Advertiser: AMERICAN EXPRESS
Agency: DIGITAS
Category: Branded utility/tool (for digital)
Brief Explanation
In 2010, American Express created Small Business Saturday®, an official shopping day between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, to help fulfill American Express OPEN®’s mission: helping businesses do more business. The objective of the third annual Small Business Saturday was to empower small business owners to make the day their own and encourage others to support their local communities. We accomplished this by creating an innovative online ad tool for small business owners to easily customize free, hyper-local, online display ads. The ads were automatically placed with premium publishers they may never have had access to otherwise.