MAN CAVE

Silver Eurobest

Demo Film

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TitleMAN CAVE
BrandHORNBACH
Product/ServiceDIY HOME IMPROVEMENTS SUPERSTORES
Category C01. Content
Entrant HEIMAT Berlin, GERMANY
Idea Creation HEIMAT Berlin, GERMANY
Production EASYDOESIT Berlin, GERMANY
Additional Company FOR SALE DIGITAL Hamburg, GERMANY
Additional Company 2 HESSE STUDIOS Berlin, GERMANY
Additional Company 3 VIVIDGREY.DE Berlin, GERMANY
Additional Company 4 NEULANT VAN EXEL Berlin, GERMANY
Additional Company 5 FLIX AGENCY Berlin, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Thomas Schnaitmann Hornbach Client Marketing Director
Julia Ziegelmann Hornbach Client Marketing Director
Guido Heffels HEIMAT Berlin Chief Creative Officer
Guido Heffels HEIMAT Berlin Creative Director
Gün Aydemir HEIMAT Berlin Creative Director Digital
Jonas von Schwedes HEIMAT Berlin Senior Art Director
Corbinian Hennies HEIMAT Berlin Senior Copywriter
Natalie Schaaf HEIMAT Berlin Junior Copywriter
Nicolas Blättry HEIMAT Berlin Copywriter
Jonas Sebastian Weber HEIMAT Berlin Graphic Designer
Frauke Bielefeldt HEIMAT Berlin Agency Account Director
Xenia Kraider HEIMAT Berlin Agency Account Manager
Franziska Lequen HEIMAT Berlin Agency Account Manager
Katrin Kaiser HEIMAT Berlin Agency Producer
Chehad Abdallah - Director
Phillip Kaminiak - Director of Photography
Sebastian von Gumpert - Executive Producer
Gregor Moellers - Producer
Herold Vomeer - Actor
Frank Groll - Photographer
Simon Geis - Post Producer

The Campaign

Everyone needs a place to retreat. A spot where the inner madness can be acted out. This place was invented by HORNBACH. And it's called "Man Cave". The manliest place on earth - where whiskers grow on wood. In this room HORNBACH made armchairs fly and beer flow through a hall. It brought the forest into a huge wheel and a fishing pond into a living room. Created and explained by an authentic quick-witted man who entertained the masses with anecdotes. But a good project also needs a serious core. The Man Cave projects function. There are no tricks. No double bottom. Users can download the construction guides on the microsite and they find each tiny screw in every HORNBACH Market. This professional madness was spread all over the internet and revolutionized the genre of online tutorials.

Creative Execution

Every fridays. At 2 pm. The Man Cave ruled the HORNBACH Facebook Channel. After the online community got used to this rhythm, it cried out to see the next episode already on Wednesday. During 5 weeks this digital campaign was spreaded in different social media channels. On Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter all these heroic projects were broadcasted in a short video. On YouTube as pre-role ads, on Facebook the whole episode was shown, on Instagram 15 sec. versions of the episodes as loops and on Twitter as sponsored ads. First it was teased with a short trailer on these channels. Afterwards the full video of each project was published. Moreover there was a trailer shown in cinemas. In all these playouts was a link to the "Man Cave" microsite integrated. On this site people found all projects including the construction plans.