE HOURS UNTIL #HappyBirthdayMads TWEETS AGAIN 8-9pmET!

1) Tweet #HappyBirthdayMads from 8pmEST (New York City, or Eastern Time) Thursday, 11/21 to 9pmEST Friday. Do two bigger blasts from 8-9pm, both Thursday and Friday.

@AughMonica offered to help our trending efforts, so let's follow her lead!

a) Here is a time zone calculator:

#HappyBirthdayMads Event Time Zones

IMPORTANT: You can also schedule tweets, if you'd like to join us on the twitter blast but live in a time zone where that would interrupt your sleep: https://tweetdeck.twitter.com

You can also rally YOUR country or fan group to trend in your time zone. We'd like to try to trend worldwide for the full 24 hours, but this will be a fun exercise even if it doesn't trend!

2) Mads's birthday card (with 886 signatures, photos, and fan art from Fannibals around the world) has been delivered! (kindly arranged by @MadsSource, who runs a beautiful Mads Mikkelsen fan site).

3) Reblog this Mads Birthday tumblr post as many times as you can. We'll forward the screencap with the final reblog count on Friday to Mads:

http://augustinah.tumblr.com/post/66424474990/lets-see-how-many-times-we-can-reblog-this-in

4) Change your twitter photo icon to Mads this week! C'mon, we know you have some good pictures sitting around!

a) NEW: @VikkiGamier asked us to all vote for Hannibal in the AdWeek poll as part of #HappyBirthdayMads week (we can vote until 11/25): http://www.adweek.com/hot-list-2013-television

If you'd like to help translate this post into your own language to rally the Fannibals in your country, or if you have time to help me find other International Fannibals, please tweet me at @ViolinCatherine or send me an ask at HannigramThings. I'll add you to the working list and we'll mobilize the troops!

That's all for now; stay tuned!

Love,
@aughmonica
@MadsSource
@Carrot931
@ViolinCatherine

MASTER POST OF NBC HANNIBAL AD SPONSORS

Hello Everybody!

It's really best if we tweet to the ad sponsors while the hashtag is trending; so please check in with us on twitter, 10pmET-12am on Thursday so we can all tweet the ad sponsors together! We are also running some sponsor through GetGlue. You'll see those tweets during the night, so please help us with that, too!

Your general ad sponsor collectors are:
@Vesper1721
@NubileDays

We're all on the East Coast. If you're in a different US timezone, feel free to jump in during airtime with us!

Here's a running log of ad sponsors. You can always send tweets to all of them if you like, anytime:

6/13/13, East Coast:
From @Vesper1721: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkqfi2

6/6/13, East Coast:
From @Vesper1721: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkmju4

From @ViolinCatherine: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkmkmf

Additions from @NubileDays:
@Ford!

THANK YOU SO MUCH, LADIES!


5/31/13, East Coast:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkiqf3

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