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2014 Branded Content & Entertainment

REVENGE OF THE BIRDS

TitleREVENGE OF THE BIRDS
BrandROVIO
Product/ServiceANGRY BIRDS
Category A02. NON-FICTION: SERIES OR FILM
Entrant Company DDB STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Contributing Company DDB STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Credits
Name Company Position
Stefan Gustafsson DDB Stockholm Copywriter
Simon Higby DDB Stockholm Art Director
Jerker Fagerström DDB Stockholm Creative Director
Jon Dranger DDB Stockholm Digital Director
Carl Linder DDB House Executive Producer
Fabian Mannheimer It's Showtime Executive Producer
Gustav Garhammar It's Showtime Technical Producer
Mårten Lindsjö It's Showtime Director
Herman Söderström DDB House Film Editor
Lasse Sander Plop Music
Fredrik Sundgren Plop Sound
Mats Blomberg Plop Sound
DDB House Post Production

The Campaign

This piece of content has been made for a Global audience. Therefore we are restricted by any country who sensors online content. The country of origin for the work is Sweden, which is one of the most open countries on earth. So in terms of restrictions we have not encountered any.

Results

The Angry Birds game is all about humans firing our feathered friends towards obstacles using catapults. Resulting in millions of crashes and countless lost feathers. This film turns that scenario around. For the angry birds it's pay back time. Now, it's the birds chance to control the humans. Using motion-tracking technology we allow the birds head movements to control 3 ski carts. Which are fired down a ski slope carrying three humans. So who are these crash test dummies? They are one of the founders of the Angry Birds game itself and two all time high scorers. So the birds really can get their own back on the people who have annoyed them the most. Everything is recorded in a documentary style film from start to finish. We hope you enjoy it!

The content was released primarily via Angry Birds YouTube channel. From there it was also seeded amongst known bloggers, media outlets and also as content in the game itself.

It was a huge success, and today the viewer count on Youtube is around 600 000 and still counting.