We created a Team GB / Paralympics GB sponsorship campaign, launched with a live online training event.
CHALLENGE
Nissan was one of the sponsors of Team GB and ParalympicsGB at the 2016 Olympics, and our challenge was to help make people aware of the sponsorship while also exploiting the unexpected access that Nissan had with some of the key athletes taking part in the Games.
SOLUTION
To achieve this we gave the public a chance to show their support by training in real-time with three athletes representing Britain in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016 (runner Richard Whitehead – 2012 Paralympic gold medallist, gymnast Max Whitlock – 2015 World Champion, and rower Kat Copeland – 2012 Olympic gold medallist). By linking up via digital devices, participants were able to access a live stream of the athletes and interact with them as they held an hour long training session. The fruits of the live training session, including user-generated content from the public, subsequently fed into the hero brand film that launched during the countdown to the start of the Olympic Games in Rio.
RESULTS
The promo film launched two weeks before the live training event, and was watched by an audience of 1.3 million, many of whom tuned in on the cold February morning to train. During the session Max, Kat and Richard fielded hundreds of comments from individual participants and teams who were live-streaming the event, with user-generated footage being sent through from participants across the country, as well as a few international submissions from places as far as way as Johannesburg.
Hero film
The full edit using both live footage from the training day, plus user-generated footage from participants.
Chris & Charm
The story of two running fanatics in their seventies who linked up to our live streaming session from the beaches of Cumbria.
Facebook-specific competition
Ensuring maximum engagement on Facebook we created this 20” competition spot, adding large supers to remove the requirement for audio in social feeds, and cropping to a square format to avoid rotation on mobile screens.
Social Integration
Training in real-time through social media