Prime Video and Omnicom aren’t just promoting their new heist comedy The Pickup with the usual digital banners or billboards. Instead, they’re driving brand storytelling—quite literally—through the streets of Los Angeles via a fleet of Prime Video-branded robocouriers. With the help of Coco Robotics, the autonomous delivery bots have been transformed into talking, movie-themed rolling billboards, quoting lines from the film while cruising around town. The monthlong campaign kicked off July 21 ahead of the movie’s Aug. 6 premiere and is designed to bring a slice of the plot’s armored truck action right to people’s doorsteps.
For Omnicom, it’s less about gimmicks and more about rethinking what out-of-home media can do. Tapping into autonomous mobility tech, the campaign aims to bridge entertainment with physical presence—giving a new twist to context-rich, street-level media. The robots not only deliver real goods (smoothies for influencers, for instance) but offer a unique customer interaction combining sightlines from traditional OOH with one-to-one engagement. Josh Dubin from Coco says each robot racks up hundreds of thousands of impressions over four-week periods, tracked with a mix of StreetMetrics and Coco’s own analytics dashboard. Not bad for something half the size of a Vespa.
And yes, there’s a cherry on top: a 67-second spot re-creating a movie-style heist starring these bots, deployed across social and digital platforms to round out the campaign. It’s the first time Amazon’s worked with Coco, and given their background with partners like Netflix, DoorDash, and Don Julio, it likely won’t be the last. As Omnicom’s Elizabeth Boone put it, the goal isn’t just to drive views—it’s to embed the campaign in culture, setting a precedent for how tech and media can co-star in advertising’s future.
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