Don’t just take photos. Collect smiles

Tue 26 Feb 2008 in Digital Camera, TVCM, Work

Sony Cybershot

With social & networking sites like facebook and flicker blossoming in China, we begin to see a new photo-sharing culture developing in major cities like Shanghai, Beijing and  Guangzhou. A compact digital camera has now become a part of everyday life, an accessory that’s with them all the time. Whether they’re traveling, at a club or a dinner party with friends, they’d take a photo to remember what they did and who they were with. The camera has also become a diary and photos proof of how exciting and fun their lives are.

To help Sony China launch “Cyer-shot”, a slim, stylish and compact digital camera that comes with a “smile-activated shutter” function, we wrote a jingle. Actually, we did a little more than that. We created a new culture of “collecting smiles”.

Although the 30-second commercial aired only for about 2 months on prime-time media, the culture and buzz of “collecting smiles” continued in numerous social & networking sites, blogs and photo galleries. Young people started to collect, classify and share each others’ smiles. Sony China received numerous requests for the jingle to be released as a single or as a ringtone. Up until today, T-300’s commercial is the most viewed Sony commercial on youku.com (China’s answer to Youtube).

 

 

 

Contact us

Tue 26 Feb 2008 in Contact

For clients or press enquiries, please contact:

Phillip Rubel, CEO/Representative Director
phil.rubel@ssftokyo.com +81.3.6438.1268

Mitsuru Kubota, COO/Representative Director
mitsuru.kubota@ssftokyo.com +81.3.6438.1207

 

 

 

Talking technology to homemakers helped invent a new category

Tue 26 Feb 2008 in Graphic, TVCM, Work

Dyson

Convention:
More watts equals a better clean. All vacuum cleaners are basically the same.

Cause:
Unique Dyson technology is different and superior compared to all others.

Campaign:
Only Dyson Has No Loss Of Suction
Utilized straight talk about technology and Dyson’s philosphy we refer to as ‘purposeful engineering’
For the first time, convinced major mass media to directly compare products, breaking yet another convention.

Results:
Lanched and unknown foreign brand into a flat low-interest category, for three times the price of domestic vacuum cleaners.
Dyson has become a ‘pop hit’ in addition to a marketing success, making ‘must have’ lists of trendy magazines and consumers alike.
Exceeded 2 year plan objectives in less than one year. For the first time ever, a foreign brand of vacuum cleaner has surpassed the market share of a domestic manufacturer. In fact, Dyson has surpassed two domestic competitors.

 

 

 

Auf Wiedersehen Volkswagen

Mon 25 Feb 2008 in News

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In late 2003 Fallon Tokyo surprised the Japanese marketing industry by winning the VW Golf assignment from Volkswagen Group Japan. It was the first time in many years that VGJ selected a brand agency outside of their longstanding relationship with DDB. It was a very challenging and detailed competition among the industry’s top domestic and global agencies and the incumbent DDB. Fallon’s winning campaign “Love & Hate” helped generate an extremely successful launch of the next generation Golf and also brought a lot of notoriety within Japan for Fallon’s unique creative and strategic approach.

Over the next four years, Fallon competed with other top agencies for each of the other VW brands and won every time. Finally, in early 2007, VGJ named Fallon as the official agency of record for all models. Even under tough Japanese automotive market conditions, Fallon was able to help fuel VGJ’s success and continued leadership as the #1 import car marketer of Japan.

But sometimes good things must come to an end. VW decided to revert to its original brand agency relationship in Japan, without a review, inline with their global DDB relationship. We’d like to thank VW for their faith in us over
the past 5 years and wish them the best of luck for the future.

 

 

 

 

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