The Campaign

GIGA Selfie. The world’s largest selfie service. A first of its kind, the service can combine the vastness of the landscape along with the visitor’s smiles in one giant selfie. At designated spots of particularly outstanding beauty, tourists will stand at a certain spot and operate a camera remotely via their smartphones. The unique software will combine hundreds of images taken into 1 giant selfie. In less than 2 minutes, the photo is delivered to the user.

Creative Execution

-We designed a mobile experience that is exactly the same as taking an ordinary selfie. We focused on this aspect for this experience design. GIGA Selfie does not require special devices or downloading particular apps. Just go to the designated spot and anybody can take an exciting GIGA Selfie with their smartphone. Shooting, previewing and sharing can be done just like any ordinary selfie. -We applied the latest photographic technologies to the selfie. The giga pan stich technology used to seamlessly connect huge amounts of images (as utilized by Google street view) has been applied to the selfie. We developed a program that allows photos of beaming smiles from happy tourists and the fabulous landscape they are surrounded by to all seamlessly blend together and that can automatically be translated to a moving image file.We succeeded in being able to deliver this sophisticated file to the user within 2 minutes.

Results

The GIGA Selfie brought about huge reactions from across the planet. As a result, the world was reminded of the beauty of Australia and we succeeded in increasing tourist numbers. Most importantly, in addition to promoting Australia to the world, the GIGA Selfie has potential to bring the same positive results to other parts of world. - Facebook Engagement increased at startling rate SHARE+11,173% LIKE +430% - News coverage in over 180 countries - Japanese visitors increased by 118% year on year - Patent obtained - Currently under consideration to install across Australia - Huge interest and queries from tourist and amusement spots from around the world.

-Taking a Selfie. We brought a revolution and Direct Response. Go to a designated spot and anyone with a smartphone can take a GIGA Selfie. The experience designed remains exactly the same as taking an ordinary Selfie, so we were able to create a very big Direct Response. Take a picture, share with a friend… All these Direct Responses helped to share the beauty of Australia to more people. -We updated that universal engagement, the holiday snap. GIGA Selfie allows huge and vast landscapes to be shared in unique ways and leave them as memories to cherish.

The target audience is all travellers who haven’t yet been switched onto the beauty of Australia. In order to convey the attractiveness of the country, we looked into the activities and insights provided by travellers in Australia. Tourists love taking selfies, and they love sharing them. However, the traditional selfie could not depict the beauty of the Australian landscape. Our strategy was to leverage the tourists’ power of information dissemination and to maximize penetration of Australia’s tourism/travel resources to the public. Through the revolutionary GIGA Selfie service, we changed the selfie into media.