Singles Finder App
Ogilvy Interactive has developed a "Singles Finder App" for Zonacitas.com, a major Argentinian dating portal. Their concept was simple..."Love is out there. If we get organized, there's plenty for all".
With Buenos Aires being one of the cities with the best nightlife in the world, having thousands of bars, discos and pubs to choose from can be a problem. All these options make it difficult to find and meet single men and women. With the "Singles Finder", a free Smartphone App for the iPhone, users were able to get the exact amount of single prospects in each location. The best part was that they knew where to go well before.
Big Noses Discount
BGH Air Conditioners in Argentina wanted to promote their new line of silent air conditioners. So agency Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi came up with a whacky integrated advertising campaign called "Big Nose".
Together they created the nose-o-meter, an in-store device capable of measuring noses. If your nose was big enough to touch the sensor, an alarm would go off and one could win a 25 percent discount!
At www.bignosebgh.com online visitors could upload their profile picture, in order to find out if their nose was big enough to win. The site also indicated where shoppers could find the nearest nose-o-meter to get a shot at the discount.
The Best Excuse Ever
Guys everywhere have always faced the same challenge of needing a good excuse for going out drinking with the boys.
Cerveza Norte based out of northern Argentina set out to solve this timeless dilemma. Teaming up with ad agency Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, they developed a campaign that is not only very clever but also socially responsible.
The idea was simple, for every Norte beer consumed at a bar the company would donate 1 minute of time to a worthy cause that included fixing houses, maintaining city parks, repairing schools etc.
The campaign allowed followers to monitor the donated minutes and the progress made by their good deeds on a dedicated website.
Coca Cola Friendship Machine
The game of vending machine one-upsmanship between Coca-Cola and PepsiCo continues with Coke's "Friendship Machine".
To celebrate International Friendship Day last August, Coca-Cola in Argentina planted machines that appear to be about 12 feet tall and require that you ask a buddy for a boost to use it. As a reward the Coke machine dispensed two Cokes instead of one.
The "Friendship Machine" plays off of Coke's "Happiness Machine" viral video, which shows a Coke machine spitting out free soda and pizzas to a group of delighted students. Coke also updated that idea in February with a "Happiness Truck" video that features a Coca-Cola truck giving out Cokes along with surfboards, beach toys and sunglasses.
PepsiCo this week has responded to Coke’s experiments with their very own "Social Vending Machine" that lets you gift free Pepsis to friends and strangers via a text message.
Budweiser “Poolball”
Coming to a Buenos Aires pub near you is the newly minted sport of Poolball, created out of Ogilvy Argentina for Budweiser.
The agency recently held an exclusive Bud-sponsored event during which two teams met on a giant 7x3 meter pool table. 15 soccer balls were reskinned to look like pool balls, and the competitors used their feet instead of sticks to score.
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