John Wick
John Wick on SMS
49
Lifetime messages per user
Get interested.
1/5
Users who submitted selfies
Get personal.
“This account messaging game is so cool! I like it a lot. Wish other movies do something similar in the future!”
“I cried when I thought I lost but then he came back and said ‘What the hell happened? What did you do?’ He gave me another chance! lol YAY!”
The Project
We built a custom SMS bot for Lionsgate Entertainment and its agency to promote John Wick: Chapter 2. The bot invited fans to become a part of the John Wick world by recruiting them through text message. This was truly a bot for superfans to participate in the assassin’s journey: 1 in 5 of them submitted a selfie for the mission and received a custom response based on the attire worn in the photo as identified through image recognition technology.
Working with film assets, Massively crafted a chat experience to replicate the movie’s assertive and mysterious theme. By engaging with the bot, fans provided their phone numbers so that Massively could send them reminders about the premiere and where to purchase tickets, turning engagement into box office dollars.
Other tech
Microsoft Vision API for image recognition
Wit.ai for image recognition