Moviegoers in select theaters nationwide will get taken on a wild ride
this holiday season with a new big screen AudienceGameTM
featuring the latest in interactive social gaming technology – where the
audience shapes the outcome.
NCM Media Networks, a leading integrated media company reaching U.S.
consumers in movie theaters, online and through mobile technology,
worked together Audience Entertainment Group and a top travel industry
brand to create the new 90-second interactive game, which is the first
national cinema advertising campaign of its kind in the United States.
The new AudienceGame is being presented throughout December exclusively
during NCM’s FirstLook pre-feature program in select movie
theaters in major markets including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas,
Denver, Houston, Knoxville, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York,
Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, DC.
In the game, moviegoers will be able to join a classic cartoon character
in an interactive, big screen version of a wild water ride from the
comfort of their movie theater seats. By moving their arms and acting
together as a group, the audience will create a virtual "human joystick"
to control the videogame action onscreen – zipping down the slide and
retrieving objects along the way. The score will be posted at the end of
the game, but no matter what the tally, the audience always wins by
being among the first in the U.S. to experience the future of cinema
advertising.
"We are always looking for ways to make FirstLook an even
more exciting part of the movie theater experience, and being able to
launch the first national AudienceGame is great fun because moviegoers
can truly interact directly with a brand on the big screen, making it
both the star and the entertainment,” said Cliff Marks, NCM’s president
of sales and marketing. "Agencies and marketers are viewing
AudienceGames as a good way to extend their integrated online and mobile
marketing efforts. After all, playing a game with a theater full of
people is about as social as media can get!”
This exciting new campaign features Audience Entertainment Group’s
first-ever use of the combination of live video and animated overlays in
an AudienceGame. To view the game, visit http://audienceentertainment.com/splash.html.
"Our ongoing relationship with NCM is the centerpiece of our company’s
strategy to create a distribution channel for its next generation
interactive, social media group gaming platform,” said Barry Grieff, CEO
of Audience Entertainment Group. "This engaging entertainment company
campaign is a new advertising approach, and the first of many branded
AudienceGames that we look forward to developing with NCM and its
national advertising clients in the future.”
While this is the first national campaign of its kind in the United
States, Audience Entertainment Group has been perfecting its new "group
motion capture” and "augmented reality” software technology for the past
several years at events across the globe, including games sponsored by
mobile phone brand Orange at the Festival Of Lights in Lyon and
at a charity concert in London's Royal Albert Hall. AudienceGames have
been enjoyed in movie and IMAX theaters, arenas/stadiums, rock concert
venues and indoor/outdoor public screens in over 40 cities in 9
countries on 4 continents around the world. Video examples can be viewed
at http://www.audienceentertainment.com/cases.html.
Audience Entertainment Group games are presented in movie theaters in
the U.S. exclusively through NCM Media Networks.
About National CineMedia (NCM)
NCM
operates NCM Media Networks, a leading integrated media company reaching
U.S. consumers in movie theaters, online and through mobile technology.
The NCM
Cinema Network and NCM
Fathom present cinema advertising and events across the nation’s
largest digital
in-theater network, comprised of theaters owned by AMC Entertainment
Inc., Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), Regal Entertainment Group
(NYSE: RGC) and other leading regional theater circuits. NCM’s theater
advertising network covers 176 Designated Market Areas® (49 of the top
50) and includes over 18,300 screens (17,300 digital). During 2010,
approximately 700 million patrons attended movies shown in theaters in
which NCM currently has exclusive, cinema advertising agreements in
place. The NCM
Fathom Events broadcast network is comprised of nearly 700 locations
in 165 Designated Market Areas® (all of the top 50). The NCM
Interactive Network offers 360-degree integrated marketing
opportunities in combination with cinema, encompassing 42
entertainment-related websites, online widgets and mobile applications.
National CineMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCMI) owns a 48.7% interest in and is
the managing member of National CineMedia LLC. For more information,
visit www.ncm.com.
About Audience Entertainment Group
Audience Entertainment Group is a privately held New York City-based
media technology company that has developed a proprietary interactive
platform enabling audience participation in on-screen videogames and
experiences in theaters, arenas/stadiums, concert halls, and other mass
consumer settings. While this is the first national AudienceGames
campaign in the United States, Audience Entertainment Group has been
perfecting its new "group motion capture” and "augmented reality”
software technology for the past several years at events across the
globe. After events in over 40 cities in 9 countries on 4 continents
involving hundreds of thousands of participants in cooperation with
world-class advertisers including MSNBC, Orange, VW and many others, AE
now is building a permanent network of venue installations worldwide.
The company is co-owned by its founding members and YDreams, a global
company based in Lisbon, Portugal driving the new field of motion-based
gaming and large crowd augmented reality with patents and key offices in
Portugal, Spain, Brazil and the US. Audience Entertainment has
demonstration partners in New York, London, Beijing, and Shanghai.
YouTube videos of examples of many field-proven AE game examples from
around the world can be viewed on the following link: www.audienceentertainment.com/cases,html.
For more information please visit www.audienceentertainment.com.
