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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>Adidas Olympics Launch - TBWA\China Beijing</strong> <br />Brand’s 10 month conversation with 1.3 billion Chinese began Dec 1, 2007. By eve of Games, Adidas overtakes Nike as #1 in China.
  • <strong>“Whopper Freakout” </strong><br /><strong>Burger King - Crispin Porter + Bogusky Miami</strong> <br />Highest advertising recall in IAG Research history.Sales up 4.5% vs. year ago.
  • <strong>“Gorilla” </strong><br /><strong>Cadbury’s Dairy Milk - Fallon London</strong> <br />CDM is long time UK market leader, but sales plateaud since a decade. Sales up 9% in Gorilla’s 12 weeks on air and 5% for year.(IPA Effectiveness Silver 2010)
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>California Milk Processor Board - Goodby, Silverstein & Ptnrs San Francisco</strong> <br />“Get the Glass” game attracted 1 million page visits with dwell time of up to 2 hours in a single sitting.
  • <strong>“The Power of Wind” </strong><br /><strong>Epuron - Nordpol+ Hamburg</strong> <br />Per Epuron client: dual aims – increase Epuron’s global brand awareness and bolster interest in wind energy – resoundingly achieved.
  • <strong>“Voyeur” Cube Film Installation</strong><br /><strong>HBO - BBDO New York</strong> <br />A demo of HBO’s unique storytelling. Installations in NY and Chicago drew huge crowds. In month one, 1.2 million viewers to website spending average of 9 minutes each.
  • <strong>“Cake” </strong><br /><strong>Skodia Fabia - Fallon London</strong> <br />Post-airing, by April 2008 Skoda’s UK market share reaches highest level since Dec 2000.
  • <strong>“Colour Like no Other”</strong><br /><strong>Sony Bravia TV - Fallon London</strong> <br />Restored Sony to brand leadership for TVs in UK. Becomes highest awareness LCD TV in Sony’s 4 key European markets
  • <strong>“Interview”</strong><br /><strong>Tide-To-Go - Saatchi & Saatchi New York</strong> <br />Voted #1 Superbowl ad 2008. 1 billion incremental media impressions. Shipments up 27% JFM08.
  • <strong>“Uniqlock” </strong><br /><strong>Uniqlo - Projector Inc. Tokyo</strong> <br />The Uniqlock, after one quarter, had attracted 68 million views in 209 countries.
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>WWF Earth Hour - Leo Burnett Sydney</strong> <br />In 1 year, Earth Hour grew from one city to six continents, 400 cities and with roughly 50 m. people taking part.
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>Xbox Halo 3 - McCann Worldgroup/TAG San Francisco</strong> <br />$170 m. in US in first 24 hours. $340 m. global sales in first week. Surpassed Spiderman 3 as biggest entertainment launch ever.


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