GOOD ENERGY TAXI

TitleGOOD ENERGY TAXI
BrandMERCURY ENERGY
Product / ServiceMERCURY GOOD ENERGY TAXI
EntrantTBWA\DIGITAL ARTS NETWORK Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Entrant Company:TBWA\DIGITAL ARTS NETWORK Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Advertising Agency:TBWA\DIGITAL ARTS NETWORK Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Credits

Name Company Position
Andy Blood TBWA\Digital Arts Network Executive Creative Director
Ross Howard TBWA\Digital Arts Network Creative Director
Jake Fitter TBWA\Digital Arts Network Digital Creative
David Minty TBWA\Digital Arts Network Digital Designer
Ryan Sproull TBWA\Digital Arts Network Digital Strategist
Sarah Crosswell TBWA\Digital Arts Network Senior Producer
Mandy Eckford TBWA\Digital Arts Network Account Director
Sarah Osbourne TBWA\Digital Arts Network Account Manager
Simon Betton TBWA\Digital Arts Network Front End Developer
Hsichen Hsieh TBWA\Digital Arts Network Front End Developer
Patrick Li TBWA\Digital Arts Network Server-Side Developer
Johannes Gertz TBWA\Digital Arts Network Producer

The Campaign

Introducing Mercury Energy’s ‘Good Energy’ Taxi - a taxi cab that runs on nothing but the good vibes between people: between passengers, the driver, pedestrians and anyone that might come into contact with it.

Success of the Campaign

In only two weeks, the good energy generated by over 500 passengers fuelled the taxi over 2,700km and made hundreds of smiles and heaps of good deeds all possible. In doing so, we emphasized the 'car' in good Karma, and paid it forward so no-one had to pay a fare. All hail the Good Energy Taxi.

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

Instead of passengers having to pay for a fare with cash, we just asked them to pay with ‘good energy’ – by having fun, by being kind and sharing their own good natured-ness with those around them. Every positive tweet, every Facebook like, and every generous act, gave the taxi’s battery a boost allowing it to go further, and to make its way around our city.