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Campaign — truTV

Hot Ones: The Game Show

Social campaign for truTV's Hot Ones: The Game Show

Creative direction, art direction, motion and editing for truTV's Hot Ones: The Game Show social campaign: captioned show clips, influencer endorsements, stories and GIFs in one look.

truTV
Network
Organic & Paid
Content
Clips
Show Footage & Graphics
The hard part

The craziest clips from the show, custom graphics and influencer endorsements, all given one look and feel for the whole season.

Client
truTV
Agency
GLOW
Role
Creative Director / Art Director Motion Graphics / Video Editing
Timeline
2020
The Ask

Create a social media buzz around the Hot Ones game show. Build a campaign that highlights the insanity and unpredictability of a hot sauce competition.

The Solve

Use the craziest clips from the show, combined with custom graphics and influencer endorsements, to create an unforgettable social media experience. Sustain fans over the course of the season by highlighting the best footage and getting followers to share their favorite moments.

InstagramFacebookTwitter
Organic & Paid Content

Captioned Show Clips

Custom content, trailers, titles, scene lifts and captions, all given the same look and feel. Moments from the show are cut into short social videos, with dialogue in glowing orange caption pills, a Hot Ones logo bug and a heat meter for the hottest reactions.

Clip
Sauce Fire, Episode 2
Clip
Lost in the Sauce, Episode 1
Clip
Tune-In Cut
Trailer

Pre-Premiere Trailer

Claim His Flame: reactions and dialogue from the show, captioned in the campaign's orange pills and closed on a tune-in end card.

Trailer
Claim His Flame
Influencer Endorsements

Influencer Mashup and Scoville Starter Pack

Influencers tasting hot sauce on camera, framed in marquee lights and cut into one mashup, plus an animated Scoville Starter Pack graphic with a heat-index meter.

Influencers
Influencer Mashup
Graphic
Scoville Starter Pack
Instagram & Facebook Stories

Story Content

Vertical story cuts with the same caption pills, plus a Hot Ones Bingo card of show moments.

Hot Ones Bingo card with squares like Spice Fever Dream, Tears and Dance Celebration
Visual Direction

Illustrated Pattern

An illustrated hot sauce bottle pattern, shown in three of its colorways, used as backgrounds across the campaign.

Illustrated hot sauce bottle pattern on yellow
Pattern
Yellow
Illustrated hot sauce bottle pattern on red
Pattern
Red
Illustrated hot sauce bottle pattern on lime
Pattern
Lime
GIFs & Additional Graphics

Reaction GIFs

Continuously problem solving for the campaign, finding fun, smart, light-hearted ways in with short looping GIFs cut from the episodes, each with contestant name plates and the Hot Ones logo bug.

Widescreen16:9 GIFs
Square1:1 GIFs
Scope

Campaign Elements

Clip-Based VideoTrailersTitlesCaptionsInfluencer EndorsementsStory ContentIllustrated PatternGIFsOrganic ContentPaid ContentCreative DirectionArt DirectionMotion GraphicsVideo Editing

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