Monopoly City Streets: how a revolutionary try-before-you-buy helped launch a revolutionary new Monopoly variant

With household ownership near universal, the challenge of maintaining Monopoly sales demands regular reinvention.

Monopoly City Streets: how a revolutionary try-before-you-buy helped launch a revolutionary new Monopoly variant

Principal Authors: James Broomfield and Les Binet – DDB UK

Contributing Authors: Sarah Carter and Alice Weale – DDB UK

INTRODUCTION

Engagement, activation, social media… that’s where it’s at all nowadays, right? But is there any evidence that it actually sells stuff? Not much.

This paper changes that. We’ll show how getting people to spend time with us online had a massive effect on sales, on a global scale, even though they couldn’t buy anything directly. Furthermore, we’ll show how the depth of involvement, the fun,...

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