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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>“Premature Perspiration”</strong><br /><strong>Axe Dry Full Control - Ponce Buenos Aires</strong> <br />Dry Full Control becomes No 1 seller among all Axe variants. Brand recall by key target globally up to over 90%!
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>CEPF/China Environment Protection Fund - DDB China Shanghai</strong> <br />3.9m. pedestrians participated. Awareness of environmental protection up 86% in what is now world’s largest car market. (500m. vehicles on the road)
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>Decode JayZ with Bing - Droga 5 New York</strong> <br />Bing gets 1.1billion global media impressions. Enters 10 most visited sites in US. “Decoded” straight to No 2 in NY Times best seller list
  • <strong>“Super Sexy CPR”</strong><br /><strong>Fortnight Lingerie - Red Urban Toronto</strong> <br />Super Sexy CPR got world wide media attention. Sales up 800% in Canada and company secured international distribution.
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>Google Chrome Speed Tests - BBH/Google Creative Lab New York</strong> <br />Chrome’s market share up 7.4%, adding 120m. users. Overtakes Apple Safari as world’s second most popular web browser.
  • <strong>“Getaway”</strong><br /><strong>Mini Countryman - Jung Von Matt Stockholm</strong> <br />Countryman sales up 108% in first quarter post-campaign. Mini’s best sales quarter ever in Sweden
  • <strong>“Write the Future”</strong><br /><strong>Nike - Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam</strong> <br />Nike became most shared brand online in 2010. During and after the World Cup sales for Nike products up 7% globally.
  • <strong>“Responses”</strong><br /><strong>Old Spice - Wieden & Kennedy Portland</strong> <br />Two-day interactive event where Old Spice guy answers questions in real time. Old Spice became No 1 all time most viewed and No 1 most subscribed brand channel on YouTube
  • <strong>“Devin & Glenn”</strong><br /><strong>Opposition to Prop 8 - Saatchi & Saatchi New York</strong> <br />In 2008, Prop 8 banned same-sex marriage in California. “Devin and Glenn” short film garnered over 35 m. media impressions on zero media dollars in first week. Prop 8 overturned on Aug 8, 2010
  • <strong></strong><br /><strong>POWA/People Opposed to Women Abuse - Ogilvy Johannesburg</strong> <br />Calls to POWA increased by 311% with an unprecedented number of men reporting suspected abuse.
  • <strong>“American Rom”</strong><br /><strong>Rom Bar - McCann Erickson Bucharest</strong> <br />Replacement of Rom’s original wrapper with American flag caused national furore. Scam confessed to: market share up 79%
  • <strong>“See the Person”</strong><br /><strong>Scope Charity - Leo Burnett Melbourne</strong> <br />Rudely Interrupted’s film clip on TV led to sell-out live performances in all five states. Charity’s income up 70% on previous year.
  • <strong>“Lucky Line”</strong><br /><strong>Uniqlo - Dentsu Inc Tokyo</strong> <br />The world’s first website waiting line attracted 180,000 people in Japan, 630,000 in Taiwan and 1.3m. in China. Uniqlo set single day sales record in Japan of +10 billion yen.
  • <strong>“The Force”</strong><br /><strong>Volkswagen Passat - Deutsch Los Angeles</strong> <br />With 42m. YouTube views and 2.7m. Facebook shares, the most viewed online car ad of all time.
  • <strong>“Speed Camera Lottery”</strong><br /><strong>Volkswagen - DDB Stockholm</strong> <br />Reduced average speed on busy Stockholm road by 6.8km/h. Over “Fun Theory” campaign VW’ s share of eco car market in Sweden has more than doubled.
  • <strong>“Save as WWF”</strong><br /><strong>WWF - Jung von Matt Hamburg</strong> <br />Not a campaign for environmental protection. This is environmental protection. The world’s first green file format (it can’t be printed out). Software downloaded 30,000 times with visitors from 183 countries.


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