Walmart Halloween

The Ask

Create an engaging Halloween content experience that introduces BDG’s parenting audience to Walmart Connect clients.

The Insight

Gaming is more popular than ever among parents — and nostalgia is always a powerful emotional driver. An interactive I Spy execution gamifies the shopping experience, evokes fond childhood memories, and builds excitement around Halloween shopping.

The Solution

Scary Mommy and Walmart Connect gamified the Halloween shopping experience with a first-to-market I Spy premium feature. A robust email and social promotion strategy brought users to a virtual game of I Spy, where clever riddles offered clues to help them identify key Walmart Halloween products within custom-shot vignettes. Invisible “Hot Spots” congratulated readers on finding each spooky item, and a shoppable product row encouraged shoppers to get a jump start on their Halloween candy, décor, and costume shopping.

1 / 3

The Results

8X

BDG benchmark for social CTR

‏‏‎

331K

total email opens

‏‏‎

11K

hotspot taps

‏‏‎

92%

overall Instagram Collection Ad outbound link CTR