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Bullets from Gunn

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For the last 4 years or so, Emma and I have made it our custom to end off Gunn Report Presentations (at Festivals or other industry Forums or Agency or Client conferences) with a selection of rapid fire mini-cases.
These establish business results for a succession of the most famous campaigns of the moment from anywhere in the world. Their purpose is to provide evidence that virtually all of the work that our industry admires and applauds and awards the most is also highly successful in doing its job in the marketplace.

These mini-case features have come to be known as 'Bullets from Gunn'. This name was coined by Matias Palm-Jensen, co-founder of the renowned Swedish digital Agency, Farfar (top 4 in The Gunn Report's Digital Agencies table for 4 years in a row). And since May this year, Matias has been Chief Innovation Officer, Europe at McCann Erickson.

Matias saw the mini-cases feature in our presentation at the Wave Festival in Rio de Janeiro in May 2008. Liked what he was seeing and thought it was a message that our industry needed. And was waiting on the Copacabana Palace terrace afterwards with a big smile (like the one in the photo), a brace of Caipirinhas and a name for what we're doing.

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  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>Ariston Aqualtis Washing Machine - Leo Burnett Milan</strong> <br />Sales up 30% + in on-air period, despite premium price. Became the biggest selling washing machine in Italy
  • <strong>“Crashes” </strong><br /><strong>Axe 3 Body Spray - VegaOlmosPonce Buenos Aires</strong> <br />Novel marketing idea of “mixable fragrances” with ad. translation of “mixable women” achieves a 35% increase in consumption by reducing pack life significantly
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>Bangkok Insurance - Creative Juice\G1 Bangkok</strong> <br />Sales grown by 13% within 6 months of launch. Brand Age report s: “2nd most admired brand in market”
  • <strong>“Heidies”</strong><br /><strong>Diesel Underwear - Farfar Stockholm</strong> <br />Where 2 underwear models kidnap the Diesel salesman. No 1 viewed on YouTube after just one day, melting down servers everywhere.
  • <strong>“Evolution” </strong><br /><strong>Dove Self Esteem Fund - Ogilvy & Mather Toronto</strong> <br />Original viral generated free media coverage estimated at $150 million. The highest ROI in the history of advertising?
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>Happy Dent Tooth Whitening Gum - McCann Erickson Mumbai</strong> <br />Volume upsurge post-airing required Perfetti van Melle to build new production capacity
  • <strong>“The Power of Dreams” </strong><br /><strong>Honda - Wieden & Kennedy London</strong> <br />Drove unprecedented levels brand salience and preference. 31% “would consider a Honda for their next car”
  • <strong>“Come Into The Closet”</strong><br /><strong>Ikea - Forsman & Bodenfors Gothenberg</strong> <br />Sales of walk-in closet systems required added production capacity. ‘Come into the closet’ became theme of Stockholm Gay Pride Festival
  • <strong>“Love it or Hate It” </strong><br /><strong>Marmite Squeezy - DDB London</strong> <br />Sales growth from 2005 to 2007 of 10% in value. (IPA Effectiveness Bronze 2008)
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>Nike + - R/GA New York</strong> <br />Sales expectations hugely exceeded/ “re-invented running” with 10,000,000 miles logged in less than a year. Nike’s “Biggest marketing idea since Michael Jordan”.
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>Philips Norelco Bodygroom Shaver - Tribal DDB New York</strong> <br />Mr Smooth, the Bodygroom guy, got 900,000 visits in three weeks. Mentioned in 1,500 blogs. 13,000 other websites created links to it
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>Smooth E Babyface Scrub - JEH United Ltd Bangkok</strong> <br />Sales up 153% month after launch. 4,250,000 gift sets product + “Love Story” DVD sold out in 2 weeks


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