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Lyft runs dial-a-zombie promotion for Halloween hijinks

on Oct 28, 2015 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

Ride-hailing app Lyft is looking to spread the Halloween fear with a marketing drive enabling users to summon the undead via mobile.

In partnership with Skybound, the company behind The Walking Dead comics, Lyft is distributing ghoulish zombie impersonators in New York and San Francisco on Friday. Running between 10am and 8pm in each city, the scheme sees an “experienced Lyft zombie handler” bring the zombie to the location of the users via a newly added ‘Zombie Mode’ feature in app.

Lyft will run the initiative with an understandably limited number of ‘walkers’ – meaning many users might face disappointment due to Read full story ›

Source: The Drum