Bangkok - Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand announces its win of Asia’s biggest online
gaming company, Garena, with the launch of the FIFA Online 3 campaign ‘I am
the one’.
The campaign was released the day before Argentina’s Lionel Messi set
foot on the world stage at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and celebrates the
idea that through FIFA Online 3 anyone can ‘be the one’.
Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand’s Executive Creative Director, Nuntawat
Chaipornkaew said, “We are really excited to be working with such a progressive
company like Garena. This campaign lets South East Asians experience the FIFA
World Cup - just like Messi.”
The campaign for the free-to-play multiplayer online football game was
teased with the media hijacking of football news websites by replacing actual
football stars mentioned in news articles with that of Thai game players, and
launched through a stirring film dubbed ‘Messi’s Arrival’.
An interactive version of the film can be accessed at the website http://iamtheone.in.th where
viewers can insert their own faces into the film to ‘be the one’ and also join
the world’s largest football team photo.
‘I am the one’ will be strategically rolled out into Outdoor, Point-of-Sale and Social content
over the next month through Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand’s unique Live Creativity
real-time social and content hub, and will continue to develop as stories of
the World Cup and social conversations evolve.
“When Brazil scored an own goal, our content team produced an ‘interview’ with a Thai player talking about how he just
wanted to score the first goal,” explained Chaipornkaew. “When Spanish star
Alonso lost a tooth, so did our stars and even the audience. When Suarez hurt his knee, so did we.”
View the campaign
film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NN6uiMaieE