Old Spice Invites You to Control a 'Live Human' for Three Days on Twitch
If Only BK's Subservient Chicken Had Such a Platform
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Old Spice and Wieden & Kennedy, Portland seem to be taking a (modern, updated) page out of Burger King's Subservient Chicken playbook with this new campaign that invites Twitch viewers to control a "live human" for three days over the video game viewing platform. From April 16-18, the brand will debut "Old Spice Nature Adventure," and will be placing a mysterious "Nature Man" in "the bounteous grandeur of nature," where he'll be "contractually obligated to do everything you, and millions of other Internet users, tell him to do," the campaign site says.
According to the agency, the effort is the first-ever crowd-sourced gaming experience by a non-videogame brand on Twitch.
Twitch is a platform where gamers can go to watch others in realtime play videogames, mostly, but some have turned it into a forum for broadcasting other things live, like playing old-school board games, for example. Viewers are able to make comments as they watch, with the potential of influencing what happens.
Old Spice is turning Twitch into an advertising playground, and consumers can use the chat feature to command "Nature Man" to do whatever they want him to in a forest. It's up to the viewers' creativity to drive the adventure that unfolds. As suggested by Old Spice, perhaps he can "give that antelope a massage," or "eat strange berries." We personally would love to see him swimming with the beavers or cuddling with a raccoon next to a campfire.
Old Spice doesn't want the experience to distract "from the fact that this is a professional advertising stunt introducing the new Old Spice Fresher Collection, no matter how glorious the scenery is."
Credits
- Date
- Apr 13, 2015
- Brand :
- Old Spice
- Client :
- Old Spice
- Director :
- Billy Rainey
- Executive Producer :
- Candice Dragonas
- Executive Producer :
- Derek Richmond
- Line Producer :
- Jason Baum
- Production Supervisor :
- Rose Krane
- Co-Founder/Executive Producer :
- Kerstin Emhoff
- Head of Production :
- Tracy Hauser
- Animatronics :
- Morbfx
- Animatronics :
- AnimatronicBear.com
- 1st Assistant Director :
- Joe Osborne
- 2nd Assistant Director :
- Vicki Goldsmith
- Stylist :
- Elise Velasco
- Location Manager :
- Jesse Rivard
- Gang Boss :
- Terrance Martin
- Production Company :
- PRETTYBIRD
- Interactive Production Company :
- Fourclops
- Interactive Director :
- Eli Stonberg
- Interactive Director :
- Jeff Greco
- Design :
- Dave Dawson
- Editor :
- Jaren Lopez
- Moderator :
- Kimberly Crespin
- Moderator :
- Jordan Newman
- Streaming Event Services :
- Location Connect
- Executive Producer :
- Timothy Peters
- Producer :
- Alexander Pournelle
- Associate Producer :
- Peter Palm
- Agency :
- Wieden & Kennedy-Portland
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