AMC Stubs A-List, which was designed to stimulate the movie-going experience across all age groups including millennials, are already delivering on its promise and potential. Just seven weeks after launching its new loyalty program tier, AMC Theatres recently announced that AMC Stubs A-List already has been responsible for more than 1,000,000 in attendance at it’s theatres. To add on, AMC also announced that A-List has recently crossed the quarter-million membership mark, now having more than 260,000 paid enrolled members. This figure indicates about 85,000 A-List enrolments in just the past two weeks. AMC publicly reported 175,000 enrolments on July 31 previously. A-List members now account for more than 5 per cent of AMC’s weekly attendance. Because A-List allows additional full-price tickets to be purchased during the reservation process, AMC reports that in the last week, for example, about 40 per cent of A-List moviegoers purchased additional paid tickets to watch a movie.
A-List members themselves now account for more than 4 per cent of AMC’s U.S. attendance.
At more than 260,000 members enrolling in just seven weeks, the A-List membership sign-up trend continues to well exceed AMC’s expectations. At the time of launch in June, AMC said that it is expected to hit 500,000 members one year later, at the end of June of 2019.
It would now appear that this enrolment target will be reached much sooner. A-List is also showing broad geographic and demographic appeal. A-List members have utilized the service at each of AMC’s 640 locations spread throughout all 44 states in the U.S. in which AMC has its theatres. Membership levels are strong across all ages and ethnicity groups, and of special interest fully 28% of enrolled members are under the age of 30.
A-List members are seeing a wide variety of movies, already having viewed more than 150 different movie titles. Early program analysis indicates incremental movie-going frequency among members after joining the program stating it is significant; AMC noted that 45% of A-List members were not previously signed up to its AMC Stubs loyalty programs. On a separate matter, AMC also announced today that it’s previously announced 12-month protection guarantee from the date of a member’s enrolment against any increases in A-List monthly pricing has been broadened to further provide consumers with a sustainable value.
The 12-month protection guarantee for members of A-List enrolling anytime in 2018 now includes no changes in the pricing, terms or benefits of the program within a member’s initial 12 months after joining the program. From Adam Aron, AMC CEO and President: “We remain immensely satisfied by the initial consumer response to AMC Stubs A-List. With more than 260,000 members enrolled and over 1 million in attendance in just seven weeks, A-List in its early going is already demonstrating that it encourages moviegoers of all ages, locations and backgrounds to come to movie theatres more often, and they bring family and friends along with them. While one would think that the rate of signups will inevitably have to slow down at some point, enrolments now continue at quite a brisk pace, getting AMC to scale much sooner than we initially anticipated. This is very good for AMC and very good for our movie studio partners as well.”
Aron added: “We expect that AMC Stubs A-List will be a permanent part of our marketing activity going forward. It should be reassuring to hear that AMC is broadening our full 12-month guarantee for each member from the date of his or her 2018 enrolment against any changes in AMC Stubs A-List program pricing, terms or benefits. Since airline frequent flyer programs were created almost forty years ago, enjoying the fruits of loyalty programs have become a basic fabric in the American way of life, even as these programs have changed and evolved over the decades. We fervently believe that consumers have a basic right to expect to be able to rely on us to honour the commitments that we make, and that they do not have to fear constant program changes that come without warning. As a stable and sizable operator, we have every intention of keeping our promises and offering delightful and stress-free movie-going experience to our much-appreciated AMC Stubs A-List guests.”