WorkBrand ConsultingMeta QuestMelo Moods

Meta
x LaMelo Ball

Ten million views, and the best-performing athlete campaign Meta Quest has run.

The brief

Not a product film. A day that happens to have a headset in it.

Legacy built Melo Moods with Meta and Incubation Labs. LaMelo’s reach into Gen Z made his life the right canvas for it — gameplay, meditation, downtime, with the Quest present as part of the day rather than the subject of the film. Unfiltered and built on daily ritual, so the product reads as an extension of a lifestyle instead of a placement.

Legacy has worked with LaMelo since his NBA debut and shaped this from partner alignment through to creative narrative, so the work would outlive its launch week. That relationship is why the access existed and why the footage looks like his life rather than a shoot. In one frame he is wearing his own label, LaFrance — which Legacy also produced a campaign for.

Over ten million views, and Meta Quest’s highest-performing athlete-led initiative to date.

Partner
Incubation Labs
The record
ClientMeta
CampaignMelo Moods
StandingMeta Quest’s highest-performing athlete-led initiative
Date2024
10M+Views
#1Athlete-led, Meta Quest
Since 2020Legacy’s relationship with LaMelo
What Legacy supplied
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