Make Your Grand Opening the Event Everyone Talks About
A grand opening is your one shot at a first impression. We help you turn that day into an experience guests remember and share, instead of a ribbon cutting people forget by the weekend. Action Flipbooks has produced grand opening and store launch activations for 15+ years, with 500+ premium activations behind us, and we know exactly what it takes to pull a crowd, fill your space with energy, and get people talking. The goal is simple: more bodies through the door, more buzz online, and a brand impression that travels home with every guest.
Get People Excited and Spread the Word
The activations below all do the same two jobs at a grand opening. They create a reason for people to stop, line up, and engage on the floor, and they send your brand out across social the moment a guest posts. That is foot traffic and reach from the same setup.
Custom Video Experiences
Guests step in front of our green screen and star in their own custom branded video, right there at your grand opening. The finished clip hits their phone within seconds, ready to post immediately. That means your launch gets seen by audiences far beyond the people in the room, shared in the voice of the guest rather than an ad. For a brand or a new store, that is the difference between a one day event and a week of social momentum.
Interactive Photo Activations
Our green screen photo booth transports guests into custom branded scenes. They pose in front of backgrounds built around your store, your products, or your campaign, and walk away with a printed keepsake in hand. Every photo also goes straight to their phone, and most guests post it within minutes. Each print and each digital file carries your branding, so a photo a guest shares to Instagram is a piece of your brand moving through their network.
Real-Time Social Sharing
Every video and photo is delivered to guests' phones the moment it is made. When guests post, your brand earns organic exposure across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn without a dollar of ad spend. Organic share rates at our events run as high as 50 to 70 percent, so a single afternoon can put your grand opening in front of thousands of people who were never in the building.
Moments People Actually Remember
Green screen scenes that put guests somewhere fun, props that make everyone laugh, flipbooks they flip through on the way to the car. These are the things people talk about at dinner that night and show their coworkers the next morning. A guest grabs some props, jumps in front of the green screen, and a minute later walks away with a 60 page animated flipbook made on the spot. That is the kind of impression that builds a brand and keeps a new location top of mind.
Built Around Your Brand, Run by Our Team
Our design team builds the custom video scenes, branded backgrounds, and print overlays before your event, and we send a proof for approval so nothing goes live until you sign off. On the day, our crew handles setup, runs the activation, and tears it all down, so you can focus on your guests and your opening. We are a national company and travel is included in every quote, with no separate line items. We have run this work for Fortune 500 teams including Disney, Google, and Microsoft, and the same approach works for a single store launch.
Pair an activation with a roaming photographer through SpotMyPhotos to capture the whole room, or add an AI photo booth for a different kind of share-worthy portrait. Planning a launch as part of a larger program? See our corporate events page for the full lineup.
Check Availability →Frequently Asked Questions
The strongest grand opening activations give guests something to do and something to take home. Green screen video puts a guest inside a custom branded scene and sends the finished clip to their phone in seconds. Green screen photos drop them into a branded world with a printed keepsake in hand. Action Flipbooks hand them a 60 page animated book made on the spot. All three create a line, fill your space with energy, and send your brand out across social as guests post.
A line of people laughing in front of a green screen is its own advertisement, so passersby stop and join in. Every video and photo lands on the guest's phone within seconds, and most guests post right away, which spreads your grand opening far beyond the people in the room. We have seen organic share rates run as high as 50 to 70 percent at a single event, which means your brand reaches networks you never paid to advertise to.
Yes. Our design team builds custom backgrounds, branded video scenes, and print overlays around your logo, colors, and campaign before the event. We send a proof for approval first and nothing goes live until you sign off. Because the branding rides on every photo, video, and flipbook a guest shares, each post carries your brand with it. This is exactly why Fortune 500 teams like Disney, Google, and Microsoft run these formats at their activations.
Earlier is better, especially in busy seasons, because custom branding takes design time and the best dates fill up. Four to six weeks of lead time gives us room to build and proof your branded scenes comfortably. That said, we have turned around grand openings on short notice before, so if your date is close, reach out and we will tell you straight whether we can make it work.
Yes. We are a national company and travel is included in every quote, with no separate travel line items. We run grand openings across the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and nationwide, and we handle everything from setup to teardown. Tell us where your store or venue is and we will build the plan around it.
Other Popular Packages for 2026:
Action Flipbooks
The premium physical takeaway. 60-page animated flipbooks, printed on the spot.
AI-Powered 360 Photo Booths
AI-powered 4D immersive video with cinematic edits, delivered to guests instantly.
Green Screen Video
Guests star in custom mini-movies with branded environments and sound.
Green Screen Photos
Custom backgrounds, branded frames, printed or delivered digitally.
SpotMyPhotos
Roaming photographers deliver every guest their photos privately, in real time.
AI Photo Booths
Transform guests into works of art with AI-powered photo experiences.