2015 Promo & Activation

ASSEMBLY FAIL

TitleASSEMBLY FAIL
BrandIKEA GERMANY
Product/ServiceASSEMBLY SERVICE
Category A07. Use of Print or Standard Outdoor in a Promotional Campaign
Entrant Company THJNK Hamburg, GERMANY
Advertising Agency THJNK Hamburg, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Armin Jochum Thjnk Cco
Bettina Olf Thjnk Executive Creative Director
Georg Baur Thjnk Creative Director
Torben Otten Thjnk Creative Director
Niko Auf dem Berge Thjnk Art Director
Karl Wolfgang Epple Thjnk Copywriter
Verena Harwege Thjnk Account Director
Victoria Linz Thjnk Account Manager
Hilko Wiegmann Thjnk Final Artwork
Lucie/Lisann Lucie/Lisann Post Production

The Brief

Task: Create a campaign that showcases IKEA’s assembly service.

Campaign Success

IKEA furniture is actually not all that hard to assemble. But as everyone knows, you can easily mix up some of the parts and end up putting it all together back to front. It can happen to anyone. Even billposters, so it would seem.

Describe the success of the promotion with both client and consumer including some quantifiable results

Perfectly ordinary posters created a viral hit. But what’s different is that the motifs have evidently been mounted the wrong way round, as can happen with the products shown. Luckily, that’s where IKEA’s assembly service is happy to help.

Explain why the method of promotion was most relevant to the product or service

With a good old billboard we´ve created a viral hit.