HAAGEN DAZS LOVE CUP

TitleHAAGEN DAZS LOVE CUP
BrandHAAGEN DAZS
Product / ServiceFOOD
CategoryB02. Promotional Item Design
EntrantBBDO TAIWAN Taipei, CHINESE TAIPEI
Idea Creation BBDO TAIWAN Taipei, CHINESE TAIPEI

Credits

Name Company Position
Leong Wai Foong/Martin Tsai/Aibo Huang/Apple Wang/Jess Tsai/If Fun/Jass Hung BBDO Taiwan CCO/ECD/CD/SCW/SGD/AAD/CW

The Campaign

Häagen-Dazs presents“Love Cup,” the world’s first ice cream cup sleeve printed with temperature-sensitive ink. Not only did this Love Cup enable lovebirds to convey their most heartfelt expressions of love but provided them the most special way to celebrate. Step 1 For every Häagen-Dazs purchase, you get a free ice cream cup sleeve on which you can write your love message. Step 2 Place your ice cream cup in it, then allow the ice cream’s cold temperature to change the color of the sleeve and hide your message. Step 3 As you enjoy the ice cream with your lover, the love message will slowly appear as the temperature rises.

Creative Execution

Häagen-Dazs also advertise directly at places that TA most visited, such as super markets, key account stores. And using banner to promote on the internet, also take the initiative to send out the EDM invitation to the members.

Indication of how successful the outcome was in the market

This tidy little sleeve didn’t just surprise young couples. It got everyone in Taiwan to share their most heartfelt expressions of love. All 30,000 Häagen-Dazs “Love Cups” sold out during the promotion period. Following on this success, an additional 10,000 “Love Cups” were released and sold out in one week! Simultaneously, sales increased by 170%. If you stacked up all the “Love Cups” we sold, they’d be 9.8 times taller than the Taipei 101 building! It just goes to show how the “Love Cup” took Chinese Valentine’s Day to new heights.

In Taiwan, Chinese Valentine’s Day is a major summer occasion for couples to express their feelings by giving desserts to each other as a gift. On the other hand, ice cream is the most popular summer dessert, but people never consider ice cream as a gift. In order to stand out from other desserts such as chocolate, cakes, and macaroons, Häagen-Dazs took the advantage of the temperature changing character of ice cream to design a temperature-sensitive ice cream cup sleeve, which can help reveal consumers’ feelings to their significant others. The ice cream cup sleeve not only became a secret messenger between couples, but also made Häagen-Dazs ice cream the most special gift for Chinese Valentine’s Day.