Strike Bowling Bar’s new venue promoted with world’s first social media powered flight

In what is claimed to be the world’s first social media powered flight, Melbourne-based Loud&Clear Creative has launched its client, Strike Bowling’s social media manager 40 feet into the air in the middle of Melbourne Central Shopping Centre using the power generated by likes, tweets, Instagram and Facebook shares.

With the aim of promoting Strike Bowling Bar’s new venue, every social interaction was rewarded with a squirt of helium in a stunt designed to engage the public and reward them with seeing a human take flight.

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Loud&Clear streamed the event live over Facebook. By liking Strike’s Facebook page, viewers were rewarded by being able to watch the stunt take place via a webcam, ensuring that fans all over Australia, and the world could take part, by adding ‘one small squirt for man’ to the balloons.

Says Joel Beath, Loud&Clear’s producer: “We were pretty sure we had got our maths right, we thought we were going to run out of helium at one stage, but as it was, we had just enough. You can never be one hundred percent sure stunts like this are going to work, so we were relieved to get the interaction from the public and see him go up!

“There were obviously a lot of elements that needed to fall into place to make this happen, and we were lucky to have a client with a good sense of fun, and that Melbourne Central came to the party as well.”

After 8 hours of balloon filling, a very nervous Strike social media manager was successfully floated to the delight of several hundred strike fans watching via the live feed, and on on the ground at Melbourne Central.