PRIDESTREAM

TitlePRIDESTREAM
BrandKPN
Product/ServiceTELCO
Category B01. Mobile Websites
Entrant Company N=5 Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Advertising Agency N=5 Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
PR Agency COOPR Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Production Company MEDIAMONKS Hilversum, THE NETHERLANDS
Credits
Name Company Position
Ed Van Bennekom N=5 Art Director
Jasper Diks N=5 Copywriter
Zwier Veldhoen N=5 Creative Director
Olaf Van Der Geld N=5 Creative Director
Mickel Van Kouwen Big Pitcher Interactive Designer
Marcel Berghuis N=5 Interactive Designer
Renoud Netjes N=5 Motion Graphic Designer
Mijntje Cuijpers N=5 Strategy Planner
Elke Van Eijk N=5 Junior Strategy Planner
Ralph Balk N=5 Account Director
Floris Reuvers N=5 Account Executive
Jasper Baartmans N=5 Project Director Interactive
Tisha Hoppenbrouwers N=5 Producer Interactive
Christ Bloemheuvel N=5 Rtv Director
Mediamonks Development
Dutchview/Encircle Streaming
Chain Led Technique/Audio
The Ambassadors Animation/Sound
Vellance Hosting
Made.for.digital After Movie

Creative Execution

Our secured website Pridestream.org was the heart of the campaign. Here everyone around the world (including countries where Gay Pride is not a self-evident concept) was able to carefree experience the Canal Parade via livestream. Our 360° stream enabled virtual passengers to move their devices in order to change directions which made the experience as realistic as it gets. LED screens on all sides of the boat showed (anonymised) faces of LGBT’s streaming from all over the world. This provided a face to our empty boat and created a wild cheering crowd towards our virtual passengers via the camera.

During the busiest Amsterdam Gay Pride ever, there was one ‘empty’ boat amongst all the boats filled with dancing, partying people. This ‘empty’ boat actually had more people ‘on’ it than the other boats in the Boat Parade together. More than 68 thousand people from over 128 countries all over the world, including many countries where homosexuality is still taboo, sailed on this boat as virtual passengers via the 360? livestream on Pridestream.org. Pridestream gained a lot of (media) attention and was published in over 150 (inter)national media titles and broadcasted in 4 radio shows. Which resulted in a total of 80.540.948 impressions with over 4 million impressions on Facebook, 1.7 million impressions on Twitter and 74.576.428 earned media impressions. Which is worth an estimated value of more than 1 million euro in free publicity, with nearly any media budget.

Every year thousands of people come to Amsterdam to celebrate ‘gay’ freedom and the acceptance and equality for LGBT’s at the Amsterdam Gay Pride Canal Parade. However there are lots of places on the globe where this freedom and acceptance is far from obvious. Dutch telecom provider KPN believes everyone in the world should be able to feel free and appreciated for who they are. Therefore it developed Pridestream. A boat donated to all LGBT’s worldwide who are not able, allowed or convenient to express who they really are. KPN turned the boat with a 360° camera into a livestream. People all over the world could watch this stream via a (mobile) website in a live 360° view, though a secured Internet connection. . This way all virtual passengers where able to feel free and experience the pride when hundreds of thousands of people cheer for who you really are.