Male Opps: FanDuel Casino launches work from new AOR, surpasses FY 2022 digital spend YOY (Score 81)

Sales Lead: FanDuel Casino recently debuted a new campaign, "Winning is Undefeated," and premiered an exclusive new game.

  • Made by recently-appointed creative AOR Mischief @ No Fixed Address, the campaign rolled out across TV, contextual OOH, and social channels.
  • The campaign started out in key markets such as NJ, PA, and MI but may expand to other areas down the road.
  • FanDuel Casino also launched Fort Knox Cleopatra, which builds on the popular IGT Cleopatra game.
    • FanDuel Casino will serve as the Fort Knox Cleopatra game's exclusive home.
  • The brand will likely:
    • Launch additional work from its new AOR
    • Continue ramping up spend
    • Seek additional new agency partners
  • Target demographic
    • Millennial and Gen-X men

Additional spending insights:

  • Digital and social insights (digital ad spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance for the casino business)
    • YTD spend: FanDuel Casino has allocated roughly $9.8m toward digital ads YTD, already 5% more than the roughly $9.3m allocated in all of 2022.
    • YTD data: So far this year, the brand has earned around 1.3b digital impressions via YouTube (43%), Facebook (36%), mobile display (8%), Instagram (6%), desktop display (6%), and desktop video (1%) ads.
    • Last year: FanDuel Casino allocated approximately $9.3m toward this channel last year, more than double the approximately $4.3m allocated in 2021.

Additional agency insights:

  • Opportunity:
    • An advantage will go to those able to offer casino-specific work since FanDuel named Horizon Next as the FanDuel Casino media AOR in 2023 and Mischief @ No Fixed Address as the brand's creative AOR in 2022.
  • Current agency roster (FanDuel):
    • Horizon Next: Media AOR (casino - 2023)
    • Mischief @ No Fixed Address:​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Creative AOR (casino - 2022)
    • Wieden + Kennedy: Creative AOR
    • Ad Results Media: Media AOR

Insight Sources: Digital spend insights estimated by Pathmatics.​​​​​​​