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It’s awards season – a painful, exhilirating, mental and rewarding time in agencies. The biggest whopper of an award show is coming up and tons of case studies are being edited and submitted as we speak. All to win some Gold Lions at Cannes. So at Adverblog, we thought it would be helpful to take a group-wide look at the Art of the Case Study. We describe some of the obvious and some of the not-so-obvious characteristics of a true winner (in terms of case study). First, have a quick look at Lars Bastholm’s tips from 2009:
As the case movie becomes an art form in itself, the question is: Which awards show will be the first to actually give out an award for “Best Case Study” ?
Below are my points, which I wrote after most of the other (more creative tips) had been made by the other Adverblog editors already. I decided to add three rather mundane items. They are nevertheless highly annoying if not thought about before hitting the magic ‘Submit’ button.
Go easy on the ‘Never been done before’ – chances are I have indeed seen something similar before. Which isn’t bad at all. Only if you try to make me believe you were the first to ever think of connecting Twitter with your mum’s Facebook page.
Don’t use a custom video player and don’t put it on your shitty agency video server. Use YouTube like every other dweeb in the world. If I have to suck your 60 megabyte creative bonanza through a straw from your crappy PC that runs the rest of your country’s advertising case studies – I am in a bad mood already. Nothing kills your thrilling case dead in its track like a stuttering video player.
Have a compelling submission page: good layout, title at the top (why not in the style of the campaign?), start with the case study film, bullet point the main points of the challenge, strategy, idea, execution. And follow with the long copy below. I will read it when I am intrigued but don’t make me wade through long-winded, inflated hyperbole before I get to the idea and video. And no agency branding, please. Duh!
Have a read of the full article on Adverblog and please feedback what you thought was most helpful. And if you are into (old skool term) “Cyber” like me, keep in mind some of the thoughts that Iain Tait voices here about the category.
And at the end of the day, compelling ideas present themselves.
I’ll say it upfront: The Battle of Big Thinking is my kind of stoush. A keynote can sometimes come across as a polished corporate performance, delivered in front of an audience that, while suitably impressed, is leaning back slightly.
Not so with these bouts of the brain. This time it’s personal: every contender has to weigh in, display heart and passion, come out swinging. Punchy lines have to be thrown, flying thick and fast, with the intent to floor the adversaries.
Don’t get me wrong, a keynote can have huge impact and introduce big ideas. But how different is it when you have to convince a room full of judges that you deserve the title belt? Where every big blow reverberates through the audience (in tweets) and entices the delegates to quote you and create their own jeers from the sidelines? Have a taste of these:
“It’s difficult to follow a doctor of positivity when you’re pissed off.”
“Planners are the cake, creatives just add the icing.”
“Art is a reflection on humanity – it has to use the tools of today, digital.”
“As a woman, I am not the small, pink version of a man”
And the author of the last line, Farrah Bostic, clinched the title. She passionately appealed for more respect for women in marketing, as colleagues as well as consumers. And displayed the heart of a battle-hardened thinker. One tweeter commented: “Battle of Big Thinking – it’s like TED talks meet cage fighting.”
I am lucky enough to be invited to act as commentator, Tweeter, blogger and (buzzword) ‘content curator’ of AWARD’s Circus 2013. This is my summary of Day One, the Keynote speakers.
“Going through your Instagrams is the new way of note taking.” There, I’ve said it. Or better: I’ve borrowed this thought from a tweet that was sent during Circus. Which nicely illustrates my point: What good is a creative festival if you aren’t in discourse with the other attendees? Luckily, Circus delivers that in spades. And interactivity is not confined to the electronic space.
As Anthony Freedman encouraged us to ‘step outside the industry for a while’, Craig Davis went further and had us all take off our shoes and stand up to get a true sense of grounding. Master of Ceremony Joe Talcott made us search for post it notes, detect the hoaxes within the speakers’ CVs and kept our minds open for the next big thought. Like The Rise of Conscious Capitalism. Or Facebook’s Speed to Create and China’s Speed to Market. Brands’ Open APIs and Shops as Open Theatres. Or Coca-Cola’s Liquid and Linked Ideas.
Jonathan Mildenhall’s guided tour through Coca-Cola’s Content 2020 strategy was indeed a big opener of Day One, expertly delivered by voice and illustrated by hand. And apart from the strong belief in a new, dynamic way of storytelling that permeates Jonathan’s work, his keynote taught me the wonderful word of ‘womanity‘. I am not 100% sure about its semantic difference to ‘womanhood’. But Jon used it to describe Madonna’s ‘fierce, independent womanity’. And if there is one woman that deserves a new gender expression it’s Madonna.
Speaking of semantics, Joe Talcott rounded up the day nicely with a plea to reconsider one of the most popular hashtags: #Fail and its grandiose cousin #EpicFail. Maybe next time replace it with #thanksforthelesson, or #don’tgiveup or #learn. Now there’s a thought to borrow.
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