{"id":34502,"date":"2010-08-19T03:47:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T02:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/blog\/?p=34502"},"modified":"2010-08-19T03:47:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T02:47:27","slug":"creative-ambient-media-for-local-retailer-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/creative-ambient-media-for-local-retailer-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Ambient Media for Local Retailer Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CCgQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.romtelecom.ro%2Fen%2F&amp;rct=j&amp;q=romtelecom&amp;ei=RJpsTKbWIIaBlAfCwohQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNGXzHdrUgo1pNS8TbSnUlLWkSWi2w&amp;cad=rja\">Romtelecom<\/a> (the largest telecommunications company in Romania) needed to tell local customers that one of its brick-and-mortar stores moved to a new location, they turned to <a href=\"http:\/\/graffiti.bbdo.ro\/ro\/index.htm\">Graffiti BBDO<\/a> out of Bucharest, Romania to help them spread the word.\u00a0 The creative team at Graffiti BBDO decided to make use of a nearby intersection to not just spread the word locally but also cause an online conversation that gave the business a boost from all directions.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below which tells the creative story and shows how this clever bit of ambient media grabbed the attention of people on the street and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"590\" height=\"356\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OrhF59pRTE4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"590\" height=\"356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OrhF59pRTE4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>The goal for Romtelecom was simply to ensure the local store didn&#8217;t lose business after its move, but this creative ambient media got people talking about the brand.\u00a0 In other words, it achieved far more than its original objective by creating a conversation and word-of-mouth marketing that reached a larger audience via the social web and brought the brand in front of more people than a few signs and local ads ever could achieve on their own.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Are you (or should I say, is your leadership) brave enough to use creative ambient media like Romtelecom?\u00a0 Leave a comment and share your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Romtelecom (the largest telecommunications company in Romania) needed to tell local customers that one of its brick-and-mortar stores moved to a new location, they turned to Graffiti BBDO out of Bucharest, Romania to help them spread the word.\u00a0 The creative team at Graffiti BBDO decided to make use of a nearby intersection to not 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