#RADIORETWEETS

Title#RADIORETWEETS
BrandTHE JAPAN COMMERICAL BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION
Product / ServiceTHE JAPAN COMMERICAL BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION
CategoryA02. Use of Audio Platforms
EntrantDENTSU Tokyo, JAPAN
Entrant Company DENTSU Tokyo, JAPAN
Advertising Agency DENTSU Tokyo, JAPAN
Production Company SPAREPOCKET Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
Wataru Yamamoto DENTSU INC. Creative Director
Kazuyoshi Ochi DENTSU INC. Communication Planner / Copywriter
Kenta Orisaka DENTSU INC. Art Director
Satoshi Kuno SparePocket Inc. Production Producer
Tetsuya Uno northshore Web Art Director
Yoshimi Nagae northshore Web Designer
Masaru Hosokawa northshore Technical Director
Reach Imazeki northshore Technical Director
Tomoko Namiki northshore Technical Director
Koji Kotani northshore Front End Engineer
Mayuu Ochi northshore Front End Engineer
Hiroyuki Kimura Fores System Engineer
Takashi Shikano Fores System Engineer
Hashikura Atsushi northshore Production Producer
Inokuchi Ayaka northshore Production Manager
Jun Oshita DENTSU INC. Media planner
Takachi Nisiyama DENTSU INC. Media planner
Ryoichi Kimura OFFICE HIGUCHI, Inc. Production Producer
Yuushi Miyagawa OFFICE HIGUCHI, Inc. Music Composer
Chihiro Adachi OFFICE HIGUCHI, Inc. Singer

Brief Explanation

With the increasing pressure of digital media, the Japanese radio industry has been shrinking and empty ad space has become unable to ignore. Finding a way to revitalize the radio media, particularly aimed towards the younger generation, has become a necessity. Since about 70% of ad space is not filled, we utilized it and opened ad space to the public.

Results and Effectiveness

Thousands of tweets arrived, which led to all kinds of messages being broadcast nationwide. Through this project, Japan’s younger generation has started to rediscover the radio medium. In addition, ad spaces intended for commercial advertisements changed into private messages, taking the empty air and turning it into a social tool.

Creative Execution

We opened up 202,780 seconds worth of ad space to the public. In other words, more than 10,000 20 seconds spots. Value of ad space used: 2 million dollars. (Media budget: Zero) 101 radio stations from all over Japan have joined this project.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

We fused digital media and traditional media together to bring young target attention to radio. With the help of radio stations around Japan, we have made the empty ad spaces open to the public to broadcast tweets with #RadioRetweets.