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Category
Long Form Video / Single
Annual ID
OS23_BE018S
About the Work
Released in 2012, Clash of Clans is one of the most popular mobile games in the world. But for our 10th Anniversary, we wanted to solidify Clash of Clans as an iconic gaming franchise on the same level of Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Pac Man, and the other video games that have shaped our culture and lives. So, instead of celebrating our 10th Anniversary, we celebrated a fake 40th Anniversary, pulling fans into an alternate universe where Clash had existed since 1982.
It all started with an entirely made-up 20-minute documentary. We scripted and story-boarded 40 years of history. We invented 3 fake founders, and followed them on an emotional roller coaster of fame, fortune, and calamity. To make it all as authentic as possible, we shot on 5 different era-specific cameras, and designed an entire fictional world including logos and characters for each decade. We created commercials for fake products, fake interviews for fake morning shows, and even scenes from a fake movie. At the heart of it were 3 era-specific games— that we actually wrote and made for real.
An 80s arcade platformer. A 90s racer. And, following the arc of our narrative, an intentionally disastrous and entirely unplayable 2000s open world RPG. The 80s/90s games were reformatted for the Clash app and released to our 300 million daily players.
On social, we deepened the story by staging a Reddit AMA with a fake founder from our documentary. We made an IMDB page and turned our social pages into trips down memory lane releasing fake commercials from our past. We partnered with Champion, Topps, and General Mills (an actual cereal available to purchase in-stores).
The campaign was the #1 Video Trending on Youtube when it launched and garnered the highest fan sentiment in the brand’s history.
2023 Awards
Total Points: 21
Silver Pencil
Credits
Agency
Wieden+Kennedy / Portland
Client / Brand
Supercell / San Francisco
Production Company
Spark & Riot / New York
Art Director
Nick Howard
Liam McKay
Katie Willis
Copywriter
Will Curtis
Nick Stoner
Ryan Snyder
Creative Director
Lawrence Melilli
Darcie Burrell
Director
Nalle Sjöblad
Director of Photography
Mikael Gustafsson
Executive Creative Director
John Petty
Ana Balarin
Hermeti Balarin
Executive Producer
Ricara Stokes
Ana De Diego
Motion Designer
David Mellor
Chris Huang
Konstantin Eydelman
Producer
Devin Brown
Kacey Klonsky
Arpi Agdere
Strategist
Olivia Campbell
Business Affairs Manager
Kevin Moyer
Chelsea Appleby
Kristian Evanculla
Tristan Martin
Design Director
Mike Weihs
Associate Media Director
Mary Eliason
Brand Creative Lead
Michael Gurman
Brand Director
Kimmy Cunningham
Brand Executive
Demetrius Wallace
Brand manager
Spencer Crain
Brand Marketing
Sean Cornejo
Copyediting
James Yu
Lisa Kadous
Erica Nikolaidis
Creative Operations Manager
Valentina Savarese
Jaymie Steck
Design Producer
Victoria Tengblad-Kreft
Scott Meisse
Group Brand Director
Danny Sullivan
Group Media Director
Stephanie Ehui
Group Strategy Director
Indiane Matine
Management supervisor
Jane Han
Managing director
Jess Monsey
Marketing Art Director
Eric Reimer
Marketing Coordinator
Rachael Slocum
Media Supervisor
Jarod Diaz
Motion Lead
Adam Sirkin
Motion Producer
Cameron Blake
PR
Danny Hernandez
Alex Har
Print+Fabrication
Ellen Osborn
Denise Hanggi
Kristin Holder
Retouching
Frazer Goodbody
Amy Ellars
Greg Radich
Studio Production Specialist
Matt Blum
Liliya Dru
Vicki Liu
Beth Schuenemann
Ken Berg
David Carney-Fenton
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