HP ELLIE GOULDING

TitleHP ELLIE GOULDING
BrandHP EMEA
Product/ServiceHP SPECTRE X360
Category E02. Interactive Video
Entrant Company 180 AMSTERDAM Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Advertising Agency 180 AMSTERDAM Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Production Company ACNE PRODUCTION Stockholm, SWEDEN
Credits
Name Company Position
Al Moseley 180 Amsterdam President And Chief Creative Officer
Dave Canning 180 Amsterdam Executive Creative Director
Dan Treichel 180 Amsterdam Executive Creative Director
Martin Terhart 180 Amsterdam Creative Director
Martin Beswick 180 Amsterdam Creative Director
Stephane Lecoq 180 Amsterdam Art Director
Megan Wooding 180 Amsterdam Head Of Account Management
Kim Waugh 180 Amsterdam Account Manager
Danielle King 180 Amsterdam Account Assistant
Susan Cook 180 Amsterdam Head Of Production
Colin Pueschner 180 Amsterdam Producer
Neil Henry 180 Amsterdam Producer
Jonas Vail 180 Amsterdam Planning Director
Paul Chauvin 180 Amsterdam Planner
Jen Bechard 180 Amsterdam Project Manager
Sarah Gough 180 Amsterdam Business Affairs
Daniel Eskils ACNE Director
Frederik Skoglund ACNE Executive Producer
Jacob Eklund ACNE Producer

Creative Execution

hpbendtherules.today was the main campaign hub with all comms driving to it. Ellie, the artists, and fans shared the video across multiple social channels. A mobile friendly site was also created.

The main campaign objective was to create credibility, coolness, and talk-value for HP and the HP Spectre x360 amongst Young Millennials. 1.8 million people visited the site, with 67% of people returning. The 6 artists had a combined reach of over 3.4 million followers. They generated 36 social media posts with nearly 150,000 engagements and over 10 million impressions. A surprise post from Ellie grew the campaign’s reach to 30 million, with an organic reach of 2 million. In social media, the video received nearly 375,000 Likes and over 450,000 YouTube views. The behind-the-scenes film had over 90,000 views.

Young Millennials are tough – especially for HP, which they see as boring office computers. Lacking relevance means losing the future of PC owners. Typically skeptical, they prefer to follow and share content from people they admire, rather than content that feels too much like “marketing”. With the objective of creating credibility, coolness, and talk-value for HP and the HP Spectre x360, our idea was to give them a unique way to experience and interact with a musician they already loved, Ellie Goulding, and work from influential global visual artists/animators. We filmed Ellie singing a special acoustic version of her hit song “Burn”, then teamed her up with 6 visual artists/animators to make the video interactive. 24 works were created, and viewers could interact with and change the artwork in the video using the H and P keys on their keyboards, meaning very viewer created their own unique music video.