2015 Promo & Activation

AWAKEN YOUR SLEEPING DISTRICT

TitleAWAKEN YOUR SLEEPING DISTRICT
BrandADIDAS
Product/ServiceULTRABOOST RUNNING SHOES (PERFORMANCE RUNNING)
Category A08. Use of Competitions & Promotional Games 
Entrant Company TBWA\MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Advertising Agency TBWA\MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Credits
Name Company Position
Maxim Kolyshev TBWA\Moscow Сreative Director
Natalia Bystrova TBWA\Moscow Senior Art Director
Leonid Galkin TBWA\Moscow Creative Designer
Alexandra Vasilieva TBWA\Moscow Senior Copywriter
Leonid Galkin TBWA\Moscow Creative Designer
Maxim Maxutov TBWA\Moscow Creative Designer
Polina Krasnova TBWA\Moscow Creative Designer
Sergey Koptsiovsky TBWA\Moscow Strategic Director
Alexandra Natarova TBWA\Moscow Strategic Planner
Alexandra Chervotkina TBWA\Moscow Account Director
Natasha Polieva TBWA\Moscow Account Supervisor
Gavriil Spirin TBWA\Moscow Producer
Olga Kirillova TBWA\Moscow Producer
Denis Shushin TBWA\Moscow Head of Production
Alexey Ulanov TBWA\Moscow BU Director
Dmitry Vaschenko TBWA\Moscow Traffic Director
Kirill Blinov DAN Moscow Creative Director
Julia Gridneva DAN Moscow Editor-in-chief
Ekaterina Rybina Adidas Group Russia Senior Brand Manager
Tamara Nechepaeva Adidas Group Russia BU Director

The Brief

Our objectives: - Improve the brand image among the runners - Inspire people with running in their domestic districts Our strategy: Moscow was divided into 24 running districts that competed with each other for the title of the best running district in Moscow. It was quite simple for a beginner to participate in the campaign. This included following steps: - register on adidas-running.ru - choose a district, the beginner would like to represent - activate a running tracker - start running.

Campaign Success

Our activation was based on three main insights, that are relevant to Russian running community – local pride, striving for being leader and habit to measure sport results with gadgets. We decided to go forward and to create simple and clear site aggregating running data from individual running trackers. All collected kilometres were transferred for the favour of the one of the 24 districts, supported by runners. So, we converted running competition into the game – every month we announced intermediate results and delivered prizes for winning district. Anytime any participant, who registered on the site and chose the district to support, could see the information about competition – current rating of the districts, which of the participants ran maximum kilometres, who trains more often then others etc.

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

- Total number of participants was more than 15 000 - 4 times more than was planned. - More than 1,23 million kilometres was covered - 72% runners state that adidas running brand motivated and inspired them to train more hard and more often - adidas made the most desired running brand to buy: SPI 37%, difference between the brand and its main competitor: +5 - 3 times higher engagement rate than main competitor - adidas Ultra Boost running shoes were sold out at the first months of the campaign - The campaign inspired Russian rapper called Vladi with composing a song dedicated to the project - more than 300 000 views on youtube. - Total amount of impressions was 6 times more than in previous year - 22 million total reach

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

Running is not about talking it’s about action in a real life. There’s no other thing to stimulate actual running but real life activation.