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Entrant: Ogilvy Brasil, São Paulo
Brand: The Coca-Cola Company - Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola No Sugar
Title: "Coca-Cola Magic Audios"
Corporate Name of Client: The Coca-Cola Company
Client CIC Operations Director - LATAM: Tatiana Michelan
Client CIC Consumer Engagement Senior Manager - LATAM: Carolina Trueba
Client Chatbot Coordinator: André Carvalho
Client Manager Digital Commerce Food Delivery: Victor Canesin
Client Digital Marketing Manager: Melina Aguiar
Client Senior Manager Ecommerce: Gabriel Menezes
Client Junior Marketing Manager: Felipe Pinto
Client Senior Marketing Manager: Mariana David
Agency: Ogilvy Brasil, São Paulo
Global Chief Creative Officer: Liz Taylor
Chief Creative Officer: Sergio Mugnaini
Associate Creative Director: Alexander “Big” Davidson
Agency Head of Creative: Rubens Casa Nova
Copywriters: Gustavo Nassar/João Soares/Tali Sztokbant
Art Directors: Caio Almeida/Pedro Minari/Thyago Neves
Agency Director of Integrated Production: Fabiola Thomal
Agency Producer: Helio Rainieri
Agency Managing Director: Alessandra Dalbianco
Agency Strategic Planner: Leonardo Leite
Agency Strategy Director: Daniel Marques
Agency Account Supervisor: Nicole Dorgam
Agency Account Director: Mirella Benini
Agency Corporate Communication Manager : Raphaela Brito
Production Companies: Take Blip, Belo Horizonte/Sailor Studio, São Paulo
Head of Marketing - Take Blip: Francine Rosset
Managed Account Marketing Manager - Take Blip: Nathalia Oliveira
Machine Learning Specialist and Team Leader - Take Blip: João Paulo Reis Alvarenga
Machine Learning Specialist - Take Blip: Fernando Torres Bernardo
Data Scientist - Take Blip: Amanda da Silva Oliveira
Machine Learning Analyst - Take Blip: Alan Souza Santandrea
Research and Innovation Director - Take Blip: Milton Stiilpen
Director - Sailor Studio: Luis Guilherme Chagas
Executive Producers - Sailor Studio: Luccas Oliveira/Gustavo “GGA” Almeida
Producers - Sailor Studio: Gabriela Varela/Fernanda Fernandes
Director Of Photography - Sailor Studio: Ian Leite
1st Assistant Camera - Sailor Studio: Marina Rossi LocaBon
Motion Designers - Sailor Studio: Vitor Mendes/João Mateus
Editors - Sailor Studio: Nildo Ferreira/Guilherme Micsik
Post-Production Coordinators - Sailor Studio: Rafael Matheus/Luiz Alejandre “Ryan
Product Director - Sailor Studio: Letícia Cacace
Key Account Managers - Take Blip: Vanessa Gomes/Jonatas Aredes
Account Manager - Sailor Studio: Gustavo Veloso
Sound Mixer - Sailor Studio: César Antunha
Music Production Company: A-Gandaia, São Paulo
Musical Director, Executive Producer - A-Gandaia: Pedro Turra
Musical Producer/Sound Designer - A-Gandaia: Fabio Mancuso
Account Coordinator - A-Gandaia: Samira Tortelli
Voice Over - A-Gandaia: Amy Golembeski

Description:
Coca-Cola's Christmas campaigns are a global tradition, and it's the brand's most important date of the year.

Among its cherished activations, classics such as the Coca-Cola Caravan are mixed with new, innovative proposals. With the rise of mobile users in Brazil, this year Coca-Cola innovated in a fun, engaging, and very simple promotion right in people's hands, and in a ubiquitous medium: WhatsApp. Consumers were invited to record audios, wishing their loved ones a happy Christmas by drawing the silhouette of the iconic Coca-Cola contour bottle.

Winners got a R$ 40 iFood voucher, the leading delivery app in Brazil, and also took part in a raffle for a R$ 10,000 voucher at a great e-commerce site. The idea came from two important insights: Firstly, that Coca-Cola has the largest branded chatbot user base in Brazil.

Secondly, WhatsApp is an app that 99% of Brazilians have already installed on their phones. Why not turn a daily-used app into a channel for spreading some much-needed Christmas magic?

To get the activation up and running, we spent hundreds of hours training the AI to analyze the audio waveforms, classifying both the form and the content in order to reply to the user in just a few seconds.

Although it was a complex production to execute, it was quite easy for consumers. All they had to do was to contact Coca-Cola's chatbot, follow the instructions to register, try it for free and, to enable more attempts, send the invoice of their Coca-Cola purchase.

There were almost 100,000 new unique users – one single user sent exactly 3,832 audios to try to create the bottle's shape! In less than 20 days, Coca-Cola received almost 400,000 audios, sent over 4 million messages, and rewarded another 851 customers.

Therefore, there were more than 12 million seconds of recorded audio. The campaign also generated buzz, with over 100 articles written about it in five different languages, dozens of spontaneous videos produced, as well as memes, tutorials teaching tricks to get the shape of the bottle right, and messaging groups that discussed methods to get it right daily while the promotion was active.

Through this mobile-first activation, Coca-Cola turned WhatsApp into the most magical app during Christmas, delivering not only lots of prizes, but an unforgettable experience that's easily accessible by phone (and audio) savvy Brazilians.