V8 Supercars: Facebook Powered Slot Cars

This case study describes an innovative campaign to attract more, younger fans to V8 Supercars motor races in Australia.

V8 Supercars: Facebook Powered Slot Cars

Agency: GPY&R Brisbane

Advertiser: V8 Supercars

Author: Phil McDonald

Total Campaign Expenditure: Under $500K

Executive Summary

With an on-going goal to attract more, younger fans to the sport we were tasked with selling tickets via social media to the Sydney Telstra 500 V8 Race.

We developed a Facebook App called the Fanatic 500 allowing the world's first Facebook powered, V8, slot car race between Ford and Holden to take place.

With just $30,000 we achieved the following results in just 9 days:

  • $1,739,320 in ticket sales far exceeding the sales...

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