PRESIDENT’S CURRY

TitlePRESIDENT’S CURRY
BrandJIPANG CORPORATION
Product / ServicePRESIDENT’S CURRY
EntrantI&S BBDO Tokyo, JAPAN
Entrant Company:I&S BBDO Tokyo, JAPAN
Advertising Agency:I&S BBDO Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
Mari Nishimura I&S BBDO Creative Director/Planner/Director
Hitomi Yagi I&S BBDO Art Director
Peter Smyth I&S BBDO Strategic Officer
Yasuyuki Omagari Creative Director
Ryuichi Shirasawa Running Producer
Masaaki Niikawa Running Producer
Takeshi Ueda U2 Editor
Kazuhiro Matsushita U2 Mixer

The Campaign

The client was originally selling the curry Yamaguchi Tasteful Curry in a small town in Japan. They were struggling with sales growth so we changed their name to President Curry - we only sold the curry to someone with the title President. This unique idea created word of mouth, and the sales doubled.

Success of the Campaign

The uniqueness of the naming went viral among presidents as well as in society. As the awareness rose, the sales went up, bringing about a tangible change.

Describe how the campaign/entry was launched and executed across each channel in the order of implementation.

The secret is mechanism. We created a very strict system online that we only sold them to presidents. It led to the WOM marketing from one president to another. It also went viral on Twitter.