Last year, 96,1 million SMS messages were sent on New Year’s Eve. And 50% of Belgians have admitted to frequently sending a random, impersonal SMS to their contact list. That’s why Boondoggle and bpost thought of a temporary new product: the SMS card. An SMS that is sent as a real card, with your personal wishes printed on it. An original alternative to the routine SMS. And above all, the ideal way to position bpost in the digital world.
For the design, Boondoggle and bpost were inspired by classic SMS lingo, with an end-of-year twist. Six cards were made, each with a unique emoticon on the back. Examples include the SMS angel, the SMS reindeer and the SMS fire arrow.
How do you send an SMS card? Simply by sending an SMS to 3031 with the word ‘kaartje’ and following the instructions. Within 3 working days after sending the SMS, the SMS card will land in the recipient’s mailbox. Sending an SMS card costs 1,20 €. As easy as an SMS, but far more original. The campaign runs from December 15 until January 7.
Als eindejaarsactie voor Electrabel bedacht Boondoggle Sing-a-Wish, een website waar je wens live wordt ingezongen door een van de 21 improviserende muzikanten en daarna op het gevraagde tijdstip als boodschap op de voicemail van je vrienden of familie wordt achtergelaten. Met de actie wil Electrabel traditionele kerst- en eindejaarswensen nieuw leven inzingen.
Vanaf 21 december zullen elke dag, tussen 10 u en 22 u, een hele reeks Nederlandstalige en Franstalige muzikanten de wensen inzingen die online vanaf 9 u worden aangevraagd.
Tussen 21 en 30 december worden dagelijks maximum 240 wensen per taalgroep opgenomen. Via webcams zullen de uitvoeringen van artiesten als Geena Lisa, Lennart Maes (ex-Lenny en de wespen), Fosco, Lenin en vele anderen live gevolgd kunnen worden.
Als een wens die dag niet meer kan worden opgenomen, kan je ofwel kiezen uit een aantal leuke, vooraf opgenomen wensen of gewoon de volgende dag terugkomen.
Sing-a-Wish is een sterk staaltje van technologisch vernuft en een originele manier om je kerstwens te versturen. Eén keer dat je je wens hebt ingegeven – in een stijl naar keuze: party, romantisch, relax of eindejaarssfeer - begint het nog maar. Zo krijg je onmiddellijk een indicatie van wanneer je wens wordt ingezongen. Mocht je dat moment missen: geen nood, je krijgt immers een e-mail met een “making of”-filmpje van de opname van jouw wens.
Wie dus op oudejaar een originele wens wil versturen kan vanaf 21 december terecht op singawish.be. Maak van je beste wensen de leukste wensen.
België kwalificeerde zich niet voor het WK voetbal in Zuid-Afrika. Spijtig, want dat maakt het een stuk minder aantrekkelijk om naar het w ereldkampioenschap te kijken. Om die reden lanceerde Boondoggle voor Sporza een campagne die aantoont dat België wel degelijk meedoet.
Door middel van een serie tv-spotjes wordt bewezen dat de landen die zich wel plaatsten onlosmakelijk verbonden zijn met België. En dat er dus eigenlijk 32 Belgiës meespelen in Zuid-Afrika. U kan dus met een gerust hart het WK via Sporza volgen. Al gaat het misschien net iets minder spannend zijn, aangezien u nu al weet dat België wereldkampioen wordt.
Boondoggle recently launched VRT’s brand new site Cobra.be. The campaign captures Belgium’s top artists on a completely uninteresting moment e.g. Marie Vinck watering the plants, Annelies Verbeke coloring her nails, Jan De Cock cleaning his garden, Panamarenko baking a steak … After 25” seconds of boring activity, the campaign line ‘And when the artist does something interesting, you discover it on Cobra.be’ explains why they are doing … nothing.
The campaign is executed in 4 TV commercials, 2 radio commercials, 2 print ads and a very interesting … or not, online campaign. 4 artists are posting – on a daily base – uninteresting tweets about their everyday life. These tweets appear in ad banners placed on different Belgian websites. In these banners, the same mechanism, a few uninteresting tweets, the campaign line explains the why of this useless content.
The campaign was produced and executed in only one month. It was an intensive job to gather and shoot all the artists. The biggest challenge was to convince artists like Tom Lanoye and Annelies Verbeke, to twitter uninteresting content. The first tweets from Tom Lanoye were hilarious, which was not what we aimed for.
Check out the campaign on a banner, tv-set, radio or newspaper near you or via our press release.
We just launched our first Nike Football campaign, a translation of the international Make The Difference concept. It's all about Steven Defour who invites 15 dedicated youngsters, who make the difference in their team, to train with him. Two unique training days which will help them to make the difference even more in the future. Football players can subscribe on www.nikefootballtraining.be.
To kick off this campaign we created a video in which Steven Defour gets a tattoo that says "Sola Victoria Satiat" what means: "Nothing but Victory is Satisfying". Yes, it's real!
The spot was launched in Villa Vanthilt on the Flemish TV station één. And as a belgian première an english version will be posted on www.nikefootball.com on the 31th of August.
The campaign will also be supported in stores. Youngsters are asked to sms CAPTAIN + their firstname to 6630 and receive a personalised invitation from Steven Defour himself.
A remarkable event deserves a remarkable campaign. Boondoggle covered the birth of a baby elephant at the Antwerp ZOO earlier this year. Instead of making stuff to be issued through –expensive– standard media, we came up with our very own medium. An online dashboard called www.baby-olifant.be. This digital platform incorporated various digital and social networking tools through which fans and visitors could stay tuned for one of the biggest events of the year. Culminating in the live web streaming of the baby elephant’s birth. Another internet first for Boondoggle.
Additionally the platform launched a series of direct, PR and viral massages that found their way in news headlines all over the world. The news of the pregnancy and the birth of the elephant became an international hype, our campaign a big success and little Kai-Mook famous overnight.
The Will is our Road Safety Campaign For Youngsters. Too many young, reckless drivers and their friends die in traffic. How can we help youngsters confront their reckless driving friends without losing their cool? First we asked youngsters a simple question: “Is your friend a reckless driver? Tell him what you’d like to inherit from him.”
Then we launched a website where they could make up a will for a reckless driver and send it via e-mail, Facebook or Netlog. Enabling kids to criticize their friend’s reckless driving in a cool way without sounding like their mums. In the weekends, we flyered 50,000 blank wills at clubs, movie theatres and mega parties. And we spread a video on the internet.
Beyond Engineering. That’s the baseline for Boondoggle Group T campaign, as well as the philosophy underpinning the Group T engineering programme. Beyond Engineering is about looking at old problems in a radically different way and to come up with solutions that don’t create new problems. It’s about making a sustainable difference. For that, you need agents of change. And Boondoggle.
Together we created a print campaign featuring some good old Julian Koenig style long copy engineering stories and breathtaking illustration to get the message through. Every ad invited people to participate in a fascinating online test at www.beyondengineering.be. Using real life engineering problems, we had people check their beyond engineering skills through animated cases that clearly showed the unexpected consequences of their choices. The campaign resulted in a dramatic increase in young people applying for a higher engineering education. And less concrete.
Last June 7, millions of Flemish had to vote in what was regarded as one of the most critical regional Belgian elections in years. One global financial crisis, one socialist party under fire and one nationalist catastrophe were all the ingredients we needed to produce a political campaign that put the socialist party back in the Flemish government.
First, just when everybody was busy ignoring the socialist party, we produced a campaign that said:“If you don’t want to hear anything from sp.a, then just listen to what’s going on.” Claiming that if it hadn’t been for sp.a over the past few years, things would have been even worse for most people. Through ads featuring sp.a ministers we invited people to debate the party leaders online and at a number of large street events. Gradually, more and more people were willing to listen to sp.a again. We followed this up with a campaign for Minister Kathleen Van Brempt that featured a portrait of a girl and a headline that said: “I wish I were a cow.” Opening the debate on social priorities in Europe. Should we invest even more in agriculture or is it about time to end child poverty in Europe? This part of the campaign led to some classic presidential campaigning on the internet for Minister Frank Vandenbroucke whose results, ideas and programmes provided enough content to dedicate a website to. Putting his name high up the list of the most popular politicians in Flanders.
Car advertising should produce car sales. Not CO2. Exactly the point we made with Volvo’s CO2 neutral campaign promoting a new, greener series of Volvo cars called DRIVe which is probably the Swedish way of saying less pollution for less money.
Essentially, the CO2 emissions of the campaign will be neutralized via certified CO2 compensations. Volvo will not only compensate the CO2 emissions of the website, but also the Google searches and banner impressions resulting in a remarkable car campaign with impact in people’s minds instead of people’s breathing. Exactly the way it should be.
