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Roadkill Nights: A Multi-Channel Marketing Grand Slam

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Over six short years, JRT has deployed our broad range of capabilities, including enthusiast brand marketing, live event planning, digital marketing, communications strategy, digital technology development, creative ideation, and video and photographic production, to grow Dodge Roadkill Nights from a concept into a phenomenon. The showcase event has helped cement the Dodge brand’s leadership role in the high-performance automotive market and proven their top-dog status in street-racing culture. In 2021, the JRT-led event drew 38,000 spectators and maximized the impact of a series of live, digital and online activations that delivered an estimated earned media value of more than $19,000,000.00.
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Since 2016, Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge – and produced by JRT – has grown exponentially year-over-year. 2021 shattered all prior year numbers in attendance, earned media value, engagements and charity contributions. JRT continues to be a key player in the event for everything from public relations to hospitality.

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Roadkill Nights really did kill – in-person and online and through social media, delivering an estimated 12 million impressions, with almost 8,000,000 video views and more than 900,000 engagements.

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The Hellcat Grudge Match was a shootout race featuring four popular automotive influencers from around the country. Each contestant received a Dodge Hellcat Redeye plus $10,000 to customize their ride for the race. Online automotive personality and all-around car guru Westen Champlin brought all the style with his custom Hellcat.

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Westen Champlin’s custom Dodge Charger SRT® Hellcat produced 1,300 horsepower, but how about those horns and teeth? His Roadkill vlogs earned millions of views on YouTube alone.

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DodgeGarage.com, the performance enthusiast website conceived, designed, engineered, built and managed by JRT, was a key component in the overall reach of Roadkill Nights. Dodge channels achieved 17+ million impressions, more than 700,000 engagements, and more than 2 million video views.

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Our Live Events Planning Team welcomed more than 38,000 enthusiast customers and high-performance automotive fans to Roadkill Nights in 2021. That’s a lot of hand sanitizer.

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