Title	RIDE COMFORTABLY
Brand	OPEL DENMARK
Product/Service	CARS
Category	A03. Cars & Automotive Products & Services
Entrant	UNCLE GREY Copenhagen, DENMARK
Idea Creation	UNCLE GREY Copenhagen, DENMARK
Media Placement	CARAT Copenhagen, DENMARK
Production	THE WOERKS Copenhagen, DENMARK

Name	Company	Position
Thomas Ilum	Uncle Grey	Creative Director
Lukas Lund	Uncle Grey	Senior Art Director
Carl Angelo	Uncle Grey	Art Director
Mathias Nielsen	Uncle Grey	Motion Designer
Carsten Bülow	Uncle Grey	CCO
Madeleine Tronbakken Naesborg	Uncle Grey	Account Director
Thomas Gram Veyssière	The Woerks	Excutive producer
Laerke Herthoni	The Woerks	Director
Sebastian Winterø	The Woerks	Director Of Photography
Jeppe Bødskov	The Woerks	Editor
Oliver Knauer	Oliver Knauer	Still Photographer
Peter Jurland	Opel Danmark	CMO
Core Copenhagen	Core Copenhagen	Digital produciton
Beon	Beon	Seeding Company
Think PR	Think PR	PR company

The Campaign

During our research we discovered a study by Denmark’s leading hospital indicating that today, Danish men have less of the male sex hormone, testosterone, than they had fifty years ago, leading to low sex drive and low confidence. Quite a problem when launching an Opel station wagon that demands a lot from the man and his confidence. To help them deal with their manhood we decided to design a pair of underwear called Ride Comfortably – testosterone-friendly underwear that makes men manly enough to buy an Opel station wagon. The underwear was designed with inspiration from the design lines of the Sports Tourer with comfortable features like the mesh structure – providing perfect ventilation for the male crotch and testosterone production. We created a unique identity for the underwear and treated them as a high-end fashion label. The underwear could be ordered online for free and shipped to your house.

Creative Execution

Our launch film established the low testosterone amongst Danish men and then the solution, Ride Comfortably. The film used surprising visuals, focusing purely on male crotches, to gain attention on the social media platforms it was published on: Facebook and YouTube. A campaign site was developed as well, showcasing the underwear with the help of a fashionable photo shoot and through technical descriptions. Here people could order the underwear or share them with friends. The campaign stretched over 3 weeks and consisted of the launch film, photos from the fashion shoot, GIF’s with specially crafted 3D renders of the underwear. It was wrapped up with a film of the Opel Astra Sports Tourer covered by the Ride Comfortably underwear. The campaign was rolled out with a well planned, yet adaptive, media plan – using everything from Facebook sponsored post, Instagram influencers, native advertising and a big seeding effort.

Results

The campaign was a huge success and it reached people all over the world, gaining 51.383.309 media impressions. The underwear was sold out in just a couple of days. But more impressive was the fact that 38.8% of people ordering the underwear also signed up to the Opel newsletter. Opel’s investment in the campaign was worth every penny with a return of investment reaching 675%. Compared to previous car launches Opel addressed people with a different kind of message and tone of voice, generating PR that spread from the global auto industry to general pop culture – thus gaining access to a much larger target audience than usually.

When launching the new station wagon, Opel Astra Sports Tourer, we decided to introduce a new underwear brand called Ride Comfortably. It is the result of thorough research of our main target group who apparently needed a helping hand, the underwear, in order to buy a station wagon. When people ordered the underwear we got their emails, which now serves as the perfect ongoing relationship.

The car industry is packed with slow-motion shots of drifting vehicles on scenic mountain roads. We decided to break the category and focus on something else than the car: The people. With this in mind we researched and found that Danish males testosterone is in decline and therefore we created Ride Comfortably – testosterone-friendly underwear. By creating a physical product we could reach our target group in a completely new way. Not only by getting into their underwear drawer, but also by showing our support to the Danish young men transitioning into adults. We took a stand as a brand that knows their target group well and spoke with a surprising and funny tone of voice. We launched the campaign with an online film on social media, leading people to a website where they could read more about the underwear, order them for free and recommend them to a friend.