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Oreo eclipses its rivals

Oreo — which basically started this whole “real-time marketing” thing, remember — staged quite the stunt in London this week with the help of multiple ad/media/PR agencies.

In order to take maximum advantage of today’s rare solar eclipse, the company created a video billboard set to coincide almost perfectly with the movement of the sun itself.

Here’s a sped-up video of the event:

The campaign, however, was far more complicated than that. Take it from the head of Oreo’s UK social media team:

Indeed. This was nothing if not a multimedia promotion: the client’s media-planning agency PHD scored a placement on the cover of top tabloid The Sun, and its “out of home” agency Talon created the billboard:

Here’s the Sun cover itself:

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The cover was created by Oreo agencies FCB Inferno and Drum and promoted by the paper’s own social media team.

The cookie company’s marketing manager told The Drum:

We want Oreo to be an even more iconic brand in the UK. Playfully putting it at the centre of a moment where the whole country will be looking in the same direction makes this idea the perfect fit with that ambition.

Nice work by all involved parties.

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