A super-sized spooky Out-of-Home campaign was launched this week by Sony Pictures together with JCDecaux, transforming London’s Waterloo Station into a film-themed showcase for two weeks, promoting the release of the new GHOSTBUSTERS movie which hits cinemas on Monday.
The campaign activity is augmented with a variety of global media-firsts debuting at the Waterloo Station spectacular.
Stuart Williams, Deputy Managing Director & Marketing Director at Sony Pictures UK told us “We were very excited to work with the team at JCDecaux as a media partner for our campaign for the release of GHOSTBUSTERS in cinemas. We wanted to deliver more than a pure awareness outdoor campaign and give people the chance to experience GHOSTBUSTERS for themselves and be part of the excitement. Our campaign with JCDecaux has achieved this on many levels using a range of the outdoor opportunities on offer across a variety of digital screen formats, phone boxes and culminating with our takeover of Waterloo station from July 11. This will give people the chance to have a truly immersive experience, buy merchandise and purchase their cinema ticket too. The activity covers experiential, media, digital, publicity and merchandising and is a critical part of our release campaign to make GHOSTBUSTERS the film event of the summer.”
Oozing, 8 metre ‘Slime Poles’ have been placed around the station, and a colossal sculpture of the iconic Stay Puft Marshmallow Man can be seen smashing through the concourse floor. Commuters will be encouraged to capture a picture and share on Twitter using #ghostbusterswaterloo.
An immersion zone in the station’s busy commuter tunnel has been completely transformed with New York vinyl wraps and atmospheric audio, including eerie snatches of sound from New York City.
Thousands of visitors will have the chance to buy ghostly goods at a pop-up GHOSTBUSTERS retail unit which has been built to look like a New York Subway entrance. The retail unit is being run by the world’s largest and best-known science fiction, fantasy and cult entertainment retailer FORBIDDEN PLANET. Visitors to Waterloo will also be able to purchase limited edition ODEON tickets and souvenir tins from the GHOSTBUSTERS retail store between 11 – 24th July while stocks last.
Business cards will be given out encouraging commuters to call the GHOSTBUSTERS headquarters on 0800 2229 911 and hear a message from team. The number is also displayed on phone boxes across the UK.
The campaign has been uniquely immersive across the JCDecaux media network from start to finish; with ‘GHOSTBUSTERS BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN’ messaging displayed across digital screens in malls and rail stations to drive early awareness.
National content displaying dynamic fake news items featuring ghostly sightings has also been deployed across the UK on JCDecaux’s Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) network and this will be amplified by experiential activity within two incredibly busy sites, Birmingham Bullring and Manchester Piccadilly, using the iconic Ghostbusters car, the ECTO-1.
Stacey Knight, Director of JCDecaux Blue said “Waterloo station is the perfect location to create memorable experiences for commuters. The team at JCDecaux had a lot of fun coming up with the creative ideas for the Ghostbusters campaign. A massive Stay Puft man, slime all around the station and fake news stories will no doubt deliver huge excitement and buzz around the film. I’m sure there’ll be a few WaterBOO! commuters putting on a brave face saying: ‘I ain’t afraid of no ghost’.”
The campaign concept was created, managed and executed by JCDecaux. The creative was handled by Feref and media handled by MGOMD and Talon.
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