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Game of Thrones uses social clues and games to tout the season seven premiere

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By Kyle O'Brien, Creative Works Editor

June 21, 2017 | 4 min read

Winter is officially here for Game of Thrones fans. In its final social campaign leading up to the season seven premiere of the wildly popular show, HBO will confirm that winter is coming by taking over the Summer Solstice today, June 21, with 'winterizing' activations across Twitter, Reddit and Google.

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Game of Thrones season seven social campaign

It kicks off with a new, winter-themed trailer for season seven, announcing #WinterIsHere. As soon as the trailer drops, Game of Thrones will activate a Twitter Emoji Engine that gives fans the chance to unlock exclusive new character art. Notably, the poster art and other exclusive content will only be distributed via the Twitter Emoji Engine, marking it the first time the tool has been used to release key marketing materials.

Fans can race to figure out the right combinations of @GameofThrones + #WinterIsHere + [emoji] to reveal each of season seven’s highly-anticipated character posters.

Winter is Here Twitter response

Throughout the day, Game of Thrones will respond in real-time to summer-themed conversations happening on Twitter, sharing winter-themed gifs, and reminding everyone that despite the warm weather, #WinterIsHere on July 16. Additionally, use of the #WinterIsHere hashtag will activate a special Night King Hashflag graphic and certain combinations of emojis will trigger fun content related to other HBO shows.

NightKing Hashflag

Other integrated campaign activations will include a first-ever branded gift exchange for the one million plus Game of Thrones subscribers on Reddit, a first-to-market TV series reimagining of Reddit’s masthead alien mascot (from Snoo to a Game of Thrones inspired “Jon Snoo”), real-time posts and updates on Game of Thrones' Google search results page, and finally, a #WinterIsHere primetime marathon on HBO 2.

Jon Snoo

Credits

Client: HBO

Agency: 360i

Sabrina Caluori, SVP Digital and Social Marketing, HBO

Jim Marsh, VP Digital and Social Marketing, HBO

Emily Giannusa, Director, Digital and Social Marketing, HBO

Tanner Stransky, Director, Digital and Social Marketing, HBO

Michael Hoffman, Manager, Digital and Social Media

Katie Lucas, Manager, Digital and Social Marketing, HBO

Sohyung Kang, Director, Digital and Social Marketing, HBO

Sarah Milik, Associate Producer, Digital and Social Marketing, HBO

Group Creative Director: Jeff Anderson

Associate Creative Director: Benjamin Morejon

Associate Creative Director: Andrew Curtis

Senior Copywriter: Andrew Hunter

Senior Art Director: Doug Murray

Executive Producer: Patrick Soria

Producer: Austin Shore

Group Account Director: Josh Lenze

Account Supervisor: Danielle Calogera

Sr. Account Manager: Allison Guggenheimer

Strategist: Stephanie Bousquet

Social Strategist: Alexis Madison

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