Title | SILVER SNIPERS |
Brand | LENOVO SWEDEN |
Product/Service | LEGION |
Category |
F02. Low Budget / High Impact Campaign |
Entrant
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EHRENSTRAHLE DDB Stockholm, SWEDEN
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Idea Creation
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EHRENSTRAHLE DDB Stockholm, SWEDEN
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PR
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EHRENSTRAHLE DDB Stockholm, SWEDEN
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PR 2
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TEXT 100 Stockholm, SWEDEN
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Production
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LINK FILM Uppsala, SWEDEN
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Credits
Markus Bjurman |
Ehrenstråhle |
Creative Director |
Oskar Ferm |
Ehrenstråhle |
Art Director |
Joakim Estemar |
Ehrenstråhle |
Copywriter |
Sophia Meijer |
Ehrenstråhle |
Business Director |
Jonna Peltonen |
Ehrenstråhle |
Production Manager |
Anna Mattsson |
Ehrenstråhle |
Social Media Manager |
Mia Kleist |
Ehrenstråhle |
Project manager |
Sofia Rönnqvist |
Ehrenstråhle |
Final Art |
Lisa Thunander |
Ehrenstråhle |
Final Art |
Susanne Åström |
Ehrenstråhle |
Final Art |
Lars "Kongo" Carlsson |
Ehrenstråhle |
Final Art |
Linda Engström |
Ehrenstråhle |
Final Art |
Linus Nilsson |
Linkfilm |
Cinematographer |
Emma Nilsson |
Linkfilm |
Project manager |
Johan Nordqvist |
Linkfilm |
Sound / Grading |
Provide budget details
Campaign creation including
- casting 1000 EUR
- photography 2000 EUR
- production of merchandise 1000 EUR
- web design 3000 EUR
- film production 2000 EUR
- Coach and team salaries 5000 EUR
- Dreamhack event 3000 EUR
- Art Direction 1500 EUR
- Copywriting 1500 EUR
Overall budget 20 000 EUR
Paid media budget 15 000 EUR
Why is this work relevant for Brand Experience & Activation ?
We saw an opportunity to reach right into the heart of the gaming community by entering our campaign vehicle at one of the biggest gaming events of the year, using it as a springboard for our campaign. Instantly it spread around the world, among the hardcore gaming fans and out into the general public only aided by a website and some social media posts.
Background
Situation: E-sport is the fastest growing sport in the world with 113 million fans worldwide / 147 million occasional viewers (2015). The competition between brands wanting to make an impression is fierce and the gamers themselves are a notoriously hard to reach audience.
Brief / Challenge: Lenovo wanted to promote their brand and line of gaming computer hardware ‘Legion’ to this audience. The budget was limited (Approx $20, 000 in total), which immediately cancelled out any major production and ATL media campaign. It also challenged our use of bigger names within influencers among the gaming industry, which could have helped us. Another challenge was to find the best way of reaching the gamers on our market, when most of them consume media on a global scale.
Describe the creative idea
Insights: When looking at e-sports, we found that it as a culture attracts mainly young men (10:1 ratio 2018), both playing and following, excluding not only women, but also older people. The elderly are also seen as the digital underclass. We found that doing something different could really be about challenging the norms of the actual players taking part. Because gaming really isn’t about physical status or about who you are or where you’re from. Anyone should be able to take part. As a result, we created the world’s first senior CS:GO team – The Silver Snipers.
Describe the strategy
Target Audience: Young gamers and fans on our market.
Planning & approach: As our audience consume game-related media on a global scale rather than local, we had to re-imagine the choice of media, be effective, stand out and mind the budget. We chose to launch our team on a website and enter ´different´ in shape of an actual living pro-team of elderly into a real live event where the world is watching.
Describe the execution
In November 2017 we embodied ´different´ in the shape of a never before seen Counter Strike team of elderly men and women, between 63 and 81 years of age on our website. After two weeks of training (shared on social media) we hi-jacked Dreamhack, one of gaming’s biggest events of the year and entered our ´Silver Snipers´ to take on the international pro-teams. And it was an outstanding success. A very different and lovable team entered at the center stage of a hard-to-reach scene, a website and a few social posts causing a stir in 157 countries, appearing on over 400 news sites, even reaching national TV in China.
List the results
- People from 157 different countries visited the Silver Snipers website
- 144 000 upvotes on Reddit
- 116 million in total reach
- Social Media Engagement target: 100.000
- Social Media Engagement result: 679.911
- 434 780 views on Imgur
- News coverage from 700+ articles