Pixe Snap App Engages Fans Before, During and After #MCMLDN14

This fall, Pixe Social introduced MCM London Comic Con fans to our free social interaction smartphone app, Pixe Snap, with pre-show and on-site photo contests.

In the pre-show contest, comic and pop culture enthusiasts across the UK were encouraged to snap a photo using the MCM London Comic Con location on Pixe Snap and share the photo with friends and family on Facebook.  The photo with the most likes by October 23, 2014 won a pair of weekend tickets to the Show. This prize was especially attractive to hopeful attendees because of the overwhelming popularity of the weekend Show dates.

The winning photo:

Pixe Social also hosted a Pixe Snap contest for MCM London attendees at the event venue. Fans donning their best cosplay snapped pictures with Pixe Snap, sharing them instantly from the Show floor to Facebook. The photo with the most likes on their Pixe Snap MCM London Comic Con photo by Monday, November 10, 2014 will win 4 tickets to MCM London Comic Spring 2015. We're looking forward to more creative cosplay as the contest continues, so don forget share your photo and gather as many likes as possible so you can be the next Pixe Snap contest winner.

This week, MCM Expo announced record numbers for this year’s Show, over 110,000 fans were in attendance, an impressive increase of 25% compared to the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 shows. With the increased attention and popularity of their most recent event, MCM Expo has decided to extend their Show times to a full three-day event for 2015. Pixe Social will also be back in 2015 to engage and entertain attendees at the event!

Snapping Cosplay with Zombie Captain America

Guest blog post by Michael Krantz, Director of Sales

While at NYCC, I planned on fully immersing myself in the spirit of the Show by getting transformed through cosplay, compliments of the very talented Lindsey Ann, owner of Symphony Blush. Lindsey specializes in the craft of special effects makeup, which she studied at MUD in New York City. I volunteered to be one of Lindsey’s cosplay canvases to roam the show floor and pose for pictures with admiring attendees.

For my cosplay, Lindsey chose to transform me into a Zombie Captain America. I decided to capture my makeover using Pixe Social’s consumer photo sharing app, Pixe Snap. Pixe Snap allowed me to document the transformation from start to finish, and share it through social media. Using the hashtags #NYCCPixeSnap, #SymphonyBlush and #NYCC I was able to share my experience with social fans.

I arrived at the Symphony Blush booth ready to begin my first experience in cosplay. Three hours later, after multiple cosmetic applications, an interesting attempt at putting in a colored contact while fully masked, and thousands of curious looks from the passing crowd, my transformation was complete! Zombie Captain America was alive…err, dead and ready to walk the show floor.

After a full day of snapping photos with NYCC attendees it was time to get out of costume, which I can say was very relieving. Eight hours in prosthetics, makeup, and silicon was awesome and a great experience…but I was ready to shower. Thanks so much to New York Comic Con, all of the Pixe Social team and especially Lindsey of Symphony Blush for giving me an unforgettable, drop-dead
fun time!

View all of the photos here.

Pixe Social Offers Exciting New Prizes for Official NYCC Photo Booth Users

Photo by Frank Shernoff

This past weekend, thousands of New York Comic Con (NYCC) attendees took their photos at the Official NYCC Photo Booth, sponsored by Pixe Social.

Attendees posed in front of the NYCC branded backdrop dressed as their favorite superheroes, television characters, and film stars. Many photo booth users opted to use props such as masks, superhero aprons, and our new neon signs. The signs, custom designed by SpellBrite, spelled out “NYCC” and “Comic Con” were a huge hit with everyone at the show.

The Pixe Social team snapped almost 8,000 photos of colorful cosplay over the course of the four-day show held in New York City at the Javits Center. Photo booth users were encouraged to enter their email address to receive a digital copy of their photos and to enter an exciting photo sharing contest.

The Official NYCC Photo Booth photo that receives the most likes on Facebook by 11:59 EST on October 26, 2014 will have their choice of one of three prizes:

• Playstation 4
• Xbox One
• iPad Mini

Start liking, tagging, and sharing your Official NYCC Photo Booth pictures for your chance at winning one of these awesome prizes! View full contest details, here.


Related Links:

• Pixe Social: Official Photo App of New York Comic 2014
  
  

Pixe Social: Official Photo App of New York Comic 2014

For the second year in a row, Pixe Social is set to provide thousands of comic book and entertainment enthusiasts with an interactive photo booth experience at New York Comic Con (NYCC) during October 9-12, 2014.

The Official Photo App of NYCC will be available in two stationary locations at the Javits Center along with roaming representatives in Artist Alley and North Pavilion. The tablet-based social photo booth software, Pixe Encore, will snap thousands of photos of cosplayers, amateurs and professionals alike, and instantly share the photos to Facebook and Twitter using the hashtags #PixeSocial and #NYCC. Photos can be seen daily on the New York Comic Con Photo Booth Facebook Page.

Photo booth participants will enter their email addresses to receive a digital copy of their photos as well as links to share the photos with friends and family on their own social media pages. In an exciting contest, the photo booth user who collects the most likes on Facebook on their NYCC Pixe Social photo will win a either a PS4 or Xbox One!

We’re excited to see the creative cosplay, enthusiastic fans, and famous celebrities this coming week and we encourage those planning to attend NYCC to take a look at last year’s Pixe Social photos for some last minute costume inspiration.

Show Off Your Best Cosplay to Win Big with #NYCCPixeSnap

We’re excited to announce Pixe Social’s kick off contest for New York Comic Con (NYCC) fans across the country, the #NYCCPixeSnap Contest.

For weeks now, cosplayers have been brainstorming costume ideas for the upcoming NYCC Show to be held October 9-12, 2014. Hours of research, sketching, and sewing will lead up to a spectacular showcase of every attendee’s hard work.

In order to show off attendees’ efforts, we’re inviting cosplayers to enter an exciting Pixe Snap contest to win a $200 gift card from Pixe Social. This simple and free to enter contest will give people the chance to share photos of their cosplay outfits online with friends and family.

Enter by October 4, 2014:

•    Download the Pixe Snap app for free
•    Select NYCC location (to access contest)
•    Snap a photo & share on Facebook

 

The photo with the most likes on Facebook will win our exciting prize of a $200 gift card. Start snapping photos and sharing with friends!

CapCom Reaches 1.7 Million Facebook Fans at San Diego Comic Con

For over 25 years, Pixe client, CapCom, has become the industry leader in video game production and distribution across Asia, Europe and the United States. After receiving rave reviews from E3 attendees, CapCom wanted to replicate the interactive social-sharing experience provided by Pixe Social at San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) for fans of its Monster Hunter video game.

For those familiar with the world of cosplay, comic books, and anime, SDCC is known to draw hundreds of thousands of attendees each year. Taking place for over 30 years, Comic-Con International: San Diego hosts the annual event to showcase comics and all related art forms such as film, video games, multimedia artwork, and design. Fans from across the globe gather in Southern California outfitted in their best cosplay to meet up with other comic enthusiasts and celebrities.

Pixe captured over 2500 photos of passionate fans posing with a life size replication of the “Gore Magala” character in the CapCom booth. The photos engaged 330,942 online fans leaving a total of 1,904,928 Facebook Impressions. SDCC attendees shared the CapCom SDCC Photo Booth photos an impressive 420 times from the Monster Hunter Facebook page. One particular photo from one of the five Facebook photo albums was liked 2277 times and shared 82 times.

Now that we have you sitting on the edge of your seats with anticipation, take a look at a few of the awesome pictures from the CapCom Monster Hunter booth at San Diego Comic Con.

View all five albums here.

Impressive Online Engagement for CeX Pixe Photo Booth

While hosting the 2013 MCM London Comic Con Pixe Photo Booth, the Pixe team met representatives of CeX , the popular chain of stores for an expansive range of technology and entertainment products. Recognizing Pixe’s unique ability to reach out to event attendees by providing a fun, social experience, CeX contracted Pixe to provide a mobile-photo booth to its long-term customers and fans at the 2014 MCM London Comic Con.

CeX turned out to be an exciting and great brand to work with. The Cex team fully embraced the concept of real-time social selfies by placing an enormous Cex-branded octopus throne at their booth entrance, and giving away CeX cash vouchers as prizes in crowd-drawing contests.  Alongside Pixe’s social media promotion of the contest, CeX lit up the social media scene by live-tweeting photo booth pictures and reminding visitors of the contest over three days at the event. We were impressed by how responsive CeX was to their online fans. There were threads of conversations about booth location, popular photos, and contest announcements both on Twitter and Facebook.

Post by CeX.

This inspiring effort from CeX to provide a memorable experience to their customers was amply reflected in the impressive post-event ROI report generated by Pixe. In fact, the CeX ROI report blew us away! Not only did the individual Pixe photo booth photos bring thousands of online fans to the CeX Facebook Page, but CeX also boosted their online presence through constant and attentive interaction with fans.

• Captured 839 photos
• Reached 910,291 Facebook fans
• Generated 1,230,179 online impressions

Take a look at the remarkable results from the CeX @ MCM London Comic Con Photo Booth below.

MCM Comic Con London Photo Contest

Pixe encourages photo booth users from MCM Comic Con London to help us spread the love by tagging, tweeting, and sharing your photos and you could be our next winner. Winner? That’s right, with every like on your Facebook photo, you’re on your way to owning a brand new PlayStation 4 gaming system! With the contest ending at midnight EST on 9 June 2014, event attendees have already engaged with over 377,000 people on Facebook. It’s your turn to start sharing your event photos and the grand prize will be yours.

Do you want to see where your picture stacks up against the competition? Here’s a look at the top five leading MCM Pixe Photo Booth pictures:

612 likes

334 likes

285 likes

205 likes

185 likes

Pixe Social engaged with thousands of coplay super fans for the second year in a row at MCM London Comic Con. Over the course of three days, Pixe Social captured 862 fun photos with excited fans at the UK’s number one popular culture show.

For those of you who have made it to the top 5, keep up the good work! Don’t see your picture? It’s time to start sharing!

MCM and Pixe Social: The Social Sharing Dream Team

In the fall of 2013, MCM Comic Con partnered with Pixe Social for the first time to engage and entertain their attendees at their popular events in the UK.

The MCM Comic Con team, organizers of the largest and most popular Comic Con pop culture events across seven cities in the UK, identified Pixe as a potential social marketing partner at New York Comic Con 2013, where the Pixe-powered Photo Booth captured more than 3,800 photos and reached more than 300K people on Facebook.

Impressed by the extensive viral reach delivered by Pixe, MCM decided to make the most of Pixe’s free trial offer promoted to attendees at the NYCC show, and invited the Pixe team to partner as the official London Comic Con 2013 Photo Booth. At this event, attendees shared over 900 photos on the MCM London Facebook Page, live from the show floor. These posts from the Pixe-powered photo booth resulted in tremendous online activity, with 16,919 stories created on Facebook engaging 182,975 people, who viewed the photos a total of 4,430,325 times!

Recognizing that Pixe Social is much more than a photo booth solution, MCM decided to leverage the Pixe Social at all their events in 2013 and 2014. The MCM Comic Con attendees use Pixe Social to keep share their special time and some pretty awesome cosplay with friends and family online, as well as with a huge pool of Comic Con fans on leading social media pages. Attendees love to record a range of emotional and personal experiences in the carefree environment at the MCM Pixe photo booths. In a special moment for both MCM and Pixe, a marriage proposal was captured and shared at the MCM London Comic con. We are honored to be selected as a channel for our users to share the biggest and the most exciting moments of their lives.

Since that first event in London, Pixe has provided a forum for MCM Comic Con fans to share their thoughts and feedback at many subsequent events, spread across different cities in the UK, including Midlands, Birmingham, and Dublin. While the post-show contest for the most recent event, MCM Ireland, is just concluding, the solution has reached over 51,000 people with continued post-show social activity on Facebook.

The Pixe team looks forward to continued engagement and fun at the upcoming 2014 MCM Comic Con shows.

Related Links:

• Press Release: The New York Comic Con Pixe Photo Booth Reaches Out To 300K People On Facebook 
• Press Release: MCM London Comic Con 2013 Partners With Pixe LLC to Engage Attendees With Free Social-Media Enabled Photo Booths
•  Pixe Social Gallery
• Pixe Social Features

Just Keep Pinning, Just Keep Pinning

Since 2010, Pinterest has dominated the visual social media world with its ability to engage users on a daily basis through a constantly running stream of user generated content. At Pixe, we have been using Pinterest for some time now, and yes, we’ve been bitten by the bug. From the first time that one signs in to a Pinterest dashboard, the visual stimuli are irresistible. No matter what engages you, be it food, DIY projects, clothes, new products – you name it and Pinterest has a gallery to keep you enthralled for hours at a length. So how do all of these recipes for distraction qualify as “work” for Pixe?
You may not realize it at first, but behind the scenes, those outlandish photos of cosplay are actually linked to a huge global audience through leading social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Pixe’s Pinterest boards showcase hundreds of marvelous photos from exhibits and events in many different verticals. From Las Vegas to London, we bring our award-winning technology and fun solutions to help add a little extra charm to their otherwise business-like conventions and events.

Our newest Pinterest board, The Best of Pixe Photo Booth, is a collection of some of the most entertaining photos we’ve seen over the past few months. And what exactly qualifies as entertaining? Obviously, the best costumes, use of props (including, foam fingers, wigs, giant silverware, and of course, our very popular blinky glasses) and testimonials are always good candidates for selection. However, it would seem a little selfish if we only paid attention to our opinion, right? That is why we want to see what YOU like. We invite you to visit our new Pinterest board and like the photo or photos that engage you the most. Help us figure out what stands out the most to you!