Wieden + Kennedy London has recently unveiled a first of its kind interactive TV campaign for the new Honda Jazz called “This Unpredictable Life”, in which an iPhone app (iTunes link) is used to literally grab content from the ad (YouTube link) as it plays.
The campaign uses what is called “screen hopping” that works by having sound from the TV ad recognized by the iPhone App. The app then uses the predefined sound waves to know which character to display on screen at that moment, essentially giving the ability to interact with the TV ad in real time.
Once you have got the character, you can interact separately with each one away from the TV ad, by doing things like singing into the iPhone to make the characters dance.
Brilliant! (And I guess this is only the beggining..)
DDB Stockholm’s “Fun Theory” effort for Volkswagen and Wieden & Kennedy’s “Chalkbot” for Nike Livestrong earned Cyber Grand Prix, capping off a winning run on this year’s awards circuit for both agencies and campaigns. Check them out below:
Total number of Cyber Lions awarded: Two Grand Prix, 15 Gold Lions, 30 Silver Lions and 52 Bronze Lions.
Why they won: Both campaigns were prime examples of two themes that emerged from the best work seen during the judging process: invisible technology and “real-time” interaction. The greatest innovations supported “this notion that technology will reach its peak when you don’t even realize it’s there,” said Mr. Benjamin, quoting one of the jury members. “The stuff that was so innovative was the stuff that seemed magical. It had technology, but that’s not what was showing.”
What’s next: The award-wining work, said Mr. Benjamin, “points to the future of how we’ll work together in our industry — this notion of creatives coming together with technologists. It’s not about just the art director and writer anymore, it’s about technology, the interaction designer, all these people coming together. It’s probably been happening for a while, but that’s now entering larger agencies.”
Added juror Robert Rasmussen of Tribal DDB: “When you look through the work that won, you can feel the technology present in the creative process. If you go through all these winners, you’d be hard pressed to find one that didn’t have technology woven into the creative solution.”
Everyone from the mainstream media to celebrities is obsessing over Chatroulette, the website that randomly connects users through one-on-one videochat with strangers around the world.
This new “internet sensation”, is definitely an opportunity for advertising and the people at Poke London managed to do something really smart with it. They developed a promotion for French Connection. In essense you had to seduce a woman via Chatroulette then send evidence to French Connection for your chance to win $250.
1. Heaviest banner ever in Romania served on .RO websites, from Eyeblaster. It is weighting a little over 26MB (compared to a standard banner in Romania which is 100Kb – or 200-300 Kb at most for video)
2. The first video interactive banner. By this interactivity it means that the user is questioned and he can answer directly in the banner. Depending on the answers, a different video will be shown.
3.Polling/ Voting- the banner has a polling function which allows the user to choose between different options.
4. Conversion-in-Banner; The first conversion in banner project, that can collect the users` data without taking them to the landing page/separate website. User are encouraged to type in their data directly into the banner, on any website. The data is then redircted to Client’s database.
5. Mouse Tracker; in order to the users` attention the banner has a mouse tracker features which enables the characters to move after the mouse; generally speaking, the content of the banner is changed depending on the mouse position on the screeen.
The campaign data is monitored & analyzed in real time due to the state-of-the-art ad-serving technology from Eyeblaster. A complete set of actionable analytics tools, including 17 standard reports plus 5 other custom reports, will help optimize the performance and efficiency of the budget spending of the online media campaign.
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