Evian Takes Viral Mega-Hit Roller Babies to TV

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- After 10 months, a grand total of 102 million views, 130,000 comments and 500,000 Facebook fans, Evian is finally putting its babies to work on TV. The ads started running in the Los Angeles market this week and New York this summer, a change in strategy for what had been an entirely online campaign, at least in the U.S. That means Danone is finally putting a significant budget behind Evian's campaign. It may also mean that the company is seeing the limits of its online video strategy on actual sales. "While we are expanding into traditional media in order to broaden even further the reach of the 'Live Young' campaign, online remains a major pillar of our strategy," said Jerome Goure, VP-marketing at Danone. Of course, paid placement on YouTube was an important part of getting and maintaining views, but a YouTube exec says Evian paid less to promote the video than you'd think. Euro RSCG said it has used "minimal" paid promotion to place the video on YouTube's home page in a given market, and then it has let fans of the roller-skating babies take over. Babies aside, Wieden & Kennedy had another huge week on the Viral Chart, with more than 13 million views between Old Spice's "Odor Blocker" and Nike's "Earl and Tiger." That doesn't include Wieden's "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like," which had nearly 1.5 million views last week. Those two videos made it a big week for the Viral Chart, according to the folks at Visible Measures. Collectively, the top 10 ads brought in 21 million views, a weekly total outdone only by the week after the Super Bowl, which had 43 million views. It's possible we had something to do with that. Six of the top 10 most-watched ads last week -- including two videos returning to the chart -- were "featured videos" on YouTube when Ad Age curated the home page during the same time period. *The Visible Measures Top 10 Viral Video Ad Campaigns Chart focuses on brand-driven viral video ads that appear on online-video-sharing destinations. Each campaign is measured on a True Reach basis, which includes viewership of both brand-syndicated video clips and viewer-driven social video placements. The data are compiled using the Visible Measures Viral Reach Database, a constantly growing repository of analytic data on more than 100 million internet videos across more than 150 video-sharing destinations. Note: This analysis does not include Visible Measures' paid-placement (i.e., overlays, pre-/mid-/post-roll) performance data or video views on private sites. This chart does not include movie trailers, video-game campaigns, TV show or media network promotions, or public service announcements. View-count results are incremental by week. **Indicates percent change in views compared with the same period the week before. To notify Visible Measures of an upcoming video ad campaign, or for an end-to-end assessment of your campaign's overall performance, please contact Visible Measures directly.

Evian Takes Viral Mega-Hit Roller Babies to TV

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