WORKOUT BILLBOARDS

TitleWORKOUT BILLBOARDS
BrandCOCA-COLA
Product/ServicePOWERADE
Category A04. Use of Outdoor
Entrant Company OGILVY GERMANY Frankfurt, GERMANY
Advertising Agency OGILVY GERMANY Frankfurt, GERMANY
Media Agency MEDIACOM Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Production Company TONY PETERSEN FILM Berlin, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Dr. Stephan Vogel Ogilvy Germany Chief Creative Officer
Tim Stuebane/Birgit Van Den Valentyn Ogilvy Germany Executive Creative Director
Stese Wagner Ogilvy Germany Creative Director
Matthias Bauer/Moritz Carls/Stephan Westerwelle/Sven Gessner Ogilvy Germany Art Director
Janne Sachse Ogilvy Germany Copywriter
Stephen Kimpel/Alexander Milte Ogilvy Germany Account Management
Philip Hartmann/Katia Luebbert Coca-cola Advertiser's Supervisor
Felix Schmidt New Wave Kreativmanufaktur Production Designer
Georg Ilse/Manuel Kappmeyer Ogilvy Germany Agency Producer
Arri Mitte Arri Mitte Post Production
Florian Baeker Tony Petersen Film Gmbh Director
Sascha Kuznia Tony Petersen Film Gmbh Editor
Fabian Barz/Antonia Pahlke/Joern Thees Tony Petersen Film Gmbh Film Producer
Fabian Bettinger/Ali Jamshidi Tony Petersen Film Gmbh Dop

Brief Explanation

No one cares about advertising. But everyone cares about their body. The brief was to establish Powerade as the ultimate sports drink for active and sports enthusiasts – despite their rejection of advertising. So we didn't simply advertise, we made sports – by re-designing classical billboards into the world's first 'Workout Billboards'. Billboards which are advertising and training machines at the same time.

Results and Effectiveness

The Powerade 'Workout Billboards' excited our target group in three major german cities on three weekends. Thanks to the iconic and yet simply-smart design the billboards made 54,000 people not only aware of Powerade – but made them become actively involved with the product.

Creative Execution

We modified classical billboards and turned them into 'Workout Billboards'. Therefore we integrated sports equipment into standard billboards elegantly but at the same time fully functional. To ensure the highest design claim of a highly design driven product, we teamed up with experts in set construction. We placed our 'Workout Billboards' at top advertising locations in three big cities of Germany. And with the documentary film, we also proofed online: Powerade understands that to engage athletes – it needs more than regular advertising.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

Powerade is the drink for all active and sports loving people. The strategy was to address our target group by engaging them with something they truly love and get them active by themselves: with sports. To gain as much attention as possible we chose the locations for our 'Workout Billboards' according to the highest rate of passersby, within areas with lots of sports clubs, gyms and climbing gyms. On only 3 weekends we were able to engage 54,000 people with Powerade and mediate our message in a credible way.