THE MAGICAL ADVENT CALENDER
Title | THE MAGICAL ADVENT CALENDER |
Brand | TELEKOM DEUTSCHLAND GMBH |
Product/Service | BRAND |
Category |
A07. Financial Products & Services, Commercial Public Services, B2B Products & Services |
Entrant
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DDB GERMANY HAMBURG, GERMANY
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Idea Creation
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DDB GERMANY HAMBURG, GERMANY
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Idea Creation 2
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adam&eveDDB London, UNITED KINGDOM
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Media Placement
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MEDIACOM Düsseldorf, GERMANY
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Production
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UNIT9 London, UNITED KINGDOM
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Production 2
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TONY PETERSEN FILM Hamburg, GERMANY
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Production 3
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THE MILL London, UNITED KINGDOM
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Production 4
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HASTINGS MUSIC Hamburg, GERMANY
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Production 5
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MOKOH MUSIC Berlin, GERMANY
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Additional Company
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FACTORY London, UNITED KINGDOM
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Additional Company 2
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SONNY London, UNITED KINGDOM
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Credits
Dennis May |
DDB Group Germany |
Chief Creative Officer |
Fabian Roser |
DDB Group Germany |
Managing Director Creative |
Karsten Ruddigkeit |
DDB Group Germany |
Executive Creative Director |
Michael Zölch |
DDB Group Germany |
Creative Director |
Alessandro Rocco Tramontana |
DDB Group Germany |
Art Director |
Carsten Hohenstein |
DDB Group Germany |
Senior UX Designer |
Sarabjeet Singh |
DDB Group Germany |
Creative Technologist |
Dominika Zajac |
DDB Group Germany |
Art Director |
Juliane Ollendorf |
DDB Group Germany |
Junior Art Director |
Lena Schön |
DDB Group Germany |
Junior Art Director |
Philipp Truebiger |
DDB Group Germany |
Junior Art Director |
Thimon Machatzke |
DDB Group Germany |
Senior Copywriter |
Jeannette Bohné |
DDB Group Germany |
Copywriter |
Thomas Köhler |
DDB Group Germany |
Copywriter |
Katrin Spiegel |
DDB Group Germany |
Client Service Director |
Franziska Fischer |
DDB Group Germany |
Account Director |
Lena Landsberger |
DDB Group Germany |
Account Director |
Arianna Giese |
DDB Group Germany |
Account Manager |
Stefan Sindram |
DDB Group Germany |
Head of Strategy |
Meike van Meegen |
DDB Group Germany |
Head of TV |
Julian Faas |
UNIT9 Ltd. |
Animation |
Stephan Bischoff |
UNIT9 Ltd. |
Graphic Designer |
Steve McGeorge |
UNIT9 Ltd. |
Graphic Designer |
Ryan De Silva |
UNIT9 Ltd. |
Illustrator |
Ilaria Ponticelli |
UNIT9 Ltd. |
Illustrator |
Yog Joshi |
UNIT9 Ltd. |
Illustrator |
Sophie Langohr |
UNIT9 Ltd. |
Motion Graphic / 3D |
Axel Wagner |
UNIT9 Ltd. |
Sound Design |
Bruno Imbrizi |
UNIT9 Ltd. |
Technical Director |
Jan Brandt |
Jan Brandt |
Author |
The Campaign
It’s a German tradition to give kids an advent calendar on the first of December.
The 24 doors, hiding a chocolate treat, are opened daily till Christmas eve on the 24th.
The campaign: “The magical Advent Calendar” plays with that tradition by creating a multimedia experience that offers new content daily.
In the story little Jonas – a boy who would never share – finds the magical calendar and discovers that he can’t open the little doors on his own. Only with the help of others he can open the doors and reveal the chocolaty treat. While the film ends with Jonas sharing the last piece of chocolate with his sister Sara, the whole story was revealed piece by piece in an interactive audiobook via the website and Soundcloud.
By creating 24 episodes the campaign accompanied the Germans through the whole Christmas season.
Creative Execution
The campaign was built on three core elements:
The film:
Shot in the UNESCO cultural heritage ?eský Krumlov. It was released in a 2 minutes version on Youtube. The title song, originally written and composed by the Rolling Stones “You can’t always get what you want” supported our message.
The website:
Jonas’s room war created in 360°. Here users could open a new door daily and discover adventures with gamification approach and experience the power of sharing. Day by day the story evolved, with 24 lovingly animated illustrations in 180°-view.
Users could gather ‘Collectables’ to reuse in upcoming chapters and ‘Shareables’ to share via social media.
The audiobook:
Fully released via Soundcloud. It was especially written for the campaign to tell the full story of the magical advent calendar. The audiobook was read by the famous German actor and voice-artist Rufus Beck.
All these elements created a multichannel storytelling experience.
The film “The magical advent calendar” was watched almost 13. Mio. times and became the most successful Youtube-Ad in 2016. And many viewers followed the teaser to find out more and went online.
The website was visited more than 500k times and offered a mobile first 360° online experience. From here people were directed to Soundcloud, to discover the audiobook.
With 350.000 plays on Soundcloud the audio book even entered the German download and streaming charts: no. 1 in audio book charts, no. 5 in album charts.
Based on that it’s safe to say that the campaign was a success. The famous Telekom claim: “Life is for sharing” came to life as Telekom shared new stories daily.
Instead of creating “only” a film, the idea was to be present all Christmas season. Therefore, the campaign first kicked-off with the Christmas film on Youtube – where it quickly reached almost 13 Mio. views, making it the most successful Youtube-Ad in 2016. And led all users from social media onto the campaign’s microsite.
Via the website Der-magische-adventskalender.de the users could enter Jonas’s world. Here the magical calendar revealed new interactive adventures daily as well as an audiobook teaser. As the website was created to share “snack-content” the audiobook was hosted on Soundcloud, a platform where visitors are used to spend more time on. Here they could listen to a new audiobook episode daily.
By revealing new content every day, the campaign stayed relevant through the whole season and gave people a reason to come back to the website and Soundcloud daily.