Title | PRETZ DAY |
Brand | EZAKI GLICO |
Product / Service | PRETZ |
Category | B11. Use of Social Platforms |
Entrant | DOF Tokyo, JAPAN |
Idea Creation | DOF Tokyo, JAPAN |
Idea Creation 2 | DENTSU INC. Tokyo, JAPAN |
Media Placement | DOF Tokyo, JAPAN |
Media Placement 2 | DENTSU INC. Tokyo, JAPAN |
Name | Company | Position |
---|---|---|
Taro Saito | dof inc. | Creative Director |
Ryuichiro Akamatsu | dentsu inc. | Creative Director |
Yukio Hashiguchi | dentsu inc. | Copywriter |
Kazuhide Adachi | dentsu inc. | Copywriter |
Chihiro Kato | dentsu inc. | Copywriter |
Tomonori Saito | dentsu inc. | Art Director |
Takayuki Kawana | dof inc. | Communication Desginer |
Akiyo Ogawa | dentsu inc. | Producer |
Kazuhide Takada | dentsu inc. | Account Exective |
Satoshi Kuno | Spare Pocket | Producer |
Yuichi Nakatsu | Freelance | Photographer |
The idea is to hijack POCKY DAY and change it to PRETZ DAY. PRETZ looks exactly like POCKY. PRETZ’s package looks like POCKY as well. PRETZ was born in 1960, it’s 3 years older than POCKY. The only difference is that PRETZ doesn’t have chocolate on it. If PRETZ can speak, it would definitely say “It’s not fair! November 11th should be PRETZ day and everyone should talk about me!” We decide to let PRETZ’s voice heard.
On November 11th 2016, we’ve opened PRETZ’s twitter account(That’s right, PRETZ even didn’t have a twitter account until then) and shared a newspaper ad on the same morning. It says: Forever Alone. November 11th is not a POCKY day. It’s POCKY day and PRETZ day. PRETZ kept posting tweets such as: “Hey POCKY, you look great today.” “Sometimes you have to fight for your right, even if you know you can’t win.” “You don’t have to empathize me, just follow me.” At the same time we’ve launched the special website to express PRETZ feelings.?It contains more than 6,000 words, the longest website for a single product.
Newspaper ad: 70,000 retweets and 70,000 favs. It became the most popular Website: 221,849PV Media coverage: ¥36,347,500? Many POCKY fans betrayed POCKY and became PRETZ fans. There’re lots of user-generated PRETZ contents such as PRETZ MANGA, PRETZ art etc. Even POCKY ad’s celebrity posted a selfie with PRETZ in their hands. And most of all, PRETZ sales went up by 120%!
Every brands are desperate to dominate social media. They spend so much money on using cutting edge technologies, celebrities, influencers, TV commercials etc, however, end up gaining nothing in most cases. In contrast to such a market trend, We’ve made people to tweet about PRETZ like crazy by a single newspaper ad, the most forgotten media nowadays.
Our target audience is POCKY fans. They share selfies with POCKY on November 11th every year, however, they don’t give a damn about PRETZ. We want POCKY fans to understand how it feels to be a wallflower. So we choose to run a newspaper ad, the most wallflower ad nowadays. We knew that this strategy would work because 99% people on social media are wallflowers just like POCKY. They share lots of selfies to be social media superstars and end up nothing. They’ll understand and empathize with PRETZ.