Parking Douche Year/ID: 2012 / T004G12 Group: T Mobile campaigns Subgroup: T Mobile campaigns URL: http://festival-cases.com/parking_douche/ Product and services: The-Village.ru (On-line city guide)Registrant: LOOK AT MEDIACountry: RUSSIABrand name: The VillageAdvertiser: The VillageAdvertising agency, city: LOOK AT MEDIA MoscowArt director: Vladimir ShreyderCopywriter: Alexey ArtyukhovCreative director: Katya Bazilevskaya, Rob IkkiAccount Director /Manager: Alya GabdurakhmanovaDigital Production: LOOK AT MEDIA Moscow Other credits: Technical Director: Alexander Rybyakov; Mobile App Developer: Alexander Simonov; Flash Developer: Alexander Redinger
Campaign idea explanation: 'Douche parking' is a huge city problem in Russia. There're not many places to park but also there're people who just don't care about others. Online city newspaper, The Village.ru, has decided to help people make such behaviour socially unacceptable using digital media. We've created a free app. It allows people to take pictures of wrongly parked cars, and save the car number, type (e.g. crossover) and colour. This data is streamed live to special banner ads that are targeted through IP address to locations where these cars were parked. These banners work as pop-ups where you see a car with a number 'parked' on an article you're reading. When you hover over the banner it lets you know that this car is annoying people in a certain street in the city right now just like it's doing on the site. The user was motivated to share the picture of the 'parking douche' in social media to close the banner. Because of the IP address/location targeting, lots of people saw themselves, their neighbours/colleagues or the 'douches' they saw and hated for a long time. That made them care and share the project information, and others were left feeling ashamed.
Multiple entry explanation: By using mobile app people can take pictures of wrongly parked cars and save information about them (plate number, body type and colour) in database. The data is streamed live to special banner ads that are targeted through IP address to locations where these cars were parked.
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