JCDecaux: Google Street View Unpaid Bills

A huge bill to your client make be the answer to get that meeting you wanted. This is what JCDecaux together with BBDO Belgium did. They sent 53 of Belgium’s biggest advertisers a framed picture of their campaign on Google Street view. They attached a letter and a detailed invoice to inform them that their billboard had been visible on Google Street View for years and years without being paid for. Instead of paying of course they just asked from the advertisers a meeting, so they could listen to their sales team about the digital technologies they provide.

Credits
Agency: BBDO, Belgium
Creative Director: Arnaud Pitz & Sebastien De Valck
Art Director: Toon Vanpoucke
Copywriter: Morgane Choppinet
Account Supervisor: Isabel Peeters
Advertiser Supervisor: Veerle Colin (JCDecaux)

McDonald's: Save the Sundae Cone

A giant billboard with a melting McDonald's Sundae Cone was placed in the middle of Bukit Bintang, one of the most famous shopping districts in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. People could use their smartphones and spin the fan on the billboard to bring down the temperature, stop the melting and receive a 10 minutes voucher for a free Sundae Cone. Funny, interactive and relevant to the product. Nice work.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Executive Creative Director: Eric Cruz
Creative Director: Iska Hashim
Creative Group Head: Eaide Jasli, Mukund Olety
Digital Art Directors: Pavel Flegl, Benjamin Encarnacion
Technical Director: Reza Rosli
Project Manager: Chan Lik Win
Flash Developer: Delexander Lai
Content Engineer: Loo Giap Ching
Digital Designer: Buboy Paguio
Agency Producer: Iskander Siva
Photographer: Staek Photography
Production House: Directors Think Tank

Yaocho: The Sleeping Drunks Billboard

This stunt will make all drinkers in Tokyo to think twice before they drink. There is a big problem in Japan with thousands of people who drink till they drop and sleep on the street. To address the problem of Drunk Sleeping, the bar chain Yaocho with the help of Ogilvy & Mather and Geometry Global, turned sleeping drunks into human billboards against excessive drinking. All they needed was duck tape, printed headlines, logos and a hashtag. See the case study.

Credits:
Advertsing Agencies: Ogilvy & Mather Japan/Geometry Global Japan
Chief Creative Officer: Ajab Samrai
Creative Directors: Yasuhito Imai, Federico Garcia
Copywriter: Federico Garcia
Art Director: Junkichi Tatsuki
Production Company: Babel Label
Director: Kentaro Shima

Heineken‏: The Better Halves

You have half of the ticket for the Champions League Final. Would you ask your better half to perform the Champions League anthem live to get you the other half? That’s what Heineken and the digital advertising agency NEXT-DC asked Bulgarian fans and the answer was positive.

62 wives and girlfriends took the stage all because of their men and their passion for the game. Custom hardware and voice recognition software detected the three performances that were closest to the timing of the original anthem. They were awarded with the second half of the ticket and a seat at the Final.

Credits:
Digital Creative Agency: NEXT-DC, Sofia, Bulgaria
Chief Creative Officer: Maria Todorova
Creative Director: Momchil Zakhariev
Art Director: Kamen Kamenov
Interactive Design Director: Alexander Antonov
Copywriter: Momchil Zakhariev
Head of Digital: George Yanakiev
Digital Project Manager: Ivan Ralchev
Development Team: Andrey Popov, Stanislav Aleksiev, Velislav Valov
Account Management Team: Dessy Vekilska, Hristo Petkov, Monika Simeonova

Nestea revives Nestea Plunge campaign

In the revival of the classic “Plunge” campaign that ran from the Seventies through the Nineties, a stranded musician is found wandering in the desert. After grabbing a cold Nestle, he plunges backward into water and is quickly transported to a concert where he has become a crowd-surfing star.

The new advertising campaign, created and produced by Publicis Hawkeye, is brought to life through print, television and online advertisements. The campaign pays homage to Nestea’s classic ad spot while reinterpreting it in an energetic and contemporary way, appealing to new users and long-time Nestea fans alike.

To further support the product relaunch, the brand will offer a “Nestea Plunge Into Summer” sweepstakes beginning on June 2nd with chances to win a variety of prizes throughout the summer.

Credits:
Agency: Publicis Hawkeye

Water is Life: The drinkable book

The drinkable book is a revolutionary and life saving idea. It filters water and teaches proper sanitation & hygiene to those in the developing world. Each book is printed in two languages on technologically advanced filter paper, capable of killing deadly waterborne diseases. Each page is coated with silver nanoparticles, whose ions actively kill diseases like cholera, typhoid and E. coli.

Once water is passed through the filter, bacteria count is reduced by over 99.99%, making the filtered water comparable to tap water in the United States of America.

The paper costs only pennies to produce, making it by far the cheapest option on the market. Each filter is capable of giving someone up to 30 days worth of clean water. And each book is capable of providing someone with clean water for up to 4 years.

Credits:
Client: Water is Life
Chief Creative Officer: Matt Eastwood
Executive Creative Director: Menno Kluin
Group Creative Director: Andrew McKechnie
Head of Design: Juan Carlos Pagan
Associate Creative Director: Sam Shepherd
Associate Creative Director: Frank Cartagena
Senior Designer: Brian Gartside
Designer: Aaron Stephenson

Director/Editor: Kyle McMorrow
Producer: Nina Horowitz
Head of Integrated Production: Ralph Navarro
Head of Production: Ed Zazzera

Chemist: Dr Theresa Dankovich
Biochemical Engineer: Corinne Clinch

Printer: Jamie Mahoney, Bowe House Press
Binding and 3D: Peter Ksiezopolski, xweet
3D Printing: Morpheus Prototypes

Principal typeface used: Knockout, Hoefler & Frere-Jones

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Paw Justice: Animal Strike

An animal strike that changed a law. Paw Justice with the help of DDB New Zealand collaborated with Google and YouTube and blocked videos with animal content in order to make people sign a petition to force the goverment to change a law that allowed legal-highs to be tested on animals.

The insight was simple. People love to see entertaining videos of animals online. So a nationwide block of these videos would definitely spread the word.

Street posters, print ads, TVCs and billboards, where also used in the campaign, along with a website with the petition and a strike toolkit with all the files needed for the public in order to upload then to their social media profiles, YouTube channels and websites to block their own animal content.

This incredible collaboration made the Prime Minister John Key announce that there will be no further testing of legal-highs on animals in his country.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: DDB, New Zealand