Title	NO SPOILER HEIST
Brand	NETFLIX ITALY
Product/Service	NO SPOILER HEIST
Category	D02. Use of Events & Stunts
Entrant	PUBLICIS ITALY Milan, ITALY
Idea Creation	PUBLICIS ITALY Milan, ITALY
Production	PARIDEVITALE Milan, ITALY
Production 2	GROENLANDIA ROMA, GREENLAND

Name	Company	Position
Bruno Bertelli	Publicis Italy	Global CCO Publicis WW
Cristiana Boccassini	Publicis Italy	CCO Publicis Italy
Michele Picci	Publicis Italy	Executive Creative Director
Alessandro Candito	Publicis Italy	Creative Director
Matteo Grandese	Publicis Italy	Creative Director
Andrea Raia	Publicis Italy	Senior Art Director
Matteo Gatto	Publicis Italy	Senior Copywriter
Ilaria Lorenzetti	Publicis Italy	Client Service Director
Dalila Salhi	Publicis Italy	Account Director
Dario Gambera	Publicis Italy	Account Manager
Flaminia Costanzi	Publicis Italy	Junior Account
Andrea Battista	Publicis Italy	Data Strategist
Federico Guidera	Publicis Italy	Senior Social Media Manager
Vittorio Cafiero	Publicis Italy	Senior Project Manager
Ornella Scarparo	Publicis Italy	Project Manager
Francesca Zazzera	Publicis Italy	Head of Production
Erica Lora Lamia	Publicis Italy	Producer
Beatrice Pepe	Publicis Italy	Producer
Paride Vitale	Paridevitale S.r.l	Founder & CEO
Maria Teresa Frezza	Paridevitale S.r.l	Event Manager
Chiara Amendola	Paridevitale S.r.l	Digital Pr Manager
Elisabetta Savoia	Paridevitale S.r.l	Event Specialist
Simone Godano	Groenlandia	Director
Leonardo Godano	Groenlandia	Executive Producer
Cecilia Passa	Groenlandia	Producer
Leonardo Mirabilia	Groenlandia	DOP
Enrico Munarini	Groenlandia	Editor

Why is this work relevant for PR?

For a brand that lives and breathes stories like Netflix, spoilers are the worst enemy. Not only because they ruin fans’ experience: in the past, spoilers and leaks forced the brand to cancel incoming series too. The streaming service needed to reinforce its position against spoilers and spoiler makers in the eyes of its fans; and we helped it in doing so with the launch of the new season of La Casa de Papel. We made the news by protecting fans from spoilers with an unconventional stunt that was inspired by the show’s spectacular heists and involved original cast members.

Background

Netflix always strives to bring the most memorable stories and the best viewing experience to its fans. That’s why the brand takes spoilers personally: they ruin the excitement and the hype people have towards a show or movie. And the more a TV show is filled with exciting plot twists, just like the past four seasons of Netflix highly anticipated hit La Casa de Papel have been, the higher the possibilities for them to be spoiled. Now, with only one season left in the tank, our goal was to protect fans of La Casa de Papel from spoilers in a funny and engaging way, to make sure their viewing experience was the smoothest possible.

Describe the creative idea (20% of vote)

We kept potential spoiler makers away from the Internet, by luring them into the only place they were forced to stay offline: on a scheduled flight that took off at the same time of the release of the last season of La Casa de Papel. Giving a truce from spoilers to millions of fans at home, at least for 5 hours. An unexpected stunt that took fans by surprise, just as the characters from the series, who are no stranger to spectacular heists and complex plans, would have done.

Describe the PR strategy (30% of vote)

Data told us that everybody hates spoilers. But despite this, 27% of viewers think it’s acceptable to discuss major plot twists on Socials immediately after a series has been released. What’s even worse is that as much as 12.5% of the whole conversation about a series that will ever happen online occurs in the first five hours after a show gets released… And is made up almost entirely by spoilers. These numbers helped us come up with a precise plan: to stop spoilers, we had to lure spoiler makers out and keep them away from the Internet during the first, crucial hours from the release of the show.

Describe the PR execution (20% of vote)

To make our work resonate with the fans, we created an experience based on the storytelling of La Casa de Papel: a heist to eliminate spoilers. We tracked down those who spoiled the show in the past, offering them an exclusive screening of the last season in Madrid. We booked all the seats of a scheduled flight, taking off at the same time of the series’ release. Everything, from check-in to plane livery, was customized to convince spoiler makers they were part of an hardcore fans’ experience. But once in the air, they discovered they were about to watch the show right on the plane. The only place where smartphones had to stay disconnected from the Internet. To make fans at home believe they were protected from spoilers by a heist of the gang, we hid actor Darko Peric among the plane crew, revealing his presence only after landing.

List the results (30% of vote)

The exposure gained by our plan against spoilers resulted in an astounding 24 million views of the final content and an international coverage by the main news outlets. The content went viral on TikTok, an achievement made possible also thanks to the involvement of original cast member Darko Peric. But the most important result was that we took away a potential reach of more than 7 million from the hands of spoiler makers in the first hours after the last installment of La Casa de Papel was released, making the news with a bold execution that took the press by surprise.