YOUR TWEET BECOMES CNN NEWS?

TitleYOUR TWEET BECOMES CNN NEWS?
BrandTURNER INTERNATIONAL JAPAN
Product / ServiceCNNJ UNIQUELY JAPAN TV
CategoryA05. Consumer Services
EntrantI&S BBDO Tokyo, JAPAN
Entrant Company:I&S BBDO Tokyo, JAPAN
Advertising/Web Design Agency:I&S BBDO Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
Tsuyoshi Nishimura I&S BBDO Inc. Creative Director
Takahiro Sakai I&S BBDO Inc. Copywriter
Kiyoyuki Enomoto I&S BBDO Inc. Copywriter
Sei Sugiyama I&S BBDO Inc. Art Director
Masahiro Nakada I&S BBDO Inc. Agency Producer
Yosuke Yamauchi I&S BBDO Inc. Strategic Planner
Campbell Hanley I&S BBDO Inc. Tweet Translator / Anchor
Glenn Bartlett I&S BBDO Inc. Adviser
Toshiya Ichikawa Proximity Japan Senior Digital Planning Director
Tomohiro Hikami Proximity Japan Associate Digital Planning Director
Hirohisa Ishihara DANCE NOT ACT Producer
Shun Saito DANCE NOT ACT Production Manager / Edit
Naoko Asai Account Producer
Yoichi Sakamoto rhizomatiks WEB Director
Daisuke Nakahama rhizomatiks WEB Director
Jiro Kawakami HIDAMARLEY WEB Director
Hotaka Yokoyama Cameraman
Hiroyasu Kimura rhizomatiks Flash Engineer
Sumito Kamoi rhizomatiks Designer
Hideyuki Nakajima Studio ARCANA CO.,LTD System Engineer

Brief Explanation

As CNN has been seen as media for certain group of intellectuals, the challenge was to turn CNN into more friendly media. We asked people to Tweet their daily news, which we selected and made into CNN-style news stories and uploaded on a special YouTube channel. We informed the new uploads through special Twitter account, with some stories were aired on the CNNj channel as a campaign TV commercial. A total of 62 stories was made in the 5-day campaign period.