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2023 One Show - Social Media

Toby the Vegetarian Vampire

Agency Wieden+Kennedy / New York + 1stAveMachine

Client Kraft Heinz

Category

Social Post / Single Platform Series

Annual ID

OS23_SM052M

About the Work

For year three of Heinz Tomato Blood, we aimed to mobilize the perfect advocates who would make Tomato Blood synonymous with Halloween culture–a group who would benefit most. The obvious answer was Vampires. For centuries, there has been no alternative sustenance for vampires who didn’t want to drink human blood–until now. To convince vampires to go vegetarian and drink Heinz Tomato Blood we enlisted Toby, a 280 year old Vegetarian Vampire influencer. We cast beloved real-life TikTok creator EJ Marcus to star as Toby and be the face of every campaign touchpoint. Toby Recruitment PSA: Our :90 hero film starred Toby making an appeal to vampires to spare human lives and drink Tomato Blood. The film debuted on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and AMC’s premiere of Interview with the Vampire. Toby Social Takeover: Toby took over Heinz’s TikTok, Instagram and Twitter channels, posting exclusively at night. His content throughout the month of October leaned into influencer trends, like Get Ready With Me, What I Eat in a Day, Room Tour, and “Hot Veggie Vamp Walk”. Toby Goes to Six Flags: Toby shared multiple social posts to introduce the LTO dish “Totally Loaded Fright Fest Bloody Nacho Fries” at select Six Flags parks. Toby OOH: Billboards using our own vampiric font ran in cities renowned for vampire lore and haunted history tourism like Salem, NOLA, Portland and Chicago. A QR code on the billboard led curious humans to a TikTok translation from Toby. Twitch: Toby enlisted popular Twitch streamers in our Heinz Tomato Bloodless Challenge to kill without blood in cult-favorite horror game Dead by Daylight. Fandom.com: Toby was featured in Fandom’s NYC Comic Con event and he took over wikis of other famous vampires. Reddit: Finally, Toby showed up on vampire subreddits, gifting Reddit gold to engage vampire fans.

2023 Awards

Total Points: 3

Merit

Credits

Agency

Wieden+Kennedy / New York

PR / Marketing Agency

Zeno Group

Production Company

1stAveMachine

Media Distribution Company

Starcom

Art Director

Bowook Yoon

Chief Creative Officer

Karl Lieberman

Creative Director

Christine Santora
Will Binder

Editor

Melissa Burns

Executive Producer

Sam Kilbreth

Account Supervisor

Isabella Sawyer
Miriam Charry

Camera Operator

Bryan Bonilla

Casting Director

Stacy Gallo

Project Manager

Danielle Hillman

Stylist

Sheyna Imm

AC/DIT

Melanie St.Clair

account director

Price Manford

ACCOUNT SUPERVISOR, DIGITAL

Shannon Powell

Art Coordinator

Callan Christiano

Assistant Account Executive

Emily Rivera

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

Amina Ahmed

Brand manager

Alyssa Cicero

Brand Strategy

Alex Nguyen
Joe Bae
Zack Plutzer

Business Affairs

Andrea Fagan

colorist

Melissa Burns

Comms Strategy

Angel Navedo
Abel Rodriguez

Director / Photographer

David Ebert

Director of Business Affairs

Anna Beth Nagel

DIRECTOR, ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

Emily Jacobson

DIRECTOR, DIGITAL MARKETING

Terrance Coleman

Director, Public Relations

Jenna Thornton

DP

Jordan Parrott
Jordan Parrott

EVP, DIRECTOR OF INTEGRATION COMMUNICATIONS

Missy Maher

GAFFER

Luke Becker-Lowe

HEAD OF AWAY FROM HOME BRAND & TRADE MARKETING

Brandon Potter

Head of Integrated Production

Nick Setounski

HMU

Celestina Masiello

Management supervisor

Carina Polini

Mixer

David Murray

NA BRAND COMMUNICATIONS

Nina Patel

Post producer

Matthew Snetzko

Production Designer

Luiza Rose

Production manager

Ryan Charland

SAE, Media Relations

Veronica Smith

Senior Associate

Anthea Shih

Senior Brand Manager

Jacqueline Chao

SENIOR BRAND MANAGER, AWAY FROM HOME

Matt Schiess

SENIOR PRODUCER

Tania Pirozzi

Senior Vice President

Jamie Dammrich

Social Strategist

James Williams
Syd Hutnik
Ni’A Landon

Sound mixer

Eric Rice

SR. ANALYST HEINZ AND LICENSING, AWAY FROM HOME

Sydney Crombie

SVP, Media Strategy

Courtney Pischke

Traffic

Sonia Bisono
Jacqueline Crane

VP, DIGITAL + PAIDMEDIA

Mary Schremser

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