Visit Dubai: Winter Reimagined

Credits & Description:

Media: Case Film
Client: Dubai Tourism (Department Of Tourism And Commerce Marketing)
Product: Visit Dubai
Agency: Wunderman Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Entrant: Wunderman Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Product/Service: Visit Dubai
Idea Creation: Wunderman Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Media Placement: Havas Media Middle East Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Production: The Nudge Theory Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Executive Creative Director: Piotr Chrobot (Wunderman Mena)
Art Director: Piotr Chrobot (Wunderman Mena)
Senior Copywriter: Fernando Miranda (Wunderman Mena)
Senior Art Director: Lina Nader (Wunderman Mena)
Strategy Director: Alvaro Bretel (Wunderman Mena)
Managing Director: Faysal Abdulmalak (Wunderman Mena)
Account Manager: Nimit Bhatia (Wunderman Mena)
Account Executive: Shahbaaz Khan (Wunderman Mena)
Creative Services Manager: Carla Louis (Wunderman Mena)
Designer: Muhammad Azam (Wunderman Mena)
Designer: Fahad Naeem (Wunderman Mena)
Designer: Daniel Zacatenco (Wunderman Mena)
Designer: Miguel Bardales (Wunderman Mena)
Senior Art Director: Agata Kubien (Wunderman Mena)
Senior Copywriter: Piotr Skarbek (Wunderman Mena)
Copywriter: Fatima Nokkari (Wunderman Mena)
Artwork: Babu Nair (Wunderman Mena)
Artwork: Fahad Rayan (Wunderman Mena)
Artwork: Tissa Ka (Wunderman Mena)
Director - Campaigns: Alex Oberberg (Dubai Tourism (Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing))
Manager - Campaigns: Yovitha Dale (Dubai Tourism (Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing))
The Campaign:
Since cold weather is a hot topic during the European winter, we hijacked European weather forecasts across 5 countries by getting their most popular meteorologists to broadcast weather updates from Dubai – a cheeky invite to a sunny and pleasant destination.
Creative Execution:
At the point where Europe’s winter was at its worst, we flew down their top 5 weather ladies and broadcasted their regular forecast from a beachfront location in Dubai. The weather ladies were recruited from our 5 key markets – UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Russia.
Results:
- Dubai broke its own record by welcoming 14.9m overnight visitors in 2016
- More than 8.3M views
- More than 67K interactions with the campaign content over social media
We leveraged a popular point of interest during the European winter – the weather forecast. We hijacked this to make our European audiences envious about our winter sun. In a disruptive and direct way our audience received their regular weather forecast from an unconventional and unexpected location.
It is easy to challenge the perception of Dubai as a destination with limited offering. For that you just need to highlight all the things that you can do in this city. But isn’t that something that every holiday destination in the world does? We needed an insight that could work as a hook to get people interested.
Through our research, we found something that sounded obvious but truly revealing: among our target audience, checking the weather is one of the most popular online activities done during the winter. 90.7% of people do it often (per data collected from Global Web Index). An activity more popular than visiting/using social networks (90%), watching videos online (83.8%) or even more popular than visiting a travel/vacation website (77.8%). This is where the opportunity was: making our audience feel envious about our sunny winter weather.