2016 Promo & Activation

PARIS AÉROPORT - PARIS IS OUR GIFT

TitlePARIS AÉROPORT - PARIS IS OUR GIFT
BrandPARIS AÉROPORT
Product/ServicePARIS AÉROPORT DUTYFREE
Category C02. Use of Mobile
Entrant W&CIE Boulogne Billancourt, FRANCE
Idea Creation W&CIE Boulogne Billancourt, FRANCE
Credits
Name Company Position
Grégoire WEIL W&Cie Deputy Managing Director
Gabriel LIPPIS W&Cie Creative Director
Marguerite DE LACHARRIERE W&Cie Account Manager
Charley BOURGUIGNON W&Cie Copywriter
Guillaume DUPRE W&Cie Senior Art Director
Linghy Ren W&Cie Art Director
Asma Kanzari W&Cie Copywriter

The Campaign

We launch the ANTI SHOPPING ADD: an app that rewards tourists for visiting famous Parisian spots. The more tourist spots they visited, the more discounts they earned to spend at the Airport’s Duty Free shops on their outward journey.

Campaign Success

1. Tourists are geolocated and receive a notification when they are near a famous spot to visit in Paris 2. To unlock duty free discounts, they simply have to snap a photo of themselves at the tourist attraction and share it on Weibo and Wechat

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

In few months, the app generated: • 300 000 unlocked vouchers, used at Paris Airport Duty Free shops • 500 000 online interactions

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

The “Paris Is Our Gift” app is a well-thought out mobile application, designed to encourage Chinese tourists not to shop in Parisian stores, but rather spend at the Duty Free shops at the airport! All they had to do was to geolocalize, take a selfie of themselves and post it online on Chinese social medias, so as to unlock vouchers to directly use at the airport Duty Free stores. The social media operation on Weibo and Wechat generated more than 500 000 online interactions!

The strategy was to associate this ANTI SHOPPING APP with Chinese social media, Weibo and Wechat. The app was first launch of this social media platforms and in the airports, as part of a global campaign targeting the 200 000 Chinese tourists, travelling to Paris for the Chinese New Year.