DDB launches ‘Nightmare spots’ campaign for VW’s parking technology
DDB has launched a press and poster campaign for its oldest client, Volkswagen.
The idea behind the ads is that any parking spot, no matter how precarious it may seem, is easy to negotiate with VW’s Park Assist technology.
The ad series, entitled Nightmare Spots, was by creative team Steve Wakelam and Nick Pringle.
The ads will break from 18 April.
More gold from DDB and VW.
Engaging demonstration of the parking fear insight.
Why is the guy under the car when it looks like he’s meant to be changing a tyre? Also I’d be more concerned about running over his legs on the road than reversing into the car.
Why an American car? This done for juries? Also it’s not really a campaign but the same ad three times.
These are terrific.
Brilliant ads great insight
Same ad x 3.
This look, feel and tone of voice is now very, very old.
DDB should be about tomorrows ideas, looks and thinking… not yesterdays
Harry and Jeepers,
I guarantee that these will win big awards.
Why? because awards juries understand that this look, feel and tone of voice is the most famously perfect look, feel and tone of voice created in advertising since the early 60s. to change it would be insulting to VW’s heritage.
Also, a campaign is a a single idea brought to life in 3 different ways. Changing the vehicles is doing exactly that.
Any objections you have to the above will be answered in about 2 months in Cannes.
I feel better now.
Lovely work – brilliantly simple insight. Well done.
A good idea is a good idea regardless of where you see it. Somehow I don’t think a ‘treasure-hunt’-app or a QR code would make this any more relevant than it already is in 2012. Admire it for what it is. It’ll clean-up too.
Really nice, saw these in the Manly Daily… just kidding.
People asking questions about running over peoples legs or cars have obviously had their thinking polluted by literal / difficult (read: dumb) clients. Or they are that kind of person. Open your minds, smoke something (or stop smoking whatever it is you’re smoking) and enjoy it for what it is – an ad.
Great insight, well executed. Harry, sorry mate you’re wrong. And no-one important, well, enough said.
great concept, but what immediately jumps out is how it might have been better executed — in practice these ads show how you can park with confidence with this new technology, so it will appeal only to a limited niche, predominantly elderly or inexperienced drivers?
it could open up to a whole new demographic with a little tweak — by making the available parking space obviously smaller than normal, it might show drivers that they can achieve something new with VW’s product.
it’s quite novel to show American cops parked outside a real police station — in reality they only park outside coffee brews and donut shops.
…or you could credit this ‘whole new demographic’ with a small amount of intelligence.