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2014 Branded Content & Entertainment

FROM SKYPE TO REAL LIFE

TitleFROM SKYPE TO REAL LIFE
BrandHOP!
Product/ServiceAIRLINE COMPANY
Category A02. NON-FICTION: SERIES OR FILM
Entrant Company LES GAULOIS Puteaux, FRANCE
Contributing Company LES GAULOIS Puteaux, FRANCE
Production Company MONODOT Brussels, BELGIUM
Credits
Name Company Position
Gilbert Scher LES GAULOIS Global Creative Director
Marco Venturelli LES GAULOIS Creative Director
Luca Cinquepalmi Les Gaulois Creative Director
Sarah Bouadjera LES GAULOIS Tv Producer
Sabrina Bourzat Les Gaulois Art Director Web
Valère Dayan LES GAULOIS Art Director Web
Julia Ben Rabah Les Gaulois Copywriter Web
Jean Benaim Les Gaulois Head Of Digital
Vincent Vacher Les Gaulois Digital Project Manager
Lionel Guérin Hop Ceo
Hélène Abraham Hop Marketing Director
Elisabeth Billiemaz Les Gaulois Managing Director
Vincent Touchard Les Gaulois Account Director
Pierre/Jean Fardin Les Gaulois Account Executive
Cécile Di Mascio LES GAULOIS Agency Producer
Lionel Dray LES GAULOIS Music Supervisor
Tatiana Pierre Monodot Producer
Cécile Verheyden Monodot Director

The Campaign

HOP! is a regional airline of the Airfrance Group. The strategy was to challege a unusual but big competitor: the Internet. People are always connected online and so feel less of the need to visit each other. We needed to remind people the value of the meeting in person. Expecially in comparaison to the cheap price of an HOP! plane ticket. At the same time we needed to create traffic on the booking platform and improve the brand notoriety.

Results

HOP! is a regional, non-turistic airline company. It's core mission is to help people and family to get together. The value of the brand are cheap, fast and simple. So we chose the most simple and real execution, making sure that everybody in our target can relate to the storytelling.

We selected 8 people and flew them to the cities where their family and friends live. We recreated their homes in a van and then filmed a very special skype call where they jump from screen to real life. The reactions of friends and family were the best demonstration of our concept: connected is good, together is better. At the end of the film we linked a special facebook app. This showed a map of all facebook friends reached by Hop! with the possibility to immediately buy the cheapest ticket.

Many websites and reference blogs write and react about the film The video received lot of positive comments. More than 1.560.000 views of the video on Youtube in the first week. +250% visit on HOP! website and booking platform. Hundreds of partecipants to the facebook game to win HOP! ticket to go visit who they want. The objective of notoriety is reached, the video is shared and viewed. The objective of humanity development of the brand is reached.