Cannes Lions

BOT Friends "powered" by WhatsApp

ABINBEV, Bogota / ABINBEV / 2018

Awards:

3 Shortlisted Cannes Lions
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Overview

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OVERVIEW

Description

We did it! We found a way of getting into friends' conversations in WhatsApp and becoming a friend everyone wants to have. People would find one of hundreds of cellphone numbers under the bottle caps, voluntarily added them to their friend's groups in WhatsApp, and interacted directly with us.

Execution

We did all this in just a ONE MONTH CAMPAIGN. We created a platform that hacked WhatsApp so efficiently that even today, they haven't discovered it or banned any of our bots. Then, we put hundreds of cellphones lines under 160 million beer bottle caps, and we launched a campaign through WhatsApp that communicates to consumers the type of friends they could find; if they added the cellphone numbers to their Whatsapp, we interacted directly with them. Friends like the comedian, or even Chuck Norris. This took the campaign to the next level; Chuck Norris was one of the hundreds of friends under the caps. And the lucky consumers who found his contact, got to interact directly with him.

Outcome

- In only 1 month

- 7 Billion media impressions and still counting.

- 330.000% rise in social traffic

- We passed from 100 monthly interactions to 32.000.000 (million) interactions in a month.

- 12,5 % Sales increase, that's over 200 Million beers sold in 1 month

- None of our bots have been detected

- And we are the first brand in the whole world that transformed WhatsApp into a media with a measurable ROI.

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