GINGERBREAD MEN DOING HAKA VIRAL GETS 3 MILLION HITS
A viral campaign created by Blackwood Communications Group, Auckland for the NZ Bakery of the Year challenge – featuring animated gingerbread men doing the haka – has already had 3 million hits from around the world and climbing, according to the agency. It’s also featured on several NZ and Aussie TV and radio stations.
Says Blackwood art director: Matthias May: “The viral was created for the Baking Industry Association of New Zealand’s (BIANZ) annual Bakery of the Year competition. It was open to public voting for the first time this year, so we thought we’d promote this fierce competition with a fierce challenge – and what’s a better representation of that than the haka?
“Only two weeks after the public voting opened, the clip’s already had 3 million hits from around the world and climbing. It’s also featured on several NZ and Aussie TV and radio stations. The number of registered bakeries has more than tripled from last year, and several thousand people have voted so far.”
Title: Gingerbread Haka
Client: Bakers Industry Association of New Zealand
Agency: Blackwood Communications Group
Business Development: Ben Lightfoot
ECD: James Blackwood
Art Director: Matthias May
Copywriter: Lil Cameron
Animation: Kangoo
Voices: Silverdale Rugby Club
Sound: Images & Sound
19 Comments
That’s a half-baked idea
My parents emailed this to me… which is quite an accomplishment. So nice work.ps. I like how you cut from the end screen to the gingerbread man doing the throat slit then back to the end screen.
yeah nah good
could not have said it better myself, if anything this proves how moronic 3 million people are.
Well, we all know how advertising works 11:25. And all of us have seen it. Must be morons then…
More than 3 million views and not a $ spent on media – nice work.
what a joke. i’d expect a y&r client to come up with better than that.chocolate lover boy
3 million views?Wonder how they’ve worked that out. It’s been posted onto You Tube by supposedly 17 different people, and has had around 27,694 views there,(check it out at youtube by typing ‘Ginger Haka’ into the search box).I’d love to know where the other 2.975 million views have come from. Have they counted TV audiences as part of that? If not, then the Bakers Association must have one hell of a website, and very BIG servers.Having said all that, it’s quite nice work but let’s see some stats to back this claim!
I don’t know about the stats and server size of the bakers 10:59, but when you check Google and see 27 Youtube uploads 33 MySpace uploads1919 Bebo profilesand over twenty pages of results from all over the world, I personally might just believe the 3 million.
dear 10.59so you’re saying that, apart from being the most unpopuar agency in town BG are also blatant liars?go matt and j!
Claim schmaim. This is just plain good. How many times is Colenso’s exploding FedEx billboard going to get passed on compared to this?
I emailed it on to my 3 year old, she loved it.
Welcome to the NZ effectiveness circle blog…
It’s wicked. Love it.
This is good. Fullstop.
Commenting on your own work doesn’t count.
If we’re not supposed to comment upon effectiveness, then let’s not publish stories where the complete thrust of the headline is on the ‘effectiveness’ of the campaign. The claim was made, so some validation of that claim is in order.
Whoops – forgot that effectiveness doesn’t count if you work in an ad agency, only doing something “cool for your book’. Wake up, the world has moved on (a lot).
Thanks for the real gingerbread men, guys.