I think that this is a beautiful commercial - it's well shot, interesting and it's going to get noticed. However I wonder what the ROI is going to look like on this? Whenever i see this ad, I wonder whether it wasn't a case of a great creative idea waiting for a client to buy into it rather than the other way around. Will this advert really sell incremental internet usage across the Vodafone network? I'm struggling to understand how.
There is no call to action in this advert - you don't get an offer to trial or any way in which users can sign up for services. What is commercial appears designed to do is raise awareness about online services. That bothers me because although I'm sure there was some kind of ROI framework put in place before the campaign aired, I'm amazed nobody made sure people knew how to get online or even view what content was already out there. Voda are spending a lot of money telling consumers across all networks that mobile internet services will give them back time. Nowhere does this specify that Voda is better; nowhere does it imply that customers on Voda get better services.
Payback on this campaign is going to be tough but if they can persuade millions to try a few online services, maybe those 3G network licences will look a better investment than they do at present. Before that though, they have to make this commercial pay off and we all know that 90 second ads are expensive. By my rough calculations, Voda are going to have to get each customer to increase their ARPU by more than £1 over the year to make this pay off and that's a tough ask as most people in telcos will attain to. At least the execs can look forward to a trip to Cannes next year!
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Do you know by any chance which company and/or director made that ad for Vodafone?
Apparently, it was made by the following team:
"The Raining Watches ad was developed at BBH, London, by creative director Nick Mahoney, creatives Simon Veksner and Nick Allsop, and agency producer Davud Karbassioun.
Filming was directed by Simon Ratigan at HLA, London, with producer Mike Wells. See Vodafone Raining Time in quicktime at HLA.
Editor was Adam Spivey at Speade, London."
From "http://www.duncans.tv/2007/vodafone-raining-watches-time"
can anyone tell me into which tv programmes is the Vodafone Mobile Internet advert shown? and why were these tv programmes chosen?
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