A09. Excellence in Audience Engagement or Distribution Strategy for Branded Content
Entrant
PUBLICIS CONSEIL Paris, FRANCE
Idea Creation
PUBLICIS CONSEIL Paris, FRANCE
Media Placement
PUBLICIS CONSEIL Paris, FRANCE
PR
PUBLICIS CONSEIL Paris, FRANCE
Production
HENRY Paris, FRANCE
Production 2
WINAMAX Paris, FRANCE
Production 3
PRODIGIOUS Paris, FRANCE
Additional Company
FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS Paris, FRANCE
Credits
Name
Company
Position
Fabrice Delacourt
PUBLICIS CONSEIL
Executive Creative Director
Kevin Salembier
PUBLICIS CONSEIL
Copywriter
Julien Boissinot
PUBLICIS CONSEIL
Art Director
Alexandre Perdereau
PUBLICIS CONSEIL
Assistant Art Director
Caroline Darmon
PUBLICIS CONSEIL
Business Director
Lou Leproux
PUBLICIS CONSEIL
Account Manager
Gwladys Woimant
PUBLICIS CONSEIL
Digital Producer
Guillaume Cartigny
PUBLICIS CONSEIL
Tech strategy adviser
Jean-François Clapeau
PUBLICIS CONSEIL
Editing
Marie Sloutchansky
PUBLICIS CONSEIL
Social Media
Nilou Soyeux
France Televisions
Communication director
Philippe Deloeuvre
France Televisions
Brand Director
Eric Rinaldi
France Televisions
Art Director
Valerie Manzic
France 3
Communication director
Laurent Sauvage
France 3
Communication director
Amélie Séchet
France Televisions
Advertising Manager
Ralph Hippocrate
France Televisions
Advertising Manager
Alexandre Roos
WINAMAX
Founder
Christophe Schaming
WINAMAX
Founder
Mathieu Porri
WINAMAX
Communication director
Winamax technical Team
WINAMAX
Winamax technical Team
Jean-Luc Bergeron
HENRY
Executive producers/ Co-Founders
Jean Ozannat
HENRY
Executive producers/ Co-Founders
Boris Nicou
PRODIGIOUS
Head of sound
Clemens Hourriere
PRODIGIOUS
Sound Producer
Sidney Guillen
PRODIGIOUS
Sound Engineers
Florentin Foucault
PRODIGIOUS
Sound Engineers
Why is this work relevant for Entertainment?
LA FORET- BET ON A MURDERER is a live betting second screen experience developed by french TV channel France 3 to promote the launch of its new crime drama : La Forêt. Halfway between an entertainment piece and a live game, it turned a six episodes crime series into an interactive content which enabled the audience to place real bets on the murderer’s identity.
In partnership with betting platform Winamax, the experience included an interactive airing of the series, enhanced by betting odds which appeared on screen and evolved in real time depending on the plot and the character’s actions.
Background
French TV channel France 3 was ready to launch its brand new TV drama : « La Forêt ». A crime series about a young girl found murdered, and where a whole village becomes suspect. The TV channel wanted to promote this yet unknown series (first season) and create a maximum of attention around it. But how do you generate conversation around this new crime drama, when the market is already inundated with series ?
Describe the creative idea
« I bet he’s the murderer »
We’ve all said that while watching a twist-filled crime drama.
To create conversation about its new series, France 3 bounced on this universal insight and set an interactive second screen experience allowing each viewer to take real bets on the series murderer’s identity. Making La Forêt : the first TV series where anyone can bet on the murderer’s identity.
Developed in partnership with betting platform WINAMAX, the experience included an interactive airing of the series, enhanced by betting odds which appeared on screen and evolved in real time depending on the plot and the character’s actions.
Built for a fictional program for the first time, a unique betting algorithm enabled the viewers to live bet on the murderer’s identity each airing night of the series, on the dedicated website lacotedususpect.fr (mobile & desktop)
Describe the strategy
With this universal insight (betting on the murderer’s identity while watching crime fictions), we know the idea will instantly catch the media’s attention. The impressive media coverage soon reaches the audience, who naturally brought the investigation and talked about the series onto social medias.
To support the organic buzz, trailers and live posts were placed on both TV and social medias in order to drive the audience to the experience. With a special targeting on series fans and gamblers communities. These trailers and posts also presented characters from the series, with their exact same series’ odds at the moment they were broadcasted.
Describe the execution
Halfway between an entertainment piece and a live game, it turned a six episodes series into an interactive content which enabled the audience to place real bets on the murderer’s identity. Data were at the center of this transformation.
Thanks to WINAMAX’s traders, the series has been enhanced by betting odds which appeared on screen and evolved in real time depending on the plot and the character’s actions. The more the action was suspect, the lower the odds turned. As for sport’s bets. These odds has been generated Live all along the six episodes of the series.
A special built algorithm has been created to enable betting actions on a fictional program. Data from thousands of live gamblers (bets, amount of bets, odds of the characters, rewards…etc) were managed by the algorithm in order to offer a true betting experience, for the first time integrated in a crime series.
Describe the outcome
Launched last November, this innovative interactive entertainment piece instantly caught the media’s attention and triggered an impressive coverage. The project has then naturally been brought onto social media by the audience. Ultimately generating more earned media exposure for the series, and one of the TV channel's best audience figures for a fictional program.
• 76.2 million media impressions
• 15 minutes spent in interaction with the experience on average
• 63.5% from mobile users
• 13.4 million viewers in 3 weeks for the series
• +9.5% viewers for the TV channel (France 3) on the month
• 852 winners bet on the right murderer
• 21 014€ total gain