Due to high digital download sales, it remains Björk's highest-charting single in the United States to date.

[5] On 26 March 2007, a distorted sample of the song was uploaded to YouTube as part of the viral marketing campaign for the Volta album.

[8][9] The purchased ringtone featured a different clip (with different lyrics) to the one used in the online preview on the site; both audio samples were subsequently spread across music forums.

Drowned in Sound reviewer Mike Diver gave the song 9/10, praising it as "immediately catchy, compellingly left of centre, and undeniably unique".

[17] Digital Spy reviewer Miriam Zendle cited "Earth Intruders" as returning to Björk's earlier commercial sound, comparing it to her more recent albums that were "incredibly difficult to grasp hold of".

[20] "Kirikou" was danced by Legrand Bemba-Debert in a costume made, based on Ocelot's ideas, by paper sculptor Anne-Lise Kœhler.

The video ends with Björk's face slowly fading into the middle of a glade, her eyes being opened just as she sings the last lyric.

[24] On 21 April 2007, a barefooted Björk appeared as the musical guest on an episode of the US comedy-variety show Saturday Night Live in promotion of the album.

Björk's set at Glastonbury Festival was broadcast on BBC Four on 22 June 2007, with "Earth Intruders" being the first song of the concert.

[29] A limited edition "multiformat" box set was released at the beginning of February 2008 with slightly different artwork.