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DUVAL GUILLAUME MODEM, Antwerp / TNT / 2012

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Launch of the new American TV channel, TNT in Flanders, Belgium. Their tagline: 'we know drama.' Instead of telling the TNT story to Flemish, Belgian people we decided to give them a story to tell.

Triggering the unstoppable curiosity of people, we placed a big red push button on the average Flemish square of an average Flemish town. The sign with the button invites people to 'push to add drama'. And then we waited. People daring to push it were then confronted with a very fast sequence of dramatic and crazy events occurring in front of their eyes, all referring to the series on TNT. At the end a big cloth unfolds saying 'Your Daily Dose of Drama. From 10/04 on Telenet'.PR: we set out to solve a new brand launch with a PR-approach by getting people and press to talk about it instead of buying media. So we had to deserve the attention instead of buying it.

Execution

Triggering the unstoppable curiosity of people we placed a big red push button in the average Flemish square of an average Flemish town. The sign with the button invites people to 'push to add drama'. And then we waited.People daring to push it were then confronted with a very fast sequence of dramatic and crazy events occurring in front of their eyes, all referring to the series on TNT. At the end, a big cloth unfolds saying, 'Your Daily Dose of Drama. From 10/04 on Telenet'. Telenet is a provider of digital television in Belgium.

Outcome

The campaign was launched mid April. But this is what happened in less than 1 week:- More than 29m views on YouTube- More than 250,000 'likes'-More than 3.8m Facebook 'shares' (the second-most shared commercial ever, and counting)- More than 120,000 tweets (even Chuck Norris tweeted about TNT)- More than 2,500 blog posts- Massive media attention: national and international worldwide- And a hilarious Lego-parody...

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