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2020 ADC Awards - Interactive

Joel Is Not Happy

Agency TBWA\Chiat\Day / New York + Park Pictures / New York

Client Mountain Dew

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Category

Craft in Online / Mobile / Art Direction

Annual ID

ADC_INT20_052M

About the Work

The NBA is the most talked about sports league on social media. During games, fans flood their feed with GIFs to react to the biggest plays. But the same GIFs are being overused, and frankly they’re tired. 3x NBA all-star Joel Embiid is a human highlight reel, and his plays are too amazing for those played GIFs. MTN Dew believes in doing, and not just talking. So we created “The Joel Embiid Deserves Better Reactions” GIF Collection, a suit of 12 completely original GIFs. Each over-the-top GIF was crafted to become part of internet culture. We put the suit of fresh GIFs on GIPHY, and released it with a spot featuring a rather unhappy Joel Embiid during the all-star game, in front of 7.3M of the most passionate fans – up 8% from the previous year’s game. In the three weeks, the GIFs were seen over 6.5M times. Twitter and text conversations were flooded with the reaction GIFs. Almost instantly, the collection began trending on GIPHY. All of which blew our minds. (Which we of course made a GIF for).

2020 Awards

Total Points: 2

Merit Honor

Credits

Agency

TBWA\Chiat\Day / New York

Client / Brand

Mountain Dew / White Plains

Production Company

Park Pictures / New York
Direct Focus / New York

Music / Sound Production Company

Plush / New York
Search Party Music / New York

Post Production Company

PS260 / New York
Artjail / New York

Art Director

Alexander Holm

Chief Creative Officer

Chris Beresford-Hill

Creative Director

Mike Blanch
Patrick Lavin

Digital Artist

Lee Towndrow
Alex Harding

Director

Terri Timely

Director of Photography

Donavan Sell

Executive Creative Director

Julia Neumann
Amy Ferguson

Sound Designer

Rob Fielack
John Nathans

Strategist

Bodi Karsono

Creative Team

Steve Mottershead
Emily Bloom

Account Team

Bruna Bechelli
Matthew Duerr
Allie Lightcap

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