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MIKE BENSON
didn’t even know there was a name for what he was
trying to pull off.
As executive vice president of marketing for ABC Enter-
tainment, Benson had happily found himself with a phenome-
non on his hands a few years ago, in the form of ABC-TV’s
cult-favorite television show Lost.
But he needed to figure out a way to keep fans of the show
satisfied during what was shaping up to be a seemingly inter-
minable break between seasons.
His plan: to launch an ambitious digital marketing campaign
designed to be as frustrating as it was elaborate, involving a
mind-bogglingly intricate effort to bring verisimilitude to the
show’s back story in the