| Title | #OMNIPUB |
| Brand | FRED & FARID GROUP |
| Product/Service | AGENCY |
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B07. CORPORATE IMAGE AND INFORMATION |
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Entrant Company
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FRED & FARID GROUP Paris, FRANCE
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Advertising Agency
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FRED & FARID GROUP Paris, FRANCE
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Production Company
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KILLDEATH PARIS, FRANCE
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Credits
| Fred/Farid |
FRED/FARID GROUP |
Chief Creative Officers |
Results and Effectiveness
These punchlines went viral like crazy... making the whole world participate to a very bizarre "pre-divorce ceremony" with 24 000 mentions in a week (Topsy), 500 000 web pages over 9 months (Google)... and an estimated cost of 100 millions dollars (AdWeek).
But most importantly, our "Omnipub project" generated a hilarious series of bizarre "crying-laughing" pic, "pinching-hugging" pic, "Ouch-you're-hurting-me-now-John" pic and "Shall-we-jump-together-now-Maurice?" pic...
In the end, no one was hurt... and this little story proved once again... that love really is blind."
Creative Execution
First we sent a fake letter from Omnicom's CEO John Wren, to Publicis' CEO Maurice Levy.
Meanwhile we sent another fake letter from Maurice to John
They instantly gathered the press to announce the good news: the wedding would happen in a few months... the whole world would be invited... and the newly composed family would protect us from evil data minded Google & Facebook.
To spice things up, we asked anti-trust laws and governments regulations to slow things down a little... hoping a few obstacles would fuel their desire...
Insights, Strategy and the Idea
The communication business is dominated by giants... worldwide companies driven by CFOs, shareholders and stock markets. They eat up and digest any company tickling them in their world domination plan. It's harder and harder for creative boutiques to survive.
So at Fred & Farid, we had an idea...
Why not organizing an epic #fail with 2 giants? Instead of the usual David against Goliath... we made a Goliath against Goliath story. We created... the "Impossible Wedding"... an impossible marriage in between Omnicom, the biggest American network... and Publicis, the biggest French network... a New World Communication Order. Code name: "Omnipub".