TikTok Launch

With 63% of Regal’s Gen Z customers using TikTok, this platform gave us the opportunity to create lifetime brand enthusiasts. Impactful influencers have the ability to garner engagement and interactions, deliver long-term value and drive authentic brand loyalty. Partnering with them would allow us to reach the next generation of Regal Customers using a space we could control. 

Our hosted movie events had been successful because of their authenticity and ability to connect influencers to the mission. Because humorous content performs best on TikTok, creating authentic, original content that makes viewers laugh, would be the key to driving the conversation and trends within the entertainment sphere.

Using these key insights, we created a clearly defined brand voice, finding and attaching authentic talent as the mouthpiece of our relevant, next generation voice. Investing in niche, talented influencers, we harnessed their following power and hosted watch parties, supported influencer activations for new theater openings and developed concepts for them to personalize to their own brands. Our strategy to earn higher engagement started with gaining new followers, establishing tribe members and collecting relevant content. 

We planned, edited, and produced TikToks that appealed to a range of interests featuring humorous and relatable movie-theater experiences and moments, bringing it all back to the brand. Our release-centric posts shared theater “hacks,” teasers and promotions for upcoming releases, exclusive Regal offers, and funny do’s and don’ts of movie theater culture. We shared the novel, organic-looking content four times a week on the platform and optimized trending hashtags, sounds, challenges, pop-culture references and “stitch” clips. We supplemented our transcreational content, which leveraged production resources and built brand consistency, with TikTok reposts, tagging influencer posts and responding to comments on Regal’s page, to establish brand relevance and boost engagement.