Digital Ad Truck & Walking Billboards: 20th Century Fox – Penguins of Madagascar
Project Description
Client: 20th Century Fox
Agency: Zenith Optimedia
Medium: Digital Ad Truck & Walking Billboards
Objective: To promote Penguins of Madagascar movie release
Target: Toronto
Tactic: Four different creatives were used for the Walking Billboards. The Brand Ambassadors were costumed as dapper penguins and flapped, waddled and danced throughout Toronto, night and day. The LED Truck kept a busy schedule circulating near the penguins to support their message with amazing, exciting and fun video
trailers of the film, with full audio. People of all ages stopped to watch, take photos and videos of their families and friends, took selfies, all while posing with the penguins and with the truck. All the busiest communities were reached frequently and repeatedly. The LED Ad Truck covered a broader geographical reach than the penguin team, circulating within and nearby the busiest malls from Pickering in the east, Vaughan Mills in the north, Mississauga’s Square One in the west, and all the primary malls and shopping corridors within that area. When the Pittsburgh Penguins played the Toronto Maple Leafs, Wild On Media’s penguins donned Maple Leaf jerseys and visited the Leafs and Penguins fans at many sports bars in the city, such as Real Sports Bar, The Loose Moose, Jack Astor’s, The Ballroom, Wayne Gretzky’s, Hoops Sports Bar and Shoeless Joe’s. The Pita Pit even invited the team in for a free meal! Wild On Media fully supported the campaign via continuous social media activity via Twitter and Facebook primarily, keeping the conversation ongoing. A full record of the LED Truck’s and the Walking Billboards team’s activities and social media impact were provided to the client on a daily basis, which encouraged scheduling changes and modifications as the campaign continued for increased success.
The penguins had been seen by a broad audience when they happened to be caught by television cameras shooting morning shows.