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Marketing Factors Of Sherlock Holmes As A Business Item

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Sherlock Holmes as a business item
The BBC Sherlock is a great example of the concept of tie-in media, a product which is based on the other media property such as a film, a game or a book. Tie-in products and cross promotion is used nowadays to keep the audiences` interest and attachmment to the particular product (Eastman 245-246). Due to the variety of different media and wide choice on the market, it is very important to broadcast a product in different kind of media channels involving various marketing strategies. For instance, BBC Online created several tie-in websites devoted to the TV series, where the company posts news about the project and where fans are able to discuss their favourite episodes and make predictions about the next …show more content…

In 1923 it was translated again with the name “The Monster Hound”by Nobuhara Ken, who is the best known and appreciated translator of all Conan Doyle`s canon in Japan (Yuichi). The stories about Sherlock Holmes are included in the school curricula in almost all Japanese schools: “According to the survey of libraries in Junior High Schools in Japan, translated Sherlock Holmes stories have for many years been among the top five titles which are most often read or requested” (Yuichi). Another link between Holmes and Japan is the above-mentioned self-defense technique baritsu, the Japanese wrestling style. Besides, among other countries only Japan can boast a life-sized Sherlock`s monument. Moreover, the society of Sherlock`s admirers, The Japan Sherlock Holmes Club, which was founded in 1977, has become one of the biggest societies devoted to the detective (Kobayashi). Another Japanese adaptation which was created with Italian cartoon-makers is an animation television series Sherlock Hound which was broadcast in 1984-1985. The cartoon shows all the canonical Doyle`s characters as anthropomorphic dogs (Mar and Twinning

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