| Title | BAC'ELSTEIN |
| Brand | BAGELSTEIN |
| Product/Service | BAGEL |
| Category |
B01. Use of Ambient Media: Small Scale |
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Entrant
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BAGELSTEIN Strasbourg, FRANCE
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Idea Creation
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FAMOUSGREY PARIS, FRANCE
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Credits
| Romain Repellin |
FamousGrey |
Executive Creative Director |
| Régis Boulanger |
FamousGrey |
Executive Creative Director |
| Anthony Legrand |
FamousGrey |
Copywriter |
| Sergio Alves |
FamousGrey |
Art Director |
| Charles Baderspach |
FamousGrey |
Account Director |
| Barbara Georget |
FamousGrey |
Account executive |
| Gilles Abecassis |
Bagelstein |
CEO |
| Marion Champain |
Bagelstein |
Head of communication |
Why is this work relevant for Brand Experience & Activation ?
The aim of the campaign was to increase brand awareness and brand preference across a specific target, the high school student.
It succeeded in several ways, online with over 2 million organic views and in-store with an increase of restaurant visits.
Background
Bagelstein is the French leader of Bagels. They have more than 120 restaurants in France and are extending in EU.
In order to reinforce the brand preference and build awareness across the 15-20 years old target, Bagelstein decided to communicate around the once-in-a-life time event for high school students in France: the Baccalauréat (french high school diploma).
The question was simple: how to approach the target in a clever and unique way to create organic discussion, when you’re a bagel franchise?
Describe the creative idea
To interfere in the everyday life of the high school students, before and during the Baccalauréat (french high school diploma), and to have echo with a wider audience (consumers, social media users), we created the first bottle with cheat sheet on it.
We produced a range of 4 bottles of water sold in all the restaurants of the French bagel franchise.
On each bottle, we replaced the standard information by specific cheat sheets written by teachers for the exam, on 4 different subjects: Philosophy, English, History - Geography and Economy.
Describe the strategy
We decided to focus our communication on the 15-25 years old, urban target.
They represent around 40% of the customers going to Bagelstein to have lunch everyday, as most of the restaurants are located in the city center and usually close to high schools.
The media to use was clearly social media with a focus on Facebook and Instagram.
We also created a PR kit to send our bottles to media and influencers with close accointance to our target.
We thought that productising was really close to Bagelstein spirit, and it also appears to be an innovative way to get the closest we could to our target audience, without being seen as an invasive brand.
Describe the execution
We change the supply chain during one month, to replace the classic bottles’ labels by our special “cheat sheet” labels.
Then, we produced a 40 seconds video in mobile format to present the concept on Facebook and Instagram, splits in 10 seconds to be used as story on Instagram.
The bottles were available for sale in the French restaurants during June.
We also send a PR kit with the bottles to journalists (TV, radio, press), bloggers and French influencers.
The campaign was launched the 1st of June, 17 days before high school diploma.
There was no media budget associated to the launch of the campaign.
List the results
50 million impressions (Social media, TV, PR coverage)
More than 2 million organic views on Facebook and Instagram, making Bac’elstein the most seen video in the history of our Facebook page.
More than 90K interactions (likes, comments, shares)
More than 5 000 new followers during the campaign period
Increase by 20% of the restaurant visits during the period.
140 000 bottles sold