Title | #SUBTLYSPONSOREDPOST |
Brand | SAMSUNG/ SAMSUNG AUSTRALIA |
Product / Service | SAMSUNG A SERIES |
Category | A07. Use of Talent |
Entrant | LEO BURNETT SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA |
Idea Creation | LEO BURNETT SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA |
Media Placement | STARCOM Sydney, AUSTRALIA |
PR | EDELMAN Sydney, AUSTRALIA |
Production | PRODIGIOUS Sydney, AUSTRALIA |
Name | Company | Position |
---|---|---|
Jason Williams | Leo Burnett | Chief Creative Officer |
Grant McAloon | Leo Burnett Sydney | Executive Creative Director |
Nigel Clark | Leo Burnett Sydney | Creative Director |
Adrian Ely | Leo Burnett Sydney | Creative Director |
Letizia Bozzolini | Leo Burnett Sydney | Associate Creative Director |
Lisa O'Neil | Leo Burnett Sydney | Associate Creative Director |
Adrian Jung | Leo Burnett Sydney | Head of Production |
Laurent McMahon | Leo Burnett Sydney | Producer |
Emily Taylor | Leo Burnett Sydney | CSO |
Matt Chishom | Leo Burnett Sydney | Connection Strategy Director |
Rebecca Morton | Leo Burnett Sydney | Client Service Group Head |
Neil Duncan | Leo Burnett Sydney | Senior Business Director |
Laura Egan | Leo Burnett Sydney | Senior Business Manager |
Emily Fisher | Leo Burnett Sydney | Senior Business Manager |
Megan Smith | Leo Burnett Sydney | Content Writer |
James Healey | Leo Burnett Sydney | Social Manager |
Brooke Lagana | Leo Burnett Sydney | Content Producer |
Maddy Purdy | Leo Burnett Sydney | Content Director |
Arun Surendran | Leo Burnett Sydney | Junior Editor |
Dan Crozier | Leo Burnett Sydney | Studio Manager |
Max Miller | Prodigious | Director/DOP |
Madeleine Pike | Prodigious | Producer |
Cate Hartmann | Prodigious | Post Production |
Tim Pietranski | Prodigious | Executive Producer |
Sam Bruce | Prodigious | Editor |
Aleks Manou | Prodigious | Motion Graphics |
Marcus Timpson | Prodigious | Colourist |
To launch the Samsung Galaxy A phone to Gen Z, we had to make ourselves welcome in their online lives. To do this we needed to use the right talent in an authentic way or risk being rejected by a media-savvy audience who can spot marketing a mile away. The only way Samsung would be accepted is if it kept the right online company, who could entertain Gen Z in the ways they like.
To get the Samsung Galaxy A on the consideration list for Gen Z, we were tasked with launching the phone using influencers - people our audience defer to. But we knew that Gen Z are extremely dismissive and sceptical of branded content and fake endorsements. So we needed to find a way to be authentic while also being entertaining enough to be a welcome disruption to the online environment – the place Gen Z spend most of their time.
We created a social media influencer campaign that embraced and poked fun at the whole idea of #SponsoredPosts, with the most unsubtle posts and music video social media has ever seen. Teaming up with a local comedy group (Aunty Donna) and four popular influencers, we created a music video, teaching influencers how to do a sponsored post… in a not so subtle way.
We found Gen Z’s typically used their phones to cure the boredom of their lives – school, work, friends, family, repeat – leading to them using their phones for 3 main reasons: content creation (on social), content consumption (Netflix, YouTube, music, social, gaming and more) and connection (friends and family). To reach them, we had to position Galaxy A as the antidote for their boredom. Discovering that Gen Z were becoming desensitized by inauthentic sponsored posts, we decided to use social media influencers and music to poke fun at the whole idea of #SponsoredPosts, with the Galaxy A Series at the heart of everything, targeting Gen Z on platforms they use most.
Launching in school holidays, when Gen Z were most hungry for content, our hero #SubtlySponsponsored music video was cutdown into edits promoting phone features for a range of platforms used by Gen Z: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok - each designed specifically for the platform – the right aspect ratios, sound off/on and all the other platform best practices. We got our influencers to do their own ‘organic’ #SubtlySponsoredPosts and created a Snapshat filter that transformed anyone into an influencer so they could unsubtly promote the phone themselves. Gen Z could also do an #unsubtle Tik Tok challenge to win a phone.
From a creative standpoint, we have seen through brand uplift studies, that exposure to the campaign is creating a 7% lift in Favorability of the brand and a 13% lift in Purchase Intent of the product. This is supported by an extremely high 16.33 average VTR across all platforms. This campaign launched in June 2019 and Samsung are seeing extremely positive results as the Galaxy A has become the undisputed #1 mid-tier smartphone brand in Australia with 42% market share, with Apple its closest rival at 22%. Sales beat expectations by over 125%. Not to mention 93% of our audience watching the hero video all the way through.