Winners & Shortlists

2014 Branded Content & Entertainment

THE ALPINE FAMILY

TitleTHE ALPINE FAMILY
BrandTELENOR NORWAY
Product/ServiceU21 - A MOBILE SUBSCRIPTION FOR YOUTH UNDER 21
Category A10. INTEGRATED CONTENT CAMPAIGN
Entrant Company TRY/APT/POL Oslo, NORWAY
Contributing Company 2 TRY/APT/POL Oslo, NORWAY
Contributing Company ANTI Oslo, NORWAY
Media Agency PHD Oslo, NORWAY
Credits
Name Company Position
Thea Emanuelsen TRY/Apt/POL Art Director
Aleksander Erichsen TRY/Apt/POL Art Director
Trond Sandø TRY/Apt/POL Account Director
Dan Westin TRY/Apt/POL Macdesigner
Ulla Hennum Birkrem TRY/Apt/POL Account Manager
Niels Windfeldt Antimedia Director/Dop/Cut
Andreas Braaten Antimedia Producer
Lasse Nyhaugen Antimedia Photographer
Trond Hansen Antimedia Sound
Morten Borgestad Palokaville Director Of Photography
Astrid Maria Sætren Set Designer
Christina Ledang Christina Ledang Stylist
Eirik Thorsen Adam/Eva

The Campaign

In Norway, Branded Content, is quite restricted in national media, and has to be clearly marked.

Results

Challenges and Objectives: The client had a complex brief. The subscription advertised has many conditions that had to be present in the creative work (you have to be under 21 years old and be part of the clients service "FreeFamily" to qualify for it). In addition the client wanted to leverage their sponsorship of three of Norways most famous alpine skiers. The main challenge was to come up with a solution that could contain all this information and at the same time convey a clear message and be memorable. Strategy and execution: Since you have to be part of "FreeFamily" to qualify for the subscription the idea was to present the ski team, who live together most of the year, as a family. A slightly awkward family. You also had to be under 21 years old to get the subscription. Henrik Kristoffersen, the youngest on the team, happens to be 19 years old and the only member of "the alpine family" who could get the subscription. This all led up to a photo shoot taking awkward family photos of the famous athletes, with Henrik as most teenagers, always with a phone in his hands. The shoot gave us both still images and lots of behind the scenes movie material to fill all needed formats.

The audience where drawn to the content through web banners as well as paid and unpaid sharing on social media. Shorter edits of the behind the scenes documentary where used as pre-rolls on youtube and web-tv on national news sites and on national television. In addition prints where used on adshells and public transport.

The campaign increased sales by 79%. High view rate on youtube with 42 - 52% (average view rate 15%). Got coverage in many of Norways leading media outlets as well as in magazines.