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    Home » News » Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart’s New York Adventures Racked Up Huge Social Media Numbers
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    Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart’s New York Adventures Racked Up Huge Social Media Numbers

    Chris McKittrickBy Chris McKittrickApril 17, 2014Updated:September 16, 2018No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Big-name brands spend millions of dollars a year on advertising. But when it comes to promoting a Broadway show, two old actors in bowler hats taking funny photos creates the type of publicity that money can’t buy.  Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen masterfully used social media to promote their Broadway plays No Man’s Land and Waiting for Godot.

    As the pair has documented “Sir Ian & Sir Patrick’s Excellent Adventures” all over New York on Twitter, they have been racking up incredible social media numbers that would drop the jaw of any advertising executive. Adweek used an app called Shareablee to find out just how far-reaching the effects have been. According to Adweek, “During the six-month period… Stewart tweeted 105 times, garnering about 500,000 retweets and favorites. For sake of comparison, Oreo—widely considered a social branding juggernaut—received some 46,300 Twitter retweets/favorites during the same period.”

    McKellen was no slouch either. While Stewart was conquering Twitter, McKellen was promoting the duo’s shows on Facebook and Instagram. Adweek also revealed:

    1. McKellen was more active than Stewart on Facebook, as the former built his audience to two million fans and received nearly 2.7 million likes, shares and comments. That total is more than double what Coca-Cola saw in the same period with 1.2 million of such actions. Frankly, given Coke’s Facebook prowess, that seems incredible.
    2. And the guy who played Gandalf posted 500 pieces of content across platforms, besting Jean-Luc Picard four times over. It worked splendidly for McKellen, engaging nearly 3 million social media users.
    3. McKellen posted 52 Instagram photos, averaging close to 8,000 people engaged per item.

    Stewart and McKellen’s efforts paid off — the run of their Two Plays in Rep was extended twice, adding over a month of profitable shows. Over its 23-week run, Two Plays in Rep sold an average of 85% of the seats available week-to-week at an average price of $89.42 a ticket — extremely strong numbers for a non-musical (all sales data provided by The Broadway League).

    On top of that, Stewart and McKellen are co-starring in the upcoming X:Men – Days of Future Past. Something tells me that 20th Century Fox, which distributes the movie, will be quite pleased to take advantage of Stewart and McKellen’s social media popularity.

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