Case Study

Coraline

  • Industy
  • Entertainment
  • Region
  • United Kingdom
    Mexico
    Germany
    Brazil
    Australia
    Philippines
  • Solutions
  • Paid Media
    - Meta
    - TikTok
    - Google

Goal

Increase awareness of the film release and maximise box office sales

How we did it.

  • Develop a comprehensive targeted digital marketing strategy and budget plan
  • Segmenting audiences to strategically balance ad delivery across various levels of fandom, ensuring we connect with the right people
  • Promote captivating ads on multiple platforms to inspire and engage the audience effectively
  • Retargeting website visitors and engaged ad audiences who haven’t yet completed their cinema ticket purchases, encouraging them to finalise their transactions
  • Implement a series of custom conversion events to enable insightful real-time reporting, helping to drive optimisation

Results.

  • In the UK, Coraline is the second highest-grossing film re-release of all time, surpassing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and trailing only Titanic in box office grosses
  • The highest-grossing re-release of the decade, outperforming the 2022 re-release of the record-shattering Avatar
  • In Mexico, the re-release sold more than 1.6 million tickets, exceeding the number of tickets sold for the original release in 2009
  • Coraline generated over $52,3M at the global box office
  • Just over 1,6 million Clicks were generated from the campaigns at a low Cost per Click (CPC) of $0.06
  • 467,167 Cinema Ticket Clicks were generated at an average Cost per Ticket Click of $0.22
  • Reached 25 million people with targeted campaigns in multiple regions, with an average Click Through Rate (CTR) of 3%
  • The Paid Media Campaigns ran for a total of 20 weeks after multiple extensions due to exceptional performance

Examples.

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"Coraline set box office records in multiple international territories, including the UK and Mexico, through our partnership with Trafalgar Releasing."

David Burke, LAIKA’s Chief Marketing & Operations Officer

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