Ceres Beer – #ivoteanyway (How a beer did what the government could not do)
Posted: May 6, 2013 Filed under: Alcoholic Drinks, Ambient, Case History, Event, Italy, Low Budget | Tags: Ambient, Bcube, Case History, ceres beer, ivoteanyway Leave a comment »I’m an Executive Creative Director. And if you ask people who work with me, they’ll tell you that when it comes to judging our own works, I’m always hypercritical. That’s why I’ve never posted here any campaign coming from my agency.
But today I’m pretty proud of this project, so I decided to share it. Hope you’ll like it like I do.
Election time is near and Italian politicians, the most aged in Europe, never miss an opportunity to show their distance from young people and their needs. For a bureaucratic obstacle, thousands of students who live outside the country (e.g. for the Erasmus program) will not be able to vote from abroad. Despite the calls of the European Union and the students’ protest, no one can solve the problem. Ceres, one of the most popular beers in Italy, decides to prove that these guys are better than those who represent them in parliament.
Our goals were to boost the brand awareness becoming the main supporters of the movement and to bring the problem to the attention of everyone, inspiring the conversation about the right to vote and the sense of responsibility of young Italians. We knew that it would have also improved the reputation of Ceres, a beer with a high alcohol content: we wanted to show everyone that the guys who love Ceres are responsible and mature people, that care for themselves and for their country’s future.
Ceres is a strong beer. It believes it’s always worth to take a position, to stand, even if it means making difficult or inconvenient choices. Even if maybe you won’t win. This is the essence of the brand, it is called “Inglorious Heroism”, and it is summed up by the pay-off “The town needs heroes.” Students in Erasmus are real heroes in the midst of their quest to discover the world. These young heroes had been wronged and Ceres decided to help them to vote anyway. Italy is an old, tired country that needs the energy of young people. As the slogan of this operation says, “Italy needs of Heroes.”
We contacted representatives of the students in major European cities. We told them we wanted to organize symbolic elections to make them vote anyway. We launched the twitter hash tag #iovotolostesso (#ivoteanyway), we sent groups in each city a kit with everything they needed to run and publicize the symbolic elections: facsimile ballots, ballot boxes, flyers and posters. We also sent them a few packs of beer to celebrate at the end. The kit also contained instructions on how to create video appeals that students would send us and would become part of a collective promo video. The video was posted on the web, the students used it to spread the word and we sent it to mainstream media.
More groups spontaneously joined in. The symbolic elections took place in 26 European cities on the same days of the Italian real elections. We sent the symbolic results to the media a few hours before the close of official polling stations.
Results:
For the cause:
Thousands of students from 26 European cities joined the initiative. The protest achieved unprecedented visibility on all the national media: TV, newspapers magazines, radios, social media, news website and blogs. The operation opened a debate all around the country. #ivoteanyway became a tweet trend with more than 10.000 tweets in 10 days.
For the brand:
Brand search frequency on google: +470% in 10 days. Ceres was the most cited brand during the election week. People reached: 20 millions, one third of the italian population. Media investment: less than € 5,000.
Advertising Agency: Bcube, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Francesco Bozza
Creative Director: Sergio Spaccavento, Andrea Stanich
Creative Team: Sergio Spaccavento, Andrea Stanch, Alessandro Sciarpelletti, Silvia Savoia
Edit: Danilo Carlani, Alessio Dogana
Year: 2013
Sponsored Heroes
Posted: April 26, 2013 Filed under: Art, Coca-Cola, Design, Graphic, Graphic Design, Illustration, Italy, parody | Tags: adidas, Apple, Avengers, Batman, Burger King, captain america, Coca-Cola, Flash, funny, hulk, Iron Man, McDonald's, monster, Nike, Roberto Vergati Santos, sponsored heroes, superheroes, Superman, Wolverire Leave a comment »“Imagine if one day capitalism reaches the point, where the big brands starts to sponsor the superheroes. How would this influence their images?”
Being a superhero doesn’t seem to be a lucrative gig, but what if it was? Brands sponsor athletes and celebrities all the time, and with the increasing popularity of superheroes, it’s not all that shocking to think that The Incredible Hulk could one day be rocking a massive Monster logo across his chest.
Italian graphic designer Roberto Vergati Santos imagined many of our favorite superheroes sponsored by our favorite brands. The aptly titled ‘Sponsored Heroes’ series sees characters from both the Marvel and DC Comics universe, and includes all the members of The Avengers, Batman, Wolverine, and many more. Batman can be seen sporting a Nike suit of armor, while Iron Man has been stamped with the golden arches of McDonald’s, and Captain America is seen holding a massive UPS shield. Check out some of the superheroes from the collection below.
IRON MAN – Sponsored by McDonald’s
HULK - Sponsored by Monster Energy
WOLVERINE - Sponsored by Adidas
BATMAN - Sponsored by Nike
CAPTAIN AMERICA - Sponsored by UPS
FLASH - Sponsored by Red Bull
AVENGERS - Sponsored by Coca-Cola
SILVER SURFER- Sponsored by Apple
SUPERMAN - Sponsored by Giorgio Armani
IRON MAN (Sponsored by McDonald’s) vs CAPTAIN AMERICA (Sponsored by Burger King)
Happy New Year Ads
Posted: December 31, 2012 Filed under: Axe, Car, Cliché, Germany, Illustration, Italy, Press/Outdoor, Spain, UK | Tags: ads, advertising, audi, axe, Barilla, BMW, duracell, durex, Happy New Year, Honda 1 Comment »Happy New Year from BRUSSELS AIRLINES
Happy New Year from DISCO SUPERMARKETS
Happy New Year from DURACELL
Happy New Year from DUREX
Happy New Year from TMB (Metro de Barcelona)
Happy New Year from ALKA SELTZER
Happy New Year from AUDI
Happy New Year from AXE
Happy New Year from BARILLA
Happy New Year from YES Tablet
Happy New Year from MIKADO
Happy New Year from HONDA
Happy New Year from BMW
Happy New Year from O.B.
25 Advertising Ideas for 25 November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Posted: November 26, 2012 Filed under: Awards, Belgium, Cannes Lions, Cliché, Event, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Mexico, Press/Outdoor, Singapore, Social, UK, USA | Tags: 25 november, abused women, Amnesty International, apav, Baf, domestic violence, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, United Colors of Benetton Leave a comment »01 - Amnesty International
02 – BaF (Bundesverband autonomer Frauennotrufe)
03 – United Colors of Benetton
04 – Domestic Violence Vigilance (USA)
05 – Aware Helpline Singapore
06 – APAV (Victim Suport)
07 – Refuge.org.uk
08 – APAV (Victim Support)
09 – Florencia (Service for abused women)
10 – Citizens Against Spouse Abuse
11 – Amnesty International
12 – Amnesty International
13 – Women’s Aid Organisation
14 – The Youth, Women, Children and Family Chamber (Panama)
15 – Amnesty International
16 - Amnesty International
17 - Amnesty International
18 - NO (Combat Violence Against Women Helpline)
19 - http://www.terres-des-femmes.ch
20 - Associazione Donne Insieme contro la Violenza
21 – Ni Puter Ni Soumises
22 - Mar’A (Against Domestic Violence)
23 - Amnesty International
24 - Solidaritè Femmes
25 - NSW (Women’s Refuge Movement)
H-57 Milan/Life in Five Seconds: Over 200 Stories for Those With No Time to Waste
Posted: October 31, 2012 Filed under: Animation, Art, Design, Digital, Graphic, Graphic Design, Illustration, Italy, Promotion, Viral | Tags: Gianmarco Milesi, H 57, H-57 Creative Station, Life in 5 seconds, Matteo Civaschi, over 200 stories for those with no time to waste, Quercus 1 Comment »
“In our jet-fuelled, caffeine-induced, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to learn a thing or two? C’mon, let’s face it, life’s too bloody short. What you need is instant knowledge. Life in Five Seconds takes 200 world events, inventions, great lives, places, animals and cultural icons that you really need to know about, and then, hey presto!, cuts away all the useless details. The Last Supper, Lady Gaga, the moon landings, the Mona Lisa, the invention of electricity, Ikea, the Berlin Wall, celebrity chefs and everything in-between. This is the perfect gift for anyone with a sense of humour…”
It is true that the “information overload syndrome” (infobesity) often pushes us to the limit of complex thinking …
To cope with this phenomenon, a concept has recently taken up the challenge of simplicity, with a book entitled “Life in 5 seconds” and directed by agency H-57 Milan (Matteo Civaschi & Gianmarco Milesi). A super simplified storytelling to narrate the life of fictional characters, historical figures, or even social phenomena in less than 5 seconds. The result is pretty funny.
“We want to create many of them to give our point of view on the most famous world stories. Unfortunately, the ones with tragic ending are the funniest and most interesting.” H-57
Here’s one of our awesome stories from “Life in Five Seconds” brought to life by our Quercus Eye app. Select Quercus books have pages that spring to life. All you need is a web enabled mobile phone or tablet and to download the free app now available on Android or Apple platforms.
You will have to wait until November 8 for for the book’s publication, but a preview is already available on the official website: http://www.lifeinfiveseconds.com
Freddy Krueger (and Nightmare on Elm Street) in advertising
Posted: October 30, 2012 Filed under: Cliché, Illustration, Italy, parody, Press/Outdoor, Testimonial, TV/Film | Tags: advertising, Burger King, Direct tv, Fonzies, Freddy Krueger, funny, Halloween, interruptions, kill the nightmare, Mtv, Nightmare on Elm Street, nulaid eggs, Post-it, Press, screamfest, TV/Film, yamaha Leave a comment »Yamaha
Burger King/Open Late
Picasso (Bed & Mattresses)
GSC/Developers against Piracy
Horror Night at Playcenter
Nulaid Eggs
Screamfest (Independent Horor Film Festival)
Post-it notes
Fonzies Chips
MTV/Nightmare on Elm Street Campaign
During some ads for America’s Best Dance Crew, Freddy Krueger comes out of nowhere and interrupts them as a way to advertise A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Direct TV
Coca-Cola Happiness Truck around the World – Where Will Happiness Strike Next?
Posted: October 1, 2012 Filed under: Argentina, Beverages, Brazil, Canada, Case History, Coca-Cola, Event, France, India, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Promotion, Russia, The Nederlands, The Philippines, Turkey, Viral | Tags: Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola's 125th Anniversary, Coca-Cola's Semangat Truck, coke and meals, Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Happiness Truck, Olympic edition, rio de janeiro, The Cheering Truck, uefa edition, Viral, Where Will Happiness Strike Next? Leave a comment »
Inspired by the vending machine that dispensed Coca-Cola and other “doses of happiness” on a college campus in New York and quickly became a global viral video sensation; a specially rigged Coca-Cola delivery truck took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro recently to spread refreshment and smiles to passers-by.
All the action is captured in a two-and-a-half-minute film. In the video, several unsuspecting Brazilians push a button on the back of the truck to dispense Coca-Cola and other fun items such as soccer balls, surfboards and sunglasses.
“‘Happiness Machine’ connected with so many people because the emotion was authentic, unscripted and contagious,” said A.J. Brustein, Global Senior Brand Manager, Coca-Cola. “We wanted to inspire that same feeling again by creating something consumers would respond to and want to share with others because it put a smile on their face.”
Happiness Truck is one of many videos that can be found on the Facebook hub for “Where Will Happiness Strike Next?”. The hub features more than 25 films from around the world that have been created by local Coca-Cola teams to continue the theme of the award-winning “Happiness Machine,” which has generated more than 3 million online views. The interactive site lets consumers search for videos by country and even vote for where they’d like to see happiness strike next.
“We weren’t trying to replace ‘Happiness Machine’ with the ‘Happiness Truck,’” said Christy Amador, Digital Marketing Manager, Global Content Excellence. “We wanted to build on this great idea and continue to answer the question, ‘Where Will Happiness Strike Next?’ by spreading a message of happiness around the globe. These videos from markets all over the world help us to do just that.”
Two of the new films on the hub include a version of “Happiness Truck” filmed in the Philippines and “Happiness Store,” where convenience store customers in Rio are surprised with confetti, lights, live music and more upon grabbing a Coca-Cola from the cooler. ”Happiness Machine” – which cost very little to produce – proved that we don’t need to spend millions to produce winning creative, and that great ideas and content can be sourced from anywhere.
Happiness Truck in Rio De Janeiro
A Coca-Cola delivery truck is converted into a happiness machine on wheels delivering “doses” of happiness in the streets of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Where will happiness strike next?
Happiness Truck in Canada
A Coca-Cola delivery truck is converted into a happiness machine on wheels delivering “doses” of happiness in the streets of Toronto, Vancouver & Montreal, Canada. After a full day of sharing happiness, the experience culminated in a 3-city simultaneous musical celebration featuring Kardinal Offishall in Toronto, These Kids Wear Crowns in Vancouver & Duke Squad in Montreal, to celebrate Coca-Cola’s 125th Anniversary. Where will happiness strike next?
Happiness Truck in Philippines
A Coca-Cola delivery truck is converted into a happiness machine on wheels delivering “doses” of happiness in the streets of Marikina, Philippines. Where will happiness strike next?
Happiness Truck in Kenya
Happiness Truck in Malaysia
The town with a population of over 150,000 kicked off its evening with a surprise from Coca-Cola’s Semangat Truck. What a nice prelude to dinner.
Happiness Truck in Venezuela
Happiness Truck in Ecuador
Happiness Truck in India
Happiness Truck in Russia (CHRISTMAS Edition)
Happiness Truck in France (UEFA Edition and OLYMPIC Edition)
Happiness Truck in Honduras
Happiness Truck in Turkey
Happiness Truck in Naples (COKE & MEALS Edition)
A Coca-Cola delivery truck is transformed into a happiness table in a small square in Naples. Famous chef Simone Rugiati is on a mission asking people
to eat together delivering “doses” of happiness through a magic food cloche.
Happiness Truck/The Cheering Truck in Argentina (FOOTBALL Edition)
This time, Coca-Cola outfitted a special red truck with a recording booth and has been travelling around Argentina collecting the cheers of football (or soccer depending on where you are from) fans to support the Argentinean team. Fans are encouraged to record their cheer to be heard by millions.
The truck drove through 19 different provinces in Argentina as it collected the cheer of over a million different voices. On the day of the match, the Coca-Cola Cheering Truck drove into a stadium that only had room for 50 thousand fans and played the recordings of over a million fans chanting and cheering for the team. Way to rally the troop Coca-Cola!
Coca-cola has been doing some really creative marketing campaigns that have utilized a traveling truck concept (see The Happiness Truck). It’s their way of spreading happiness throughout the world…not to mention strengthening their brand!
Happiness Truck in Hong Kong (TRANSFORMERS Edition)
Happiness Truck in Mongolia
Happiness Truck in Nederland
Happiness Truck in Poland (Euro 2012 Edition)
Happiness Truck in Azerbaijan
Where will happiness strike next? Of course in Baku, Azerbaijan. A Coca-Cola delivery truck has been converted to a happiness machine, which rides through Baku streets and shares the 125 year old happiness with Azeri people.
Happiness Truck in Ucraine
Happiness Truck in Egypt (RAMADAN Edition)
Coca-Cola Egypt gives people more reasons to believe using its Happiness Truck to spread happiness and joy in Cairo making Ramadan 2011 better for all Egyptians.
Happiness Truck in Mexico
United Colors of Benetton – Unemployee Of The Year
Posted: September 18, 2012 Filed under: Case History, Digital, Direct, Event, Italy, Press/Outdoor, Promotion, Social, The Nederlands, TV/Film | Tags: 72andSunny, advertising, alessandro benetton, call for entry, Case History, dignity, Fabrica, Italy, Promotion, TV/Film, Unemployee of the year, unhate, United Colors of Benetton 2 Comments »United Colors of Benetton has launched “Unemployee of the Year”, a a contest created for young people all over the world, aiming to award 100 projects proposed and voted by the online community. The project, promoted by the UNHATE Foundation, aims to spread a positive message of hope and celebrate young people’s ingenuity, creativity, and their ability to create new smart ways of addressing the problem of unemployment.
For decades, Benetton, the Italian apparel retailer, has been known for provocative advertising that attracts publicity by stirring up discussion of contentious topics like politics, religion and the treatment of AIDS patients. For almost as long, critics have dismissed the ads as exploitative because they do not offer solutions to the problems or assistance to the causes that could use financial help.
Now, however, Benetton is going to put some money where its mouth is — 500,000 euros, to be exact, or about $650,000. A campaign that begins on Tuesday for the United Colors of Benetton brand, and is devoted to the problem of youth unemployment, includes a contest to find worthwhile projects suggested by unemployed young people, who will receive financing from a Benetton foundation.
Information about the contest, called Unemployee of the Year, will be available at unhatefoundation.org, the Web site of the Unhate Foundation, which is named after a campaign carrying the theme of “unhate” that Benetton ran last year.
The contest will be open to unemployed people, ages 18 to 30. They are being asked to submit to the Web site ideas for projects — nonprofit or not — that would improve lives in their communities. Visitors who register at the site will vote on their favorite proposals, and the Unhate Foundation will give the people behind 100 winning projects 5,000 euros each, totaling 500,000 euros. The money to be awarded the winners is a small sum compared with the estimated budget for the Unemployee of the Year campaign, which is 20 million euros, or about $26.2 million. But it is a major commitment compared with what Benetton has spent until now on the issues addressed by its ads.
The goal is “a new generation of Benetton, a Benetton 2.0,” Alessandro Benetton, who in April became chairman of the Benetton Group, said in a phone interview last week. The difference now is that when Benetton seeks to “talk about contemporary social issues,” Mr. Benetton said, the campaign “needs to have a practical response to the problems we’re raising. Not by ourselves are we going to change the world,” he added. “But we want to set an example.” Mr. Benetton said he hoped people would be surprised to see the company spending money to promote “values in which we believe. And I hope it’s something many other companies are doing,” he added.
The campaign is being created by Fabrica, the internal Benetton agency, in collaboration with the Amsterdam office of 72andSunny, an agency owned by MDC Partners.
The campaign includes a commercial in which young people in countries around the world are shown trying hard to find jobs. Some take part in a demonstration, holding banners with uplifting messages like “Dignity.”
“That is meant to counter the widespread complaints directed at jobless youth” Mr. Benetton said, “charging them with being “lazy” or being “anarchists,” or that it is somehow “their own fault” they are unemployed.”
There are also print ads in the campaign, which present portrait-style photographs of well-dressed unemployed young men and women. The subjects of the print ads are identified with phrases like “Angel, 29, non-industrial engineer from Spain,” “Valentina, 30, non-lawyer from Italy” and “Eno, 28, non-actor from the U.S.”
Advertising Agency: Fabrica/72andSunny
Year: 2012
Have you ever noticed that the first TV and Press Grand Prix were italian?
Posted: June 14, 2012 Filed under: Awards, Cannes Lions, Italy, Legendary, Press/Outdoor, TV/Film | Tags: cannes festival, Chlorodont toothpaste, grand prix, Il Circo, Italy, Levi's, Lion, McCann erickson, Outdoor, TV/Film Leave a comment »1954. European cinema contractors launch the Festival to celebrate great cinema advertising. The first Cannes Grand Prix goes to a spot called “Il Circo” from Italy’s Ferry Mayer for Chlorodont toothpaste.
1992. The Press and Poster category introduced. McCann-Erickson Milan is awarded first Grand Prix in the category for its Levi’s campaign.
Advertising Agency: McCann-Erickson Italia
Creative Director: Milka Pogliani
Copywriter: Alessandro Canale
Art Director: Stefano Colombo
Photographer: Graham Ford
Good Luck Italy.
Saatchi & Saatchi Italy for World Down Syndrome Day – The Coordown Project
Posted: May 21, 2012 Filed under: Best Use of Television, Case History, Italy, Press/Outdoor, Social, TV/Film | Tags: Agostino Toscana, Alessandro Orlandi, Case History, Coordown Project, Down syndrome, integration day, Luca Lorenzini, Luca Pannese, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sergio Silvestre, TV/Film, World Down Syndrome Day 1 Comment »
People with Down Syndrome can be part of society and actively contribute to its development. The Coordown organization campaigns for the integration of people with Down Syndrome in society and, in particular, the work enviroment. On the 21st of March, on World Down Syndrome Day, we promoted this in an exceptional way.
“We are very proud to participate in this project. We were struck by the innovative style of this project, communicating the importance and the normality of diversity through the tool that permeates our daily lives and that captures our attention in every moment of the day: advertising. We are proud to contribute to the dissemination of this message, which contains the values central to the Toyota philosophy which always put the person first, clients on one side and the employees on the other side, as a vital resource. People with their talent and passion, variety and diversity that make our company a great company.” - Lorenzo Matthias – Public Relations General Manager at Toyota Motor Italy.
On that day, alternative versions of the commercials of some of the most well known national and international brands (Illy Coffee, Averna Liqueur, Cartasi Credit card, Toyota, Pampers) were broadcast on tv. During filming, we had shot alternative scenes in which the original actor was substituted by an actor with Down Syndrome. These alternative versions appeared 334 times that day.
The same happened with print campaigns (by Enel, Carrefour, Toyota) scheduled on the main national Italian newspapers.
And in the same vein, on the 21st of March, people with Down Syndrome appeared in some of the most famous Italian television programmes, replacing the usual stars.
The operation attracted the attention of all the national media, including tv, newspapers, magazines, radios, social media and blogs and, on the following days it opened a debate all around the country.
We generated the equivalent of nearly 5 ½ Million euros worth of coverage and we reached around 18 million people, a third of the italian population. And, most important of all, in the week following the communication event, enquiries to CoorDown from companies interested in integrating people with Downs Syndrome into their organizations went up 600%.
“We are proud of taking part in such an innovative communication event, because we firmly believe in it – declared Sergio Silvestre, CoorDown National Coordinator. We are thankful to Saatchi & Saatchi and to all the other partners for the precious help and the sensitiveness they showed. Regarding the theme of inclusion, unfortunately there is still a lot to do, especially in workplaces and schools, starting from people’s prejudices. The winning idea is sending normality as a message. People with Down syndrome have the right to express their capability and to have the same opportunity as anybody else. But too often they are considered different and incapable of having an independent lifestyle. This campaign is an exceptional example, and we hope it will be the example to follow, every day.”
Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Italy
Executive Creative Director: Agostino Toscana
Creative Directors: Agostino Toscana, Alessandro Orlandi, Luca Lorenzini, Luca Pannese
Art Director: Luca Pannese
Copywriter: Luca Lorenzini
Supporting Creative Team: Antonio Gigliotti, Micaela Trani, Nico Marchesi, Riccardo Catagnano, Davide Vismara, Sonia Cosentino, Anselmo Tumpic, Elena Cicala, Fabio D’alessandro, Manuel Musilli, Antonio Di Battista, Tommaso Zago, Eliana Frosali, Antonio Tardio, Daniele Barone, Emanuele Quadri, Giulio Frittaion, Marco Dispenza, Massimo Paternoster, Alberta Schiatti, Raffaele Bellezza
Production Company: Akita, Made, Mercurio, Catsound, Sing Sing, Networks, Castadiva Pictures, Myavalon, Band, Top Digital, Disc 2 Disc, Flippermusic
Directors: Luca Maroni, Bosi e Sironi, Nadia De Paoli, Xavier Mairesse, Jose Pratt, Leone Pompucci,
Photographers: Davide Bodini, Mecanique Generale, Matteo Cremonini, Platinum, Boudwjin Smit, Lorenzo Scolari,
Post Production: Balalò, Rebelicon, Matteo Tranchellini
Year: 2012
