The Trailer Assist feature allows Volkswagen cars to park semi-autonomously using the rear backup camera. To promote this feature in Norway, Volkswagen created a stunt where a driver backed up his car and trailer in high speed through parking lots, roundabouts and intersections…
People love to be the first to notice problems. With this insight, Volkswagen did the unthinkable. They purposely misspelled their name on the LED screens during the France vs Brasil football match in Stade de France, Paris.
With 6 million TV viewers and 80,000 spectators it was very unlikely that something like “Wolkswagen” would go un-noticed. The live stunt worked like a charm and helped Volkswagen successfully announce themselves as the new major partner of French football.
To break through the clutter and generate awareness about its brand, Hyundai put together a clever marketing stunt. They took 11 of their Genesis sedans and choreographed a special message from a 13-year-old Houston girl, Stephanie, to her astronaut father, who she missed as he worked on board the International Space Station. The message, “Steph loves U,” was written across the expanse of the Nevada’s Delamar Dry Lake. And since the message was bigger than one and a half Central Parks, Guinness World Records certified it to be the world’s “largest tire track image.”
The secret to epic video marketing is to start with the smile of your audience, and then work back from there. So in their latest video marketing stunt, Thomas Cook Travel Belgium managed to do just that.
Thomas Cook asked their fans on Facebook, if given the chance, would they marry their love on a plane. From a number of replies, one lucky fan was chosen and an elaborate wedding for him was planed at 35,000 feet. The entire stunt was funded by Thomas Cook, while the airline and family did their part to make it all come together seamlessly. Here is a six and half minute video on how it all unfolded…
In July I had written about the Departure Roulette campaign from Heineken and Wieden + Kennedy which sent daring passengers somewhere totally new and exotic with the push of the red button. Now with the Departure Roulette En Route version, they tapped into the tweets and social conversations around the first stunt to produce a smart follow up stunt.
Heineken tracked down the people who had tweeted about Departure Roulette wishing that they were also dropping everything to travel to a mystery destination and offered a lucky few the chance to play Departure Roulette right there and then…
There are many sources for people to find things to see and do in Shanghai. So Time Out magazine decide to promote its Shanghai city information guide via a marketing stunt created with the help of Energy BBDO China.
The insight for the stunt came from the product itself i.e. Time Out Shanghai digs deeper into the city to find hidden gems that might not otherwise be discovered. To demonstrate this Time Out purposely “lost” a cell phone on a random street in Shanghai. Any passerby who picked it up was in for a suprise, as to return the phone they had to get into a London Taxi that pulled up infront of their location. Here is a video recording of the entire stunt through specially placed hidden cameras…
