Brief Explanation

We have been able to succeed in increasing popularity and favorableness of the game by making the youngsters pay attention to the commercial.

The Brief

There are 6 colors for the boats participating in the race. We replaced the boats with dancer models who joined in a very powerful and sexy dance battle. With the models’ faces covered by masks, viewers would naturally want to know who were behind them and kept making guesses. By betraying their guesses, the commercial became the hot topic to be discussed, which is the main aim of this commercial.

Describe the success of the promotion with both client and consumer including some quantifiable results

Annual sales up by US$ 281,000,000/Visitors number up by 4,240,000/Favorability of CM up by 4.9 times/Number of PV for the website increased by 470% compared to previous year.

Explain why the method of promotion was most relevant to the product or service

The most serious problem for “Boat Racing” industry is the aging demography of visitors. Therefore, it was a must to gain more attention from the youngster. Up until now, there had been many ways of promotion the game but not many proved to be successful. Therefore, we used an almost impossible way, a very “playful” way to attract people’s attention. After one year of broadcasting, viewers realized that their expectation had been “ played” with and just laughed it off, creating a huge wave of discussion of the topic.