Ogilvy South Africa for Harley Davidson (2004/2007) – Born to be creative
Posted: September 30, 2011 Filed under: Agency, Cannes Lions, Case History, Press/Outdoor, South Africa, TV/Film | Tags: bikes for women, born to be creative, Bridget Johnson, clothing, David Prior, Gerry Human, Harley Davidson, Mike Groenewald, Ogilvy, Ogilvy South Africa, Ogilvy South Africa for Harley Davidson, pin up calendar, rentals, Robyn Bergmann, tour, Vanessa Gibson 1 Comment »Harley Davidson Rentals (Tattoo) – 2004
Creative Director: Gerry Human
Copywriter: Neil Ross
Art Director: Mike Groenewald
Photographer: David Prior
Bronze Lion
Harley Davidson T-shirt – 2004
Creative Director: James Daniels/Gerry Human
Copywriter: Bridget Johnson
Art Director: Mike Groenewald
Photographer: David Prior
Harley Davidson (Charity Event) – 2005
Creative Director: James Daniels/Gerry Human
Copywriter: Irene Perrevos
Art Director: Jayson Dicks
Photographer: David Prior
Harley Davidson (Bikes for women) – 2006
Creative Director: Fran Luckin
Copywriter: Bridget Johnson
Art Director: Vanessa Gibson, Robyn Bergmann
Photographer: Clive Stewart
Gold Lion for the campaign
Harley Davidson Motorcycles (Dog/Baby/Granny) – 2006
Creative Director: James Daniels
Copywriter: Konstant Van Huyssteen
Art Director: Mike Groenewald
Photographer: David Prior
Silver Lion for the campaign
Harley Davidson Motorcycles (Ronnie’s Sex Shop) – 2006
Creative Director: James Daniels
Copywriter: Konstant Van Huyssteen
Art Director: Mike Groenewald
Photographer: Mike Lewis
Bronze Lion
Harley Davidson Aftershave (Shaving Cut) – 2006
Creative Director: Fran Luckin
Copywriter: Trevor Sacks
Art Director: Suzanne Strydom
Photographer: Clive Stewart
Shortlist
Harley Davidson (Breakfast Run) – 2006
Creative Director: Fran Luckin/Gerry Human
Copywriter: Derek Shevel
Art Director: Karry Barry
Photographer: Robyn Vickers
Harley Davidson Clothing (Fire/Pee/Smoke) – 2006
Future Riders Apparel
Creative Director: Fran Luckin/Gerry Human
Copywriter: Derek Shevel
Art Director: Karry Barry
Photographer: Kary Barry
Harley Davidson Tour (Class photo) – 2006
Creative Director: Fran Luckin
Copywriter: Sanele Ngubane
Art Director: Peter Little
Photographer: Shahn Rowe
Shortlist
Harley Davidson Motorcycles (Affair) – 2006
The man who rides a Harley-Davidson commands the kind of respect that’s way beyond anything the average guy will ever experience.
Creative Director: Fran Luckin
Copywriter: Bennie Du Plessis, Derek Shevel
Art Director: Karry Barry
Production Company: FreshWater Film
Director: Slim Grippa
Shortlist
Harley Davidson Clothing (Boots/Jeans/Shirt) – 2007
Creative Director: Gerry Human/Jonathan Beggs
Copywriter: Alison Hingle
Art Director: Mike Martin
Photographer: David Prior
Harley Davidson Veteran Club (Veterans) – 2007
Creative Director: Gerry Human/Fran Luckin
Copywriter: Haidee Nel
Art Director: Vanessa Gibson
Photographer: David Prior
Harley Davidson Gay Tours (Tours) – 2007
Creative Director: Gerry Human
Copywriter: Bridget Johnson
Art Director: Robin Bergmann
Photographer: David Prior
Harley Davidson Pin Up Calendar – 2007
The Brief
To showcase Harley’s customisable bikes to a growing market of lady riders in a fresh and interesting way.
The Solution
We took the idea of the perennial bikers’ ‘pin-up’ calendar and gave it a little twist. We replaced the girls with typical Harley guys posing suggestively on 6 classic Harleys that are customisable for women. The calendars were then mailed to prospective lady buyers on the Harley database.
The Results
The calendars met with hugely positive responses both from our client and the lady riders themselves. An initial print run of 1000 calendars was mailed to the market but due to high demand, two additional editions were ordered and sold at breakfast runs. Although not initially intended as items for sale, the revenues generated from sales were a welcome bonus
Creative Director: Gerry Human/Fran Luckin
Copywriter: Bridget Johnson
Art Director: Vanessa Gibson
Photographer: David Prior
Shortlist
Public Health Bureau Of Shanghai – The 70-Meter Spit
Posted: September 29, 2011 Filed under: Ambient, Cannes Lions, Case History, China, Design, Social | Tags: 70-meter spit, germs, graphic designers, Ogilvy & Mather, Public Health Bureau Of Shanghai, raffiti artists, Shanghai Leave a comment »
Spitting is a national habit in China. The Public Health Bureau Of Shanghai wanted an anti-spitting public awareness campaign targeting migrant workers in Shanghai. Most migrant workers have been educated the sputum in spits contains germs that spread diseases. But many do not know the germs are not contained within the spot of the spit. The wind helps to carry the germs that are in the spray of the spit to further distances. According to the Public Health Bureau Of Shanghai, germs can spread to as far as 70 meters depending on the wind conditions. So how do we make them see this fact?
The solution is simple: make the germs visible. Make the message obvious to the migrant workers. We created charcoal artworks that show how far the germs could spread from its source. A total of 51 artists consisting of graffiti artists, graphic designers, and fine arts students were involved in this gigantic piece of social art. And in the middle of the artwork we have an arrow that points to a spot of spit. On the arrow we fit in the message. We chose places that are near the migrant workers’ living quarters to showcase the artwork.
Results and Effectiveness: public awareness was heightened further by various media coverage. The extra publicity helped to spread the word about this unknown fact about spitting to more people.
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Shanghai
Executive Creative Director: Kevin Lee
Art Director:Xiao Kun, Kelvin Leong, Kevin Lee, Deng HuaZhang Lei, Robin Wu
Copywriter: Kit Ong, Adams Fan
Illustrator: Nial O’Connor, Huang Haibo, Bao Siwen, Minsheng Zhang, Xu Xueyong, Hui Yao
Year: 2011
Gold Lion/Shortlist (Grand Prix For Good)
Puss in Boots – Old Spice Parody
Posted: September 28, 2011 Filed under: Animation, TV/Film, USA | Tags: funny, Old Spice, parody, Puss in Boots, Shrek, The man your man could smell like Leave a comment »
To promote the sequel-spin-off from the ‘Shrek’ series, ‘Puss In Boots’, DreamWorks have created a parody of Wieden+Kennedy’s much adored ‘The Man Your Man Could Smell Like’ for Old Spice.
Puss In Boots – one of the most beloved characters of the Shrek universe – tells the hilarious and courageous (daring, bold, brave) tale of Puss’s (Antonio Banderas) early adventures as he teams with mastermind Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis) and the street-savvy Kitty (Salma Hayek) to steal the famed Goose that lays the Golden Eggs.
Studio Brussel – Black Boy Wanting Water
Posted: September 28, 2011 Filed under: Belgium, Best Use of Television, Cannes Lions, Case History, Direct, Social | Tags: Belgium, Case History, interrupting live television, Mortierbrigade, Music for life, studio brussel, thirsty black boy Leave a comment »
Brussels, Belgium-based Mortierbrigade’s out-of-the-box pro-bono creative, “Black Boy Wanting Water,” won a Titanium Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival this year, as well as Lions in the Direct and Media competitions. A member of the Film jury, he spent much of his time reviewing commercials, but as the week progressed and his agency’s work was honored in one competition after another, his anticipation built. The excitement culminated at the end of the week, when the work walked away with the Titanium Lion.
“We never expected to win that,” says Mortier, a 40-year-old writer who co-founded the agency three years ago. “It was unbelievable.”
The agency started working on the campaign last October, when it was asked by client Studio Brussels, a radio station, to come up with a campaign for its yearly “Music for Life” fundraiser. The “Music for Life” event, benefiting the Red Cross and its water programs, aimed to raise awareness about the problem of limited drinking water in Africa. “We were looking for another way to approach this problem, not to just make an advertisement,” says Mortier. “We wanted to find a much more direct way of confronting people with this problem.”
Instead of creating a spot asking for help, the agency had a young black boy, Gaetan, run into live broadcast studios to grab the glass of water usually unnoticed in front of newscasters or show hosts, drink it, then run off again. “We thought by having this boy [take] it we could say it’s maybe not so normal to have a glass of water, and make it clear it’s not in reach for millions of other people,” says Mortier.
To keep the reactions as real as possible, the agency informed only the the shows’ producers in advance, keeping the on-air talent in the dark. “They didn’t know this was going to happen,” says Mortier. He adds that it “wasn’t so easy” keeping the project quiet, but the station owner, government-owned VRT, gave the agency access to the live broadcasts of five prime-time shows, including political, sports and entertainment programming.
The five- to 10-second interruptions, which took place for three days over a weekend in December, were filmed and later broadcast as a commercial that explained who was behind the events and why. Mortier admits the agency wasn’t sure how well the idea would work. “It was live, so we only had one shot,” he says. “We had to cast a little boy who wasn’t afraid to interrupt live television recordings. Not easy. But Gaetan did it with a lot of flair.”
The work stirred the curiosity of the Belgian public, and by the time Monday morning rolled around the media was buzzing about the TV oddity. The radio station soon explained it was behind the stunt, as did the TV programs, and the PSA ran for a few weeks after the fundraiser. “It gave us the opportunity to tell this story one more time,” says Mortier.
Paul Woolmington, co-founder of Naked Communications in New York and a member of the Cannes Titanium jury this year, says the panel was impressed with the simplicity and inventiveness of the program. “I love the idea that something so taken for granted and universal could be hijacked in such a provocative and relevant way,” he says. “The idea and execution is so simple and brilliant, but finding the right person with vision and authority to make it happen is very difficult. Anyone tried to get through to Rupert recently?”
The effort raised 3.3 million euros, with 1 million euros donated by the Belgian government. For a country of 10 million people, it’s an impressive figure, notes Mortier, particularly since the initiative was broadcast only in Belgium’s Flanders region, the Flemish part of the country.
(from Adweek)
Advertising Agency: Mortierbrigade, Brussels
Creative Director: Joost Berends, Philippe DeCeuster, Jens Mortier
Creative: Dieter Vanhoof, Tim Driesen, Joeri Van den Broeck
Production Company: Caviar, Brussels
Year: 2008
Harry Potter in advertising
Posted: September 27, 2011 Filed under: Ambient, Best Use of Print, Direct, Press/Outdoor, Promotion, Testimonial, TV/Film | Tags: advertising, Ambient, Cinema, eletronic arts, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, harry potter dies, magic cup, Playstation, suzuki, Titanic 3 Comments »Playstation 3/Blue Ray
Marani Eyewear
Crisol Bookstore
Harry Potter at PVR Cinema
ODEL Department Store – Harry Potter Promotion
Promotion done at the Department Store ODEL, for the release of the new Harry Potter book. The spoon was magically moving in the cup on its own.
This simple yet innovative deployment immediately captured the public’s attention. A captured video was posted on youtube and became one of the top 40 most linked videos of that week, resulting in 53,880 views, as well as newspaper and TV coverage.
With an investment of merely Rs.2,000 (USD20), the campaign generated a total of Rs.100,000 (USD1,000) in Advertising Value Equivalent (AVE). The entire stock of 150 books was completely sold out in hours, generating a total revenue of Rs.412,500 (USD4,125). The Return on Investment for this project mounted up to 256 times.
ODEL, Colombo’s premier department store, had to compete with all the major bookstores who were frantically promoting pre-bookings for the much-anticipated “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”.
We wanted to bring a bit of Harry Potter Magic to ODEL. Shoppers at Odel’s in–store eateries were amazed to witness a self-stirring cup of coffee. Beside it lay a mock copy of the “Deathly Hallows” carrying the message, “Book your copy right now for a deposit of Rs.500.”
McDonald’s
Videomarathon 2003 – Reality sucks
BED Club – Drag Show
Electronic Arts – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
LT Libreria Tecnica
Fundacìon Par
Suzuki Motorcycles School
Odyssey Multimedia Center – Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Super Glue
Harry Potter BlueRay Collection – Promotion
The objective of the promotion
To advertise the arrival of the Harry Potter saga in high definition at Livraria Cultura.
The Idea
We’ve recreated one of the most famous passages in the saga – the passage through platform 9-3/4, using a technology called fogscreen. We’ve projected over a smokescreen the wall of the platform. So, people could cross the “brick wall” as if they were wizards.
Results
By it’s innovativeness, it was an important attraction in the store, taking customers directly to the movie’s shelf, prompting an interaction with consumers, enjoyment for all ages, hundreds of spontaneous mentions in blogs about advertising, innovation, the series fan clubs among others, in Brazil as well as abroad. It allowed a “magic” experience for consumers, bringing them close to the series reality.
Titanic Magazine – Harry Potter Dies Promotion
The objective was to create a low budget promotion reinforcing the Titanic’s image as Germany’s number one satire magazine while generating new subscribers. On 27.10.2007, the very day when the last Harry Potter book was finally released with much ceremony, the Titanic, in true kill-joy spirit, revealed on various advertising mediums around the book’s point of purchase (pedestrian zones and book stores) that Harry would supposedly die on page 652, thereby eliciting the very strong reactions that a magazine of its nature is meant to.
What better way to promote Germany`s No. 1 satire magazine, famous for eliciting both malicious joy and laughter in equal measures, by creating a promotion that would do just that. The response was overwhelming: after the promotion the number of subscribers increased by 2,3 %. And the following edition of the Titanic magazine was sold out so the print run had to be increased by 5 %.
For the consumers this promotion was confirmation that Titanic is the best, therefore meanest satire magazine in Germany.
IMax
Red Peppers Audio Boks
Terramycin Plus Ointment
Beloura Shopping Center
Harry Potter at The Sun Theatre – Ambient
Seventy MM – Online Book
Mike Hutcheson’s book
Coca-Cola Cinema Ticket
Coca-Cola wanted to invite some executives from important Spanish companies and their families to the Première of the latest Harry Potter film. We were asked to create an invitation for that event that could fit in a A5 envelope.
Harry Potter is a film based on the power of magic so we came up with the idea of a blank card, with no text. A magic card. So in order to read the text you had to use a trick. The magic trick was rubbing the surface with a wet cloth. But of course the text would disappear again after a while.
No response was expected in any way by this action. However Coca-Cola got a lot of congratulations calls.
Kinokuniya Bookstores – Harry Potter mounth
Winnie the Pooh teaser trailer: How do you spell adventure?
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Athena Underwear – French athletes butt naked during a photo shoot
Posted: September 26, 2011 Filed under: Case History, Digital, France, Press/Outdoor, Testimonial, Viral | Tags: Athena underwear, Euro RSCG 360, France, French athletes butt naked during a photo shoot, French Athletics team, Hugues Pinguet, Kevin Mayer, naked, Romain Barras Leave a comment »
Athena, number one seller of men underwear in retail stores across France is launching its brand new line while anouncing its partnership with the French Athletics team. The brand strategy brought by EURO RSCG 360 brings a new playful spirit to the brand. Gone is the idealized image of the muscle man, welcome fun and humor for a campaign as colorful as the new boxers. 4 athletes strip down in the first step of the integrated campaign in a series of outdoor ads and a making of that reveals the naked truth about advertising.
Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG 360, France
Executive Creative Director: Hugues Pinguet
Art Director: Thomas Derouault
Copywriter: Dimitri Hekimian
Photographer: Jean-Yves Lemoigne
Retoucher: Asile
Director: Agathe Riedinger
Newcastle Brown Ale – Trapped in a Schooner
Posted: September 26, 2011 Filed under: Alcoholic Drinks, Ambient, Case History, Digital, Promotion, USA | Tags: a giant pint, Ambient, Beer, Del Mar Racetrack, John Vitro, Newcastle Brown Ale, optical illusion, San Diego, Trapped in a Schooner, USA, Vitro Leave a comment »
Newcastle Brown Ale announces today an out of home advertising campaign so innovative that it truly lives up to the beer’s nickname: “The One and Only.” Building on Newcastle’s highly successful appeal to “Taste the Lighter Side of Dark,” three branded public art projects will debut this summer in San Diego – all designed to get people talking, texting, posting and “checking in,” as they check out what Newcastle has to offer. The curtain lifts on the first project “Trapped in a Schooner” at the historic Del Mar Racetrack in time for opening day, July 20th.
“Trapped in a Schooner” will entertain race fans through an optical illusion. One person stands in a special location, while another climbs inside a larger than life replica of Newcastle’s traditional glass, the Geordie Schooner. The effect: it looks like they are trapped in a giant pint of Newcastle Brown Ale (what a pity).
“Newcastle Brown Ale is all about breaking conventions. It’s a dark beer that’s surprisingly easy to drink. And this campaign is all about doing something that goes way beyond conventional advertising,” says Charles Van Es, Director for Newcastle Brown Ale. “Our drinkers won’t settle for an ordinary ale, and we wanted to give them something extraordinary this summer, with these engaging, one of a kind projects.”
From the race track to the pubs, Newcastle Brown Ale will be encouraging fans and friends to post pictures of the Summer Spectaculars to their personal social media networks. Foursquare check-ins at the Schooner installation will also be rewarded with special Newcastle Brown Ale merchandise, furthering the buzz and word of mouth value of these projects.
“We think the guys who drink Newcastle, are a bit different. As a discovery brand, the consumers who order a Newcastle make a conscious choice to stand apart from the perceptions that most domestic beers thrive upon, so it was important for our out-of-home to reflect the sense surprise people have when they try our ale…in other words “it’s not what you might have first thought”, adds John Vitro, Executive Creative Director. “By getting people to engage and participate in the marketing we have the chance to express the wit, intelligence and wry smile that could only come from a British import like Newcastle.”
Advertising Agency: Vitro, San Diego
Executive Creative Director: John Vitro
Creative Director: KT Thayer
Art Director: Paul Lambert, Kevin Lukens
Copywriter: Schuyler Vanden Bergh
Ariston – And on, and on, and on…
Posted: September 26, 2011 Filed under: Cannes Lions, Legendary, TV/Film, UK | Tags: and on and on, Ariston, Cycle, Gold Greenless Trott, gold lion, Graham Fink, Richard Dean, Tim Mellors, UK, washing machine Leave a comment »
Ariston was a brand of kitchen appliances manufactured by Merloni Elettrodomestici SpA, a 1975 establishment and the predecessor entity to Indesit Company. Giuliano Gnagnatti, the Managing Director of Merloni Domestic Appliances UK in the early- to mid-1990s, was credited with the ingenious ”On and On” Ariston marketing campaign, the apex of which was a 1994 advertisement; the long form runs to two-and-a-half minutes.
This masterpiece features – with increasing intensity and ingenious use of repetition – various family members utilising Ariston washing machines, fridges and cookers for their quotidian needs: a young lady pulling a glitzy party dress from the washing machine and gliding into the night with her handsome dance partner; a boy throwing his football jersey at the floor, with his loving, exasperated mother popping it into the same appliance; a father teasing his child with the prospect of ice lollies from the freezer; and the lady of the house in modest finery, playing the role of hostess.
This cyclical drama was played out to the aural backdrop of the theme from the Nintendo Game Boy iteration of RoboCop, soundtrack as unlikely as it was perfect.
Advertising agency: Gold Greenless Trott
Creative Director: Tim Mellors
Copywriter: Tim Mellors
Art Director: Graham Fink
Production company: The Moving Picture Production Company, UK
Director: Richard Dean
Year: 1992
Gold Lion
Peanuts in advertising
Posted: September 23, 2011 Filed under: Press/Outdoor, Testimonial | Tags: Charlie Brown, Iams pet food, Loewe tv, MetLife, Peanuts, peanuts in advertising, Snoopy, Volkswagen 2 Comments »Paws.org (against the brutal killing of dogs)
Volkswagen Polo
Iams Pet Food
Lafarge (Roof Products)
Bundesverband Tierschutz Animal Rights
Suvinil Paints
Comics (Home Delivery)
Loewe Flat TV
Friends of Valkenberg Fund
Animal Anti-Cruelty League
MetLife (Insurance and Financial service)
Charlie Brown, Linus & Snoopy in a MetLife Commercial from 1986
Playstation/DC Universe online – Mr Lee, tailor to superheroes and villains
Posted: September 23, 2011 Filed under: Ambient, Cannes Lions, Case History, Design, Direct, Press/Outdoor, Promotion, Spain | Tags: Case History, Chacho Puebla, DC Universe on line, design, Juan Christman, Juan Sevilla, Leo Burnett, Madrid, Mr Lee, Playstation, sastrerìa mr. lee, tailor shop, tailor to superheroes and villains Leave a comment »
Francisco Sayans. Interactive Media Manager, PlayStation
The campaign
To launch the new PS 3 game, DC Universe Online, in which you can create your own superhero or villain by choosing powers, abilities and, of course, your custom suit, we created a tailor shop that specializes in handcrafting custom suits for heroes and villains. So you can make your suit a reality and can live the same experience as the game in the offline world.
To announce the opening, we spoke directly to the people it mattered to most, from gamers and comic fans to media in general. We catered each type of media and location to capture their attention.
- Direct to special media.
- Flyers on comic stores.
- Posters on games stores.
- Videos on social media.
- Web to book appointments.
Design
To make Mr. Lee’s logo, we needed to express duality, mixing heroes and villains. And to mix the old fashion and discrete look of a tailor shop with a modern touch of PlayStation. To create the logo we used the PlayStation symbols together with a tailoring icon: needles. And for Mr. Lee’s corporate identity we created a logo that express duality, mixing heroes and villains. So we used the Superman logo shape together with the kriptonite icon.
All posters were created based on artistic printing, a decorative style born in England at the end of the 19th century. Clearly this is is the style Mr. Lee was looking for when he open his shop in 1934.
The Tailor shop´s corporate identity scheme was created based on artistic printing, a decorative style born in England at the end of the 19th century. Using the appropriate typography on each piece.
Mr. Lee´s most special clients had the honour to be portrayed by his assistant after trying on their new suit.
The design and decoration was based on a classic antique English tailor shop, with a serious and discreet look. A unique environment, worthy of receiving such a special clientèle.
The Promotion
A tailor shop that specializes in handcrafting custom suits for heroes and villains. You can make your suit a reality and can live the same experience as the game in the offline world. The engaging experience began deciding whether to be a hero or vallain, fill out a questionnaire, and get measured. The custom suit was first created within the game and then an illustrator drew a sketch and gave it to the client together with an estimate.
While waiting to be attended by Mr. LEE, people could play the game for the first time and get inspired to think about their suits. The Madrid shop was more successful than Gotham city´s. The appointments were all filled in just a few hours and hundreds of suits were ordered. The earn media represented 4000% Return On Investment to the brand. And we are talking about news content, not advertising.
On line
PR Strategy
Mr. Lee quickly became a top news item appearing in all major Spanish TV channels in prime time.
-10 Foreign Newspapers.
-All major Spanish newspapers.
-Even Florentino Fernandez, the “Connan o Brian” of Spain, did an imitaiton of Mr Lee on his primetime show.
The earn media represented 4,000% Return On Investment to the brand. And we are talking about news content, not advertising.
Once in the tailor shop, the media and the people in general had to decide whether to be a hero or vallain, fill out a questionnaire, and get measured. The custom suit was first created within the game and then an illustrator drew a sketch and gave it to the client together with an estimate.
While waiting to be attended by MR LEE, people could play the game for the first time and get inspired about their suits.
The Madrid shop was more successful than Gotham city´s. The appointments were all filled in just a few hours and hundreds of suits were ordered.
The earn media represented 4,000% Return On Investment to the brand. And we are talking about news content, not advertising.
