Best Toy & Hobby Integrated Ad Campaign

Kidrobot, one of the world's leading designer toy companies, wanted to create a viral marketing campaign for a new Azteca-themed toy launch targeting toy enthusiasts off all ages. The toy launch was for Azteca-themed toys designed by well-known artists around the world. Kidrobot wanted to create a buzz around the toy launch using multiple marketing channels. Using a pre-launch and post-launch marketing approach Future Farm was able to build engagement before and after products were available on Kidrobot's website. The campaign leveraged Kidrobot's large social media following, paid marketing channels on search engines, paid marketing on social networks, mobile ads, high-end creative work, and a microsite with video chat to engage with the artists. Social media channels were used to get the audience to connect with each of the 14 artists and their designs. The use of social media and live webcasts, before the toy launch, resulted in high engagement metrics and high time-on-site metrics.

FUTURE FARM USED AN INTEGRATED MARKETING APPROACH AND THE FOLLOWING DIGITAL CHANNELS:

Future Farm Designed an Interactive website with 3D rotation views of toys
Live video interaction on microsite with the artists at different times of the campaign
Pay-Per-Click Ads on Google
Pay-Per-Click Ads on Yahoo!
Pay-Per-Click Ads on Bing
Paid Marketing Campaign on Facebook
Pre-launch and Social Media Marketing to 40,000 + fans on Facebook. Pre-launch and Social Media Marketing to 40,000 + Followers on Twitter
Used Blogging on Main Website to integrate with Social Media following
Mobile Ad Campaigns were designed for Android and iPhone
Pay-Per-Click Campaigns using targeting Spanish Speaking Demographic
Create Facebook Ads that target the audience near Kidrobot's retail stores in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and London
The campaign had a pre-launch phase where the designer toy community was targeted via social media ads and paid search ads. Using Facebook targeting Future Farm was able to segment ads to target an audience connected to designer toys, varying types of toys, and even well-known designers in the toy community

RESULTS

Facebook generated 9189387 ad impressions from 1/13/2011 to 1/30/2011.
All campaigns were launched on 1/13 and during the first four hours of the launch about 3,563 visitors were sent to the microsite.
Site had high engagement metrics. Average time on site for return visitors was 8 minutes per visitors. Four times higher then the average metrics for similar microsites.

Contributors:

President:	Sean Golliher
Vice President:	Ryan Tillett
Developer:	Casey Heuscher
Marketing Manager :	Jill Stalowicz

FUTURE FARM INC

Location: United States