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2024 One Show - Creative Use of Technology

Dashboard Billboards

Agency NORD DDB / Stockholm

Client Skoda

Category

Technology as a Creative Tool

Annual ID

OS24_CT030M

About the Work

As the electric car market keeps on growing, so does the competition. The big players in the automotive industry often dominate the outdoor advertising landscape, leaving smaller car brands struggling to catch the spotlight.

Škoda faced this challenge when they introduced their latest electric car, the Enyaq. They needed an attention-grabbing idea that would set them apart from the traditional car advertisements that saturate the market.

The big objective was to make Škoda become a more competitive player in the automotive market in Sweden. Even though they can't compete with the competitor's marketing budgets.

The use of a new type of outdoor media is the core of this idea – transforming Skoda's competition into their own media space. By placing the billboards in parking lots for two weeks, the cars' reversing camera picked them up and we had a whole new media channel showcasing Škoda's latest Enyaq model. The ads had different messages that would make people consider buying Skoda, while sitting in a Volvo. Or BMW, Ford, Audi, Tesla, or a Mercedes for that matter. Basically any car with a reversing camera. Even though the ads where small, the scale of the impact was big.

Utilizing Škoda's underdog position in Sweden, the idea turned a small budget into a cost-effective campaign and created an impact by thinking smart rather than big. And in the end led more people to try customizing their own car on Škoda's website. And even another car brand, Volkswagen, recognized the idea with two simple words "Touché Škoda". Dashboard Billboard could be adapted as an advertising medium around the world – turning outdoor ads into inside car advertising. Leading to some good results for a low budget activation:
- + 5 900 000 impressions
- + 100 000 monthly visitors to the website
- + 45% increase in customizing a Škoda on the website
- + 300% ROI in media value

And most importantly, Dashboard Billboard invented a new format. A new, highly contextualized way for a car brand to reach out to potential customers while in their car.

2024 Awards

Total Points: 3

Merit

Credits

Agency

NORD DDB / Stockholm

Chief Creative Officer

Andreas Dahlqvist

Creative Director

Hanna Stenwall
Anna Salonen

Director

Julius Hayes

Strategy Director

Albin Gustafsson

Agency Producer

Jacob Fagerström

Client Director

Magnus Tengzelius

Client Manager

Cornelia Bruzelius

Content Designer

Christian Björnehag

Creative Producer

Tobias Bergenwall

Manager Marketing & Product

Stefan Nygren

Marketing Coordinator

Jenny Hedlund

Model Maker

Christopher Robin Nordström

PR & Sponsoring Manager

Hanna Storckenfeldt

PR Strategist

Frida Rosenqvist

Senior PR Advicer

Joel Sköld

Studio Designer

Petter Mollberg Fagring

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