Case 05 · Show 360 · The Tentpole Precursor · 2025

Undergrunden. What sound can do.

Two journalists spent three years inside Denmark's hidden bare-knuckle fight scene. Launching their documentary meant marketing a world that couldn't be shown, so the campaign made sound itself the proof, and the launch model built here became the blueprint for tentpoles.

RoleVP, Global Brand & Creative Marketing
Year2025
System RoleShow 360 · Tentpole precursor
MarketDenmark

A show you couldn't show

Undergrunden: Den danske fightclub is three years of investigative journalism inside a world that stays hidden by design: secret locations, encrypted invitations, sources protected by voice modification. Backed by the Danish Film Institute and the Public Service Puljen, it's the kind of journalism that earns a launch, and the kind that forbids the usual one.

The marketing problem was the creative opportunity: a visual world off-limits, for an audio platform. So the campaign committed fully to the medium. If the show's power lives in what you hear, prove it.

The product as the proof

The teaser film, the Eksperimentet segment we cut into ads, put a handful of well-known Danes in front of the series' authentic audio while biometric tracking and facial analysis measured what happened to them. Micro-reactions the eye normally misses: small jerks, freezes, flashes of fear and fascination at once, triggered by sound alone.

It reads as a stunt and works as a demonstration: audio moving people measurably, using the show itself as the instrument. For a platform whose entire product is what sound can do, the teaser was the brand argument in miniature.

The Experiment format: biometric measurement
The Experiment format: reactions to sound alone

A launch with layers

Around the teaser, the 360: Podimo's first R-rated audio trailer, turning the content's intensity into the hook rather than a liability. A launch film and social rollout. Weekly Monday episodes holding the habit. A follow-up portrait series returning to the scene's most striking characters. The journalists carrying the story onto other networks' shows. And a conversion offer closing the loop from curiosity to subscription.

The R-rated audio trailer
Portrait series
Social rollout

The conversation came to us

The launch earned its way into culture: Denmark's national broadcaster DR covered the show in its culture pages under the headline "first they smash each other, then they share a pizza," the marketing trade press covered the Experiment format as a campaign story in its own right, international outlets picked it up in English, and the series landed an IMDb listing. One launch, four kinds of earned attention.

What Show 360 proved

Undergrunden was the full-court test: teaser, trailer, launch, earned media, sustain, and offer, orchestrated as one moment around a single show. It worked, and it didn't stay a one-off. The model was productized into the campaign portfolio as the tentpole, the system's biggest play, proven here before it built a vertical super-brand.

Results · Undergrunden · Oct–Nov 2025

1.15M Danes reached, roughly 1 in 5 of the population Undergrunden, five active weeks, Oct–Nov 2025
7.71% Click-through rate across 5.5M impressions, roughly five times the paid-social average Meta, full campaign · platform average runs 1.5 to 1.7%
4.4% → 8.8% CTR doubled in week two, when the Experiment edits went live Same media plan, new creative

It wasn't one lucky asset. The Experiment format held the top three creative slots in the campaign, all above 12% CTR, against a campaign average of 7.71%.

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