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2016 One Show - Social Media

Slot Car Holiday Heats

Agency Ignition – A Razorfish Company / El Segundo

Client Acura
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SM16055M

About the Work

“Oh What Fun It Is To Drive” was the creative platform for Acura’s Winter Sales Event. We were challenged to reinterpret, or reinvent a holiday tradition. Classic slot car races provided a powerful insight and mechanism: rekindle the love and excitement of getting an iconic toy, and translate that nostalgia into the joy of buying a new car. We created the first ever Periscope-powered race: a slot car race with a multi-camera broadcast and two live announcers, inviting users to #RaceYourHeartOut. Using an Arduino, we were able to hack the “hearts” function on Periscope to power the slot cars. The more a viewer would heart during a race, the faster their slot car would go. The purse for each race--or heat--was worth a $500 donation to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. Two hours and twenty races later, we generated 60,000 hearts and raised $10,000 for PBTF.