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Hyundai i20 takes viral route for digital stickiness

Hyundai has decided to float viral videos targeting its select models. These viral videos are being conceptualised and produced by Innocean Worldwide

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Hyundai i20 takes viral route for digital stickiness

Hyundai i20 takes viral route for digital stickiness

Hyundai has decided to float viral videos targeting its select models. These viral videos are being conceptualised and produced by Innocean Worldwide

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | June 7, 2013

publive-imageAs part of a strategic endeavour to increase the brand's outreach, Hyundai Motor India has ramped up its presence on the digital medium. There is a flurry on new initiatives, each one aimed at being ahead of the curve in engaging the netizens. In a move that is unique in the automobile category Hyundai has decided to float viral videos targeting its select models that have a younger TA footprint to begin with. These viral videos are being conceptualised and produced by Innocean Worldwide, Hyundai's advertising agency. The first viral to hit the online space is for the 'Uber Cool i20'.

Vivek Srivastava, Jt. Managing Director, Innocean India, said, “The virals are a thriving mechanism to reach out to the digital class of consumers and have a definitive role in the brand's communication architecture. We believe that Hyundai's step is in the right direction and will help enhance the buzz around its various brands/models. Our teams endeavour is to roll out never before concepts that hold the surfers' fancy and make the brand stick via spontaneous sharing.”

The video is for Hyundai's super-hit premium compact i20 very smartly promotes the three latest features of the car – automatic headlights, rain sensing wipers and rear view mirror with parking assist. Using a ghost as the main character, the ad slowly and innovatively shows how the new features of the i20 confuses the spirit, enough to become scared and vanish into thin air. The beauty of the ad lies in the conceptualisation and its cheeky sense of humour that sustain the attention span.

The script has been conceptualised by the creative trio of Allen Charles, George Koshy, Sr. Creative Director, and Saurabh Dasgupta, ECD. The film has been directed by Sameer Tiwari of Working I Films.

“The intent is to clearly use a different grammar from the one viewers are used to. It is meant to engage them, spook them and humour them, all in a span of a minute or two,” commented Dasgupta.

This two-minute video is being seeded using YouTube and social media platforms Facebook and Twitter. There is adequate deployment of online tools to bring it on the screens of the uber-cool youngsters. “This just the start of a series of high engagement initiatives that have been planned for Hyundai and one would see digital gaining a greater traction in the media strategies of the brand,” said B Sridhar, Group Director - Media Services at Innocean.

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