Experiential marketing is all about customer experience.  It’s about the engagement and interaction with brands products and services using the human appeal for sensory experiences.

Experiences allow people to connect to a brand or a message which in turn allows them to make intelligent and informed purchasing decision, or as you will see in the following video, life saving decisions… at least that’s what Shell and JWT Ukraine had in mind when they launched ‘’The Pedestrian Ghost Campaign’’, but at what cost?

Being that speeding and pedestrian safety seems to be a big problem in Ukraine with the highest percentage of pedestrian collisions in Eastern Europe (56%), an ambient advertising in the form of human shaped balloon popping up right beside the speeding car was designed and implemented to educate motorist about the dark side of speeding.

What an experience and brand connection!  I bet all the drivers senses where put to the test here.   Imagine yourself speeding in the middle of the night when suddenly a ‘’Pedestrian’’ pops almost in front of you…

Take a look at the video and let us know what you think about this campaign:

The JWT/SHELL Pedestrian Ghost Campaign.

For my part, even though the ‘’Experiential Theory’’ seems to be present at all levels (although in regards to brand association… it is still not clear how Shell made it’s presence clear during the whole thing… maybe another balloon popping out a few meters away saying: This scary moment brought to you by Shell!), I feel that this is way to dangerous and if I was JWT and Shell, I would be worried about the possibility of actually provoking that same accident the campaign is trying avoid, never mind the law suits that could follow…

Daniel Arenas Tello

VW UP empieza su carrera de acciones new media en Paris con este ambient en una pared a las afueras de Paris (Francia)

Nosotros en la agencia hemos presentado justamente acciones para este modelo. Esta semana sabremos si hemos ganado el concurso o no. Nuestras propuestas?.. puro ambient a gran escala!..

This days i been reading few books and i will like to share with you some of my highlight sentences. Hope you will enjoy it.

• You will find that a good idea has, as it were, self expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it. Thus possibilities in it withc you have overlooked will come light.
• In advertaisment an idea results from a new combination of specific knowledge about product and people with general knowledge about life and events.
• The habit of mind wich leads to a search for relationships betweem facts becomes of the highest importance in production of ideas.
• Pareto: namely, that an idea is nothing more nor less that a new combination of old elements.
• Coworking provides a way to be independent and connect with others, but just finding a room with desks and internet won´t cut it. Someone MUST step forward to create and hold the space where productive work and a saturated sense of community can happen at any time. In a coworking space, the catalyst prepares the space so that no attention needs to be paid to the environment, and instead attention can be paid to each other and the work.
• Coworking is a state of mind, a community and most important a unique global movement. But figuring out how to get the most out of this new, rapdly expanding concept of working can be difficult if you don´t know where to look.
• Indivivuals often seek out membership at a coworking space becouse they either feel isolated or becouse they are coming up against productivity barries. These folks don´t need an internet connnection and a desk. they already have that. What They need is a coworking community where they can work alongside others.

So with this inspirational quotes i will like to share with you what is going to be asmalljob the next year. It´s going to be a space where creativity flows with an enviroment and agency design that will help and encourage people to have fun, enjoy and play. A space where ideas will flow like the water.  I will like to present you the new asmalljob!..

BE WATER MY FRIEND..

So September is the most stress month of the year for us. We are preparing Four different actions at the same time.

- Trident pointlessfun.- Shadow puppets next week in Valencia stadium a mix of stunt marketing and 3Dmapping of the camp ( yes in camp) will be the first time in the world that someone is going to create this!.. stay tune!..

- General Optica. Stores activation .- Using Interactive games , AR, Kinect and facil recognition systems in order to create a new consumer experience . Also the first time in Spain with this type of action.

- Trident Paintbillboard.- A stunt game that will encourage people to play with a gun By Internet or live.

- Reebook . Store activation.- A guerrilla mkt campaign looking for the new face for Reebook next AD.

And much more new media actions in the pitch. So i´m sorry for not update to much this week the blog.

For this people who will like to know about all this projects a few advance of mockup´s..

Between August 29 and September 3 last, the Scandinavian surfers were invited to stain all white clothing with a robot installed in the hall of the station in Stockholm.
The latter was controllable via the Facebook page of the brand and was able to draw on the clothes selected without moving on hangers.

This was mainly Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway and brought together on the pages of each country more than 22 000 people.

After touring Spanish Music Festivals with a 1973 Volkswagen Beetle covered in graffiti with the DOODLE BUG activity, the Trident Senseless Fun Colective sent the A Small Job team on another mission, this time to the beautiful beaches of Peñiscola and Oropesa along the Spanish Valencia coast.

The main attraction here was the floating Igloo with a dancing bear on top…. The Igloo floated its way along the busy beaches of Oropesa and Peñiscola waiting for vacationers to send an SMS message with the person’s name in order to have to bear come out of his Igloo to perform a dance for that person.  On the beach was a team of Trident Senseless Staff distributing a flyer informing people of the number to send you SMS to…now that’s Senseless Fun at its best…

Stay tuned for our next Senseless fun mission during the coming weeks: A Puppet Show in a Football Stadium and a Reality Show with 500 Chickens…  The more Senseless the better!

What are your thoughts about this type of activity?  Would you have sent an SMS to the Dancing Bear?

Daniel Arenas Tello

3 D Mapping Billboard

3 D mapping is a hot trend and every brand wants to surf the trend.

They are still huge exterior displays affair that takes entire buildings and blocks, powerful and state of the art technology and of course…important budgets that only big brands can afford.

Brands such as ADIDAS came through with 3D sessions complete with its own DJ and musical display, RALPH LAUREN felt they needed to get into the craze and projected their own classy and unique brand personality on to building Façades, façades, façades…

But where and how will 3D Mapping evolve?  Folks at ACCESS AGENCY would say: AWAY FROM BUILDING FAÇADES AND INTO BILLBOARDS!

Take a look at this upcoming 3D Mapping Billboard for Mini by ACCESS AGENCY.  The concept breathes novelty and freshness.  It’s apparently not operational yet as it will be launching the new Mini Model in early 2012.

Can’t wait to see the results…

What do you think?  Is this “Augmented Reality” disguised as 3D Mapping?

Daniel Arenas Tello

Facebook integration Ushuaïa Beach Hotel

Is RFID and integration with social API’s the next big thing in Social Media?

It’s a great way to integrate social media into Experiential, Street or Ambient events and it allows you to achieve your Blended Strategy in a big way.  Social Media can only come out a winner with these types of technologies; they blend the digital world with the real world, a clear trend in social media marketing.

Folks at Dorst & Lesser are convinced it is, and after their experiment during the Amsterdam Motorshow in 2011, they do it again…this time for the Ushuaïa Beach Hotel in Ibiza.

The concept was to to have RFID devices all around the hotel, each device activated a different inscription on your Wall either statingthat you’re having the time of your life at the world’s party central in Ibiza or by having your picture taken and posted in real-time, all this by simply by passing your RFID wristbands.

The days when clubbing Wristbands where useless once past securities at the entrance are over!

What do you think of this technology?  Will it stick or will it fade away?

Daniel Arenas Tello

In a salute to the flimsy plastic cars that come shrink-wrapped in breakfast cereal, the Vancouver arm of digital agency Dare assembled this gigantic box of knockoff Cheerios, then put a real Honda Civic in front of it. The conceit is a bit fantastical. It’s supposed to make driving seem more fun—ostensibly like playing with a toy car—and thus help British Columbia Honda peddle the Civic model. But it’s mostly a clever spectacle for rubberneckers, joining a growing genre of over-the-top auto-related ad constructions. Kind of like the insanely tall ramp Hot Wheels is building at the Indy 500 to sell toys—only more cutesy and less terrifyingly badass. In the U.S., of course, Civic campaigns are monstrous, too—though a bit hairier. Via Creative Criminals.