SOCIAL_MARATHON IN KYOTO

TitleSOCIAL_MARATHON IN KYOTO
BrandWACOAL CORP.
Product / ServiceCW-X
CategoryC04. Stunts & Live Advertising
EntrantDENTSU Tokyo, JAPAN
Entrant Company DENTSU Tokyo, JAPAN
Advertising Agency DENTSU Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Position
George So Sugitomo Chief Creative Officer
George So Sugitomo Executive Creative Director
George So Sugitomo Creative Director
George So Sugitomo/Nao Otani Copywriter
Toshiaki Fukui Art Director
Masahiro Miyakawa/Masayuki Kudo Photographer
Naoki Mori/Naru Kudo/Yoshio Murakami/Yuuma Sasamoto/Yoshiaki Shiota/Naoya Nagatake/Takeshi Kobayashi Producer
Masahiro Amano Account Manager
George So Sugitomo Planner
Director/Takashi Okada/Technical Director/Hajime Kuwashima/Programmer/Ko Yoshida Other Credits

Execution

CW-X, a running wear brand, wanted to launch their new brand at Kyoto Marathon 2013. Create a new communication no marathon runner has ever experienced before. First link your Facebook or Twitter account to a RFID chip, by entering your hopeful goal time at the special site before the race. Then all you had to do was just run with the RFID. Your RFID will tell you the split time, calculating how fast or slow you are against your aim time. Without using any smartphones to log in, the runners’ time was automatically posted on to their SNS every 10km, real-time. The runners’ families and friends saw the posted time wherever they were, and cheered for them through SNS. The SNS cheers were then re-written in traditional calligraphy and posted on to Kyoto’s historical shrines, temples and walls, and also held by people who were cheering by the road side.