Future of Marketing & Entertainment Funding.

Branded entertainment integrates brands for all types: products, locations, packaging, services and other brand messaging directly into entertainment productions. Many marketers are using partnerships with movies, social influencers, video games, musicians, television programs and other entertainment productions to reach attentive audiences. These alliances allow brands to truly engage with consumers in a less intrusive format.

UN-SKIPPABLE

In today’s on-demand society, many ad execs and marketers find it challenging to create breakthrough content that viewers won’t skip. Brand integration is becoming a more valuable and perpetual marketing tool to reach attentive audiences on a global scale. In the past, it required a considerable amount of resources to find suitable partners, even for those experienced media conglomerates and international ad agencies.

HOLLYFY mediatech software is transforming the marketing paradigm.

5 Benefits of Branded Entertainment:

1) REACH ATTENTIVE VIEWERS

Entertainment viewers are more engaged with their favorite content than ever before. Meanwhile, technology has brought us ad-skip devices, on-demand, remote controls, DVRs, ad-blockers and other software to declutter the entertainment experience.

While this has proven beneficial for the audience, it has made advertising your brand a challenge.

2) PERPETUAL ADVERTISING

Movies, reruns, videos, and myriad of other entertainment content racks up engagement in perpetuity. Unlike legacy adverts which vanish after their initial run, branded entertainment lives forever…racking up views.

3) TAP INTO ESTABLISHED AUDIENCES

In this day and age, you don’t need a Hollywood budget to be part of the production. You also don’t need a celebrity endorsement to tap into huge audiences. Our cloud connected era has given us the ability to integrate brands directly into entertainment productions as part of the storyline, mentioned in dialogue, mentioned in song lyrics, used by characters or visually part of the scene.

Now your brand can connect with entertainment productions and tap into their large network of engaged viewers. There are even specialized tools that make the process easier.

4) REINFORCE BRAND ETHOS

Every brand should have an ethos that extends beyond its advertising campaigns. Things like brand perception, tone, messaging, product design, logo and brand name strengthen the overall impact of your brand.

Leveraging branded entertainment is, inherently, integrating your brand ethos into the script, storyboard or scene of an existing production. The result is reinforced brand relevance that feels more natural.

5) MUTUAL BENEFITS

Remember, entertainment productions use products, apparel, furnishings, locations and have a variety of brands already built into their scripts, plots, scenes and storylines. Like any other business, content creators need funding to produce their content, in this case it’s entertainment. Aligning yourself with an entertainment production is probably easier than you think if you approach it as a symbiotic relationship.

Finding your target audience can help grow your brand, audience and overall reach by leaps and bounds.

Examples of Branded Entertainment

Did you realize that when you sit down and watch films like The Lego Movie or Marvel productions, you’re basically watching a 2-hour advertisement? Even films like James Bond have been used to promote brand names like Aston Martin, BMW, Omega, Rolex, Belvedere vodka and several other brands for decades.

These types of movies are the essence of branded entertainment. They captivate the audience and establish an emotional connection with the brand. Brands can use this same premise to boost engagement with an audience that’s often difficult to reach.