Monday, 31 March 2014

Unbelievable Bus Shelter-Pepsi Max blog 9




Unbelievable Bus Shelter-Pepsi Max



During the last few years augmented reality has enabled advertisers to reach consumers in an innovative and unique way. Many brands have embraced this technology lately. One of them is Pepsi Max.


 








The Unbelievable Bus Shelter campaign took place on Oxford Street, in a typical London bus stop. Unsuspecting commuters were tricked into thinking that a robot was attacking the city or that alien ships hovered above the street or that a tiger was coming towards them. All of these were made possible by turning the bus stop’s wall into a fake window. See for yourself in the following video:



Combining the physical and digital worlds, this augmented reality based marketing campaign had plenty of people fooled, even for a short time. PepsiCo UK is saying that PepsiMax has maximum taste and no sugar; that’s unbelievable. That is exactly the phrase they wanted to communicate through this brilliantly executed campaign: that’s unbelievable.


Customer feedback was positive. People that experienced the augmented reality installation talked about it in Facebook and Twitter, whereas as we can watch in the above video many of them took videos of the experience.


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