What do you get when you combine the most pirated show on the internet with the web’s biggest social media channels? This brilliant little video.
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The team behind social media management software HootSuite took advantage of the Game of Thrones hype, publishing a reworked version of the series’ epic title sequence in the days before the season four premiere. In the video, which plays on the clockwork-style overview of the land of Westeros, the social media landscape is imagined as a series of distant islands, connected by bridges with HootSuite in the centre.
There’s House Facebook, closely accompanied by the rising logos of its recent mega acquisitions (Instagram and WhatsApp) and, across the sea, the expanse of House Google, with its social media play represented by a massive plus sign, and accompanied by a spinning Chrome icon, a Maps pin and the rising amphitheatre of YouTube. House Twitter is all about gleaming silver hashtags and @ signs, surrounded by tweeting blue birds and a turret with creeping green vines (to represent its 6-second video app Vine… get it?).
The distant domain of Snapchat and the walled House of Linkedin also feature, with the professional social network portrayed as a market place to allude to the site’s roll in business and employment. Bannerman of House Pinterest or House Tumblr? Sorry, you’ll have to make do with the Game of Thrones-themed infographic HootSuite published last year.
