2017 Promo & Activation

LIKE WHAT YOU HATE

Short List
TitleLIKE WHAT YOU HATE
BrandVICE MEDIA SCANDINAVIAN
Product/ServiceBRANDING OF VICE.COM
Category A06. Media & Publications
Entrant VIRTUE SCANDINAVIA Copenhagen, DENMARK
Idea Creation VIRTUE SCANDINAVIA Copenhagen, DENMARK
PR VIRTUE SCANDINAVIA Copenhagen, DENMARK
Production VIRTUE SCANDINAVIA Copenhagen, DENMARK
Production 2 KOALITION New York, USA
Additional Company VICE MEDIA SCANDINAVIA Copenhagen, DENMARK
Credits
Name Company Position
Emil Asmussen VIRTUE Scandinavia Senior Copywriter
Trine Qvistgaard VIRTUE Scandinavia Art Director
Morten Grubak VIRTUE Scandinavia Creative Director
Sahand Porkar VIRTUE Scandinavia Junior Creative Technologist
Sandra Vinge VICE Media Producer Assistant
Ida Eriksen VICE Media Video Journalist
João Botelho VICE Media DOP

The Campaign

In it’s purest form, it’s a modern-day interpretation of the old saying “keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer”. Likewhatyouhate.com analyzes everything you ever liked on Facebook and maps out your political and ideological standpoint - and then counters it. You’ll get an extensive list of pages, people, politicians and groups you most likely hate. Based on how skewed your starting point is, you’ll have to keep liking until you reach a more balanced feed. As every user provides us with a unique set of data, we offer each of them a personal analysis of their filter bubble — and tell them how to break out.

Campaign Success

The campaign started as a digital tool but spread to social media, print ads, outdoors and even events. Because we thought this was a message worth spreading. Everything was launched within one week to make sure we made a powerful splash from day one.

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

The campaign created a lot of buzz on social media with more than 72.257 total views, 27.771 minutes viewed, and a total reach of 172K. But more importantly, it got picked up by several new sites discussing filter bubbles, social media, and VICE - and in the end, we even got a pad on the back by a professor at the IT University of Copenhagen: "Like What You hate is an interesting initiative [...] If the goal of the campaign is to show that there is always more than one perspective, then I believe it will work - and is a great attempt.” - Luca Rossi.

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

Even though VICE has a very strong brand in Denmark, it wasn’t trusted as a credible source for serious news and political debate. Without the money to push a large ATL campaign, we had to create something that the target group would participate in and spread themselves. So we created Like What You Hate: A filter bubble popper that spread through user participation.

With data at the core of the creative idea, the strategy was straightforward: Every user got their Facebook analyzed. We looked at what politicians, news sources, political groups and religious groups the user liked. Then, we countered this information. If the feed was primarily conservative, we encouraged the user to like liberal pages and vice versa. Depending on how skewed the feed was, the user had to like more pages in order to obtain a balanced feed.