Based on a true story
 
OBJECTIVES
 
Reposition Choc Hebdo, a french monthly gossip.
Create the buzz in less than 10 days.
 
THE FILM
 
The viral film is a parody a famous incident already related by all french media where JLD, a famous TV animator, drunk put a real mess during a flight Paris-Johannesbourg kissing passengers and even biting a crew member.
The challenge was to create a real fake movie as if a passenger had shot the scene with his cell phone.
Seed it on the web.
 

 
THE TEASING PHASE OF PR
 
We sent fake cut finguers to 100 journalists and others opinion leaders.
 
 
A BLOG
 
These people were invited to connect on a dedicated blog.
 
 
92 % of the mailes persons logged on the blog
 
THE REVELATION PHASE
 
A comment posted on the blog ...  ... redirected people to "http://www.choc.fr/mordus/"
   
 
In the mean time, the agency organised the seeding of blogs and websites.
 
CAMPAIGN RESULTS
 
Seen more than 700 000 times in 1 week. At the end more than 1 million people see the video.

Traffic on www.choc.fr increased by 600%.

During 3 weeks, CHOC sold 250 000 exemplars instead of the 150 000 expected.

Equivalent in media space purchasing estimated at 1 000K euros.
 
More than 500 articles on the biggest French Websites and blogs
 
           
           
 

More than 25 articles in the National Newspaper, ...

 
       
 
.. Radios ...
 
 
... and TV.