Facebook premieres new cinema ad formats

Facebook premieres new cinema ad formats

Facebook has further grown its suite of advertising products with the launch of a pair of tools designed specifically for cinema releases on the social network. Intended to help studios drive awareness of their upcoming releases. both solutions seek to help people find the films they will be most interested in, by reaching those individuals directly. The first […]

20th Century Fox and ODEON summon X-Men’s Dark Phoenix with innovative Snapchat AR campaign

20th Century Fox and ODEON summon X-Men’s Dark Phoenix with innovative Snapchat AR campaign

20th Century Fox, in partnership with ODEON Cinemas Group has worked with Snapchat to reach cinema-goers like never before for the release of their new blockbuster, X-Men: Dark Phoenix. This innovative campaign featuring Snapchat’s Marker Tracking Lens will mean that cinema-goers across Europe will be able to see static X-Men: Dark Phoenix posters and large format standees […]

Vue Entertainment teams with Urban Airship to deliver the UK’s first movie tickets on Google Pay

Vue Entertainment teams with Urban Airship to deliver the UK’s first movie tickets on Google Pay

Customer engagement company Urban Airship and Vue Entertainment, part of Vue International, one of the world’s largest cinema operators, unveiled the U.K.’s first Google Pay movie tickets. Now Vue movie-goers at over 30 of its paperless sites  — not just its app users — can add film tickets to Google Pay and skip the box office to head […]

Regal’s ‘Avengers’ AR activation saw 2M users on opening weekend

Regal’s ‘Avengers’ AR activation saw 2M users on opening weekend

With the release of “The Avengers: Infinity War” last month, Regal Entertainment introduced Moviebill, a new print, mobile and online media platform that uses augmented reality to take readers deeper into the film’s world to audiences. Moviebill was distributed to 1 million moviegoers on the opening weekend. According to Matthew Shreder and James Andrew Felts, […]

MoviePass app tracks users before and after they go to the cinema

MoviePass app tracks users before and after they go to the cinema

Subscription-based movie ticketing service MoviePass tracks your every move and it’s not afraid to admit that – though it claims to have no intentions of selling this data on. Speaking during a presentation at the Entertainment Finance Forum in Hollywood, California, the app’s CEO Mitch Lowe told the audience that “we know all about you”, […]

Gruvi launches first European cinema chatbot for ODEON Cinemas

Gruvi launches first European cinema chatbot for ODEON Cinemas

After several months of development, ODEON launched on 28 November a Facebook ChatBot that helps users discover what is playing in cinemas near them and book tickets. The chatbot, accessible through the official ODEON Facebook page, has been developed by Gruvi. Chatbots are an emerging technology that leverage messaging habits to help businesses communicate more efficiently […]