Title | 30,000 HYPNO-CATS |
Brand | MARS JAPAN LIMITED |
Product / Service | SHEBA |
Category | B08. Use of Digital Platforms |
Entrant | BBDO JAPAN Tokyo, JAPAN |
Idea Creation | BBDO JAPAN Tokyo, JAPAN |
Production | 1-10DESIGN Tokyo, JAPAN |
Name | Company | Position |
---|---|---|
Masaki Honda | BBDO Japan | Executive Creative Director |
Haruko Kuzuya | BBDO Japan | Creative Director / Copywriter |
Kana Kikuchi | BBDO Japan | Art Director |
Arika Ishikawa | BBDO Japan | Designer |
Ryosuke Funakoshiya | BBDO Japan | Ux Developer |
Shuhei Ishikawa | BBDO Japan | General Manager |
Akie Suzuki | BBDO Japan | Social Media Community Manager |
Kaori Yatsu | BBDO Japan | Head of Planning |
Aisha Takashima | BBDO Japan | Planning Director |
Ayami Morita | BBDO Japan | Account Supervisor |
Hidemi Akimoto | BBDO Japan | Project Manager |
Hiroko Kan | BBDO Japan | Associate Account Director |
Sou Kobayashi | 1-10 design,Inc. | Producer |
Hiroko Akimoto | 1-10 design,Inc. | Producer |
Kodo Nakano | 1-10 design,Inc. | Art Director |
Nozomi Taguchi | 1-10 design,Inc. | Designer |
Kazuyoshi kawakami | 1-10 design,Inc. | Frontend Developer |
Shogo Matsuda | 1-10 design,Inc. | Frontend Developer |
Masato Imamura | 1-10 design,Inc. | System Engineer |
It's only natural that cat owners have a huge soft spot for their beloved cats. One look at the cat's adorable gaze and their owners will drop everything, and happily give into their cat's wishes, the hypnotizing power of their cat ‘s gaze can "blind" them with love.
We started a social photo competition called "Sheba Cat Stare Championship" to find the cat with the most mesmerizing stare. Owners were to post an image of their cat’s stare with #CatStareChampionship. The selected “Cat-Stare-King” could be turned into a “Hypno-Cat.” We then used the images of the selected “Hypno-Cats” as ads on social. Owners became determined to feature their cats to be in our ads and took part in our #CatStareChampionship. And so, numerous Hypno-Cat images were created and helped mesmerize even more cat lovers who passed them on in turn.
Thanks to the cats, over 30,000 wannabe Hypno-cats participated, obtained 47 million impressions and 4.5 Million engagements, 68% of cat-owning household reached. Also, the willingness to buy for those who saw the campaign increased to 56%. Unsurprisingly, this campaign truly confirmed that if you wanted to escape their hypnotic gaze, then you didn’t have a cat in hell’s chance.
Through this campaign, we leveraged an essence unique to digital, by directing the user-generated images of cats to function as a self-multiplying posterchild for Sheba on social. The main social platforms we selected were Instagram and Twitter. We launched a photo championship on social that prompted the cat enthusiast community to contribute through photo submissions. We utilized the user-generated contents as an ad on social. Our hashtag struck a chord amongst cat owners who wanted their cats to be in our ads, and the campaign had almost self-propelled between the cat lovers in Japan.
We leveraged tendency for owners to seek recognition for their cat’s adorableness.