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In Brazil, fast food restaurant chains’ advertisings are everywhere, most of them are from Burger king’s direct competitors. Burger King wanted to hack the competition by leveraging its brand’s biggest signature : the fire. The brand encouraged users of its mobile app to point their camera to rival’s ad (print, coupon or billboard), then they will see, through augmented reality, rival’s ad turning into fire. After the ad is burnt away, a Burger King ad will replace the original ad, and the user will receive a free whopper at the nearest Burger King.

Digital campaigns are widely used befor store opening ceremonies to generate flow of visitors. However, they are typically used to drive as much traffic as possible, instead of control the quality of visit experience. Red Rock Deli, as a premium chips brand, doesn’t want visitors to associate their pop-up store, thus its brand image with a chaotic food store, so they created an three-way-link digital campaign which used real-time sales data and machine learning to raise or lower the bid to buy digital media , in order to control the traffic, thus to offer enough quality visit time for every consumer.

In China, young adults always bring gifts to their elder family members when they go back to hometown during the holiday of Chinese New Year. However, most Chinese prefer « healthy and practical » gifts such as foods, electronics or cosmetics, and clothing is not at the top of the gift list. Uniqlo wanted to remind Chinese people that clothes could also be a relevant part of the holiday, by using location-based coupons and AI powered Wechat campaign to send them gift recommendations with one-click order button.

For Black & Decker, the manufacturer of housing and gardening tools, a great challenge in nowadays’ German market is that its products are available in fewer and fewer traditional stores. In another hand, more and more DIY amateurs are sharing their tools online. The brand decided to digitalize its image to seduce this young community by making a virtual smart cupboard of tools which allows users to borrow, reserve and exchange tools.

Nike took iconic street courts in Manila and used data and design to transform them into a basketball coaches. Painted with portraits based on actual NBA players by NYC well-known illustrator Arturo Torres, each court unlocks a hyper-personalised training program and sends training drills to players, streamed in a data-free way using Google technology. 

Human love to take selfies, but dog don’t like it that much. To promote its product Pedigree DentaSTIX, Mars decided to win young dog owners by helping them to capture perfect dog selfies. The brand created SelfieSTIX, a smartphone accessory given away with products and supported by a smartphone application that analyzes dogs facial characteristics then puts funny filters on dog’s face.

Samsung wants to make the Note8 a phone for everyone, so its campaigne has to reach for everyone in a personalized way. The brand used micro-segmentation to deliver sequentially hyper-relevant content such as video and social display based on customer’s behavior, interest, consumer journey, connecting data, creative, and media around a single client driven proposition in ways that could not be achieved by one big insight…

Heavy Metal fans are decreasing at a rate of 15% every year since 1999. Sony was about to launched a new album of the heavy metal band CROSSFAITH. They decided to engage this community which is becoming more and more niche by leverage what metal fans like to do at a metal concert – headbang – but in an innovative, personalized and digital way.

In our days where people are surrounded by advertising, getting audiences to listen & engage with a TVC is a struggle. However, voice search through smart devices like Google Home is seriously disrupting the ad world. And those voice activated devices are gaining adoption within US House-holds, with many keeping these devices in their living rooms near their TVs. Burger King saw the chance to win people’s attention back to their TVC by “hacking” those smart devices.