O2 Tells You to 'Follow the Rabbit' in This Trippy Music Video-Style Ad
Agency VCCP Worked With Directors Dom & Nic and The Chemical Brothers
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A few years back, U.K. mobile brand O2 kept imploring customers to "be more dog." Now, it's telling us to "Follow the rabbit."
The new work by VCCP (which is actually an evolution of a campaign that kicked off a year ago) centers on the brand's offerings of priority tickets to entertainment and music events. It kicks off with a two-minute music video-style film, seen here, which will be broadcast tonight during the BRIT music awards (the U.K. equivalent of the Grammys) on ITV. O2 worked with The Chemical Brothers to adapt their dance track "EML Ritual," and with directors Dom & Nic at Outsider, who have previously worked with The Chemical Brothers on videos.
The film opens with a series of characters doing mundane everyday things such as watching TV, working in the office, ironing and microwaving dinner. But in each scene a (slightly freaky) blue rabbit interrupts them and starts staring at the characters reminding them of what's outside and encouraging them to follow. As momentum builds, crowds of people are following their own rabbits all in the same direction, breaking into an excitable run.
As well as the film, users can "follow" their own rabbit with a specially designed Snapchat world lens available today. After unlocking the lens, Snapchatters are encouraged to follow the AR rabbit that appears in front of them. As they get closer, the rabbit scampers away to eventually disappear down a magical portal.
Meanwhile #FollowTheRabbit will feature prominently across Facebook videos and Instagram Stories, while anyone using the hashtag or #O2Music on Twitter will reveal a bespoke branded emoji.
The campaign encourages customers to snap up some of O2's Priority Tickets to live music across the UK, available 48 hours before general release.
Credits
- Date
- Feb 21, 2018
- Brand :
- O2
- Client :
- O2
- Executive Creative Director :
- Darren Bailes
- Creative Director :
- Jim Capp
- Associate Creative Director :
- Pete Bastiman
- Associate Creative Director :
- Bish Aylesbury
- Agency Producer :
- Becky Grove
- Production Assistant :
- Sydney McGauran
- Head of TV :
- Olly Calverley
- Planning Director :
- Nicky Vita
- Senior Account Director :
- Caroline Shortt
- Account Director :
- Laura Henderson
- Production Company :
- Outsider
- Director :
- Dom & Nic
- Production Company Producer :
- John Masden
- Editor :
- Ed Cheeseman
- Edit Company :
- Final Cut
- Sound Director :
- Sam Ashwell
- Sound Company :
- 750 MPH
- Music Consultancy :
- Soho Music
- Visual Effects :
- The Mill
- Colorist :
- David Luddy Ludlam
- Executive Creative Director :
- Jonathan Wes Westley
- Executive Producer :
- Alex Fitzgerald
- 3D Lead Artist :
- Alex Hammond
- 2D Lead :
- Gianluca Di Marco
- Animation Director :
- Jorge Montiel
- Visual Effects Producer :
- Imogen Pai
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