Why is it called “LION” if the ones who always win are “BEARS”?

Posted: June 12, 2012 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Awards, Cannes Lions, Case History, Cliché, France, Germany, Press/Outdoor, Testimonial, TV/Film, USA, Viral | Tags: alka seltzer, bear, BETC Euro RSCG, Canal +, Cannes Lions, Hunter and Bear’s 2012 Birthday Party, hunter shoots a bear, john west, Leo Burnett, miller lite beer, Tipp-Ex, Viral | Leave a comment »

Budget Car Rental – RANGER

The Budget marketing team considers promoting the Ford Ranger by letting a customer become a forest ranger. Cut to a man dressed as a Ranger in the woods. A bear vomits all over him … The marketing team rejects the idea
Advertising Agency: Cliff, Freeman and Partners, USA
Year: 2000
Gold Lion for the campaign

John West – BEAR

At a river, a man fights a bear for a salmon. Voiceover: John West endure the worst to bring you the best. Super: John West Red Salmon.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, USA
Year: 2001
Gold Lion

Miller Lite Beer – BEAR

In this spot we witness a bear’s candid audition to become the next voice and face of Miller Lite. The audition is taken from that of a real actor.

Advertising Agency: Y&R Chicago
Year: 2006
Bronze Lion for the campaign

Duende Azul (Costume Shop) – BEAR

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mother Santiago
Year: 2007
Gold Lion for the campaign

Alka Seltzer – BEAR

Advertising Agency: CLM BBDO, France
Year: 2009
Gold Lion for the campaign

BIC/Tipp-Ex – A HUNTER SHOOTS A BEAR

To celebrate the back to school period, Tipp-Ex®, BIC Europe Group’s brand, leader on the European market of correcting products, goes on Youtube with an interactive campaign as funny as surprising. In this viral video, french agency Buzzman puts face to face a bear and a hunter, offering the viewers to choose what ending they want to see by changing the title of the vidéo directly on Youtube thanks to the Tipp-ex corrector! More than 50 different hilarious endings can thus be discovered. The campaign is logically signed: Tipp-Ex®, white and rewrite.

Describe the brief from the client: to coincide with the back-to-school period, Tipp-ex, an European correction fluid company, wants to promote online its whiteout Pocket Mouse. The target is pupils, students and customers of Tipp-ex.
The strategy was to turn an ordinary product into a unique and ground-breaking interactive experience on YouTube. Our strategy was to create a specific relation between this target and the brand, and thus virally spread the Tippexperience.

Describe how the promotion developed from concept to implementation: an interactive YouTube rich media campaign. It starts with a video on YouTube featuring a hunter out in the woods and suddenly facing a bear. At the end of the video the viewer decides whether the hunter should shoot the bear or not. Whatever the choice is, the hunter grabs the Tipp-Ex Pocket Mouse from the banner next to the video, whites out the word « shoots » and invites viewers to choose the end of the story by writing their own verbs directly in the title of the video. For each action, there’s a video response.

Explain why the method of promotion was most relevant to the product or service: the interactive campaign drew viewers into a choose-your-own-story-style video journey. The effort broke down the boundaries of YouTube for the first time, utilising the whole screen to exemplify the use of its whiteout product. 42 alternative scenes were shot so anything you write gets a video response. The possibilities are infinite. With the signature « White and Rewrite », the video on YouTube and the interaction, the campaign is very appropriate to the brand and to the target.

Advertising Agency: Buzzman, France
Year: 2011
4 Silver Lion (Media, Promo and Direct)
Bronze Lion for Interactive Film

BUND/Environmental Awareness – BROWN BEAR

Advertising Agency: Scholz & Friends, Berlin
Year: 2011
Gold Lion for the campaign

BIC/Tipp-Ex - Hunter and Bear’s 2012 Birthday Party

It’s a sequel to the 2010 Shoot the Bear Youtube Campaign. Partying away at the Bear’s birthday bash in 2012, the Hunter and his furry friend are faced with an earth-destroying meteor in the sky above them. You can choose to end the party or keep it going by picking a year for the two to travel to, whiting out 2012 and entering the year of your choice. The campaign includes 46 different scenes, eight of which are interactive.

Advertising Agency: Buzzman, France
Year: 2012
Lion?

Canal + – The Bear

Advertising Agency: BETC EURO RSCG, Paris
Year: 2012
Lion?

Taxi Toronto for Viagra (Case History, 2002/2011) – If you want a Lion, talk to your doctor

Posted: May 29, 2012 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Agency, Awards, Canada, Cannes Lions, TV/Film | Tags: antiquing, apologies, beep, Cannes Lions, Case History, Clive Desmond, Darren Clarke, funny, gold lion, good morning, Jason Hill, Lance Martin, Michael Murray, Pfizer, reading, Ron Smrczeck, strolling, talk to your doctor, Taxi Toronto, the international language of viagra, TV/Film, Viagra, wombleminki, wubbleflaps, Zac Mroueh | Leave a comment »

In their January 2002 press release Pfizer, the producer of Viagra, announced that they were ready to market the antidote to male erectile dysfunction in Canada. Pfizer commissioned Taxi Toronto to provide their angle on the campaign for Viagra. They had to overcome perceptions built up by jokes on late night comedy shows. They had to show that this drug was likely to benefit not just old men and sex fanatics but ordinary men. They aimed at visibility, universality, subtlety and vitality. In doing so they had to be careful not to say a single word about Viagra as a product because of the Canadian laws on pharmaceutical advertising.

Viagra (2002) – GOOD MORNING

The ad starts with an energetic man on his way to work with the soundtrack of “Good morning” from the musical “Singing in the rain.” He bounces down the footpath, past the white picket fence, past the postie and neighbours, hops down the hop skip and jump game, slam dunks a basketball, dances past Mario’s barber’s shop, bounds up the stairs from the train, chases the pigeons, leap frogs the Journal newspaper, cartwheels up to the front door of his office. As he walks into the lift/elevator the word “Viagra” appears on screen, with the encouragement to “Talk to your doctor”.

Creative Team: Alan Madill and Terry Drummond
Production Company: Avion Films
Director: Martin Granger

Viagra (2003) – CHAMPIONS

Queen’s track: “We are the champions” plays as a man bursts through his front door with arms raised. He joins others in the street in the kind of spontaneous celebration that takes after a world cup victory. The viagra pill supers on screen. We understand the real cause for celebration

Creative Team: Alan Madill and Terry Drummond
Production Company: Avion Films
Director: Martin Granger

Viagra (2005) – OFFICE/COACH/GOLF/ELEVATOR

A constant single non-musical tone completely drowns out a conversation. You see a man drop an amazing put and still he continues to tell his friend about his morning under this tone, while a Viagra logo appears over his mouth. Chuckles are heard. Talk to your doctor.

Creative Director: Zac Mroueh, Lance Martin
Copywriter: Irfan Khan
Art Director: Ron Smrczek
Production Company: The Partner Film Company, Toronto
Director: Joakim Back
Gold Lion for the Campaign

Viagra (2007) – WOMBLEMINKI/WUBBLEFLAPS

In Canada, ad drug regulations prevented us from talking about the benefits of Viagra. So we decided to show people talking in a made-up language that was punctuated with the word Viagra.

Executive Creative Director: Tom Goudie
Creative Director: Zac Mroueh, Ron Smrczeck
Copywriter: Michael Murray
Art Director: Jason Hill
Production Company: Partizan, Toronto
Director: Eric Lynne
Gold Lion & Silver Lion for the Campaign

Viagra (2008) – DENISE/VIVIAN/BOBBY/MICHELLE

In Canada, drug regulations prevent us from saying what a product does. Yet our brief was to communicate that Viagra equals great sex. So we created the Viagra Intermission- the sexiest Intermission the world has ever seen.

Executive Creative Director: Terry O’Reilly, Chris Tait
Creative Director: Ron Smrczeck
Copywriter: Michael Murray
Art Director: Jason Hill
Production Company: Radke Film Group, Toronto
Director: Eric Lynne
Shortlist

Viagra (2009) – ANTIQUING/READING/STROLLING

When couples stop having sex, they start filling that void with other activities. And while ‘couple’ activities like antiquing, strolling, reading and watching sports seem harmless at first, they can end up taking over couples’ lives. Viagra helps them get back to just having sex again. The campaign uses outdoor/print to raise awareness of these sex replacement activities. And the television spots share stories of couples who took their activities too far. With the help of Viagra, they were able to find their way back to the bedroom. Follow-up commercials ask couples if they too suffer from chronic ‘activities’.

Executive Creative Director: Darren Clarke, Clive Desmond
Creative Director: Ron Smrczeck
Copywriter: Stefan Wegner, Nathan Monteith
Art Director: Nathan Monteith, Stefan Wegner
Production Company: Soft Citizen
Director: The Perlorian Brothers
Gold Lion for the Campaign

Viagra (2011) – VIAGRA APOLOGIES

When men take Viagra having sex becomes the priority, so it’s no surprise they want to spend ‘quality time’ with their wives. Unfortunately, this can come at the expense of missing some scheduled time with their buddies.
Just so there’s no hard feelings, Viagra has given these men an opportunity to apologize to their friends.

Executive Creative Director: Steve Mykolyn
Creative Director: Darren Clarke
Copywriter: Mark Lewis
Art Director: Nicole Ellerton
Production Company: Go Film
Director: Christopher Guest
Bronze Lion

Almap/BBDO for Volkswagen Original Parts (1999/2012) – The Original Case History

Posted: May 25, 2012 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Agency, Awards, Brazil, Cannes Lions, Car, Case History, Digital, Illustration, Press/Outdoor, TV/Film, Viral | Tags: AlmapBBDO, Brazil, Cannes Lions, Cassio Zanatta, clone, Giba Lages, Luiz Sanches, Marcello Serpa, never accept alternatives, Original parts, Press, the original click, TV/Film, Viral, Volkswagen | Leave a comment »

Grasshopper/Caterpillar/Worm (1999)

Creative Director: Marcello Serpa
Copywriter: Cassio Zanatta
Art Director: Valdir Bianchi
Photographer: Alexandre Catan

Shirt Bottom (2000)

Creative Director: Marcello Serpa
Copywriter: Rondon Fernandes
Art Director: Luciano Lincoln
Photographer: Claus Stellfeld

Ducklings/Grenade (2001)

Creative Director: Marcello Serpa/Eugenio Mohallem
Copywriter: Beto Ovelha
Art Director: Marcelo Siqueira
Photographer: Fernanda Tricoli

Clone (2005)

A surprising ending dramatizes why you should buy real Volkswagen parts.

Chief Creative Officer: Marcello Serpa
Creative Director: Marcello Serpa, Cassio Zanatta, Giba Lages
Art Director: Roberto Fernandez
Copywriter: Sophie Schoemburg
Production Company: Jodaf Mixer
Director: Joao Caetano Seyer
Bronze Lion

Letters (2006)

Creative Director: Marcello Serpa/Cassio Zanatta
Copywriter: Cassio Zanatta
Art Director: Giba Lages

Hook/Lifeguard/Parachute (2009)

Executive Creative Director: Marcello Serpa
Creative Director: Luis Sanchez, Dulcidio Caldeira
Copywriter: Andrè Godoi
Art Director: Andrè Gola

Helmet/Baby Seat (2010)

Executive Creative Director: Marcello Serpa
Creative Director: Luis Sanchez, Dulcidio Caldeira
Copywriter: Andrè Godoi
Art Director: Andrè Gola

Chinese/Meditation (2010)

Executive Creative Director: Marcello Serpa
Creative Director: Luis Sanchez
Copywriter: Renato Simoes
Art Director: Bruno Prosperi

I love You/Son You’re Adorable/Boss/It’s Not You (2011)

Chief Creative Officer: Marcello Serpa
Executive Creative Director: Marcello Serpa
Creative Director: Luiz Sanches
Art Director: Bruno Prosperi
Copywriter: Renato Simoes
Production Company: Vetor Zero
Director: Fabio Acorsi
Editor: Thiago Bueno
Sound Design: Raw Produtora De Audio
Silver Lion for the Campaign

I love You/Boss/Melissa/Adopted (2011)

Chief Creative Officer: Marcello Serpa
Executive Creative Director: Marcello Serpa
Creative Director: Luiz Sanches
Art Director: Bruno Prosperi
Copywriter: Renato Simoes

Chemical Formula (2011)

Chief Creative Officer: Marcello Serpa
Executive Creative Director: Marcello Serpa
Creative Director: Luiz Sanches
Art Director: Pedro Rosa
Copywriter: Marcelo Nogueira

The Original Click (2012)

For each successful video on YouTube there is poorly made imitations. There are hundreds of bad imitations and video clip remakes. Some of these copies had millions of views. And we saw an opportunity behind all this: promoting Volkswagen original auto parts.

We looked for some copies of these videos with a considerable amount of views on YouTube and we placed banners promoting our product in them. When users clicked on the banner, they had a surprise: they were redirected from the copy to the original video and thus we managed to promote our product without taking anyone to visit a corporate site.

For each US$100 spent, we had almost 125,000 views and approximately 500 clicks.

General Creative Director: Marcello Serpa
Creative Director: Luiz Sanches
Co-Creative Director Online: Luciana Haguiara, Sandro Rosa
Art Director: Sandro Rosa, Raul Arantes, Victor Britto
Copywriter: Andre Almeida; Luciana Haguiara

Febreze – Breathe Happy (Social Experiment)

Posted: May 22, 2012 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Cannes Lions, Case History, Digital, Promotion, TV/Film, USA, Viral | Tags: Breathe Happy, Cannes Lions, Case History, dirty room, Febreze, Grey New York, Noel Cottrell, Per Pedersen, Procter & Gamble, Promotion, restaurant, Rob Lenois, Rob Perillo, Social Experiment, Tor Myhren, USA | Leave a comment »

Typically, an actress realizes that her immaculate suburban home has been fouled by the smell of cooked fish, her husband’s cigars or her teenage son’s gym bag. After she sprays air freshener, however, odors disappear, as evidenced by her ecstatic inhalations and, occasionally, by her being instantly transported to a flower garden or orange grove. Febreze, the Procter & Gamble brand, is turning its nose up at that approach.

The objective of the experiment
To prove that Febreze eliminates even the toughest odors but people had stopped believing our traditional advertising. From the insight that you can close your eyes but you can never shut of your nose we chose a different approach.
Here’s how it works.
1. Find the smelliest places in the world. We found a couch from the dump, a dive hotel and a disgusting restaurant in New York City. An abandoned house, a filthy kitchen, and an ancient thrift shop in Los Angeles. And finally a sketchy youth hostel in Buenos Aires.
2. Spray the place with Febreze.
3. Bring people off the street, blindfold them and ask them what they smell.
4. Ask them to remove the blindfold and enjoy how completely shocked people are to find out where they actually are.

Febreze really works so instead of the usual TV advertising we developed large-scale real-world odor experiments and invited people off the street to experience this for themselves. 6 Breathe Happy Social Experiments where conducted in New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires and Berlin reaching people on the street in very populated areas. The reactions we got were so convincing that we turned them into our new campaign. Febreze is now the fastest growing brand at Procter & Gamble and has just passed the one billion dollar mark in sales.

For all the freshening claims made by room deodorizer brands in commercials, the approach of the advertisements themselves can be pretty musty, following a predictable script.

In one spot, two women approached on the street in the SoHo section of Manhattan are led blindfolded into an abandoned section of a building, where they are seated on an old, torn couch that has clumps of dog hair. As two dogs dart around the room, they are asked by an off-screen interviewer to take deep breaths and report what they smell. One of the women says, “Light floral, lilac,” and “Like when you have fresh laundry.” The other adds, “Maybe even a little bit of citrus,” “a little bit beachy” and “wispy white curtains.” They are told to remove their blindfolds, and the squalor of the room registers on their shocked faces, with both saying, “Oh, my god,” before two members of the film crew approach them wielding Febreze. “Join us on Facebook for more experiments as Febreze sets out to make everyone breathe happy — no matter what,” says a voiceover, as the slogan for the campaign, “Breathe Happy,” appears on the screen.

“What we have done is put our products to the ultimate torture test,” said Jeff Pierce, a spokesman for Febreze. “If Febreze is so strong that it works in this dirty hotel room or on this gross couch, then it’s definitely going to work on my seemingly clean couch, blanket or any fabric in the home.”

Tor Myhren, President and Chief Creative Officer at Grey New York, said the impetus for the campaign came from a consumer focus group. “Someone said, ‘You can close your eyes, but you can’t turn off your nose,’ and that’s a brilliant insight,” Mr. Myhren said. “We said that’s a big, big, big idea that we need to bring to life.”

Members of Procter & Gamble’s research and development team were on the sets for the commercials, which were shot in New York and Los Angeles. “The R.& D. team would be there with their clipboards and they’d walk in and would say that they thought the malodor was there,” said Elena Grasmann, a vice president at Grey who attended the shoots.

After Febreze representatives sprayed the sets with the product, they, along with the director and representatives from Grey, huddled in a nearby trailer and watched the proceedings unfold on monitors. “We all sat there watching and we were anxious and then we were amazed,” said Ms. Grasmann. For the scientists, it was particularly “rewarding for them given that they worked on these products,” she said.

On Facebook, Febreze, which has more than 262,000 followers, will show additional video, including interviews with the subjects, and will solicit suggestions for odorous settings for future commercials.

Commercials for air fresheners tend to have “an almost Victorian aversion to the unpleasant,” said David Vinjamuri, author of “Accidental Branding” and an adjunct professor of marketing at New York University. Asked to review the new Febreze commercials, he said he was impressed. “You have a visceral reaction to these commercials even before you see the reaction of the subjects, because you don’t see those kinds of environments in advertising in general,” Mr. Vinjamuri said. “It’s a classic advertising setup in terms of showing a problem and solution, but in a much more credible format,” he continued.

“Breathe Happy is a first of its kind campaign in the air care industry, rooted in the Febreze brand purpose to give people the fresh air that they deserve and desire,” stated Jeff Pierce, P&G Febreze External Relations. “Following today’s advertising launch, we will spread Breathe Happy to people everywhere delivering unique moments at events and on Facebook, helping the world to Breathe Happy no matter what their surrounding conditions.”

Advertising Agency: Grey New York
Chief Creative Officer: Tor Myhren
Executive Creative Director: Per Pedersen, Noel Cottrell
Creative Director: Rob Perillo, Rob Lenois
Production Company: Station Film
Director: Sam Cadmam
Year: 2011
Silver Lion and Bronze Lion for the Campaign

Cannes Lions: Italian Advertising That Really Works (2001/2011)

Posted: April 19, 2012 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Awards, Cannes Lions, Case History, Digital, Direct, Graphic Design, Guerilla, Italy, Press/Outdoor, Promotion, TV/Film | Tags: 1861 united, aqualtis, arena, Ariston, auditorium, beer gloss, BMW, Bruno Bertelli, Cannes Lions, Coca-Cola, d'adda lorenzini vigorelli, Diesel, durex, enel, enrico dorizza, federico pepe, FIAT, forum crisalide, Francesco Bozza, francesco taddeucci, freddy, gandhi, Heineken, IKEA, illy, ing direct, italian advertising, JWT, lavazza, Leo Burnett, loctite super attak, luca albanese, Luca Scotto Di Carlo, Mini, Mtv, MUF Comics National Museum, Nike, nintendo, Nissan, peugeot, Pietro maestri, Pino rozzi, Playstation, Roberto Battaglia, sergio rodriguez, sky, telecom italia, the sculptor, tribute to fashion, Vicky gitto, vodafone, Volkswagen, zoogami | Leave a comment »

MTV (Death Penalty Message) – MISTAKE

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Milan
Creative Director: Agostino Toscana
Copywriter: Guido Cornara
Art Director: Agostino Toscana
Production Company: BRW Production
Director: Agostino Toscana
Year: 2001
Silver Lion

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FIAT (Seize the moment) – THE ARGUMENT/CHESS/AFTER HOURS

A man in his flat overhears a woman above arguing with her boyfriend on the phone. He goes up to find out if she’s single now. Super: Seize the moment.
We see two men playing chess in front of an audience. At check, a mobile rings, distracting everyone. The other player eats a piece. Super: Seize the moment.
An employee catches his boss having sex with a woman on his office floor. He takes the opportunity to ask for a payrise. Super: Seize the moment.
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Milan
Creative Director: Enrico Dorizza/Mauro Manieri
Copywriter: Mauro Manieri
Art Director: Alessandro antonini
Production Company: Mercurio Cinematografica
Director: Magnis Wikmann
Year: 2002
Bronze Lion for the campaign

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Rexona Deodorant – BLIND

A girl waits for a bus. A blind man approaches and, from her smell, he mistakes her for the rubbish bin.
Advertising Agency: Lowe Pirella
Creative Director: Aldo Cernuto/Roberto Pizzigoni
Copywriter: Piero Lo Faro
Art Director: Piero Lo Faro
Production Company: Filmaster
Director: Piero Lo Faro
Year: 2002
Bronze Lion

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The Face Post Production Company – NEED A POST FACILITY?

A young man, trying to run through a wall, crashes into it and falls down dead. Click here for the commercial
Advertising Agency: Fagan Reggio Del Bravo
Copywriter: Emanuele Madeddu
Art Director: Patrizio Marini
Production Company: Mercurio Cinematografica
Director: Gigi Piola
Year: 2002
Bronze Lion

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GameBoy Advance – CLASSROOM

Those who exceed 96 levels of difficulty on the new gameboy are worthy of our respect. Click here for the commercial
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Milan
Creative Director: Enrico Dorizza/Sergio Rodriguez
Copywriter: Paolo Lentini
Art Director: Cristina Baccelli
Production Company: The Family
Director: Lee Donaldson
Year: 2003
Bronze Lion

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Volkswagen Golf – REFLECTIONS

A Golf is parked in car park. As cars pass they are reflected in its gleaming exterior. Whilst the Golf stays in the car park year after year other models and makes seem to come and go. Click here for the commercial
Advertising Agency: DDB, Milan
Creative Director: Enrico Bonomini/Giuseppe Mastromatteo/Stefano Tumiatti
Copywriter: Enrico Bonomini/Stefano Tumiatti
Art Director: Giuseppe Mastromatteo
Production Company: The Family
Director: Federico Brugia
Year: 2003
Shortlist

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Peugeot 206 – THE SCULPTOR

A young Indian runs his old car into a wall. After bashing the bodywork out of shape using every means available, including an elephant, he’s not satisfied and starts to hammer away at the details with a certain panache. We think he is destoying his car, but he’s “sculpting” it.
Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG, Milan
Creative Director: Giovanni Porro/Roberto Greco
Copywriter: Roberto Greco
Art Director: Giovanni Porro
Production Company: Bandits, France
Director: Matthijs Van Heijningen
Year: 2003
Gold Lion

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BMW Adaptive Headlights – LIGHT

Headline: BMW introduce adaptive headlights. Light reaches places it never did before

Advertising Agency: D’Adda, Lorenzini, Vigorelli, BBDO
Creative Director: Giovanni Porro/Stefano Campora
Copywriter: Vicky Gitto
Art Director: Stefano Rosselli
Photograspher: Darren Rees
Year: 2003
Shortlist

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Game Boy Advance – FOOTPRINTS/LIGHT SWITCH/ELEVATOR

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett
Creative Director: Sergio Rodriguez/Enrico Dorizza
Copywriter: Paolo Guglielmoni
Art Director: Edoardo Aliata
Photographer: Riccardo Bagnoli
Year: 2003
Shortlist

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Mondadori – SEVENTY YEARS OF SOLITUDE

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Milan
Creative Director: Guido Cornara/Agostino Toscana
Copywriter: Giuseppe Mazza
Art Director: Alessandro Stenco
Photographer: Enzo Monzino
Year: 2003
Shortlist

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Volkswagen for safety – TIES

Advertising Agency: DDB, Milan
Creative Director: Enrico Bonomini/Giuseppe Mastromatteo
Copywriter: Luca Fontana
Art Director: Giovanni Policastro
Photographer: Fulvio Bonavia
Year: 2003
Shortlist

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Harrison – SLIP/SHOE

Advertising Agency: Alkatraz, Milan
Creative Director: Vicky Gitto/Stefano Rosselli
Copywriter: Vicky Gitto
Art Director: Stefano Rosselli
Photographer: Fulvio Bonavia
Year: 2003
Shortlist

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Dialogo nel buio Exibition – CASH DISPENSER/INTERPHONE/MANHOLE COVER

Headline: Don’t trust your eyes. Dialogue in the dark. A journey where your guide is visually impaired.

Advertising Agency: Red Cell, Milan
Creative Director: Pino Rozzi/Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Pino Rozzi/Filippo Rizzo
Art Director: Roberto Battaglia/Peppe Cirillo
Photographer: Luca Perazzoli
Year: 2003
Shortlist

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Heineken – DOG

In a bar a dog starts licking the beer poured by a Heineken bottle accidentally knocked over. A man puts the lead on the dog. It’s a blind person. The dog guides his lurching owner. People who drink and drive are dangerous, for other people too. Think about it.
Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri
Copywriter: Bruno Bertelli
Art Director: Cristiana Boccasini
Production Company: Filmaster, Milan
Director: Dave Merhar
Year: 2004
Bronze Lion

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Durex Condoms – SWIMMING POOL/ELEVATOR/SNOW

Durex performa puts your orgasm on hold. This is why we see different men having orgasms in the most unexpected moments of the day: even at the swimming pool
A young man climaxes while stuck in a elevator.
A man appears to have an orgasm whilst shovelling snow and look around, embarrassed. Duret Performs-delay your climax.
Advertising Agency: McCann Erikson, Milan
Creative Director: Federica Ariagno/Giorgio Natale
Copywriter: Francesca Pagliarini
Art Director: Gaetano Del Pizzo
Production Company: Filmaster, Milan/Mercurio Cinematografica
Director: Bosi&Sironi/Dario Piana
Year: 2004
Bronze Lion for the campaign

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Trony – THE HOLE

In his flat a boy proudly shows to some friends his new flat-screen TV. However, when a girl asks for the toilet, he denies. As the girl leaves, we discover the trick: the TV is actually stuck in a big hole in the wall, which communicates with the toilet!
Advertising Agency: INAdv, Milan
Creative Director: Anna Montefusco
Copywriter: Massimo Ambrosini
Art Director: Francesco Crespi
Production Company: Central Groucho
Director: Matteo Pellegrini
Year: 2004
Shortlist

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Brunch Film Festival – LITTLE GUY

Click here for the commercial
Advertising Agency: Publicis, Milan
Creative Director: Alisdhair MacGregor
Production Company: Filmaster, Milan
Director: Dario Piana
Year: 2004
Shortlist

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SKY Sport – SKY SOCCER

An unusual perspective on soccer. Some famous soccer players take care of their supporters. This pay off follows: “If you love soccer, soccer loves you”.
Advertising Agency: Red Cell, Milan
Creative Director:Pino Rozzi/Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Riccardo Chadwick
Art Director: Peppe Cirillo
Production Company: (h)Film
Director: Joe Public
Year: 2004
Shortlist

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SKY Sport – INZAGHI

Advertising Agency: Red Cell, Milan
Creative Director: Pino Rozzi/Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Riccardo Chadwick
Art Director: Peppe Cirillo
Photographer: Jouk Oosterhof
Year: 2004
Shortlist

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SKY Movie – CHOCOLATE BAR/PIZZA/BEER CAN/BABY

Advertising Agency: Red Cell, Milan
Creative Director:Pino Rozzi/Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Stefania Siani
Art Director: Federico Pepe
Photographer: Pierpaolo Ferrari
Year: 2004
Shortlist

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Downtown Gym Club – YELLOW SWIMSUIT/GREEN DRESS/BLUE LINGERIE

Advertising Agency: Red Cell, Milan

Creative Director: Pino Rozzi/Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Pino Rozzi
Art Director: Roberto Battaglia
Photographer: Pierpaolo Ferrari
Year: 2004
Shortlist

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E-Dentical.com – KEYTOOTH

Advertising Agency: Red Cell, Milan
Creative Director: Pino Rozzi/Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Laura Cattaneo
Art Director: Giorgio Cignoni
Photographer: Max/Douglas
Year: 2004
Shortlist

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Hair Stylist Academy – DOR MAT

Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam, Milan
Creative Director: Aldo Cernuto/Roberto Pizzigoni
Copywriter: Marco Cremona
Art Director: Alessandra Carù
Photographer: Oriani/Origone/Studio Ros
Year: 2004
Shortlist

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MTV Brand:new – IVANO GASGAS

An absurd theatre in which everybody can declare his own authenticity. A man sucks on a helium balloon & sings ‘Baby, one more time’.
Advertising Agency: This is a Thing!, Milan
Creative Director:Pino Rozzi/Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Stefania Siani
Art Director: Federico Pepe
Production Company: (h)Film
Director: Maci
Year: 2004
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Enel – PLUG

The main idea of the campaign is to explain that energy is not that simple to get as one could imagine. It is infact made through the fruit of men, investments, research and new technologies. To show this various people power electrical goods in strange places, through stone, metal, sand, etc.
Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi
Creative Director: Luca Albanese/Francesco Taddeucci
Copywriter: Francesco Taddeucci
Art Director: Luca Albanese
Production Company: The Family, Milan
Director: Paul Arden
Year: 2004
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Nissan 350 z – KERBS

Advertising Agency: TBWA/Italia
Creative Director: Fabrizio Russo
Copywriter: Alessio Riggi
Art Director: Geo Ceccarelli
Photographer: Tiamat/Virgilio Favale
Year: 2004
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Telecom Italia – GANDHI

In the late 30s, we see Gandhi giving a speech in front of a modern webcam.
Through the various telecommunication devices, the whole world listens to the message of love.
A writing appears: ‘Imagine the world today if he could have communicated like this.’ Then the logo ‘Telecom Italia’ appears.
Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam, Milan
Creative Director: Aldo Cernuto/Roberto Pizzigoni
Copywriter: Marco Cremona
Art Director: Isabella Bernardi
Production Company:Colorado Film, Milan
Director: Spike Lee
Year: 2005
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Forum Crisalide, Bulimia Prevention – REVERSE

A girl seems to be eating. In fact the scene is shot in reverse, food is coming out of her mouth. It is a metaphor of bulimia. Talking about it is the only way to make things go in the right direction.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Milan
Creative Director: Sergio Rodriguez/Enrico Dorizza
Copywriter: Francesco Bozza
Art Director: Alessandro Antonini
Production Company: Mother Film Company
Director: Alessandra Pescetta
Year: 2005
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Ottica Bergomi – NEVER TO LATE

A young lady who realises when she’s 30 that she has been adopted. Click here for the commercial

Advertising Agency: Internal Agency
Copywriter: Sergio Spaccavento
Art Director: Sergio Spaccavento
Production Company: NEW WAYS Milan
Director: Matteo Pellegrini
Year: 2005
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IKEA – WATCH YOUR STEP

A man enters a dark room; when the door closes frame and theatre go black. We follow the noises of the man painfully banging into several objects. On every hit appears a super with name and price of an IKEA bedroom item. His wife went shopping at IKEA.
Click here for the Commercial

Advertising Agency: Publicis, Milan
Creative Director: Alasdhair MacGregor-Hastie
Associate Creative Director: Piero Bagolini/Silvano Cattaneo
Copywriter: Marco Venturelli
Art Director: Fabrizio Tamagni
Production Company: Harold & Motion, Milan
Year: 2005
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Playstation/Tif 2004 – GENERAL PROTEST/THERAPY

With This is Football 2004 on line all has changed…

Advertising Agency: TBWA/Italia
Creative Director: Fabrizio Russo
Copywriter: Andrea Fogar
Art Director: Geo Ceccarelli
Production Company: Mercurio, Milan
Director: Paolo Monico
Year: 2005
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Henkel – BULL/PANTHER/MONKEY

Advertising Agency: D’Adda, Lorenzini, Vigorelli, BBDO
Creative Director: Giuseppe Mastromatteo/Luca Scotto di Carlo
Copywriter: Giovanni Chiarelli
Art Director: Serena Di Bruno
Photographer: Fulvio Bonavia
Year: 2005
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Nissan Micra – TARPAULIN

Advertising Agency: TBWA/Italia
Creative Director: Fabrizio Russo
Copywriter: Alessio Riggi
Art Director: Fabrizio Caperna
Photographer: Larry Russo
Year: 2005
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Intrecci Hairdressers – PRAYING/SISTER IN WHITE

Advertising Agency: Red Cell
Creative Director: Pino Rozzi/Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Stefania Siani
Art Director: Federico Pepe
Photographer: Pierpaolo Ferrari
Year: 2005
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Zoogami – BRAND DESIGN

Zoogami was born in 2003 as a inspired by story that mixes western and eastern culture. The main objective of this project is to build a strong brand, thanks to artistic and intellectual values. Zoogami was created as a Corporation that ironically, and realistically at the same time, grows into different branches, in which single projects are developing already or will develop into the different market sectors.
The first job is the record realized in Spain with Caesar and the authors of Cafè Del Mar . The second project is the superior quality beer.
The third project is for a branded clothing collection, composed by12 sophisticated items.

Click here for the project

Advertising Agency: Fishouse
Creative Director: Alessandro Orlandi
Designer: Alessandro Orlandi
Art Director: Ciriano Zanon
Year: 2005
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Resident Evil 2 - APOCALYPSE

Website created for the Italian launch of the movie “Resident Evil 2″.

Click here for the project

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Rome
Creative Director: Paola Inzolia
Copywriter: Massimo Caiati
Art Director: Stefano Pedretti
Year: 2005
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Lavazza Coffea – CALENDAR 2005

The subject is the circus seen through Olaf’s eyes. A world that realises unique images of Espresso: the main character, as always, of Lavazza calendars.
This theme gave us the chance to experiment with unusual effects: a tiger walking on a white page expands the dreamy idea and invites the user to discover new emotions, from glamour to creativity. Colours, together with the navigation system, give a personal and playful rhythm. Finally the tiger gave its magnetic personality to the site.
Not only for artists: glamour and fashion lovers, trend maniacs who pay attention to the world we live in.

Advertising Agency: Testaweb, Turin
Creative Director: German Silva/Marco Faccio
Copywriter: Marina Leonardini/Daniele Bona
Art Director: Raffaella Di Gesù/Heitz Mendibil
Designer: Andrea Lantelme
Year: 2005
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Ariston Aqualtis – UNDERWATER WORLD

An entire ocean of laundry finds space in the new Aqualtis washing machine. Winner at Cannes, Clio, D&D and now on permanent display in the Louvre Paris as an example of modern art in advertising.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Milan
Creative Director: Enrico Dorizza/Sergio Rodriguez
Copywriter: Francesco Simonetti
Art Director: Antonio Cortesi
Production Company: Filmaster, Milan
Director: Dario Piana
Year: 2006
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Halls Extra Strong – VAPOURS

A man is inhaling vapours for all he’s worth but we discover at the end that he wasn’t using the classic balsamic essences.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri/Alberto Citerio
Copywriter: Giovanni Salvaggio
Art Director: Stefano Fantini
Production Company: Moviefarm, Milan
Director: Gaetano Vaudo
Year: 2006
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Reactine Allergy Relief – SAVANA

The cheetah is the fastest animal in the savannah. This time, however, he’s chased by an hippo, that surprisingly is running faster than him. This is a metaphor of Reactine: Surprisingly fast. Against Allergy. Click here for the Commercial

Advertising Agency: JWT, Rome
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri/Paolo Ronchi
Copywriter: Alfredo Ruggieri
Art Director: Pierfranco Fedele
Production Company: Mercurio SPQR
Year: 2006
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Halls Original – RADIO

We hear a radio that’s suffering from interference. A man moves the aerial to centre the frequency better. When we finally hear a clear voice from the radio, we realize that what he was moving wasn’t an aerial.

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Illy Caffè – SEEING BEAUTY

What is beauty? We only really notice it when we find ourselves up against it. We can see it and be spellbound. We can listen to it and the sound stays with us for ages. We can touch it and our hands memorize its outlines. And we can discover, as in this case, that it’s also got its own flavour: that of a perfect espresso. The taste of Illy.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri/Alex Brunori
Copywriter: Alex Brunori
Art Director: Fabio Anzani
Production Company: BRW & Partners, Milan
Director: Matthias Zentner
Year: 2006
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Arena Swimwear – TORPEDO

Inside an aircraft, the crew is taken up with the navigation. Suddenly the radar plots a strange and apparently dangerous object in the water, getting closer and closer to the ship. Panic among the people, before the impact. However, we see that the object isn’t a torpedo as it seemed, but a swimmer, who’s approaching the craft. He hits it, using the shipboard as it was a swimming pool one. The special swimmer is The Olympic champion Massimiliano Rosolino, wearing the Arena “Powerskin Extreme” high competition swimsuit.

Advertising Agency: Lowe Pirella
Creative Director: Umberto Casagrande/Maurizio Maresca
Copywriter: Maurizio Maresca
Art Director: Umberto Casagrande
Production Company: Filmaster, Milan
Director: Dario Piana
Year: 2006
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Peugeot 206 – WORLD FAN CLUB

Peugeot 206 has mythical status – you’d do anything to have one.

Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG, Milan
Creative Director: Roberto Greco
Copywriter: Marco Geranzani
Art Director: Giordano Curreri
Production Company: Soixante Quinze, Paris
Director: Jonathan Herman
Year: 2006
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Sky Sport – KAKA’

The World Cup Germany is closer. Kaka prepare for it dancing in a traditional costumes…

Advertising Agency: 1881 United, Milan
Creative Director: Pino Rozzi/Roberto Battaglia
Production Company: (h)Films/Hungry Man, London
Director: Owen Harris
Year: 2006
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Mediaset Premium tv – GREAT CINEMA

There are several people: Different ages, dressed in their own clothes, they are all trying lines from a famous film….. the lines abviously, are not delivered as professional actors would say them. A Super appears: We all deserve to get into great cinema.

Advertising Agency: Saffirio, Tortelli, Vigoriti, Turin
Creative Director: Aurelio Tortelli
Copywriter: Michela Grasso
Art Director: Daniele Ricci
Production Company: Movie Magic International, Milan
Director: Angel Gracia
Year: 2006
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Reale Mutua Insurance – CIRCUS

Members of a circus describe how they were saved by an insurance man.

Advertising Agency: Saffirio, Tortelli, Vigoriti, Turin
Creative Director: Aurelio Tortelli
Copywriter: Michela Grasso
Art Director: Daniele Ricci
Production Company: The Family, Milan
Director: Carl Erick Rinsch
Year: 2006
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MINI (Eat Out Food Magazine) – PEPPER & SALT/TABLECLOTH/GRATER

Advertising Agency: D’Adda, Lorenzini, Vigorelli, BBDO
Creative Director: Giuseppe Mastromatteo, Luca Scotto Di Carlo
Copywriter: Federico Bonenti, Alessandra Bergamaschi
Art Director: Luca Zamboni, Luis Toniutti
Photographer: Piero Perfetto
Year: 2006
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MINI Cooper S – BULL

Advertising Agency: D’Adda, Lorenzini, Vigorelli, BBDO
Creative Director: Giuseppe Mastromatteo, Luca Scotto Di Carlo
Copywriter: Nicola Lampugnani, Lorenzo Crespi
Art Director: Anselmo Tumpic, Pier Giuseppe Gonni
Photographer: Piero Perfetto
Year: 2006
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MINI Cabrio – POINTS

Advertising Agency: D’Adda, Lorenzini, Vigorelli, BBDO
Creative Director: Giuseppe Mastromatteo, Luca Scotto Di Carlo
Copywriter: Nicola Lampugnani
Art Director: Anselmo Tumpic
Photographer: Piero Perfetto
Year: 2006
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MINI Cabrio – YO-YO

Advertising Agency: D’Adda, Lorenzini, Vigorelli, BBDO
Creative Director: Giuseppe Mastromatteo, Luca Scotto Di Carlo
Copywriter: Cristino Battista
Art Director: Dario Agnello
Photographer: Armando Rebatto
Year: 2006
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Nintendo DS – COMMUNION

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Milan
Creative Director: Enrico Dorizza, Sergio Rodriguez
Copywriter: Paolo Guglielmoni
Art Director: Rosmary Collini Bosso
Photographer: Max&Douglas
Year: 2006
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Heineken (Anti Drink Driving Campaign) – TOILETTE/PUB

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri, Bruno Bertelli
Copywriter: Bruno Bertelli
Art Director: Cristiana Boccasini
Photographer: Giovanni Pirajno
Year: 2006
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Splinter Cell Chaos Theory – SAM FISHER

Brief
Once considered a pioneer in its genre, the Splinter Cell franchise has lost ground as its competition floods the market with look-alike games. With the release of a new game in the series, the goal is to recapture the attention of a target that sees little differentiation in the genre.

Media Strategy
Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher, one of genre’s most renowned characters, was created with the help of real-life military experts with insight into the cold reality of the espionage. Knowing the care and precision that goes into these games, players keep coming back to “re-live” the special operations experience. The media strategy was entirely designed with a simple objective: bring suspense into gamers’ life via incognito missions utilising radio intrusions during the day and guerrilla activity during the night.

Idea
After a weekend with friends, the target was greeted with electrostatic stickers designed to look like bullet holes were attached to car windows parked in key hangout areas. A note next to it said: “Thank you!! My name is Sam Fisher. I took your car to run after terrorists. Unfortunately a bullet hit the car window. My contact is http://www.samfisher.it.” Radio spots the next morning revealed what was going on… Sam Fisher is back!

Results
The plan was created to surround the target throughout the week. Their favourite national radio DJs teased the execution during the week and revealed it on the weekend. The OOH execution engaged the target in common areas for weekend nightlife. The atmosphere surrounding the area added to the realism of the execution and effectively reached large groups of our target audience. The suspense created around the comeback of Sam Fisher and the Splinter Cell franchise propelled gamers’ intention to buy to the point that sales figures were reached 2 weeks in advance compared to client objectives.

Advertising Agency: Carat
Strategic Team: Stefano Spadini, Francesca Costanzo, Franca Melloni
Year: 2006
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Nike Italy – RUN 4 CESARE

Run the City is a global event organised to create awareness over running. Poor money, great objectives. The Rome project: Cesare was an overweight man to whip into shape and sign up to RUN ROME 05. Runners had to log on to run4cesare.com and let us know their workout. The longer they ran, the greater the possibility Cesare would get off his butt and run. Three webcams were set up in his house 24/7 and a troupe tailed him live on all his
training runs. RUN4CESARE: 40 days of live webcam coverage-20,975 web visits-1522 runners entered for the race.

Advertising Agency: Fagan Reggio Del Bravo, Rome
Creative Director: Patrizio Marini
Copywriter: Emanuele Madeddu
Art Director: Patrizio Marini, Manuel Musilli
Designer: Manuel Musilli
Year: 2006
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Casinò di Venezia – KEEP PLAYING

Venezia Marco Polo Airport. Baggages convey belts/carousel

Advertising Agency: ADMCOM, Bologna
Creative Director: Maurizio Cinti
Copywriter: Rebecca Rossi, Maurizio Cinti, Silva Fedrigo
Art Director: Andrea Ligi, Sergio Lelli
Year: 2007
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Arnold Worldwide Italy - VOODOO KIT

Arnold Worldwide Italy opened a guerrilla marketing department called Arnold Guerrilla. We needed to advertise the service to marketing managers. To communicate that with Guerrilla Marketing everything is granted and to make something unique that could strike marketing managers. The Marketing Voodoo Kit made in single copies is an object that marketing managers would want to keep on their desk and show to their collegues. Coca Cola Italy and Nike Italy called us for an agency presentation. Grana Padano Cheese asked us to enter the pitch for Grana Padano Cheese and San Daniele Ham.

Advertising Agency: Arnold Worldwide Italy, Milan
Creative Director: Maurizio Maresca, Alessandro Sabini, Paolo Troilo
Copywriter: Alessandro Sabini
Art Director: Paolo Troilo
Year: 2007
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Vodafone – TOTTI & GATTUSO (WE ARE FAMILY)

Vodafone is a big family (all its subscribers). We have 2 testimonials that are a part of this family. They are so many people that make the queue for everything they do.
Advertising Agency: 1861 United, Milan
Creative Director: Pino Rozzi, Roberto Bataglia
Copywriter: Stefania Siani
Art Director: Federico Pepe
Production Company: Mercurio Cinematografica, Milan
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Year: 2007
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MTV – APRIL FOOL

A teleseller proposes a shocking investment to buy a house on a hill today and in 15 years you be under the sea thanks to the total overheating … the April Fool’s joke is revealed

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Mariella Merendino Cashmere – CASHMERE SHEEP

Advertising Agency: DDB, Milan
Creative Director: Vicky Gitto
Copywriter: Vicky Gitto
Art Director: Andrea Maggioni
Year: 2007
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Bye Helmets – HANDS BOY/HANDS GIRL

Advertising Agency: 1861 United
Creative Director: Pino Rozzi, Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Luca Beato
Art Director: Giorgio Cignoni
Photographer: Fulvio Bonavia
Year: 2007
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The Pink Line – TELEPHONE

The purpose of the campaign is to promote the phone line service offered by the Pink Line. The Pink Line helps and supports women being victims of violence and abuse.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Rome
Creative Director: Francesco Taddeucci, Luca Albanese
Copywriter: Jorg Riommi
Art Director: Arturo Vittorioso, Clarissa Biaggi
Photographer: Giuseppe Di Vita
Year: 2007
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Turin Paralympic Games 2006 – PODIUM

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri
Copywriter: Francesco Muzzopappa
Art Director: Fabrizio Pozza
Photographer: Mauro Turatti/Livello 06
Year: 2007
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Tuc Snack Saiwa – WHEN HUNGER STRIKES

When hunger strikes suddenly, it may be tempting to eat the first thing at hand. An interactive video banner, in which it is possible to suggest to a funny and starving office worker to eat the objects on his desk. He will be happy to take in these suggestions… but his telephone, the cactus, the photo-holder and the pc screen will turn out to be too heavy food. When it is time for a snack, there is only one right choice: TUC by Saiwa. For now, if you think you can sustain explicit scenes of hunger, meet the man in his office. Click here for the project

Advertising Agency: DCM Fullsix, Milan
Creative Director: Simonetta De Brumatti
Copywriter: Luca Comino
Art Director: Giuseppe Bizzarro
Year: 2007
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Koleston – HAIR LIPS

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Milan
Creative Director: Enrico Dorizza, Sergio Rodriguez
Art Director: Alessandro Padalino
Photographer: Studio Ros
Year: 2008
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Arena Swimwear – AUDIENCE

An audience is sitting in a sports arena. Spectators are turning their heads with fast and rhythmic movements, as if they are watching a tennis match. A super appears: Swimming gets faster. As the audience starts cheering, the Arena logo and payoff appear.

Advertising Agency: Lowe Pirella Fronzoni
Creative Director: Francesco Bozza, Umberto Casagrande
Copywriter: Andrea Stanich
Art Director: Pietro Lorusso
Production Company: First Floor Films
Year: 2008
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Nat Geo Adventure Channel – TAXI

Advertising Agency: AM Newton 21, Rome
Creative Director: Luca Maoloni, Gabriella Ambrosio
Copywriter: Gabriella Ambrosio
Art Director: Luca Maoloni
Production Company: Mercurio SPQR, Rome
Director: Brecht Vanhoenacker
Year: 2008
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Freddy Sportswear – DIVING/100 METRES

Freddy: official sponsor of the Italian athletes at the Beijing 2008 Olympic games. “Freddy Olimpiadi” project: Three movies featuring three Olympic athletes: Elisa Santoni for rhythmic gymnastics, Simone Collio for the 100 metres sprint, Tania Cagnotto for 3m diving. The idea of all movies is that athletes “gamble” their whole life during their Olympic performance. In these movies, the athletes’ stream of consciousness replaces their body, and is represented through various animation techniques. The claim “Olympic games performed by Freddy” gives the Freddy point of view on Olympic Games: an artistic and performing exploration on the movement theme.

Advertising Agency: 1861 United
Creative Director: Pino Rozzi, Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Stefania Siani
Art Director: Federico Pepe
Production Company: (h) Films, Milan
Director: Bill Barluet/Tommaso Cariboni
Year: 2008
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Freddy Sportswear – RITHMIC GYMNASTICS

What do the Olympics mean for an athlete? In the Olympics, an athlete puts his whole life at stake in few, decisive moments, and unique sensations hide in each move. The flow of thoughts and emotions felt by the athletes is visualized in a surprising, striking way: the bodies of the protagonists themselves become veritable art installations, made by objects which represent the thoughts and feelings flowing through the athletes during their main performance, and become bodies again at the end. A celebration of movement, in the legendary background of the Olympics, original and spectacular, following the artistic orientation which is typical of the brand: the ‘Olympic Games performed by Freddy’.

Advertising Agency: 1861 United
Creative Director: Pino Rozzi, Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Stefania Siani, Luca Beato
Art Director: Federico Pepe, Micol Talso
Photographer: Lorenzo Vetturi
Year: 2008
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San Raffaele Hospital – VIDEOGAME

We are in a “Doom” like video game. We see through the eyes of the player who runs after a very fast-footed enemy. Running along a corridor, climbing up some stairs the player stops to get his breath back. He now comes to some more stairs but decides not to climb them. He’s tired out and looks at his belly. We now realise he’s an obese child. Line: ‘Video games are one of the principal causes of child obesity. Encourage children to play outside’.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Creative Director:Pietro Maestri, Bruno Bertelli
Copywriter: Bruno Bertelli
Art Director:Cristiana Boccasini
Production Company: Fargo Film, Milan
Director: Gaetano Vaudo
Year: 2008
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Gasser (Grandi Salumifici Italiani) – BLACK SUIT/TEXAN

Advertising Agency: TBWA/Italia
Creative Director: Fabrizio Russo
Art Director: Cristina Baccelli
Copywriter: Sara Ermoli
Photographer: Winkler & Noa
Year: 2008
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Volkswagen (Passat Business with integrated DVD) – TEXTILE FACTORIES/PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

Advertising Agency:DDB, Milan
Creative Director: Vicky Gitto
Art Director: Cristina Marcellini
Copywriter: Vicky Gitto
Year: 2008
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Par 5 (Fashion Sportswear) – DOOR

Advertising Agency: DDB, Milan
Creative Director: Vicky Gitto
Art Director: Hugo Gallardo Dominguez
Copywriter: Vicky Gitto
Year: 2008
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Yamaha Marine – PLANE

A white stripe cuts through a sky that’s as blue as the deepest sea. It looks like a jet, the world’s fastest moving object. But the profile of an island tells us the blue is actually the sea, and the white spray comes from a boat outfitted with an engine with a unique power, the new Yamaha F350. In a page with a strong, guaranteed impact, all the strength of an engine which can unleash the world’s highest power, like the title says. And which can take the driver above everything, above anyone else.

Advertising Agency: 1861 United
Creative Director: Pino Rozzi, Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Laura Cattaneo
Art Director: Giorgio Cignoni
Year: 2008
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MUF (National Comics Museum) – SCREAM

To convince the target that “culture” is not just about established museums or traditional exhibition.
Comics can have the dignity of traditional art forms.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri
Copywriter: Bruno Bertelli, Paolo Cesano
Art Director: Cristina Boccassini, Flavio Mainoli
Year: 2008
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Nokia Nseries – INCURSION

At the cinema when the lights are off, the audience stop talking and concentrates on the screen. That’s the best moment to catch their attention. Nokia wanted to do more: they wanted to talk about the new interactive-based phone (music, games, and movies) with an interactive spot, and let the cinema audience experience how an incursion that mixes real life and cinema screening can be exciting and surprising.

Nokia N81 is a mobile phone able to entertain you with a videogame, to make you watch a beautiful movie, to be your own camcorder, to let you listen to your favourite music. Everywhere and every time, it can interact with your reality, taking you where you prefer. That’s because Nokia N81 chooses an interactive spot to communicate and let the cinema audience experience how an incursion that mixes real life and cinema screening can be exciting and surprising. Interaction is the key word for this target. Smart people, in love with technology, in love with excitement and surprise. The spot was on air for four weekends during a month. We are not able to give any business results.

Advertising Agency: Grey, Milan
Creative Director: Francesco Emiliani
Copywriter: Claudia Bavelloni, Francesca Andriani
Art Director: Daniele Dagrada, Stefano Fantini
Production Company: Filmaster, Milan
Director: Alessandro Cattaneo
Year: 2008
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ADMCOM (Self Promotion) – YOC-BOX

The agency aimed at finding an innovative self promotional way to make prospective clients experience its degree of creativity. At the same time, the agency wanted to give life to a highly engaging initiative able to convey the philosophy that animates it. The agency created the “Year Of Creativity_Box”, an original self promotional initiative meant to stimulate people to reinvent themselves every day. It contains 366 illustrated business cards which show 366 different, imaginative professions (one per day in 2008), all of them addressed to the person who receives the box. The operation has already earned the agency a considerable set of prospects’ contacts. So far, 300 YOC_BOXES have been sent and they have generated the acquisition of three new clients.

Advertising Agency: ADMCOM, Bologna
Creative Director: Maurizio Cinti
Copywriter: Silva Fedrigo, Massimiliano Pancaldi
Art Director: Manuel Dall’Olio
Year: 2008
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Shoestring Tour Operator – WILD THERAPY

WHO IS SHOESTRING?
Shoestring is a tour operator that offers an unconventional way to travel in the most adventurous places on the planet.

WHAT IS THE WILD THERAPY?
Four bored, tired and depressed animals need help because they’ve lost their wild life. They just can’t stand “holiday-village-tourists” and miss people who love the real adventure. Enjoy the analysis sessions of these animals to get why they need the Wild Therapy. click here for the project

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Rome
Creative Director: Guido Cornara, Alessandro Orlandi
Copywriter: Antonio Di Battista, Laura Sordi
Art Director: Manuel Musilli
Year: 2008
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Flora by Gucci Fragrance – GUCCI FLORA

The commercial focuses on the nature of the scent. Model Abbey Lee, surrounded by endless field of pink flowers, gently inhales the fragrance from a single flower. She is caressed by the scent as she in turn sensuously conducts and manipulates it through the field. Her movements become ever more hypnotic as the intensity increases, until the final rush overwhelms her completely and her dress bursts into an intensely beautiful butterfly effect of fabric, light and petal.

Advertising Agency: REM Ruini & Mariotti, Rome
Creative Director:Riccardo Ruini, Chris Cunningham,
Production Company: RSAFilms, London/Filmaster, Milan
Director: Chris Cunningham
Year: 2009
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Baci Perugina – FROM GIOVANNI TO DONGIOVANNI

Baci Perugina is one of the most important brands of chocolate in Italy, belonging to the Nestlè Group. To capitalise on Baci Perugina’s awareness during the period around Valentine’s Day, it was decided to make an integrated campaign able to get people talking using the only language that has always distinguished Baci Perugina: love. The idea was an impossible love story born online between the shy Giovanni and his beautiful neighbour Gaia.
The plot: Gaia says to Giovanni that if 50,000 people would ask her to kiss him, she will do. So Giovanni makes a video, loads it on YouTube and opens a group on Facebook asking for help. Baci Perugina doesn’t come into the scene from the beginning, but it figures as an “independent supporter” of Giovanni’s initiative. At the end 50,000 mails arrive and Gaia has to kiss Giovanni. 8 videos show the big moments of the story.

The campaign was planned on different media: viral videos, the community engagement through YouTube, Facebook and the Perugina community, an interactive outdoor and a local event.

People soon became fond of the story. In 10 days it has been recorded: 50,000 mails, 151,841 visitors to the Baci Perugina site, 26,678 contacts on YouTube, 5,400,000 impressions on MSN, Sales + 11% in an a-8 market. Giovanni’s story was spontaneously talked about on TG1, the most important national TV news.

Advertising Agency: Armando Testa, Turin
Creative Director: Maurizio Sala, Marco Faccio
Copywriter: Nicola Lampugnani, Francesco Milanesio
Art Director: Francesco Guerrera
Production Company: Little Bull, Turin
Director: Augusto Storero
Year: 2009
Gold Lion

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Loctite Super Attak – WOOD/PLASTIC

Advertising Agency: DDB, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Vicky Gitto
Copywriter: Alessandro Mian
Art Director: Ricard Valero
Photographer: Andrea Melcangi
Year: 2009
Silver Lion for the campaign

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Coca-Cola Italia – ILLUMINA LA CITTA’

Insights, Strategy & the Idea
The 2008 campaign has a new claim “Light up Christmas with a Coca-Cola emotion”. The challenge was to revitalize and further amplify “light up” communication code with innovative activations.
The insight that sparked the idea was drawn from the fact that media at the time was focusing on urban security concerns following an apparent wave of street crime. Dark winter streets were the symbol of this feeling – and large city administrations were putting a lot of effort into bringing light to their citizens. Coca-Cola could leverage this initiative and add joy and positivity to the initiative, by lighting up an urban vehicle (a tram) in the fashion of the traditional Coke Truck – which would navigate the streets at a peak moment in pedestrian.

Creative Execution
In order to illuminate Milan, Coca-Cola has chosen an urban transport icon, the tram – also, supporting the public transport service as a mean of higher security in a traffic-intense part of the year.
Historic trams were converted into branded cable-cars of white light, spreading brilliance through the streets and serve as an iconic image for both the advertiser and the city.
The cars toured the central area of Milan, spreading its positive message with the further support of actual Santa Clauses on board, distributing branded Christmas gifts at every stop. The Coca-Cola logo was highlighted at the head of the car, associated with holiday wishes from the Municipality. Adding a signal of social responsibility, the project was also engineered using low energy technology.
The project was announced in a press conference that also featured prominent Italian political figures including a Minister and the Mayor of Milan.

Results and Effectiveness
Even amongst the already sparkling Christmas decorations of the city, the tram had an extremely positive impact on passers-by and passengers. Immediate reactions captured on the spot clearly show the deep success that this initiative had in enhancing the overall Christmas atmosphere.
Also, due to its public component – as it involved local authorities and the support of their efforts in improving the life and aspect of the city – the action enjoyed a wide resonance and PR support, ranging from publicly expressed commendations from political personalities and the mayor, to press coverage, to word-of-mouth through the population of Milan.

Advertising Agency: Starcom Italia/JWT, Milan
Strategic Director: Alessio Fattore
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri/Bruno Bertelli
Art Director: Cristiana Boccasini/Amedeo Pancella
Year: 2009
Bronze Lion

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BWIN (Online Poker) – POKER ISLAND

Insights, Strategy & the Idea
Online poker was legalized in Italy in September 2008. Due to widespread publicity, offline poker grew from 480,000 players in 2007 to 970,000 in 2008. Online poker is estimated to grow to 4.3 million as legalization welcomes more less-talented players.
Bwin is the world’s largest online gaming organization offering 30,000 daily bets in over 90 sports. But Italy’s marketplace was flooded with competition well ahead of Bwin. Our challenges were to promote Bwin poker and recruit gamers with a budget much smaller than the competitors.
We targeted young men 18-34 who play poker regardless of skill and who use the Internet to find deals, buy tickets and make purchases. They get a kick from testing their skills, but what really seduces them is the lure of the bluff and the glamour associated with the poker world. We gave them the chance to learn from pros and play big style in paradise.

Creative Execution
We developed an online tournament – Bwin Poker Island Challenge – that became a casting call for a chance to play on the ultimate stage: a Mediterranean villa on an island paradise, complete with an infinity pool.
We turned the challenge into a hit reality TV show Poker Island. TV cameras followed the eight finalists on their exclusive championship weekend, transforming them into stars of their own poker program. Six one-hour episodes were part of Sky Italia’s sports schedule.
During the day players battled it out for the final prize of a spot in the reputed Aussie Millions Poker Championship. But at night they played hard enjoying adventures, nightlife and the in-house chef.
Our unique online/offline tournament was promoted through TV, Internet and print. Poker Island aired December 5th, 2008 – January 12, 2009 as Bwin’s logo maintained maximum visibility throughout the program and on all TV guides.

Results and Effectiveness
“Our gamble paid off. The event generated a huge presence both on main and niche poker sites as well as online TV guides and stations covering poker tournaments: • 720,000 impressions, 70% men • Viewers spent an average of 20 minutes engaging with the brand • Players in qualification tournament 8 times over forecast and beyond year’s end target • Market share almost doubled with 2% share of investment vs. competition • The Poker Island audience was 62% higher than the SkySport average”

Advertising Agency: Arnold Worldwide Italy/MPG Italia
Strategy/Development: Guido Surci
Executive Creative Director: Maurizio Maresca
Creative Director: Alessandro Sabini/Paolo Troilo
Year: 2009
Bronze Lion

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New Zoogami Beer – CONTEPORARY BEER

Zoogami releases a new beer and wants to position it as a modern product that follows the evolutions of the world in which we live. This is the Contemporary Beer project, born to explain, in a completely revolutionary way, what happens in the world in real time. Clic here for launch the site

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Roma
Creative Director: Agostino Toscana/Alessandro Orlandi
Art Director: Manuel Musilli
Copywriter: Antonio Di Battista
Year: 2009
Bronze Lion

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MUF (Comics National Museum) – THE BILL/THE WAKING UP/THE SHOT

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Pietro Maestri
Art Directors: Cristiana Boccassini, Flavio Mainoli
Copywriters: Bruno Bertelli, Paolo Cesano
Illustrator: Manlio Truscia
Year: 2009
Bronze Lion for the Outdoor campaign
Bronze Lion for Press campaign

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Stay slim, drink low fat milk – PARMALAT

A boy, coming out of a trailer, greets his parents, relatives and friends who are inside. The boy while drinking a glass of Parmalat milk arranges with friends how to spend the evening. Little by little we see that the trailer is overcrowded. The boy is cycling away when from the inside of the trailer the people scream at him to close the door.

Advertising Agency: Publicis, Milan
Creative Director: Luca Scotto Di Carlo, Vincenzo Gasbarro
Copywriter: Luca Scotto Di Carlo
Art Director: Vincenzo Gasbarro
Production Company: Les Enfants Creative Productions
Director: Vincenzo Gasbarro
Year: 2009
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Auditorium – HEINEKEN

Our consumers (focus: males 18-24) are getting older, duties and responsibilities put at risk their sacred beer moments with friends.
We needed to make our target perceive Heineken as the closest brand to the beer drinkers, making them live an amazing and unconventional brand experience.

To convey the brand position (the entertaining beer) and make our target experience how important is preserving their beer moments with friends, we created a trap for 1000 ACMilan Fans. On the same evening of the match Real-Madrid vs Milan, we brought them to a fake event mixing poetry and classical music. We used 200 our accomplices that, provided with invitation card sponsored by Heineken, persuaded our victims to skip the match and go to the concert. Heineken would have never let its target miss the game, that’s why after 15 mins of concert, we revealed the trap and let the audience join the match on a huge screen.

This promo brought a very high brand awareness increment. TV news, newspaper and blogs widely spoke about the event and it definitively empowered the image of the brand even against its competitor. 1000 victims directly experienced it at the Auditorium, 6 million people saw it live on TV, other million people read about it on the news or on the web the days after.
Even after several months, people keep on talking and making buzz about this event that had a very strong impact on our target.

Promoting the Heineken sponsorship with UEFA Champions League through an event definitively unconventional for beer drinkers has been an innovative way to involve our target and create an immediate activation. The main objective of a Promo is finding a relevant and engaging for the target. The reward here has been an amazing entertaining experience, totally consistent with the brand philosophy and with the target aspiration.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri, Bruno Bertelli, Cristiana Boccasini
Copywriter: Cristiano Tonnarelli
Art Director: Marco Viganò
Production Company: Les Enfants Creative Productions
Year: 2010
6 Gold Lions ( 1 Outdoor, 1 Media, 2 Promo, 2 PR)
1 Silver Lion (Direct)
1 Bronze Lion (Direct)

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Beer Gloss – HEINEKEN

Describe the objective of the promotion
The objective of Heineken Valentine’s day is to transform this frightening date, impossible to avoid and not made for beer drinkers, into an occasion to meet its consumers in an entertaining way.

Describe how the promotion developed from concept to implementation
Valentine’s day is a date without friends and beer: guys are forced to go out with girlfriends, have a romantic dinner drinking wine and champagne (everything but the beer) and buy useless gifts. To transform Valentine’s day in a beer day and makes happy our consumers, we created and launched the Beer gloss, the first beer flavoured lip gloss. In this way we offered beer drinkers an entertaining brand experience for Valentine’s day: a real long delightful beer taste on the mouth.

Describe the success of the promotion with both client and consumer including some quantifiable results
Beer Gloss was sold out in two weeks and in a few days the news about this product turns all over the world through social network, blogs and forums. The Beer Gloss excited 14 million people on the web. On February 14th more than 15.000 beer glosses were offered in pubs, universities and stores.

Explain why the method of promotion was most relevant to the product or service
We launched the Beer gloss through a communication campaign (video on the web-press and outdoor, banner) with two objectives: 1) sale the product online, on the site ayswuvalentine.com; 2) distribute it in all the places where the target use to be(pubs, universities, restaurants) to give them an entertaining brand experience. In this way in a short period the Beer Gloss became for the guys the perfect gift for Valentine’s day.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri, Bruno Bertelli, Cristiana Boccasini
Copywriter: Elisa Binda
Art Director: Vito La Brocca, Andrea Farina
Production Company: Les Enfants Creative Productions
Year: 2010
2 Bronze Lion

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ING Direct – BUS

Happy Clients bringing new clients. The idea comes straight from this insight: a number of human interactive billboards built around town to let real clients dialogue with potential clients passing by. No filters, no bank involved, just a real questions/real answers game between real people. We asked real clients to be the actors of our ad because, to say it the ING way: “Our clients ARE our best advertising”. The first human billboards. Normal people asking, real clients answering.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Enrico Dorizza, Sergio Rodriguez
Copywriter: Santiago Saiegh
Art Director: Corrado Cardoni, Luca Zamboni
Production Company: Mercurio Cinematografica
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Year: 2010
Silver Lion

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ING Direct – The Human Billboard

Insights, Strategy & the Idea
ING Direct is a very popular web bank which changed the category’s business model. They pioneered a new way to handle relationship with their clients by providing an incredibly easy and user- friendly digital platform. A research discovered that ING source of business today more and more comes from their clients’ word-of-mouth. In other words, happy clients bringing new clients, most of them converting from traditional banks. This is where our idea comes from: a living number of interactive billboards where real clients could dialogue with potential clients passing.

Creative Execution
Around town some installations were set in order to become living point of contacts between people, with no bank involvement. Commercials were shot to amplify the word of mouth effect among existing and potential clients.

Results and Effectiveness
In a static environment ING managed to increase their clients base of a further 7%. Day after day, this number is increasing.

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Rolling Stones Magazine – LIFE ‘N ROLL

Over the last year the Italian political class has been overwhelmed by sensational scandals. The mayors of leading cities, regional governors and the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, have been implicated in scandals involving sex, prostitution, drugs and sleaze. They have taken over the role which has always been played by rock’n'roll legends. With this film, Rolling Stone invites rockers to take back what is theirs by right.

Advertising Agency: D’Adda, Lorenzini, Vigorelli, BBDO
Creative Director: Stefsania Siani, Federico Pepe
Copywriter: Stefania Siani
Art Director: Federico Pepe
Production Company: DIAVIVA, Reggio Emilia
Director: Marco Gentile
Year: 2010
Silver Lion

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VDO (Rear View Cameras) – CAMPER/TRUCK/VAN

Advertising Agency: DDB, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Luca Albanese, Francesco Taddeucci
Art Directors: Diego Mendoza
Copywriters: Maria Chiara Alegi
Illustrator: Winkler/Noah
Year: 2010
Silver Lion for the Press campaign

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MUF (Comics National Museum) – THE FART/THE LOOK-OUT/THE STRIP POKER

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IKEA – EASYCHANGE

We are in a small open space flat. A young man welcomes his best friend and they spend a pleasant afternoon watching football on TV, listening to music, playing mime, building a miniature ship. Finally they fall asleep in front of a documentary. After a while the friend jolts awake. He says he will be back tomorrow and leaves. Only now we discover that the burlier friend is actually a prison guard and the open space flat is a wonderfully decorated prison cell. We only see it because it has a prison door with bars and a lock. “It’s easy to change with Ikea!”

Advertising Agency: 1861 United, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Pino Rozzi, Roberto Battaglia
Copywriter: Francesco Poletti
Art Director: Serena Di Bruno
Production Company: Akita, Milan
Director: Maroni Sune/Nic Osborne
Year: 2010
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MIBAC – PUDDLE/ESCALATOR

From the 16th to the 25th April 2010 the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities promoted Culture Week, an exceptional nationwide event which opened the doors to all museums, archaeological sites, archives, libraries and public monuments to Italian and foreign citizens admission free. The video intends to play on the “free of charge” key concept, associating two images in a highly semantic and significant way: the first is ordinary and everyday-like, the second is characterized by an artwork of high prestige and artistic value. The close comparison of these two aims to emphasize how the opportunity of seeing these masterpieces is extremely precious and should not be missed.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Milan
Creative Directors: Agostino Toscana, Alessandro Orlandi
Deputy Creative Directors: Luca Lorenzini, Luca Pannese
Art Director: Luca Pannese
Copywriter: Luca Lorenzini
Year: 2010
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Rimmel – TRAIN/LIBRARY/AIRPORT

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Pietro Maestri, Bruno Bertelli, Cristiana Boccasini
Art Directors: Fabrizio Pozza
Copywriters: Francesco Muzzopappa
Year: 2010
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HEINEKEN – Cinema: Lady Violet’s Diaries

To remember our consumers that it’s always better going out with friends for a beer maintaining an easy going attitude than becoming adult and losing some sacred moment with friends, we trapped our consumers at the cinema, creating a singular event. Many beer drinkers were invited to the cinema for the opening of a new film: “Lady Violet’s Diary”. For the occasion we created a few minutes of a fake film based on a very long, romantic, paradoxical story. This film was showed at the cinema in one selected night. During the screening suddenly appeared the claim “Are you still with us?” to remember our consumer that fell in the traps that is always better stay with friend in an entertaining way. After that we offered to the audience the opportunity to watch an action movie (adapt for beer drinkers): G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Creative Director: Pietro Maestri, Bruno Bertelli, Cristiana Boccasini
Copywriter: Cristiano Tonnarelli, Michele Picci
Art Director: Marco Viganò
Year: 2010
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Coca-Cola light – TRIBUTE TO FASHION

Insights, Strategy & the Idea
Whose revolutionary spring collection caused a sensation at Milan Fashion Week? It was Coca-Cola Light.
Our 32, cutting-edge outfits dazzled the women of Milan, and brought all the credibility of the world’s top designers to our brand – in the very home of global fashion. With new Coke products and other rivals on the market, we urgently needed to refresh Coca-Cola Light’s connection with the lifestyles of 25-plus women. The brand had dabbled in the fashion world before. After all, nothing is more important to our target audience. Each year, Coca-Cola Light asked a designer to create a sleeve for a run of collectible bottles. But this time, we channelled the spirit of Milan. This would be no traditional marketing campaign. This would be the launch of a fashion collection. And we would fuse high fashion and public art in a spectacle that had never before been tried.

Creative Execution
We persuaded eight of the world’s top designers to create four slinky sleeves each for our bottles, and we unveiled the collection at a red-carpet event attended by the designers and the world’s press. It was the first time Milan’s mayor had allowed the Palazzo Reale to be used for a private event.
We dressed woman-size bottles, and showed them on the catwalk. Sotheby’s auctioned them off for charity. Footage of the show was used in 3-minute clips on television. And we printed a catalogue in postcard form and inserted it in fashion magazines.
And then we turned the collection over to the public. We exhibited giant bottles in prominent locations in Milan. In the windows of major fashion stores. In 2,000 temporary stores of our own across the country. And, extending our extraordinary partnership, in the boutiques of our eight designers themselves.

Results and Effectiveness
1Mio contour bottles were sold during the Milan Fashion Week in the PoS activations, and over 50,000 full-body sleeves in one week at the customised corner at La Rinascente alone. Media covered the launch event with 70 articles in 1 month, with an estimated yield of 48,000,000 impressions. According to Millward Brown trackings, vs. pre-campaign readings, brand awareness and purchase intent were up +10%, while brand attributes ‘It’s a cool product’ and ‘Trend-setting’ gained 30%. Moreover, 100,000 € were collected during the auction in favour of the earthquake victims.

Advertising Agency: BCube, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Francesco Bozza
Copywriter: Fabio Andreini, Pietro Putti
Art Director: Daniele Pancetti
Year: 2010
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Legambiente – CALENDAR

Challenges and key objectives
Legambiente wanted to remind people about the urgency of environmental issues with a gift. It needed to be memorable and to drive more traffic to the Legambiente website for more information on how individuals and corporations can implement or participate in environmental programmes.
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, which fell at Christmas time, Legambiente (the most important Italian environmental association) draws attention to recycling and responsible consumption with a gift.

Idea
We thought about the most common (and least expensive) gift that people give away every end of the year all over the world. The answer was: a calendar. After that, the question came: is it possible to recycle a calendar? Of course: every 28 years.
So we collected a number of 1982 calendars and stamped them 2010.

Results
Approximately 500 calendars were sent out. The recipients indicated that they thought the calendar was clever, practical, and useful. The client received many requests for other calendars and so we created a special insert on January magazines with a 1982 calendar. A copy text asked to the people to remove it and hang it on their wall. Website hits increased by approximately 400% during the two months after the mailers were delivered. During a telephone survey, many corporations indicated that they would like more information how they could implement recycling programmes in their offices.

Advertising Agency: EURO RSCG, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Giovanni Porro
Creative Directors: Dario Villa, Erik Loi
Copywriter: Michele Picci
Art Director: Luca Ghilino
Year: 2010
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Durex Lubrificant – CLUB CRASHER

Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Marco Cremona
Creative Director: Gaetano Del Pizzo
Copywriter: Marco Cremona
Art Director: Gaetano Del Pizzo
Year: 2011
Silver Lion

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Fitosonno Sleeping Tablets – TENNIS

Fitosonno is a natural product against sleep disorders, so it is not positioned as a classic sleeping pill (ie. a strong drug for chronic insomnia) but a natural aid for occasional sleep problems. One of the main causes of insomnia for those who don’t suffer from it acutely is incapacity to put day-to-day problems out of mind and relax. The product’s promise (“you can’t eliminate your problems but you can sleep well with them”) plays on the above mentioned insight and offers not only sleep but also peace of mind. This ad is being scheduled almost exclusively at night, to address a target that watches TV because they can’t get to sleep.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Pietro Maestri
Copywriter: Paolo Cesano, Bruno Bertelli
Art Director: Flavio Mainoli, Cristiana Boccasini
Production Company: DIAVIVA, Reggio Emilia
Director: Veronica Mengoli
Year: 2011
Bronze Lion

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Walt Disney Pictures – BIG ALICE

Advertising Agency: AUGE Headquarter, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Federica Ariagno, Giorgio Natale
Copywriter: Niccolò Bossi, Anita Rocca
Art Director: Davide Mosconi
Year: 2011
Bronze Lion

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Poste Italiane – BECAUSE I LIKE YOU

“Because I like you” is the story of Giovannino, a child who writes a love letter to his girlfriend. The voiceover of the child reading the letter plays and contrasts with the images. Giovannino’s voice tells us the child’s way of seeing love, enthusiastic and with no limits. The images show the life of an old postman, who despite his age keeps loving his wife with everyday care and attentions. The film ends with the image of the child’s letter, framed and lying on the old lady’s bedside table. We realize the child and the old postman are the same person. The falling in love has with time become true love.

Advertising Agency: CRIC, Milan
Creative Director: Clemente Di Muro, Davide Mardegan, Niccolò Dal Carso
Copywriter: Clemente Di Muro
Art Director: Davide Mardegan
Production Company: H-Film, Milan
Director: CRIC
Year: 2011
Bronze Lion

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Diesel – STUPID GLOCAL CAMPAIGN

Insights, Strategy & the Idea
BE STUPID adv campaign was planned all over the world, even in Italy. This is a copy-oriented campaign and, most of all, is in English. In Italy, only 20% of the population can speak English properly. The translation of the headlines in Italian wasn’t so cool…
In such a Global Era like this, Italian dialects sound great. So we decided to make the global Diesel campaign a global campaign.

Creative Execution
STUPID is a Latin word: in Italian it is STUPIDO, but most of Italian dialects pronounce it “STUPID” (sometimes “stϋpid”, sometimes “stupt” but the sound is quite the same). Then we played with the regional stereotype to define “the Smart”, that became “the Professor”, “the Doctor” and “the Pedantic”. We created titles which played with local common-sayings and cultural background. Each Italian city had its dialect posters.

Results
Lots of national and local newspapers, blogs and web-sites talked about the campaign. Some Major got angry…but web traffic (website and Facebook page) increased by 200% with 600,000 visits to the sites. People felt a big affection and pride for a campaign that spoke their own language.
The store traffic of the cities involved in the media planning increased by as much as 28% in the weeks following the campaign.

Advertising Agency: BCube, Milan
Executive Creative Director: Francesco Bozza
Associate Creative Director: Alessandro Sabini
Copywriter: Alessandro Sabini, Andrea Bomentre, Federico Bonenti
Art Director: Marco Cantalamessa, Andrea Marzagalli
Year: 2011
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CCSVI Multiple Sclerosis Charity – THE DISEASE JOURNEY

Brief
The campaign was born with the objective to make everyone know the new recent discovery made by the Italian doctor Paolo Zamboni about Multiple Sclerosis. We needed to make people experience the odyssey of the multiple sclerosis, letting them know that a revolutionary solution has been found. The NGO that committed this campaign wanted to address it to both to existing customers and to the new ones, engaging a direct relationship with them.

Creative Solution
Using the urls, we tell the forced itinerary of a patient through each failed attempt, from country to country, searching for a cure. We bought a domain for each line of the story, focusing the user’s attention on the url’s text. Using hypertextual links, we led the user to live this story, from site to site, getting to know the opportunity to improve Multiple Sclerosis symptoms. In the last url, the user can support the fundraising campaign and share it. An absolutely new experience in the cyber world of social communication, able to raise awareness through media less suited for scientific
information.

This is not a famous brand and we needed a simple and very incisive idea, able to emotionally involve every user and above all, able to communicate the feeling of a multiple sclerosis patient. Having no budget, we also needed a very low cost solution, strong enough to generate word of mouth. The originality is in the idea we found: we decided to use the URL filed. This allowed us to spend just 400 euros: the price of 30 domains websites. We promoted it on the social network, with the support of medicines, patients and supporters of the NGO. To all contacts of the “CCSVI in Sclerosis Multiple” Association, were sent an email that included a synopsis of the whole project and the link to the first URL. All were asked to share it with others.

Advertising Agency: Lowe Pirella Fronzoni, Rome
Executive Creative Director: Francesco Taddeucci, Luca Albanese, Laura Sordi
Copywriter: Marco Diotallevi
Art Director: Angelo Marino
Year: 2011
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First Floor Under Exhibition – PIRACY POSTER

Brief
Promote First Floor Under, a new born pop-vangarde culture magazine about design, photography, art direction, that also features a streaming radio.
Prove to all creative world that First Floor Under differs from every other blog by being socially relevant and taking action in real life. Usually blog publish ideas of other people, First Floor Under produces its own content.

Describe how you arrived at the final design
To introduce First Floor Under to the public, we designed an event, a real art exhibit, that other blogs have published, promoting directly our Blog.

Results
Locally people tagged themselves and tweeted about the exhibit, meanwhile the most popular ad and design blogs published and promoted our blog: First Floor Under.

Advertising Agency: TBWA/Italia
Executive Creative Director: Francesco Guerrera, Nicola Lampugnani
Copywriter: Mirco Pagano
Art Director: Moreno De Turco
Year: 2011
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Volkswagen Polo – Sell Your Car

Posted: March 8, 2012 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Best Use of Print, Car, Case History, Direct, Press/Outdoor, South Africa | Tags: Ambient, Cannes Lions, Case History, Chris Gotz, Direct, Ogilvy Cape Town, Polo, Sell Your Car, Volkswagen | Leave a comment »

The brief
The brief was to create a newspaper ad to advertise the desirable (yet affordable) Volkswagen Polo. Our research showed that when you see a Polo, you want one, so we targeted people in the market for a new car and placed our ad in the Motoring section.

The creative solution
Working off the “love at first sight” strategy, we ran a double-sided ad. The front set up the desire, while the back allowed a unique response. Using the ad helped readers to sell their current car, while at the same time helping us advertise the Polo. In effect, this symbiosis turned a print ad into an ambient one. Our expectation was that if just a small fraction of readers (even 1%) used the ad, it would extend the message of Polo’s desirability to a far wider audience than just that of the paper.
It was a simple, cheeky idea, asking people to get rid of their car upon seeing ours, and getting them to use their own vehicle to help punt the Polo – ideal for a brand that has always relied on simple, cheeky communication.

The results
The interaction between consumers and the ad turned car windows into a new media space. Our target market’s own cars (most of them competitor models like Toyotas and Fords) became mini billboards for the Polo’s sheer desirability. Furthermore, anecdotal evidence suggested that approximately 3% of readers used the ad – meaning that our simple, low-cost idea generated thousands of dollars in earned outdoor media.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy Cape Town, South Africa
Executive Creative Director: Chris Gotz
Creative Director: Chris Gotz
Art Director: Prabashan G. Pather
Copywriter: Sanjiv Mistry
Year: 2011
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Leo Burnett Iberia – Tura: the First Advertising Awarded Dog in the World

Posted: December 7, 2011 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Agency, Awards, Cannes Lions, Case History, Digital, Direct, Event, Promotion, Spain | Tags: cannes festival, Cannes Lions, Chacho Puebla, Leo Burnett, leo burnett iberia, Promotion, the first advertising awarded dog in the world, Tura | Leave a comment »

How can an agency showcase its work and awards without arrogance. In a business where egos sometimes seem too big for an agency’s well being, Leo Burnett wanted to proudly celebrate its work and performance without ever crossing the line into arrogance. Tura, a stray dog from the agency’s creative director seemed just the perfect fit for this task.

It’s a thin line between being arrogant and just plain informative, when one talks about his or hers agency’s awards and success. Leo Burnett Lisbon’s performance in the awards shows has been very successful. And it is no secret that the more creative an agency is, the better work it does and the more relevant and attractive it become in the eye of potential clients. Tura, the dog, became the right and genuine way of being able to say it all without ever crossing the line.

How? We named Tura, the dog, the agency’s creative director. And in every work submitted for an award, Tura was added. We also created a site, where one can see Tura hard at work picking ideas, concepts and displaying her awards. Tura, the dog, became an ambassador to the agency’s work. And with her as an integral part of our creative team, we were able to always talk about our creative work and results through the acts of a dog. The most creative dog in the world. Tura was further advertised via Direct mail, Dog USB Card with Agency Credentials, event and T-shirts.

Results: with over 5,000 views online Tura’s presentation video is a good example of this idea’s reach and success. Moreover, we have been approached through Tura’s site several times in the last year. Clients have been known to want to meet her in person. And as result, Tura, the dog is today the agency’s most popular spokesperson. And having received free press in trade magazines and online, the return in investment is above the norm in this market by far.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Iberia
Executive Creative director: Chacho Puebla
Creatives: Juan Christmann, Ricardo Toledo
Year: 2010

Honda – The story of Cog

Posted: October 13, 2011 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Cannes Lions, Car, Case History, UK | Tags: Accord, Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, Ben Walker, Cannes Lions, Cog, David Weiss, Der Lauf der Dinge, homages, Honda, Matt Gooden, parody, Partizan, Peter Fischli, Sugarhill Gang, the story of cog, TV/Film, Wieden+Kennedy | 2 Comments »

In 2002 Honda Motor Company was the number-three Japanese automobile manufacturer in the world, behind Toyota and Nissan. While Honda’s automobile sales in Japan and the United States were considered strong, sales in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe were thought to be weak, even though automobile production in the United Kingdom had been ongoing for a decade. Further, Honda vehicle sales had been declining in these regions since 1998. In response to these problems Honda hired ad agency Wieden+Kennedy’s London office to create an advertising campaign that would directly address the issues. ‘‘The Power of Dreams’’, released in 2002, was an omnipresent campaign in the United Kingdom and beyond, using television, direct mail, radio, posters, press, interactive television, cinema, magazines, motor shows, press launches, dealerships, postcards, beermats (coasters), and even traffic cones. It built upon Honda’s company slogan, ‘‘Yume No Chikara,’’ which was first endorsed in the 1940s by the company’s founder, Soichiro Honda. Translated into English, it meant to ‘‘see’’ one’s dreams. Wieden+Kennedy used this phrase as the basis of its question to consumers: ‘‘Do you believe in the power of dreams?’.

The global campaign, which centered on this tagline, included print and television components starring ASIMO, a humanoid robot developed by Honda. While the ASIMO ads gained widespread recognition, the 2003 television commercial called ‘‘Cog’’ was clearly a pinnacle of the campaign. In a single take with no special effects, more than 85 individual parts of the new Accord interacted in a complicated chain reaction.

Cog was first aired on British television on Sunday 6 April 2003. The full 120-second version of the advertisement aired only 10 times in all, and only in the 10 days after the initial screening. The slots were chosen for maximum impact, mostly in high-profile sporting events. The campaign was tremendously successful both critically and financially. The media reaction to the advertisement was equally effusive, with articles appearing in both broadsheets such as The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, and The Guardian.

The full version was then put aside in favour of a 60-second and five 30-second variations, which continued to air for a further six weeks. These shortened versions made use of newly-introduced interactive options on the Sky Digital television network. Viewers were encouraged to press a button on their remote control, bringing up a menu that allowed the viewer to see the full 120-second version of the advertisement. Other menu options included placing an order for a free documentary DVD and a brochure for the Honda Accord.

The DVD, which was also included as an insert in 1.2 million newspapers in the first week of the commercial’s rollout, contained a “making-of” documentary featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of the production process, a virtual tour of the Accord, the original music video to “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang, and an illustrated guide to all the parts shown in Cog. The interactive 30-second versions of Cog proved hugely successful. Over 250,000 people used the menu option, spending an average of two and a half minutes in the dedicated advertising area. A significant number watched the looped 120-second version for up to ten minutes. Of those who opened the menu, 10,000 requested either a DVD or a brochure, and Honda used the data collected from the interactive option to arrange a number of test drive.

The Script

Cog opens with a close-up on a transmission bearing rolling down a board into a synchro hub. The hub in turn rolls into a gear wheel cog, which falls off of the board and into a camshaft and pulley wheel. The camshaft swings around into the centre section of an mounted on top of an engine crankshaft assembly. The exhaust swings round and knocks into a series of 3 valve stems. The valve stems roll down a front bonnet placed on top of an alloy wheel rim, releasing an engine oil dipstick with a throttle actuator shaft on the end. The disptick flicks over an engine cam cover into a radiator.The radiator overturns, falling onto a wheel balanced on top of a water pump housing. This wheel rolls off and knocks into the first of a series of three weighted wheels, which roll up a ramp into brake disc. The disc falls onto a seatbelt which, using a suspension lower arm as a lever, pulls a rear seat back into an upright position. As it does so, the seat disturbs a front windscreen wiper blade attached to a pulley wheel. The wiper blade travels along a bonnet release cable and overturns a tin of engine oil. The tin empties its contents onto a lower shelf, which disturbs the balance of several valve springs against flywheel. The oil alters the balance enough to cause several of the springs to roll. The valve springs are slowed enough by the spilt oil to allow them to drop into a cylinder head assembly mounted on a seesaw constructed of a board placed on a rocker shaft and gear wheel cog. On the other end of the seesaw is a car battery. As the assembly drops, the battery is pushed into a cylinder block wired up to an engine fan. It completes the circuit, and the fan rolls across the open floor into an anti-lock braking system modulator unit. The modulator unit knocks a rear silencer box down a ramp and into a rear suspension link. The link pushes a transmission selector arm into a brake pedal loaded with a rubber brake grommet. The grommet launches into a tyre mounted on a front end assembly, knocking it off and onto a wire suspended between two brake discs. The wire pulls a con rod, rotating it into a cylinder liner. The liner rolls down an incline, slowed by another con rod, the electric window of a front door assembly, and a series of interior grab handles. It falls onto another battery, completing a circuit. The circuit powers a windscreen washer jet pointed at a windscreen. The automated water sensors in the windscreen activate a pair of wiper blades, causing them to crawl across the floor. The wipers release a handbrake lever keeping a quartet of suspended window panels in place. As the windows swing round, the resulting air draft knocks the liner panel of a rear tool tray into a rocker shaft, which rolls across the floor into a suspension coil spring. The collision causes enough of a vibration to knock a second shaft into a battery. This activates the Accord’s CD player (playing Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”). The vibrations from the car speakers shake a coil spring just enough to set it rolling off a rear tailgate glass panel, and onto a brake pedal. Once pushed, the pedal causes a set of rear shock absorbers to depress, pushing a polenoid onto a button on an ignition key. The button remotely closes the hatchback of an assembled Honda Accord on a brake-disc-mounted trailer. The closing of the door causes the weight of the car to shift enough to start it rolling down the slope to its final position in front of a tonneau cover with “Accord” printed on it, weighted with a wheel hub assembly. The piece closes with a voiceover from writer Garrison Keillor, who asks, “Isn’t it nice when things just work?”. The screen then cuts to a plain white background, where the Honda logo fades into the centre of the screen. The black text “The Power of Dreams” fades in shortly after the Honda logo has completely faded in.

The Making of

The Honda executives were intrigued, but demanded a cut using actual automotive parts before giving permission to go ahead with the full-scale projects. Once Cog was green-lit with a budget of £1 million, Gooden and Walker wasted no time in recruiting a London-based team to go through the logistics of the shoot in detail. The team, which comprised engineers, special effect technicians, car designers, and even a sculptor, spent a month working with parts from a disassembled Honda Accord before the design for the advertisement’s set was even finalised. Approval for the script took another month. Honda insisted that several specific Accord features, such as a door with a wing-mirror indicator and a rain-sensitive windscreen, appear in the final cut. The company planned to highlight these features in sales brochures. Antoine Bardou-Jacquet was brought on to direct the piece. Bardou-Jacquet was mostly known for directing several award-winning music videos.

Bardou-Jacquet wanted to compose the advertisement with as little computer-generated imagery as possible, believing that the final product would be that much more appealing to its audience. To this end, he set two months aside for the creation of hundreds of conceptual drawings detailing various possible interactions between the parts, and a further four months for practical testing and development. For the testing phase, the script was broken into small segments, each comprising only one or two interactions. Ideas deemed unworkable by the testing crew, such as airbag explosions and collisions between front and rear sections of the car, were abandoned, and the remaining segments were slowly brought together until the full and final sequence was developed. The final cut of Cog consists of two continuous sixty-second dolly shots taken from a technocrane, stitched together later in post-production.
Four days of filming were required to get these two shots, two days for each minute-long section. Filming sessions lasted seven hours and the work was exacting, as some parts needed to be positioned with an accuracy of a sixteenth of an inch. Despite the detailed instructions derived from the testing period, small variations in ambient temperature, humidity and settling dust continually threw off the movement of the parts enough to end the sequence early. It took 90 minutes on the first day just to get the initial transmission bearing to roll correctly into the second. Between testing and filming, 606 takes were needed to capture the final cut. The team commandeered two of Honda’s six hand-assembled Accords—one to roll off the trailer at the end of the advertisement, the other to be stripped for parts. While several sections of the early scripts had to be abandoned due to the total unavailability of certain Accord components, by the time production finished the accumulated spare parts filled two articulated lorries.

Cog needed only limited post-production work, as the decision had been made early on to eschew computer-generated imagery wherever possible. To further reduce the work required in post, Flame artist Barnsley from the post-production company The Mill, spent a lot of time on set during filming, where he advised the film crew on whether particular sections could be accomplished more easily by re-shooting or in post. Even so, the constant movement of the components on-camera made it difficult to achieve a seamless transition between the two 60-second shots. Several sections also required minor video editing, such as re-centering the frame to stay closer to the action, removal of wires, highlighting a spray of water, and adjusting the pace for dramatic purposes.

Plagiarism accusations

Shortly after Cog appeared on television, Wieden+Kennedy received a letter from Peter Fischli and David Weiss, creators of the 1987 art film “Der Lauf der Dinge”. The art film was well known in the advertising industry, and its creators had been approached several times with offers for the right to use the concept, but had always declined.

The letter pointed out several similarities between their work and Cog, and warned the agency that they were considering legal action on the basis of the “commercialisation and simplification of the film’s content and the false impression that [they] might have endorsed the use”. When interviewed by Creative Review magazine, the pair made clear that they wished they had been consulted on the advertisement, and that they would not have given permission if asked. Media publications quickly picked up the story, and asserted that Fishcli and Weiss were already in the process of litigation against the car manufacturer. Ultimately, Fischli and Weiss never filed a lawsuit against either Wieden+Kennedy or Honda UK, but their accusations continue to colour perceptions of the work within the advertising community.

Awards

Having swept the majority of award ceremonies within the advertising community to date, Cog was widely believed to be the favourite for the industry’s top award, the Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Cog held a disadvantage in that the chairman of the Cannes voting jury, Dan Wieden, was one of the founders of Wieden+Kennedy, the firm responsible for creating Cog; tradition holds that it is bad form for the chairman of the jury to vote for a piece by his or her own agency. Despite the lingering shadow of these accusations, Cog drew an unprecedented amount of critical acclaim. It received more awards than any commercial in history; so many that it was both the most-awarded commercial of 2004 and the 33rd-most-awarded commercial of 2003. The jury for the British Television Advertising Awards gave the piece the highest score of any commercial ever recorded; the jury’s chairman Charles Inge commented: “My own opinion is that this is the best commercial that I have seen for at least ten years.” After awarding Cog with several Silver awards, the president-elect of the D&AD Awards, Dick Powell, said of the piece: “It delights and entrances, [...] it communicates engineering quality and quality of thinking, and leaves you with a smile.”

The result at Cannes was a surprise; after the longest judging period in the festival’s history, the Grand Prix went to neither of the two event favourites. Instead, the jury awarded the prize to Lamp a U.S. advertisement directed by Spike Jonze for the IKEA chain of furniture stores. Chief among speculated reasons for the outcome was the plagiarism debate surrounding Cog. Ben Walker told “A couple of people on the jury told me the reason it didn’t win is ’cause they didn’t want to be seen to be awarding something which people in some corners had said we copied.”

Homages and Parody

The popularity and recognition received by Cog led a number of other companies to create pieces in a similar vein, either as homages, in parody, or simply to further explore the design area. The first of these was Just Works, a deliberate parody advertisement for the 118 118 Directory Assistance Service in the summer of 2003, in which the Honda parts are replaced with such oddities as a tractor wheel, a flamingo and a space hopper, although what makes this advertisement different is that the familiar 118 118 runners simply push the items forward to keep things going. Campaign magazine listed Cog, along with Balls for the Sony Bravia as one of the most-imitated commercials in recent times.

Advertising Agency: Wieden+Kennedy, London
Creative Director: Tony Davidson, Kim Papworth
Copywriter: Ben Walker
Art Director: Matt Gooden
Production Company: Partizan, London
Director: Antoine Bardou-Jacquet
Year: 2003

BETC Euro RSCG for Canal+ | Never underestimate the power of a great creativity

Posted: October 12, 2011 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Cannes Lions, Copywriting, France, Press/Outdoor, TV/Film | Tags: action, animated, Baker Smith, Benjamin Sanial, BETC Euro RSCG, black bands, Brokeback Mountain, bronze lion, Canal +, Canal pus, Cannes Lions, car bomb exploding, carlos, closet, David Troquier, Eric Astorgue, Flowchart, France, Fredrik Bond, funny, gold lion, Gregory Ferembach, Harvest, horror, huffing, Jean-Cristophe Royer, Les Graphiquants, Luc Rouzier, Mafia, March of Emperor, Matthijs van Heijningen, Nathalie Dupont, parody, Partizan, paul bearman, Pierre Riess, porn, Press, puffing, radical media, Raphael Halin, Romain Guillon, Santa Monica, silver lion, Stephane Xiberras, The bear, The Glue Society, the inclination, tick, trailer, TV/Film, Versailles, Visigoths, Wanda productions, Wilfrid Brimo, Xavier Gianolli | Leave a comment »

VISIGOTHS/BLACK BANDS
A spectacular battle scene between two tribes, featuring thousands of warriors. We are on a film set. The take has to be re-shot, which will help us understand why actors are so good at playing dead.
This is a humorous spot revealing that the black bands you often see within the television viewing box are actually created, they are not the filming format which has not been adapted to the televisio
Creative Director: Stephane Xiberras
Copywriter: Marc Rosier
Art Director: Jean Marc Tramoni
Production: Premiere Heure/Harvest, Santa Monica
Director: Baker Smith
Year: 2003
Shortlist

MARCH OF EMPEROR
March of the penguins but with actual emperor’s not emperor penguins.
Creative Director: Stephane Xiberras
Copywriter: Pierre Riess/Luc Rouzier
Art Director: Romain Guillon/Eric Astorgue
Production: @radical.media, New York
Director: Glue Society
Year: 2006
Gold Lion

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
A woman tells her friend about a really good film that she had seen on CANAL+ ‘Brokeback Mountain.’ From this description, her friend interprets a totally different, totally absurd, scenario.
Creative Director: Stephane Xiberras
Production Partizan, Paris
Director: Les Elvis
Year: 2007
Shortlist

HOLD UP

Creative Director: Stephane Xiberras
Copywriter: Nathalie Dupont
Art Director: Francis de Ligt
Production Company: Sonny PH
Director: Fredrik Bond
Year: 2008
Shortlist

VERSAILLES/MAFIA
We are taken back in time to a period film set in the Chateau de Versailles where the characters are all bizarrely huffing and puffing through their lines. Final scene cuts to a woman jogging, recounting the plot to another woman, and huffing and puffing as she recounts it. The signature reveals “CANAL+ Movies are made to be seen”
We see a stereotypical scene from a mafia movie where all the characters have a strange tick. Final scene cuts to a boy recounting the plot to his friend, constantly flicking his hair as he does so. The signature reveals “CANAL+ Movies are made to be seen”
Creative Director: Stephane Xiberras
Copywriter: Nathalie Dupont
Art Director: Francis De Ligt
Production Company: Irene, Paris
Director: Xavier Gianolli
Year: 2009
Shortlist

CLOSET
Canal+ launched its new ‘Original Creativity’ campaign in September 2009. The objective highlight to Canal+’s showcase of original programming, consisting of series, documentaries and fictions, created exclusively by and for Canal+, scripted by prestigious writers such as Olivier Marchal and Jean- Hugues Anglade. To launch this new campaign, we produced THE CLOSET. The film unites quality, humour, originality and a touch of impertinence inherent to the brand’s communications: ‘Never underestimate the power of a great story’.
Creative Director: Stephane Xiberras
Copywriter: Jean-Cristophe Royer
Art Director: Eric Astorgue
Production Company: Soixan7e Quin5e, Paris
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen
Year: 2010
Gold Lion and 2 Bronze Lions

THE INCLINATION (IPHONE)
The agency created a campaign that fits in with the advertising success story of Canal+: diving into the world of TV programmes with the now classic disrupting phenomenon, played out here through the characteristic functionalities of the iPhone. In the TV ad, it is the iPhoneʼs trademark tipping to the side into landscape format that completely disrupts the romantic scene of a great Hollywood film. A couple are about to kiss, when suddenly the entire set falls over to one side.
Creative Director: Stephane Xiberras
Copywriter: Benjamin Sanial
Art Director: Raphael Halin
Production Company: Moonwalk Film, Paris
Director: The Glue Society
Year: 2011
Shortlist

CARLOS

The trailer begins with a car bomb exploding. As the clip goes backwards we discover that the scene takes place in the middle of a tranquil Paris. Ending with a characteristic “Tick Tock” sound the trailer is designed to intrigue the viewer to watch the series and find out more about the character behind the bomb – Carlos – the terrorist who threatened the world. We wanted to pitch the right tone, a suitably sober approach across all media, to avoid controversy and to avoid falling into the trap of eulogising a character that is, after all, a murderer.
Creative Director: Stephane Xiberras
Copywriter: Charles Lefort
Art Director: Viken Guzel
Production Company: Wanda, Paris
Director: Wilfrid Brimo
Year: 2011
Bronze Lion

FLOWCHART CAMPAIGN: ACTION/ANIMATED/HORROR/PORN/SHORT FILM
Learn how to deal with tight budgets, hung over cameramen, actors not showing up and grumpy directors. TV Channel, Canal+ supports those who make movies simply because making a movie isn’t easy.

Executive Creative Director: Stéphane Xiberras
Creative Director: Olivier Apers
Art Directors / Copywriters: Gregory Ferembach, David Troquier
Illustrator: Les Graphiquants
Year: 2011
Silver Lion for the Campaign

THE BEAR

Canal+ has always been committed to cinema. It is more than a mere broad- caster. It has always sought to go the extra mile for its subscribers and portray the film industry as no one else has done: emphasising the diversity of the genres, deciphering current and future trends, empowering actors and directors, and in general, transmitting the passion of all those who work in the film industry to its subscribers.
Thanks to its varied and cutting-edge program- ming – from blockbus- ters to art films. Thanks to the unique, quality insight that it provides into what goes on in front and behind the camera. Thanks to the unique ties that it maintains with the film industry (Studio CANAL, partnerships, financing, Cannes Festival, the César awards, etc.).
Canal+ and BETC have now come up with a film, The Bear, to remind audiences of the channel’s continuing commitment: to transmit the passion of film- making to its subscribers.
The more you watch Canal+, the more you love cinema.
To make this film, BETC chose to work with Matthjis van Heijningen, who also directed The Closet, which was the most awarded film in 2010 (The Gunn Report).
The tone remains unique, enhanced by the use of 3D to make the bear as expressive as possible. The same creative team, which worked on The Closet, Éric Astorgue and Jean-Christophe Royer, under the supe vision of President and Chief Creative Officer of BETC, Stéphane Xiberras, once again contribute to the distinguishing tone that is so familiar about the ma- jor advertising campaigns of Canal+.

Global Creative Director: Stéphane Xiberras
Art Director: Eric Astorgue, Julien Schmitt
Copywriter: Jean-Christophe Royer
Production Company: Soixante Quinze
Director: Matthijs Van Heijningen
Year: 2011

Mercedes-Benz Sprinter – The Sprinter applies for a job

Posted: October 12, 2011 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Cannes Lions, Car, Case History, Direct, Germany | Tags: application, Arno Lindemann, Bernhard Lukas, Cannes Lions, Direct, Germany, letter, Lukas Lindemann Rosinski, Mercedes Benz, sprinter, the sprinter applies for a job, tires | Leave a comment »

The brief.
Develop an exclusive mailing campaign for major buyers of commercial vehicles, like fleet managers of big companies and present the Sprinter in a completely fresh and new way. 50% of the target audience was drawn from existing customers. The strategy was to keep the contact and the customer relationship on a very exclusive level and recruit potential customers for a test drive event.

The creative solution
The Sprinter is the one of the best workers a company could have. However, before you can work in a company, you have to apply for a job. So the Sprinter did: he writes his own letter application with special made tires. Each letter of application came with a link to a campaign micro site, providing video evidence that the Sprinter really had written the application itself. We raised the average response rates, because a real application letter will definitely find his way on the manager’s desk.

The creative execution
As already described: The Sprinter is as one of the best workers a company could have. And before you can work in a company, you have to apply for a job. So the Sprinter did: he writes his own letter application with special tires. But also the brand Mercedes-Benz could benefit from this completely new way of communication and strengthen its position as a innovative brand.

The Letter:

Dear Sir or Madam,
My name is Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, and I would like to apply for a position in your company.
I have extensive experience in the area of transport and logistics, with a 15-year track record of continuous personal development that makes me among the most reliable goods transporters around.
I am made by one of the best-known and most prestigious manufacturers in the industry, and have been engineered to deliver hundreds of thousands of kilometres of service.
My greatest strengths are my durability and my large capacity. I would welcome the opportunity to demonstrate my abilities to you in a test drive.
To find out more about me and what I can offer, and for proof that this application is all my own work, please visit www.sprinter-bewerbung.de.
Yours sincerely,
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter

The results
More than 400 letters were printed by a Sprinter. Every print was an individual creation. The cost per print is about 8 Euros. Ca. 120 of them was sent to the main commercial car buyers in a first flight. A second flight will follow. 39% of the recipients watched the video evidence online. Key Account Managers reported a much higher response quote especially in the face-to-face contacts.

Advertising Agency: Lukas Lindemann Rosinski, Hamburg
Executive Creative Director: Arno Lindemann, Bernhard Lukas
Creative Director: Thomas Heyen, Markus Kremer, Jakob Kriwat
Art Director: Markus Kremer, Damian Kuczmierczyk
Copywriter: Thomas Heyen
Designer: Victor Aloji
Director: Marc Bethke
Year: 2011
Silver Lion

This is not ADVERTISING

Only selected advertising

Why is it called “LION” if the ones who always win are “BEARS”?

Budget Car Rental – RANGER

John West – BEAR

Miller Lite Beer – BEAR

Duende Azul (Costume Shop) – BEAR

Alka Seltzer – BEAR

BIC/Tipp-Ex – A HUNTER SHOOTS A BEAR

BUND/Environmental Awareness – BROWN BEAR

BIC/Tipp-Ex - Hunter and Bear’s 2012 Birthday Party

Canal + – The Bear

Taxi Toronto for Viagra (Case History, 2002/2011) – If you want a Lion, talk to your doctor

Viagra (2002) – GOOD MORNING

Viagra (2003) – CHAMPIONS

Viagra (2005) – OFFICE/COACH/GOLF/ELEVATOR

Viagra (2007) – WOMBLEMINKI/WUBBLEFLAPS

Viagra (2008) – DENISE/VIVIAN/BOBBY/MICHELLE

Viagra (2009) – ANTIQUING/READING/STROLLING

Viagra (2011) – VIAGRA APOLOGIES

Almap/BBDO for Volkswagen Original Parts (1999/2012) – The Original Case History

Grasshopper/Caterpillar/Worm (1999)

Shirt Bottom (2000)

Ducklings/Grenade (2001)

Clone (2005)

Letters (2006)

Hook/Lifeguard/Parachute (2009)

Helmet/Baby Seat (2010)

Chinese/Meditation (2010)

I love You/Son You’re Adorable/Boss/It’s Not You (2011)

I love You/Boss/Melissa/Adopted (2011)

Chemical Formula (2011)

The Original Click (2012)

Febreze – Breathe Happy (Social Experiment)

Cannes Lions: Italian Advertising That Really Works (2001/2011)

MTV (Death Penalty Message) – MISTAKE

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FIAT (Seize the moment) – THE ARGUMENT/CHESS/AFTER HOURS

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Rexona Deodorant – BLIND

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The Face Post Production Company – NEED A POST FACILITY?

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GameBoy Advance – CLASSROOM

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Volkswagen Golf – REFLECTIONS

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Peugeot 206 – THE SCULPTOR

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BMW Adaptive Headlights – LIGHT

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Game Boy Advance – FOOTPRINTS/LIGHT SWITCH/ELEVATOR

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Mondadori – SEVENTY YEARS OF SOLITUDE

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Volkswagen for safety – TIES

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Harrison – SLIP/SHOE

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Dialogo nel buio Exibition – CASH DISPENSER/INTERPHONE/MANHOLE COVER

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Heineken – DOG

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Durex Condoms – SWIMMING POOL/ELEVATOR/SNOW

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Trony – THE HOLE

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Brunch Film Festival – LITTLE GUY

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SKY Sport – SKY SOCCER

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SKY Sport – INZAGHI

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SKY Movie – CHOCOLATE BAR/PIZZA/BEER CAN/BABY

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Downtown Gym Club – YELLOW SWIMSUIT/GREEN DRESS/BLUE LINGERIE

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E-Dentical.com – KEYTOOTH

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Hair Stylist Academy – DOR MAT