TAXI DELIVERS KNOCKOUT PUNCH - Strategy
TAXI DELIVERS KNOCKOUT PUNCH - Strategy
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aoy fi nalist<br />
ESKA • ZIG • MOLSON MOLSON CANADIAN<br />
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Zig is back in the AOY standings this year as a fi nalist. Judges<br />
loved the Toronto agency’s fresh take on Mr. Sub. “The use of<br />
archetypal ‘good’ people to hyperbolize lengths to which people<br />
will go to get their hands on a Mr. Sub sub is quite hilarious,”<br />
said Sunil Sehkar, VP managing director, DraftFCB Toronto.<br />
High-volume mainstream beer players like Molson Canadian have been squeezed into a<br />
perceptual no-man’s-land between “cheapest” and “best.” And a hodgepodge of strategic<br />
and creative approaches deployed in recent years left consumers wondering what Molson<br />
Canadian stood for. To quote a 22-year-old: “They’re everywhere without saying much.” And<br />
because Canadian guys equate Molson Canadian with “Canadianness,” they felt let down when<br />
Molson Canadian didn’t stand for something.<br />
Zig thought that something should be Canadian guys themselves. Past efforts had<br />
successfully tapped into the Canadian identity but had not made it relevant to beer. The key<br />
was to connect Molson Canadian to Canadian values.<br />
Molson Canadian’s new job was to stand up for the Canadian guy and celebrate his way of<br />
life. Zig’s “The Code” campaign is exactly what it sounds like – a celebration of the unwritten<br />
code by which Canadian guys live, in a multimedia, integrated platform.<br />
Tracking results are the best they’ve been in over a decade. Brand equity scores are up and,<br />
most importantly, sales are above plan.<br />
Amid growing media attention and debate around the ethics and health of drinking bottled water, how could<br />
Eska make a case for yet another bottled brand?<br />
Consumers have become increasingly conscious of what they put into their bodies. Instead of shying away<br />
from the debate, Zig decided to present the other side of the equation to leverage interest in the topic.<br />
A series of posters (most prevalent in Quebec, as the Eska source is in Abitibi) posed provocative questions<br />
designed to make consumers think about the bottled water debate in a different way.<br />
These unbranded questions drove people to thesourcematters.com and pensezpluseau.com, where they<br />
could learn “the truth about water.” The website was designed to be a comprehensive, objective source of<br />
information – from the differences between bottled waters and why minerals are important to how different<br />
fi ltration systems work and details on tap water and the environment. The answers drove home the point<br />
that Eska is one of the purest, healthiest and best-tasting waters in the world.<br />
Campaign reception mirrored the positive pre-launch research. International media covered the<br />
campaign, including the New York Times.<br />
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