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Adrian Awards 2018

Marketing Objectives:
Clearly state your marketing goals.
What did your company strive to achieve using this piece or program?

Our goals: 1. Generate conversation and earned media coverage about Seattle amongst an influential, and frequently traveling high income audience. 2. Drive “time spent with the brand” via a new film that celebrated the city; measured by views and overall watch time. 3. Drive overall visibility and consideration for Seattle as an innovative city worth visiting.

Target Audience:
Who was/is the target audience?
Characterize the composition, size, and location of your target audience.

We targeted two separate but connected audiences. Entertainment industry representatives and press that attend events like the Film Independent Spirit Awards are high-income earners and frequent travelers that share Seattle’s creative spirit. Plus, they’re influencers that can help position Seattle as a ‘must-visit’ destination. In many ways, that audience shared the DNA of our core audience - Advenculturists. They are adventurous, creative, and forward-thinking. Located nationwide, largely in urban cores, they’re avid travelers, but traditional travel destinations aren’t for them. For them, travel is about truly exploring stories – of people, cultures, local traditions, and rituals. They want to uncover the story of a city, and share it with others. But this audience’s real thrill lies in anything intellectually stimulating, such as independent film – a fact supported by syndicated numbers showing they over-index for programming on IFC and award shows like the Spirit Awards.

Research, Planning, and Implementation:
What market research was conducted prior to planning the piece/campaign? Describe how you planned and produced the creative asseets with the mobile canvas in mind.

For the first time, Film Independent partnered with a brand to commission a custom filmmaking award. The Seattle Story Award awarded one filmmaker the opportunity and funds to produce and distribute a film inspired by Seattle’s deep textures and independent spirit. A nominating committee comprised of leading members of the independent film community chose Matty Brown as the winner. He exhibited innovation, diversity and uniqueness of vision while having a history of transforming perspectives through rich stories; exactly what Seattle does for anyone who has spent time here. His film, Dreamcatcher, premiered during IFC’s broadcast of the Film Independent Spirit Awards. To celebrate, we brought a taste of Seattle to LA. Through a branded experience, event attendees were treated to fresh oysters flown in from Seattle, savory grilled cheese sandwiches from Beecher’s Cheese, Seattle Mules featuring Rachel’s Ginger Beer and chocolate popcorn from Seattle’s iconic Cinerama theater.

Message:
What is the key message intended for the piece/campaign?
What differentiates your piece/campaign in the marketplace?

This effort was designed to reinforce the independent and creative spirit that is unlocked in Seattle and that the city’s story goes far beyond the surface level or stereotypical descriptions of Seattle (rain, Starbucks, fish market, Space Needle). Rather, this is a city rich with textures, characters and soul. This effort was a first by not only a Destination Marketing Organization, but a brand in general.

Results:
Which of your original goals did you achieve and how?
How did you measure the effectiveness of the piece or campaign? Entrants should provide quantifiable results of their tactics or campaigns.

This program with both Film Independent and their broadcast partner, IFC put Visit Seattle squarely in the center of conversations amongst an A-List influencer audience. This project generated over 1 billion earned impressions for Visit Seattle (1,008,370,548 to be exact); more than delivering on our goal of gaining visibility among an influential and travel-minded audience. In fact, the people we reached were 90 times more likely than the average person to be a ‘vacation travel category influential’ based on audience and event data. #SpiritAwards was the most popular hashtag nationally on show day. And on the ground, Seattle’s brand activation was one of the most talked about - and visited - experiences during the Spirit Awards. The film that came from Seattle Story Award winner Matty Brown – Dreamcatcher –garnered the most views and watch time of any content piece on our channel in Q1’18. This one film delivered over 1.4MM minutes of watch time in less than one month. That’s lite

Project Analysis:
Please provide a brief background on the project and your efforts to preserve the destination’s natural, cultural and historic heritage.

Objectives and Goals:
What did organization set out to achieve in undertaking this project?

Creativity and Innovation:
What new and innovative ideas did you incorporate in either your method of outreach or in the implementation of the project that you think could inspire others committed to sustainability in the tourism and travel industry?

Communication:
How did you communicate your actions to the public, the media and other key stakeholders and what was the aim of the message?
How did you generate publicity in order to build awareness of, or support corporate values on your sustainability initiatives.

Results:
How did you measure the effectiveness of your efforts and what direct and tangible results did you achieve?

Leadership:
Please list the individual in a leadership role responsible for the project and how would you characterize their commitment to promoting preservation and sustainability best practices in the travel and tourism industry?

URL #1:

https://www.visitseattle.org/tv/videos/dreamcatcher-a-film-by-matty-brown/

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Division

Public Relations

Sub-category

PR Campaign

Category

SPECIAL EVENT

Entry Title

Seattle Story Award

Innovation Analysis: Please provide a brief background on the project and why you feel it fits the definition of innovation, what the breakout implications are and how it was an industry disruptor.

Sources of Innovation: Did the innovative project result from chance, from research, from inspiration from outside the industry, or from some other source?

Goals and Objectives: What were the goals of the innovative project, and were they met? Were they tied to a business plan? A larger campaign? Or to get specific result (such as views, shares, influencer engagement, or bookings)? And what obstacles did you encounter in the execution of the project and how did you overcome them?

Classification

Situational Analysis

As we continue to forge new ground with our strategy of using entertainment-based content to share the deep and textured story of Seattle, we saw the opportunity to not just talk about the city’s creative spirit, but activate it in an entertainment-centric environment that also reflected the spirit of the city: the Film Independent Spirit Awards. More than just being an event sponsor, we wanted to demonstrate our commitment to filmmaking by giving an emerging director not just the opportunity, but the funds, to actually create a film inspired by the city itself.

Research, planning, and implementation:
What market research was conducted prior to planning the piece/campaign?
Describe how you planned and produced the creative assets with the mobile canvas in mind.

Message:
What is the key messages intended for the piece/ campaign?
What differentiates your piece/campaign in the marketplace?
What helped you breakthrough on mobile?

Results:
What original goals did you achieve and how?
How did you measure the effectiveness of the piece or campaign?
Entrants should provide quantifiable metrics tied to real business results (eg brand lift, leads, or bookings generated).

Results:
How did you measure the effectiveness of your efforts and what direct and tangible results did you achieve? Please be as specific as possible and share the full impact of your efforts in CSR. Understandably, maintenance is another major part of CSR. If you have continued to actively and consistently work on your CSR process; please add those actions to your results description.

Leadership:
To keep your CSR efforts thriving, you need momentum and passion, which has to come from the top. Please list the individual in a leadership role responsible for the project and how would you characterize their commitment to promoting corporate social responsibility in the travel and tourism industry?

Entry Award:

Gold