This campaign hacked Apple stores to promote refurbished phones
Earth Day push from BackMarket used AirDrop to promote its services to Apple's prospective customers
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An Earth Day campaign from BackMarket, the French online marketplace for recycled and refurbished devices, targeted Apple Store customers right under the retailer's noses using its own technology.
BackMarket used Apple's AirDrop to send messages to people shopping in Apple stores, telling them that there was a "greener" as well as cheaper way to purchase a new phone—buy a refurbished one instead. The campaign, by Publicis-owned Paris agency Marcel, took place on Earth Day in six different stores across in Paris, Berlin and London and included message such as: "This iPhone 12 comes in pink, blue, black and greener." The messages also directed people to the Back Market website where they could buy the same model.
"Thanks to the ADEME study [French public agency for ecological transition], we had incredible figures," explained Sebastien Jauffret, associate director at Marcel, in a statement. "But habits die hard, and figures, even as strong as these, can hardly compete with a well-established behavior. Especially when this behavior is maintained every day by brands that make their new items more and more desirable, and the need to enjoy them more and more imperative.We quickly realized that an awareness campaign on these numbers would not be enough. So, we decided to focus our efforts where and when they would get the most attention: the consumer’s buying journey and delivering our message at the very moment they were about to make a new purchase. And to do it at the time when it would have the strongest PR resonance, for Earth Day 2022."
Credits
- Date
- Apr 26, 2022
- Client :
- Back Market
- Agency :
- Marcel
- Co-Chairmen :
- Pascal Nessim
- Co-Chairmen :
- Charles Georges-Picot
- Executive Creative Director :
- Gaetan Du Peloux
- Executive Creative Director :
- Youri Guerassimov
- Creative Director :
- Clement Sechet
- Managing Director :
- Benjamin Taieb
- Associate Director :
- Sebastien Jauffret
- Account Director :
- Yani Oukid
- Copywriting :
- Aurel Cablan
- Copywriting :
- Claudia Illan
- Copywriting :
- Alexandre Dodille
- Copywriting :
- Antonin Jacquot
- Art Direction :
- Hugo Wahledow
- Art Direction :
- Céleste Nessim
- Art Direction :
- Vincent Boursaud
- Strategy Lead :
- Thomas Cleret
- Project Manager :
- Flavie Parize
- Social Media Manager :
- Calliste Garrabos
- Traffic Creation :
- Mélanie Coupey
- Traffic Creation :
- Laurène Ametowoglo
- Edit :
- Julien Hannedouche
- Motion :
- Julien Taillez
- Motion :
- Vincent Iweins
- Marcel Tech :
- Christophe Serret
- Marcel Tech :
- Edouard Danesse
- Marcel Tech :
- Lotfi Harrabi
- Director :
- Guillaume Talvas
- Production :
- Valéry du Peloux
- Production :
- Sixtine Busetti
- Post-Production :
- ADF L’ATELIER
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