Our consumers (focus: males 18-24) are getting older, duties and responsibilities put at risk their sacred beer moments with friends.

We needed to make our target perceive Heineken as the closest brand to the beer drinkers, making them live an amazing and unconventional brand experience.

To convey the brand position (the entertaining beer) and make our target experience how important is preserving their beer moments with friends, we created a trap for 1000 ACMilan Fans. On the same evening of the match Real-Madrid vs Milan, we brought them to a fake event mixing poetry and classical music. We used 200 our accomplices that, provided with invitation card sponsored by Heineken, persuaded our victims to skip the match and go to the concert. Heineken would have never let its target miss the game, that’s why after 15 mins of concert, we revealed the trap and let the audience join the match on a huge screen.

This promo brought a very high brand awareness increment. TV news, newspaper and blogs widely spoke about the event and it definitively empowered the image of the brand even against its competitor. 1000 victims directly experienced it at the Auditorium, 6 million people saw it live on TV, other million people read about it on the news or on the web the days after.Even after several months, people keep on talking and making buzz about this event that had a very strong impact on our target.

Promoting the Heineken sponsorship with UEFA Champions League through an event definitively unconventional for beer drinkers has been an innovative way to involve our target and create an immediate activation. The main objective of a Promo is finding a relevant and engaging for the target. The reward here has been an amazing entertaining experience, totally consistent with the brand philosophy and with the target aspiration.