Billionaire Blast-off | Mozilla

Create a Gen Z-coded moment to amplify Open What You Want.

Mozilla came to us with a simple request: amplify their global Open What You Want campaign with a Q4 activation that connected digital and IRL over a three-month run. The goal was to create a Gen Z–coded moment that playfully punched up at Big Tech in a way only Firefox can.

Younger audiences are fluent in internet culture and wary of traditional marketing, so the experience needed to feel honest, interactive, and fun. This wasn’t just about telling people to open what they want—it was Firefox opening up too, owning its identity and inviting others to do the same.

Our challenge was translating that point of view into a connected experience that sparked participation, rewarded curiosity, and made Firefox’s values something people could play with, share, and remember.

Interactive catharsis built for the people and the moment

Firefox is the only major browser not owned or backed by a billionaire, uniquely positioning it to stand with a generation eager to take some power back.

Since billionaires trade your data like currency to fund their rocket trips into space, we turned that truth into a longform joke—helping them do just that, then wishing them Bon Voyage by launching them into space, one way.

The idea became Billionaire Blast Off: a four-month, multi-tier activation spanning digital and physical experiences, multiple game launches, TwitchCon, GenAI, and a very real space launch with very fake billionaires on board. Joyscroll to see how it all unfolded.

  • Campaign & Audience Strategy

  • Platform & Narrative Architecture

  • Creative Direction

  • Multi-phase Microsite Experience

  • GenAI Billionaire Generator

  • Physical & Digital Game Dev

  • AR Holobooth Dev

  • TwitchCon Activation

  • Real-World Space Launch

  • BTS Filming & Edits

  • Full Service Creative Production

1 Campaign, 6 Activations, 10 Launches, 4 Months
Directed, designed, produced, and developed in-house, and choreographed to build escalating momentum across digital, physical, and blended-reality touchpoints throughout Q4.

Data War | Card Game

Data War: Physical Edition is a real-world card game that blends the foundations of War with the chaos of Exploding Kittens and Slap Jack. Its mechanics pit the chaotic evil of billionaire misbehavior against the chaotic good of Firefox’s heroism, delivering both playability and perspective in a slick 74-card deck.

Produced in just five weeks, Data War launched at TwitchCon 2025 with 22,000 expansion packs placed in attendee merch bags—driving crowds to our booth to grab free decks, learn the game, and dive deeper into the Billionaire Blast Off universe.

Data War served as the key engagement pillar for our booth experience. We collaborated with TwitchCon to get 22k expansion packs in every attendee merch bag, which included a brand new game mechanic (Blockers), and drove people to the booth to get a free full deck to complete their set. Once there, we taught the game, hosted play-throughs and gave away decks to anyone who played, 4k in total.

The energy was unreal. Curious passersby stayed for hours, trash-talking and battling at the tables. New groups formed, streamers played live, and players returned again and again. Data War wasn’t just branded content—it was a real party game creating real fans in real time.

 

BILLIONAIRE AVATARS

The GenAI Billionaire Playpen. Billionaires use AI to enhance their world domination, so what better way to kick things off than by using AI as a joke against them to give a little control back to the people? After all, we’ve got a whole actual rocket to fill up and launch into space, we’re gonna need some volunteers to Make your own unique, whiny, AI-slop Billionaire

We kicked off the campaign with Build-a-Billionaire, a microsite experience where users could create, control, and share their own AI-slop billionaire.

Every choice in the builder mapped traits to outfits, accessories, expressions, and rides, then ran through a robust GenAI pipeline using ComfyUI, dynamic prompts, custom art stimulus, structured text generation, and automated moderation to generate a unique, deeply grotesque billionaire with a name and backstory.

The north star was simple: “Make them look like petulant babies.”

Once your Billionaire existed, the Space Selfie generator let users create vanity shots of them living their best life in space—like a family photo album, but more narcissistic and out of touch.

Users could generate up to three unique scenes, from ghost-riding a Mars rover to cruising through space or hanging with aliens, all saved to the Billionaire Vault for easy sharing.

Behind the scenes, a custom GenAI workflow powered by Nano Banana and ML moderation enabled an endless stream of ridiculous, shareable content.

MICROSITE

A rapidly evolving campaign needs a web presence that acts as both home base and newsfeed for the shenanigans. We took it a step further and built a microsite that transformed dynamically as the story progressed across Q4, transitioning from AI-driven playground to game marketing, space launch countdown, livestream, BTS aggregator and ultimately digital game hub, with new features, campaign messaging and visual style to match key story beats as they played out.

The Billionaire Holobox @ TwitchCon

We showed up with a fully immersive physical space that extended the campaign story, visual language, and crowd flow. Our team handled everything in house—from 3D environment mocks and new character design to print, animation, and merch production—then managed setup, teardown, BTS capture, and brand advocacy on site.

MR wanted TwitchCon to encapsulate the full Billionaire Blast Off journey, bringing the Billionaire Builder to the floor in a way that stopped people in their tracks. Enter the Billionaire Holobox—a motion-controlled, holographic AR booth that let fans create new billionaires on the spot using the same trait engine as the GenAI microsite, rebuilt for instant spectacle.

After creation, participants could make their billionaire dance, pose, and flex before launching them into space. Crowds gathered as avatars sprang to life—people filmed, laughed, shared, and pulled friends in. The Holobox became a social engine and a perfect, ridiculous expression of the universe MR built.

ACTUALLY LAUNCHING INTO SPACE

We sent our Billionaires on a one-way trip to actual, for real-real space

The master stroke of the campaign came to life with our partner agency who just happens to specialize in sending things into actual outer space. We directed the crafting of an actual mini-rocket, loaded it up with all our fake Billionaires, filmed the voyage and dropped the edit on YouTube Live, streamed from the Block Party and mirrored on our microsite.

The crowd built to a fever pitch and erupted in cheers as we watched the BTS, counted down to launch and waved goodbye to the greedy little creations of a community who refused to play by Big Tech Billionaire rules.

DigitalRandall Fransen