2015 Branded Content & Entertainment

INSIDE OUTSIDE - BEHIND EVERY DOWNLOAD THERE'S A STORY

TitleINSIDE OUTSIDE - BEHIND EVERY DOWNLOAD THERE'S A STORY
BrandWARNER
Product/ServiceNOVASTAR
Category A02. Non-Fiction: series or film
Entrant Company MAKE LEMONADE Leuven, BELGIUM
Contributing Company MAKE LEMONADE Leuven, BELGIUM
Credits
Name Company Position
Willem Van den Hoof Make Lemonade Creative Director
Han Van den Hoof Make Lemonade Creative
Wouter Bouvijn Freelance Director
Stijn Van de Voorde Studio Brussel Researcher
Maarten De Sutter Freelance Producer
Maximiliaan Dierckx Freelance DOP Lighting Cameraman
Gedeon De Pauw Freelance Sound Engineer
Maarten Vanvooren Visual Creations Post Production
Sophie Goossens Make Lemonade Production Manager

The Campaign

The first week of October 2014 a press release was sent out and a trailer of the documentary was released on TV and social media. Novastar was invited by numerous Belgian radio stations to talk about the film. On Sunday night October 5th, the film was broadcasted in National quality television station Canvas in their Sunday night music slot ‘Headliners’. Two weeks later trendsetting magazine HUMO pushed the documentary online to all its subscribers.

- The film received wide media attention and was talked about across many channels. - Trendsetting Belgian magazine HUMO pushed the film online to all its readers. - After the TV broadcast, Inside Outside climbed overnight from a sub-200 ranking into the iTunes top 50.

This case is appropriate to Branded Content& Entertainment because we developed a branded content piece in its purest form. Warner Music asked us to come up with a viral stunt for the new Novastar album. But when we listened to the record and talked with the artist, we felt that telling the rich and fascinating story behind the highly crafted album would be a better idea. We proposed to retrace the making of the album in a documentary that at the same time introduces the songs to the viewers in a respectful way. We convinced Belgium’s National quality TV station Canvas to co-produce the film and air it in their Sunday night music slot.