REAL HOT DOG PRECISION

TitleREAL HOT DOG PRECISION
BrandSTATOIL FUEL & RETAIL
Product/ServiceHOT DOGS
Category E01. Social Video
Entrant Company SMFB Oslo, NORWAY
Advertising Agency SMFB Oslo, NORWAY
Production Company FOLKE FILM Stockholm, SWEDEN
Credits
Name Company Position
ANDRÉ KOOT SMFB CREATIVE DIRECTOR
HANS MARTIN RØNNESETH SMFB CREATIVE DIRECTOR
TUVA DYRNES SMFB ACCOUNT MANAGER
CHRISTIAN STEEN SMFB ACCOUNT DIRECTOR
ARNAR HALDORSSON SMFB Motion Artist
BENJAMIN RODGERS SMFB DESIGNER
KRISTJAN HAUKSSON SMFB ENGINE DIGITAL STRATEGIST
CHRISTIAN RAAE SMFB ENGINE DIGITAL STRATEGIST
MARIANNE HAUKNES SMFB ENGINE SOME MANAGER
MICHAEL GOKSØYR SMFB ENGINE SOME MANAGER
FILIP NILSSON FOLKE FILM DIRECTOR
DANIEL ANDERSSON FOLKE FILM LINE PRODUCER
JOI PERSSON FOLKE FILM PRODUCER
JENS JANSSON FOLKE FILM DOP Lighting Cameraman
LARS SANDER PLOP COMPOSER
FREDRIK SUNDBERG PLOP COMPOSER

Creative Execution

The stunt was performed without any trickery or special effects, what you see is what he did. The film was published on Facebook and Youtube. When doing the project we wanted to test the limits of organic pick up and crafted a content strategy that included customized emails to various bloggers, journalists and other influencers. These emails included unique content for each receiver tailored to what we thought would get them interested. On top of this we worked on several hash tags trying to take ownership of certain dialogs, pushing the content.

The Mirror (UK) picked it up and it really started to pick up when Mashable ran a story, the film being a top trending topic on that channel. Soon we saw media like Boston.com, CBS News and AOL, followed by hundreds of other channels worldwide including their core markets such as Norway, USA, Sweden, Russia, China and more. Thousands of Tweets done by users with small to millions of followers and at other social media such as Reddit you could find hundreds of great comments. Sales figures are currently under development, but Statoil Sweden has reported a 40% sales increase.

Ststoil Fuel & Retail were launching a new and improved hot dog menu. The core target group for these hot dogs are the blue collar workers who stop by for a snack in their way to and from work. We decided to approach these people in a way that could both get them engaged and make them feel appreciated as Statoil important Statoil customers. The idea was to launch the new hot dog menu in honor of the working man by paying tribute to their skills. Every little four year old boy dreams of driving an excavator, but not all of us end up doing it. So we decided to find one of the best and have him show off his skills on a hot dog. We figured it would catch the eye of other people in similar occupations and we hoped it would impress everyone else as well.