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‘The slickest campaign ever to run on the UK platform”- Twitter.

My role

I was the lead designer on this project, working hand in hand with the developer all the way through to delivery.

Highlights

The Challenge

Pepsi approached us with a last-minute, high-stakes brief: they had 48 hours to pitch a campaign idea to Beyoncé’s team for a potential Pepsi Max collaboration. With no assets, no concept, and limited time, they turned to me—as Jaywing’s lead creative for Pepsi Max Europe—to deliver a bold, effective solution.

The solution

The idea was bubbling in my mind for a while. It was innovative, creative and the first of its kind. I was going to introduce gamification tweeting to win VIP tickets to Beyoncé’s UK tour.

 

The idea: members of the public would tweet #meetbeyoncé. The tweet would display on the competition microsite in a queue of lanyards on rotation, showing the tweeters face, name and twitter handle. The more tweets that happened, the faster the rotation. The carousel would stop at random times and the person at the front of the queue, won VIP tickets. 

 

Working side-by-side with my developer – we designed and built the twitter competition mechanic in 10 hours! That’s the fastest turn around to any pitch to production. I presented the demo to Pepsi, Beyoncé and her team, and got approval to run the competition.

 

The result

• It went viral! 10M+ comp entries in 24 hrs
• No.1 trending hashtag on twitter
• Beyoncé and her management team loved it
• The competition mechanic was so successful it was replicated across Europe and the US for different campaigns
• Given the redesign of pepsi.co.uk from the back of this work.