Artline makes its mark on April Fool’s Day with microchip tracking in pens!
What started out as boardroom banter a few weeks earlier, this morning ended up being showcased on Channel 9’s Today Show and Reuter’s international news service as a cut-through April Fool’s Day joke.
BCM, together with client Pelikan Artline, brought the Artline brand positioning of ‘The pens more people pinch’ to life by introducing a groundbreaking, new technology - trackable microchiped Artline pens that allow people to track the whereabouts of their missing pen to within a metre, anywhere on earth.
Press ads promoting this new whiz-bang technology appeared today in The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Perth’s Western Australian, slipping under the ‘hoax-radar’ of countless readers.
A happy client. A thrilled agency. And a keen public who once again appreciated the quirky, topical thinking that is becoming a hallmark of Artline marketing.
Check out the coverage on the Today Show.
There’s plenty of Tweets on Twitter about it too. Follow them here.
http://twitter.com/honoursstudent/statuses/1440681531
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http://twitter.com/liedra/status/1428462214
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2 comments
quirky is the perfect word! It was very clever. The joke also received a special mention in MX last night among others from Google and Microsoft…nice one team!
Brilliant!!
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