Entertainment > Branded Content & Visual Storytelling
OGILVYONE WORLDWIDE ATHENS, Athens / MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL / 2016
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Overview
Credits
CampaignDescription
A man that has lost the love of his life 6 months ago, due to some tragic accident, is magically being put back in time, exactly 24 hours before the incident. He will try to change the course of events that lead to his wife’s death, while making up for lost time and loving her like there's no tomorrow.
Execution
A 43 minute film was released in 2 parts.
At the end of part 1, an unknown caller reminds the hero that his 24hour deadline is running out. When the hero asks for mercy, the voice tells him that the only way for the countdown to stop for him, is to start for someone else.
To see the 2nd part, viewers had to intervene by visiting the campaign website and answering the question: “If you only had 24hours, to whom would you want to say, ‘I love you’?”
After submitting their confession along with their phone number, a countdown started ticking for them on-screen and the film commenced. Once the film ended, viewers got a surprise call from the same voice in the film, reminding them they had "23hours and 53minutes to keep the promise they gave to themselves”. Their confession was displayed on screen, along with the countdown!
Outcome
The film had 1.8 million views in a country of 5 million users, with thousands of tearful comments from people saying how much it shook them and made them reevaluate their priorities.
More than 290.000 personal confessions were submitted on the campaign website.
Lacta’s Facebook post, featuring the film, was the most engaging post in Greece for January generating 250.000 likes, comments and shares. The film became a number 1 trending video on YouTube for January in Greece.
When the film was finally shown on national television on the eve of Valentine’s day, it reached a 25% viewer share and was the No 1 rated program for it’s core target audience, aged 15-24.
Relevancy
This is a film that managed to shake audiences in Greece and move them to tears, seen almost by 1/3 of all Internet users.
It made viewers reevaluate their priorities by reminding them that since they cannot turn back time, they should love like there’s no tomorrow.
By making people realize how important love should be in their lives, Lacta chocolate, always a symbol for love in Greece, managed to become relevant again, in a time of crisis for the entire nation.
Strategy
Lacta has a long story of making love stories on films, through a number of online shorts in the past 7 years and having released the feature film “Love in the end” at cinemas in 2013, with great success.
This year, we wanted to shake audiences and make them reconsider their priorities, by telling them a moving story with an unpredictable ending that they would then share with their friends online.
Furthermore, we wanted to engage audiences by making them participate in the movie through a unique interactive mechanism.
Synopsis
Lacta chocolate has forever been a symbol for love in Greece. It's sweet taste being compared to the feeling of falling in love. However, during the economic recession, Greeks had de-prioritized love, focusing instead on building a career. At the same time, audiences older than the core target group of 18-24, had grown immune to Lacta’s romantic messages.
In order to become relevant again, Lacta wanted to remind Greeks of the importance of love as a priority in their lives. And thus urge them, to "Love, like there's no tomorrow".
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