The challenge
Mobile gaming is one of the most crowded ad markets there is. The brief was to cut through it with something that doesn't read like an ad or feel forced.
The approach
Make it look like a video people actually want to watch. I built the spot around real gameplay and stacked it with two of the biggest memes of the moment, so it played as entertainment first and an ad second.
The execution
It opened on a "sleeper build" reference, then hit the "mods blow up that guy's house" line. Both were huge viral TikTok memes at the time, so baking them into the script made the ad feel like part of the moment before it slid into a fake playthrough that showed off the game's core features.
The takeaway
Blending humor, memes and gameplay into one seamless flow let the ad vanish into the feed and beat the flashy-graphics game spots it ran against, racking up over 5 million impressions. I've even been recognized as "the Rise of Kingdoms guy" in the wild.