Title | V PAINTBALL |
Brand | FRUCOR BEVERAGES |
Product / Service | V ENERGY DRINK |
Entrant | COLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND |
Entrant Company: | COLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND |
Advertising Agency: | COLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND |
Name | Company | Position |
---|---|---|
Nick Worthington | Colenso BBDO | Executive Creative Director |
Aaron Turk | Colenso BBDO | Digital Creative Director |
Karl Fleet | Colenso BBDO | Deputy Creative Director |
Sam Dickson | Colenso BBDO | Art Director |
Graeme Clark | Colenso BBDO | Copywriter |
Gareth Collins | Clemenger BBDO Sydney | Group Account Director |
Tim Ellis | Colenso BBDO | Senior Account Director |
Cate Stuart-Robertson | Clemenger BBDO Sydney | Account Director |
Stefanie Robertson | Colenso BBDO | Senior Account Manager |
Shailei Forrester | Clemenger BBDO Sydney | Senior Account Manager |
Nigel Sutton | Colenso BBDO | Agency Producer |
James Hurman | Colenso BBDO | Planner |
Haydn Thomsen | Colenso BBDO | Digital Producer |
The Rumpus Room | Digital Production Company | |
Tony Whyman | The Sweet Shop | Producer (Production Company) |
Noah Marshall | The Sweet Shop | Director |
Human | Sound Design | |
Puck Murphy (Visual Effects) and Tim Mauger (Editor) | Perceptual Engineering | Post Production (Visual Effects Co.) |
Iaan Buchanan | Frucor Beverages Ltd | V Marketing Manager NZ |
Lesley Knight | Frucor Beverages Ltd | V Marketing Manager Australia |
We wanted to give ordinary people the energy to do extraordinary things. Not just show them but get them involved. Get them talking and interacting with the brand. So we built a 2 tonne, truck mounted paintball gun with 840 barrels that could create instant artwork on city walls. We filmed the gun in action for the TVC, which lead consumers to our site. Here the public could upload or create their own pieces of art with our virtual paintball gun. We then chose one of these pieces of art to be shot by the real gun at a live event in the middle of the Auckland CBD. This created massive media interest and provided a way for V consumers to interact with the brand up close and personal.
The TV ad became the most loved ad in New Zealand's history for our target audience (Colmar Brunton). 90% Spontaneous Awareness. RSVPs to the live hit - 2,789 people. Over 2000 consumer generated pieces of art were uploaded to our site. The live hit received coverage on all New Zealand mainstream media. Helped increase V's total sales and kept them atop of the energy drink market in New Zealand.
Teenagers are spending more and more time online and less time watching TV. It's getting harder for TV ads alone to gain the cut through. We managed to do this and created New Zealand's most loved ad of all time in the process. First we built a 2 tonne paintball gun with 840 barrels that could create instant art. We filmed it in action for a TVC that tipped into an online experience. People could play with a replica (an online gun) and create their own paintball art. One lucky person was then selected to have their artwork exploded out of the real gun in a live hit. This stunt was seen by thousands of people on the day and made all mainstream media channels. The machine was then taken around the country to increase visual and textual interest.