Cannes Lions
DENTSU AD-GEAR, Tokyo / CISCO / 2016
Overview
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Description
By producing a “Super-skilled Band of Junior high school girls” as a branded contents, young fans were gathered.
The high quality of the complete music was split into 8 pieces so that even junior high school girls can play with ease.
Also, the band appearance, 5 girls for the guitar parts and 3 girls for the drum parts, gave an extremely strong impression to the audiences.
Execution
? In March 2015, a mysterious band formed by 8 junior high school girls, "5572320" made its debut from one of the largest Japanese record companies, Sony Music.
Within a week after the publicity of the Music Video, marked about 2,000,000 times of view. The music was also ranked 5th in iTunes.
? Two weeks hence, an announcement was made that the band name, "5572320" is a Japanese play on words of the product name, "COCONUT SABLE". Following this announcement, over 50,000 Tweets to support the product & the band were coming in primarily from younger generation.
? The branded content incurring no media costs is still quite active. Currently, the band is working towards their third single. Also, sales of the product is steadily increasing.
Outcome
< Play counts of the Music Video (MV) >
Within a week after the publicity of the MV, marked about 2,000,000 times
The music was also ranked 5th in iTunes.
< News on the band >
The band has been taken up by various medias like CNN, Yahoo! & Fuji Television etc. of 39 countries world-wide.
< Number of tweets by the youth / March only >
67,518 tweets
< Number of reaches entirety on SNS / March only >
63,190,000 impressions
< Sales volume of the product >
Despite of not making any changes in the product itself, Sales of “coconut sable” as of March 2015 have achieved to 133% against that as of the previous month.
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