Brugal: BRUGAL.0

Credits & Description:

Category: Best Use of Print

Advertiser: MAXXIUM

Product/Service: BRUGAL RUM

Agency: ÓRBITAL BBDO

Date of First Appearance: Jul 1 2010

Entrant Company: OMD SPAIN, Madrid, SPAIN

Entry URL: http://www.videoportadabrugal.es/

Producer: Susana Barona (OMD)

Account Director: Yago Hernández (OMD)

Media Planner: Delgado Mónica (OMD)

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Insights, Strategy & the Idea



To reinforce the premium positioning of the brand, BRUGAL RUM was searching for a strong association with value imbued with authenticity, innovation and modernity, a way of becoming a protagonist in the panorama of the world's latest trends.

Under the restrictive legal framework currently governing the advertising of alcoholic beverages, the print media was target as being a key conduit. However, we were faced with a target audience that voraciously consumes various communications media at the same time, in a natural and spontaneous way. If that target audience is capable of paging through a magazine while also having the TV on and updating its Facebook entries, we thought: Let's have BRUGAL offer them an experience that breaks all the social codes of print advertising by giving them a total multi-media interactive opportunity.

We focused on Neo2, the leading magazine for trend- setting phenomena in Spain; we proposed an editorial integration that would be capable of reproducing those same habits of leafing through a magazine, enjoying audiovisual content and interacting on the net from the magazine itself.



Creative Execution

For the first time, a super- thin video screen was integrated into the cover of a magazine. The screen allowed readers to enjoy the audiovisual content offered by BRUGAL via a simple touch- pad navigation system and also interact with the target audience through our invitation for users to introduce their own videos on a micro-site created especially for the campaign. Being able to show your own videos in your favourite magazine is a powerful tool for creating word of mouth and achieving unlimited publicity for BRUGAL's image.

The BRUGAL 'video-cover" became a trend-setting example on a conduit renowned for knowing what- is- what in the world of trends (Neo2 Magazine). Besides the editorial coverage on the inside pages of the magazine, a 100% BRUGAL- ized cover page was designed to turn the initiative into an unprecedented editorial event in this country, one we took to the streets actually by negotiating with distributors a preferential positioning of the product in stores and points of sales.



Results and Effectiveness

We turned Neo2 Magazine and its on-line issue into the epicentre of a news release with great media repercussions, earning the attention of hitherto inaccessible media conduits such as television (off-limits for alcoholic beverages).

We were able to connect the designated values (authenticity, innovation and modernity) and to take advantage of the coverage of the campaign, whose free- advertising value was easily double the investment, multiplying the magazine's audience by 50.

BRUGAL's Brand recognition index grew to 60% compared to 30% in 2009.