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Guerrilla Marketing Promote your game with l i tt le money, much insanity and maximum impact
Thomas REISENEGGER
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MORE GAMES
but…
… not more websites
Some games get more love than others
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Content Overview
What is Guerrilla marketing?
How to do Guerrilla marketing
Media & sales impact
5 free Guerrilla marketing ideas
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Thomas Reisenegger
• Currently - PR Manager ICO Partners, Brighton UKLeague of Legends, SMITE, Endless Space 2, Endless Legend Armello, Fragments of Him, The Lion’s Song, Blackwood Crossing
• consol.AT / consolPlus 7 years freelance video game journalist
• Austrian Award „PR Panther“ in Youngster CategoryLaunch PR campaign for iOS/Android game Diskobolos
• Talks about games PR at GDC, Digital Tapei....
What is Guerrilla marketing?
How to do Guerrilla marketing
Media & sales impact
5 free Guerrilla marketing ideas
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Guerrilla Marketing is:
low-cost unconventional marketing tactics
Key to master PR:
Handle your PR ammunition wisely
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Must have news beats
• Game announcement
• First screenshots
• First trailer
• Beta start / preview possibilities (even if press only)
• Release date announcement
• Release announcement (+ launch trailer)
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Why care about Guerrilla Marketing?
• Extra PR beat
• Reach very different target group
• Small budget
• Untapped field
Best practice examples
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Punch Club
• Userscore: 80% Metascore: 73%
• Generated over 300 articles in 4 weeks
• First week: 100.000 sold / $1 million revenue
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Punch Club
Unlocks Punch Club „No press needed“ article
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Saints Row IV – Very special edition
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Zombie Match Defense Arcade
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Risks of Guerrilla Marketing
• Often breaks taboos
• Not always 100% legal
• Not always results in good PR – Don‘t believe that “there is no such thing as bad publicity“
• Budget varies greatly
Worst practice examples
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Bad: Watch Dogs
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Really bad: PSP
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Even worse: Call of Duty: Black Ops III
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Worst
What is Guerrilla marketing?
How to do Guerrilla marketing
Media & sales impact
5 free Guerrilla marketing ideas
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What do they have in common?
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Guerrilla marketing as part of communication strategy
Guerrilla Marketing is NOT about
making one good PR stunt
It‘s a mindset to help establish
your brand name
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Guerrilla marketing as part of communication strategy
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Goat Simulator – PR beats
AnnouncementRelease
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Guerrilla marketing ideas
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How to come up with ideas?
• Get inspired by other industries or businesses
• Talk to a lot and very different people
• Creativity techniques
• Follow the news and grab the low hanging fruit
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Square Enix tweets about Pokemon GO
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Square Enix tweets about Pokemon GO
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3 golden characteristics of good ideas
GAME FIT
SUPRISING, FUNNY OR EMOTIONALLY TOUCHINGNEW
What is Guerrilla marketing?
How to do Guerrilla marketing
Media & sales impact
5 free Guerrilla marketing ideas
Example 1: Surgeon Simulator
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Surgeon Simulator – Trump DLC
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13 mill let‘s play views
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Surgeon Simulator Trump Visibility
• Over 30.000 successfull operations
• Bump in player numbers
Number of Steam players (1 year overview)
Example 2: April fool‘s done right
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April Fool‘s Jokes 2016
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Clustertruck Media Coverage
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Several bigger Youtubers post let's plays
SUPER TRUCK articles mentioning Custertruck
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Clustertruck official Youtube Views
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Clustertruck – Wishlist development
SUPER TRUCK
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Clustertruck – April fool‘s breakdown
• Over 35 articles (by far strongest beat)
• Over 100.000 views on offical channel
• Over 2 million views from let‘s players
• Wishlist bump
• Over 60.000 newsletter subscribers
• Over 100.000 SUPER TRUCK downloads
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Effects of Guerrilla Marketing
Attention
Image Sales
What is Guerrilla marketing?
How to do Guerrilla marketing
Media & sales impact
5 free Guerrilla marketing ideas
1 Business cards
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• Business Cards
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• Business Cards
2 Get on Tinder
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Hatefoul Boyfriend
3 Hire a pickpocketput
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Putpocket your game
4 See how BREXIT plays out
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5 Twitter gif Adventure
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Twitter gif adventure
Extra PR amunition
It‘s a mindset
Grab the low hanging fruit
Define a primary goal for each stunt (views, sales…)
Try, try, try
Guerrilla Marketing – 5 Takeaways
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