2022 Winners & Shortlists

Background

Hyundai’s SUV lineup has a diverse array of safety and driver assistance features to keep both driver and passengers safe on the road. The brief was to create Hyundai SUV range films featuring 3 cars -- The Palisade, The Tucson, and The Santa Fe. The task was to highlight the SmartSense safety features of each vehicle in a new way that's different from how it's usually done in a ‘typical’ automotive ad that focuses on driving shots. And to make films with a captivating storyline that would highlight the SmartSense safety features of the Hyundai SUV models in a creative and entertaining way.

Describe the strategy

Those films were created for the Saudi market, and based on the gathered data that showed that a lighthearted / funny content would appeal more to the Saudi target audience and keep them engaged for longer, especially online video content on platforms such as YouTube that has one of the world's highest penetration rates coming from Saudi Arabia. So, the approach was to make films that deliver the key USPs of the Hyundai SUV cars including the SmartSense safety features in a creative, funny and entertaining story, using a humour style specific to the Saudi market with an emphasis on dialogue, gestures, physical acting, and accidental situations.

Describe the execution

Online films with a captivating storyline that highlighted the SmartSense safety features of the Hyundai SUV models in a creative and entertaining way. The campaign have 1 main long film featuring 3 Hyundai cars and 3 shorter films featuring one Hyundai car each. The films' concept is called: The Upset Director. It follows a fictitious famous personality who decides to become a film director. Overconfident in his abilities, the debut director promises to make the most dramatic car action movie ever. The only problem -- the cars chosen by his producer are the Hyundai SUV line up. The films are a new take on automotive advertising, a behind-the-scenes car action movie, with no action. The films enable Hyundai to communicate the key USPs of the cars through an entertaining story specially crafted for the people of Saudi Arabia and it was placed on Hyundai MEA YouTube Channel.

List the results

5,480,615 views on YouTube. 19,767 Landings from YouTube. 2,347,901 completed views on YouTube.