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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>“Mac vs. PC”</strong><br /><strong>Apple Mac - TBWA\Media Arts Lab Los Angeles</strong> <br />Market share up 70% from 2006 – 2010 and sales more than doubled. Students now four times more likely to buy a Mac than a Dell or HP.
  • <strong>“Whopper Sacrifice”</strong><br /><strong>Burger King - Crispin Porter + Bogusky Boulder</strong> <br />234,000 friends dumped before Facebook sabotaged the app. Proving Americans love the Whopper more than they like their friends.
  • <strong>“Melody Road”</strong><br /><strong>Dunlop Tyres - Dentsu Razorfish Tokyo</strong> <br />Traffic fatalities down 20% in the Nagano prefecture . Tourist revenue up 20%.
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>FIAT eco:Drive - AKQA London</strong> <br />The 30,000 “residents” of eco:Ville reduced CO2 emissions by enough to cook them all dinner for 144 days. Fiat sold 1m. eco:Drive enabled cars
  • <strong>“Magic Salad Plate”</strong><br /><strong>Four ‘n Twenty Meat Pies - Clemenger BBDO Melbourne</strong> <br />40% increase in single serve sales and 27% increase in four packs
  • <strong>“Go on Lad” </strong><br /><strong>Hovis Bread - Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy London</strong> <br />Revitalised campaign grew sales by 14% year-on-year. Generating £90m incremental profit. (IPA Effectiveness Grand Prix 2010)
  • <strong>“Share our Billboard”</strong><br /><strong>James Ready - Leo Burnett Toronto</strong> <br />Since launch of “Help us help you pay less” campaign “to keep JR a buck”, the brand has increased sales by 183.6%
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>Jewish Council for Education & Research - Droga5 New York</strong> <br />Over 25,000 young New Yorkers made the Great Schlep to educate their grandparents about Obama. Democrats regained Florida with highest % of Jewish voters in 30 years
  • <strong>“Melting” campaign</strong><br /><strong>Perrier - Ogilvy Paris</strong> <br />“Melting” campaign recreated iconic brand appeal leading to best two business years in last 10 for Perrier.
  • <strong>“Dance”</strong><br /><strong>T-Mobile - Saatchi & Saatchi London</strong> <br />In depressed market, with mobile phone usage down one third, T-Mobile grew sales in 2009 by 52%
  • <strong>“Couples”</strong><br /><strong>Viagra - Taxi Toronto</strong> <br />Viagra retains two-thirds share of Canadian market despite two big competitive launches
  • <strong>“Love at First Flight”</strong><br /><strong>Virgin Atlantic - RKCR/Y&R London</strong> <br />25th Birthday “Still Red Hot” ads. drove 20% of total revenue in campaign’s timeline. A payback of £14.64 for every £1 in TV. (IPA Effectiveness Silver 2010)


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