In-house brand teams
Ad Ops teams
Creative Agencies
Publishers & Broadcasters
Executive summary
Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, needed to deliver its biggest ever campaign for Assassin's Creed Shadows across digital, CTV, and linear TV in multiple countries simultaneously. Managing hundreds of assets across international markets meant complex clearance processes, difficult-to-track activation workflows, and enormous administrative overhead. By partnering with Cape.io alongside creative and media agencies Deluxe and Publicis, Ubisoft streamlined the entire campaign using Cape Creative Automation and Cape Advanced TV, ensuring every localised asset was delivered to the right platform, in the right format, on time and without errors.
Ubisoft
success story
Challenge
Activating global advertising campaigns can be hugely complicated resulting in delays, a lack of transparency and spiralling costs.
This was the case for Ubisoft. Their campaigns are complex, multi-country affairs with a lot of moving parts, difficult-to-track activation processes across digital, CTV and linear TV, and local clearance processes. This had in the past led to confusion, difficult-to-analyse campaign data and painstaking manual work.
With multiple stakeholders worldwide, the delivery of hundreds of assets was time-consuming, with small changes having large ripple effects. Relying on documents and email communication to manage digital specs and files in-house was becoming a huge challenge.
With some huge high-profile campaigns, the marketing team were determined to solve this and streamline campaign activation.
Solution
Enabling seamless global campaign execution through cross-functional partnership.
This is where Cape.io, in partnership with the games producer’s creative and media agencies, Deluxe and Publicis, set about working cross-functionally to share their knowledge of multi-territory requirements and expertise in executing international campaigns
This was made possible thanks to:
Excellent domain and local knowledge from Cape Managed Service who processed clearances in UK, France & Spain, systematised naming-conventions, campaign management and broadcaster instructions — ensuring that no airtime was missed and assets were distributed to the right platforms in the right format around the world
Ad delivery platform Cape Advanced TV and its QC and direct/activator workflows — making sure the correct files were sent to the right part of the campaign workflow using the correct specs
Peach’s partner Comcast Technology Solutions and their Adfusion ad delivery platform designed for the US’s broadcast ecosystem
The strategic partnership with The TEAM Companies, our colleagues managed clearance needs in North America and facilitated accessible TV and digital asset deliveries
Reports of the progress and status of assets, proof of deliveries and volumes to vital stakeholders
The expertise and agility of our teams which reduced the amount of revisions and improved ‘right first time’ deliveries which in turn allowed for a faster speed to market
Activating campaigns in the States can be difficult, as broadcast advertising works differently to the rest of the world. For example, it has more TV channels than the rest of the world combined. Cape.io worked in partnership with Comcast Technology Solutions and The TEAM Companies to ensure a seamless process.
Cape.io consulted with Ubisoft on naming conventions, data topology — simplifying the supply chain and ensuring the individual requirements of local territories were communicated from marketing to production and to media activation. Effort went into validating media plans to confirm the assets we had were up-to-date with the publisher requirements.
It’s this tailored approach that makes Cape.io stand out from the crowd. With a dedicated account management team who took an active role in providing onboarding and expertise every step of the way to make the campaign more efficient — Cape.io reduced the burden on Ubisoft and its agencies.
Results
Reducing operational chaos and improving delivery accuracy across global campaigns.
Cape.io created a massive reduction in chaotic email communications, managing spreadsheets, downtime and delays to the process, resulting in delivery of all localised assets across broadcast and digital accurately and on time.
With everything from managing specs to digital delivery, Cape.io provided peace of mind and confidence to the Ubisoft team and their agencies, giving them an accurate and centralised view of where and what has been sent out.
Industry
Gaming
Headquarters
Saint-Mande, France
Company Size
Enterprise
Teams involved
In-house brand teams
Ad Ops teams
Creative Agencies
Publishers & Broadcasters
Assassins Creed Shadows was our biggest campaign we’ve ever done, but thanks to Cape.io we knew we could handle it. Cape.io helped us fulfil our goals of leveraging every opportunity to reach players in the places they would expect to see Ubisoft. In the past, this was not always possible due to the huge administrative burden of global omnichannel campaigns, but Cape.io solved this for us — and has given us a blueprint for future campaigns.
Bailey Gutierrez
Director, Global Brand Operations
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