Cannes Lions
BETC, Paris / IBIS / 2014
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Description
No particular restrictions on Branded Entertainment in France in this business sector (tourism).
Execution
We created a concept: the ultimate sleep. We mounted an expedition to find a place to sleep where no one has ever slept before: on the top of Mount Roraima, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, on a windswept, cloud-capped peak.
The challenge was to mount a real expedition:
- a team of real adventure-seekers, not actors, with its two heroes being actual experienced explorers
- a partnership with Columbia for the expedition equipment
- a production by Vice, a benchmark in web documentaries of this kind
Developed entirely in HTML5, the platform offers a spellbinding full-immersion experience
Outcome
The operation and platform achieved their objectives of visibility for the IBIS brand. A month and a half after the launch, the results exceeded the brand's expectations:
- Over 200 press or web articles in over 30 countries, on all continents.
- 1.5 million individual visitors to the site (versus a target of 700,000)
- 2.3 million viewings of the trailer, with over 20% viral marketing.
- 30% increase in the number of Facebook fans
- And above all, proof of the interest stimulated by the content: the average time spent on the site was 6'30", more than double the usual figure for brand advertising sites.
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