Step 1
Brief: Our mission was to raise awareness of the
damage resistant mobile Samsung B2100, and
demonstrate its product benefits in an
entertaining way.
   
 
Step 2
We placed 70 mobiles on a glass table high above
a water tank and a concrete floor, and prepared for a
buzzing campaign on the site
samsungshakedown.com.
   
 
Step 3
Pre campaign buzz: In the week leading up to
campaign start people could visit the site and see
the mobiles on the table. Here they could guess
which phone that would be the last one to fall off
the table. Those who guess right, entered a draw
to win a Samsung B2100.
   
 
Step 4
Campaign start: On the day of the campaign, the
vibrators were switched on for each mobile. Every
phone had its own number that people could call
to vibrate the phone over the table edge. Because
nobody answered, the calls were free of charge.
 
   
 
Step 5
Four cameras filmed the mobiles and streamed
the video to the site, so that people could follow
the mobile race from four different angles.
 
 
 
   
 
Step 6
Within seconds, thousands of people were calling
the mobiles, trying to make them fall down on the
concrete floor or into the water tank.
 
 
 
   
 
Step 7
The person whose call caused a mobile to fall, won
that mobile.
 
 
 
 
   
 
Step 8
After the mobiles had fallen off the table, people
could still call the mobiles to see if they worked.
 
 
 
 
   
 
Step 9
The campaign was run in several rounds, and each
time the winners were announced afterwards and
notified by SMS and online.
 
 
 
   
 
Step 10
The winners got the (almost) new phone delivered
by mail.
 
 
 
 
   
 
Step 11
The campaign spread through non-paid media only.
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
Step 12
The impact on sales was astonishing. The campaign
was launched late october. Within two months sales
had increased by almost 100%. No other marketing
efforts took place in Sweden at the time.
 
Number of B2100 mobile phones sold in the Swedish
market 2009:
October: 7,704
November: 12,499
December: 15,245 Direct Response:
 
Direct Response:
Each campaign round generated over 30 000 calls
to the mobiles. Average time spent on the website
was over 12 minutes.