Sunday, April 10, 2011

Universal Harry Potter Social Media Campaign

SLIDE 1 - Universal Wizarding World Social Media Brief

Universal Harry Potter - Hogwarts Castle

SLIDE 2 - WHAT IS WIZARDING WORLD?

- Brings world of Harry Potter to life

- Like stepping into the stories

- An attraction for old and young alike

SLIDE 3 - CHALLENGES/GOALS

- Challenge: Theme parks are costly. Many HP fans are teens and can’t afford it.

- Goal: Offer opportunity for younger fans to visit park while creating excitement for HP and Wizarding World.

SLIDE 4 – OPPORTUNITY

- Teens are big users of internet, texting, etc.

- REACH them through social media

SLIDE 5 - THE IDEA

- Nation-wide Quidditch game

- Target: 16-25 year old Harry Potter fans

- Vehicle, dressed as Quaffle ball, drive around US during 2-3 week period

- Quaffle has 5 destinations, each new destination voted on by fans via twitter during ‘game.’ i.e. the Quaffle is ‘hit’ from one city to another.

- Quaffle will arrive at top voted city, event with concert by Harry Potter musicians (fan will know them), and winner selected from those who tweeted to receive 4 discounted tickets to Universal Studios.

- Fans also get to ‘hit’ a Bludger ball at cities to dock votes for that city (making it more likely for theirs to win)

- After the 5 destinations, a Snitch ball vehicle is ‘released.’ Fans will tweet photograph and tweet when they see it. The 150th person do tweet it also receives 4 discounted tickets to Universal Studios.

SLIDE 6 – IMPLEMENTATION

- Blogs: Campaign will be introduced via HP blogs and websites (Leakynews.com, Mugglenet.com), with link to landing page

- Twitter: Fans will tweet to vote for their city, vote against other cities, about sighting of the Quaffle and Snitch. Each Tweet must include #WizWorld_Quaffle, etc. so that we can track and tally votes

- Facebook: Ads on relevant profiles, with link to a landing page

- Pandora: Ads for those listening to music popular amongst target market, linking to a landing page

- StumbleUpon: On relevant profiles, with link to landing page

- SEO: Blogs to use keywords.

SLIDE 7 – MEASURING SUCCESS

- Google Analytics - measure website visitation and demographics of users

- Google Reader - measure what people are saying

SLIDE 8 – BUDGET

- Vehicles:

  • Gas: $800
  • Cars (2): $30,000
  • Quaffle and Snitch constructs: $5,000

- Online Ads:

  • PPC - $0.60/click, approx $5,000 total

- TOTAL BUDGET = $48,000

SLIDE 9 – MEDIA SCHEDULE

- BUSY. Continual heavy advertising beginning 2 weeks before launch

- HP sites, Universal Studios site, travel sites, music sites (Pandora)

SLIDE 10 – THE END.

(This is a theoretical campaign, created for the New Media Drivers License class at Michigan State University.)

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