The film opens on a young woman walking down a street. She has headphones on, but we can hear what she’s listening to. And she’s listening to... the worst song in the world. Like in a music video, we cross-cut between the musicians in a studio and the woman, who’s clearly not enjoying the song The lyrics point out just how unbearable her situation is… until we finally discover why she doesn’t skip the track: she’s carrying two huge grocery bags.

Instead of making a traditional ad, we made a catchy, really annoying song, that people would remember and relate to.

We also faced a big challenge: finding the right contrast between the young woman’s universe and the band’s universe and creating a strong disparity: good taste vs bad taste. But it’s a fine line between bad taste and parody… and we needed to make our story believable.

We started to push the video on Monoprix’s social media with a first viewing on Twitter and the help of 100 micro-influencers. We also sent the song to music platforms (Deezer, Spotify, Itunes…). We created an Easter egg on Google Home, where the idea was simple: if you could sing the song, you’d get free delivery. We broadcast the video 3 times on TV, choosing the programmes very carefully, in particular Burger Quizz, an old TV show that just came back on French TV and that people have waited ages to see again. It’s all about jokes, celebrities and… fake TV commercials. At first people though it was fake and then discovered it was actually a real Monoprix commercial. They talked about it a lot on Twitter that evening and the days after.

Toplines:

Overall, we registered 16M views of the video and 60K reactions in less than 2 weeks and only 250K media budget. We also generated more than 100 articles representing 450M PR impressions.

Also, 25K people listened to The Worst Song In The World on Spotify without any additional media push.

Detail:

On Monoprix’ Social Medias (Facebook & Twitter), the video was seen 7M times and generated 40K reactions, 100% positive.

A few highlights: Jean Moundir, humorist, 211K followers, pushed the video with the hashtag“#TheBestCommercialOfTheWorld”,Hugo Clément, Konbini journalist, 606K followers, said “If all the ads were this good, no one would ever skip them”

Camille Combal, Virgin Journalist, 1,75M followers, added “Monoprix has just KILLED the advertising GAME! Everyone else can stop now”.

Seeing how successful the video was, we decided to air it twice on TV… and it instantly became a trending topic on Twitter again.