Cadbury launches ‘The Cadbury Live Egg Hunt’ social experience via Ogilvy Melbourne
Cadbury, via creative agency Ogilvy Melbourne, has launched a first of its kind social experience for Facebook Live, bringing the joy of a Cadbury Easter to all Australians.
‘The Cadbury Live Egg Hunt’, a live 360 Facebook video, was created with Alt.vfx, Sydney. Designed to let anyone experience the excitement of a real Easter egg hunt from anywhere in Australia, it saw more than 220,000 hunters around the nation take part during the hour-long broadcast.
Says David Ponce de Leon, ECD, Ogilvy Melbourne: “A Cadbury Easter is all about joy and wonder, and there’s nothing more exciting than scouring the backyard for every last egg, but why should the kids get all the fun? We wanted to create an experience that would remind all Australians of the happiness an Easter egg hunt brings.”
During the one hour live post on Thursday 15 March 7-8pm AEST, hunters searched the animated world looking for Cadbury Easter eggs. The first person to spot an egg and comment was rewarded with real Cadbury chocolates for Easter, attracting over 70,000 comments.
Says Tyrone Estephan, executive producer, Alt.vfx: “When this project came to us, we had to solve a lot of technical challenges to make it happen, which we love. Interacting LIVE with over 220,000 people across a 1-hour social media live stream, whilst having those people explore a 360-virtual environment, pushes the boundaries of future creativity. We also love how we married this new world tech with old school 2D traditional animation. We will see this Interactive Live Stream VR thing happen a lot now, and Alt R+D were very happy to collaborate with Cadbury on a social first!”
Kjetil Undhjem, Mondelez International’s director of marketing for chocolate said it was really special to be able to bring the joy of the Easter egg hunt to Australian families in such an innovative new way.
Says Undhjem: “Easter is a very special time for us at Cadbury and the fact that we got such a high level of interaction with this virtual egg hunt means the magic of Easter is alive and well.”
Ogilvy
Executive Creative Director – David Ponce de Leon
Group Account Director – Danielle Chapman
Head of Strategy – Virginia Pracht
Creative Director – Josh Murrell
Creative Director – Sharon Condy
Associate Creative Director – Tom Wenborn
Associate Creative Director – Tom Russell
Creative – Huei Yin Wong
Creative – Jack Railton-Woodcock
Account Manager – Catherine Martyn
Producer – Afrim Memed
Social Media Manager – Cassandra Chen
Social Media Manager – Katia Rapota
Alt.vfx
Executive Producer – Tyrone Estephan
Creative Technologist – Raymond Leung
Illustrator and 2D Animator – Harry Gold
Producer – Alison Ingram
Risk Sound
Sound Designer – Liam Annert
Sound Producer – Brodie Mattner
Mondelez
Mondelez International’s Director of Marketing – Kjetil Undhjem
Senior Marketing Manager Chocolate – Seasonal & Gifting ANZ – Melanie Yates
Brand Manager, Seasonal (Easter) – Constance Appleman
13 Comments
Cool illustration Alt!
Nice work Josh & Sharon
Cadbury – What a joke when you’ve removed the word ‘Easter’ from all your eggs – Shame on you
How come the AdNews Digital Agency of the Year couldn’t build this shit for themselves?
@EASTER BUNNY – You know that’s fake news bro?
Ingenious use of media….a sweet idea. Original Creative work.
Good work Tyrone!
I’m with @Amateur Hour.
If you guys are claiming to be the best in the industry how come you couldn’t just hire an illustrator and build it in your department?
cool and different, well done
Is a 4 day break, catching up with loved ones and enjoying the outdoors. Promo film sucks. Interactive live stream – WOW. Riverting stuff. Get a life australia
Interesting use of vr on social media. Nice one
Look at the spiteful jealous dickheads who didn’t win Digi Agency of the Year this time round. Grow up.
Nice illustration & cool use of a Facebook post, seems like it worked