Saturday, October 2, 2010

Nikon interactive advertising

Perhaps one of the most direct, in-your-face (literally) examples of interactive advertising Nikon has ever pushed. The popular technology-giant received inspiration from our celebrity-glamorized paparazzi culture to launch the brand’s D700 model in Korea.

At a heavily-visited subway station in Seoul, Nikon mounted an enormous interactive, light-box billboard with life-size images of anxious paparazzi. Completely jammed together as if the subway station was a premiere, the paparazzi look like they are fighting for the best celebrity pic.

All of the passersby became instant celebrities when the motion of them walking by the billboard automatically triggered a surge of flashing camera lights. The newly-crowned, on-the-spot-superstars then continue down the red carpet that leads out of the station and into a mall – directly into the store where they can buy the camera that they are still thinking about only mere seconds after walking past the billboard.