SELFIESTIX

Short List
TitleSELFIESTIX
BrandMARS NZ
Product / ServicePEDIGREE DENTASTIX
CategoryE02. Innovative Use of Technology
EntrantCOLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Idea Creation COLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Media Placement WAVEMAKER Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Production FINCH Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Production 2 FRANKLIN RD Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Additional Company COLLECTIVE FORCE Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Credits

Name Company Position
Nick Worthington Colenso BBDO Creative Chairman
Levi Slavin Colenso BBDO Chief Creative Officer
Dan Wright Colenso BBDO Executive Creative Director
Kim Ragan Colenso BBDO Creative Director
Maria Devereux Colenso BBDO Creative Director
Craig Thompson Colenso BBDO Creative
Ahmad Salim Colenso BBDO Group Business Director
Abbi Barker Colenso BBDO Business Director
Alice Sopwith Colenso BBDO Account Manager
Ruby Soole Colenso BBDO Account Manager
Natasha Gill Colenso BBDO Senior TV Producer
Scott Chapman Colenso BBDO Integrated Producer
Alex Gillespie Colenso BBDO Producer
Neville Doyle Colenso BBDO Digital Planning Director
Amy Pollok Colenso BBDO Planner
Andy Blood Facebook Creative Shop Creative Strategist
Oliver Downs MARS NZ Head of Marketing
Cormac van den Hoofdakker MARS NZ Marketing Manager - Pet
Giovana Peroni MARS NZ Brand Manager - Dog (Pet)
Akansh Hedge MARS NZ Trade Marketing Coordinator - Dog (Pet)
Tim Freeman Colenso BBDO Head of Digital
Will Thorrat Colenso BBDO Digital Producer
David Arcus Colenso BBDO Creative Technologist
Dean Pomfrett Colenso BBDO Design Director
Charles Howells The Collective Force Photographer
Karen Bryson FINCH Production Company Executive Producer
Jae Morrison FINCH Director
Shane Taipari Franklin Rd Sound Design
Ryan Dickinson Franklin Rd Sound Design

The Campaign

To demonstrate the irresistibility of Pedigree DentaSTIX, we created SelfieSTIX. A specially designed phone accessory that attaches DentaSTIX to your phone, so you can capture the perfect dog selfie. To accompany the clip, we created an app that took dog selfies and added fun filters to them. Facial recognition in humans is straightforward. But with the extreme variation in dog faces, the technology is much more sophisticated. This is the first time it has been used on dogs successfully.

Creative Execution

To demonstrate the irresistibility of Pedigree DentaSTIX, we created SelfieSTIX. A specially designed phone accessory that attaches DentaSTIX to your phone, so you can capture the perfect dog selfie. SelfieSTIX is designed to hold the unique shape of a DentaSTIX and clip onto any phone. If the dog snatches the treat, the clip stays attached to the phone so it doesn’t become a choking hazard. The functionality encouraged owners and their dogs to have more meaningful moments of closeness, a key priority for Pedigree, and enabled dog owners to take and share pictures of their canine friends. The promotional item was supported by the SelfieSTIX app. Like Snapchat lenses, but for dogs, the Pedigree SelfieSTIX app converts people’s canine companions into a delightful cast of characters. We trained a neural network to recognise dog faces by feeding it thousands of dog images. Over time, the trained algorithm learned to recognise similar patterns across all images and then, whenever the dog looks at the camera, the app places a fun filter on its face. The simple UX design behind the app facilitated interactions, encouraging more meaningful moments of closeness between owners and their dogs. SelfieSTIX was supported by an integrated campaign which directed people to get their free clip with DentaSTIX purchase through Shopify or in store. It also ran across film, social, POS & influencers.

Links

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