Iris hits up hip-hop star Snob Scrilla in Toyota social media pitch
The final campaign in Toyota’s five-way live social media pitch has been unveiled, with Iris launching a clip on YouTube featuring hip hop artist Snob Scrilla making sound effects, or “Bootboxing”, using the Yaris.
More details of the agency’s overall campaign strategy are expected to be revealed next week. The YouTube clip features four people, including Snob Scrilla, using the various parts of the Yaris, such as its motor, the sound of the indicator, its windows and doors opening and closing, to create a beat, similar to the sound made when beatboxing.
The clip has so far received over 2,000 hits on YouTube.
It is the last entry to Toyota’s social media experiment, which has seen the car company give five agencies $15,000 to create a campaign as part of a live pitch process.
The agencies are Iris, Saatchi & Saatchi, One Green Bean, Hothouse, and a joint effrots from The Population and Oddfellows.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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Like it, something that is genuinely interesting.
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I rate this. Nice work!
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I like it but is it really social media? This is just a TVC that has been put on youtube. The other ideas seemed to have much more interaction with the brand. I’m not a marketer but this is just my layman’s opinion.
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Um….OK I think has someone has taken some liberties with the term ‘hip hop star’….
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Agree with DD. It’s a TVC on Youtube.
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where’s the engagement here? non existent. Granted, it’s better than the Clever filming comp, which is so un original it’s embarassing. The werewolf idea at least drives consumer participation. The 2000 views are probably from all the Iris staff and their mates
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I thought this was OK, but lacked any “real” wow factor, I expected more, especially with the use of Snoob – I also wonder whether there was enough leverage of the use of such a high profile artist right now, was it obvious that a personality was endorsing this brand.
Overall, I’m still wondering what it was all about, other than a slightly repetitive slamming of doors – so perhaps its about build quality – thats it – quality build quality endorsed by a quality artist.
i think
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Well done … in that this “work” now sets the bar even lower.
Truly, what’s the point of this? That the car has doors that open and close? That the electric windows go up and down, the indicators work, and that when you press the accelerator then engine revs?
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@Lou I sprayed my screen with coffee in laughter whilst reading your comment.
I’m really hoping this is a start and they then do something with the beat that was made from it within the social media space. Cause I’m praying this aint the only and final chapter- if so it’s half arsed at best.
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Im sorry but all of the Yaris ideas are terrible. None of them are targeted, none have mass reach and they definately dont create a conversation.
Why didnt anyone target potential small car buyers than simply let them come and drive the cars on a test day, remember the mini rally thing.
Surely they could have worked social media in to that and created something which actually was interesting and SOLD CARS!
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i actually reckon this is the most creative of the lot. its simplicity works and i can see it going viral. the other ideas are too obvious
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Its different I agree but I would have thought the Yaris is mainly a female target, this feels definately skewed towards guys. And in the end I still cannot see how it would help the Yaris in any way. I know this is a social media experiement/pith thing but seriously how do any of them help the Yaris surely that had to be in the brief.
Best thing of the whole campaign was is Satchi spending 15K on a piss up lol
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Interesting idea? yes.
Good execution? Avg.
Relevant? Not so much.
Really using Social? Viral YTvid is weak/ a stretch isn’t it?
Where are all the fucking awesome social media gurus when ya need ’em?
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I like it, and yea maybe it’s risky, but at least it’s original. And I think it’s got legs.
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Strongest idea by far. I don’t know much about cars but I’ve seen Yaris involved in the music scene so so I think it’s a clever way of continuing this in an online environment.
As a music-lover, this is something I’d actually forward.
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At least this idea isn’t scamming hits with prizes, the people watching it must actually WANT to watch it.
Good work guys, at least you’re being sincere about the whole thing.
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I like this. It’s the only one with an idea in it that could catch on. They’ve effectively created a new form of ‘music’. Probably stretching it a bit far but you could really see this kicking off on line given the right exposure. In the same way that mashups like SnatchWars and Downfall give people a fun ‘tool’ to play with and add their own thing to – I can see Bootboxing becoming one of those. No reason why not, it’s fun and anyone can do it. That’s quite clever from the agency responsible – starting a social tend as it were that people can own themselves and continue the conversation is using social media to the max. Has the potential to be fantastic – don’t think any of the others do.
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Totally agree with you Steve, someone’s already given it ago check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy40sQn7YE8. I think this ones funnier than the original!!
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Heard Snob Scrilla on the Arias last night. Makes the connection with Yaris all hte more relevant if Toyota want to continue their association with music and connect with the kids. You can’t tell kids that the yaris is cool you have to involve them in it so props to the agency for making the most of this music connection
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It’s a good advertising idea, like it. Yeah it’s kinda been done, but hey.
Sort of reminds me of this little bit of D&B genius from Mistabishi too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4hQahXXLR0&feature=related
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surely it depends on what the agencies were briefed on. launch a cool idea online? launch something to get interest and high forward rates? actually start a conversation? if anyone knows then we might get a relevant debate going. lego men on an adventure is pretty pointless for me, i think of the lot this bootbox idea at least has a new concept that can grab attention and run and run.
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This idea out of all of them has the biggest potential to go viral which surely is one of the main points for any social media campaign. I know my little brother (22yrs) who is probably the target market for this was pretty impressed with it and he and his mates have been trying to replicate Snob. If that isn’t particpation I don’t know what is.
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Hate hip hop – love music
LOVE this idea
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I love this. Its something different and reckon you could create a whole series of different clips using this concept.
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Didn’t know Yaris had it in them to be cool!
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Didn’t you, Gary J? Do you think they’re cool enough to help you with gender confusion too? I see that you and Lucia share a common IP address.
And now that I take a look, so do most of the positive comments that have been posted over the previous week or two. including Byron, Arob, POQ77,Steve, Rich, Kelly and JLM.
That’s crappy enough, but what’s even more cynical is the way you’ve claimed to be “DD” and “Phil” who commented earlier to try to give the impression those critical people had changed their minds.
of course, you could argue that this is lots of enthusiastic people working within the same company with the same IP address and it’s all a coincidence. That wouldn’t really explain why most of the postings have submitted an identical (presumably fake) email address though, would it?
Still, thanks for your comments.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Im sorry there are too many purely positive comments here…. Do we think the agency may be adding in a few here?
Sorry this still does not work for me, I have no idea what the brief is but I cant see any of these even slightly pushing a consumer towards a vehicle and if the brief was to just do something cool than shame on the agencies for not challenging that.
Oh and a few thousand views is not a success….
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Hi Phil,
About the moment you were posting that question, I think I was answering it in the comment above.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
lol good work Tim, im sorry guys but you cant even stack the story with positive comments without getting caught. Dont do digital unless you do digital…..
Oh and did anyone go to Saatchi & Saatchi’s $15K party 😉
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A clever campaign goes viral through its own merits – trying to tailor something to go viral inevitably seems to fail.
When they then go about fluffing the piece they’re compounding their failure with douche, and that’s a cocktail I’d rather avoid.
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ahhh roflmao.
(sorry i have no intelligent comment to add!)
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hilarious. nice pickup tim/phil.
If they read your site frequently they’d know that you’ve named and shamed others, like Tounge.
It’s sad but funny.
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Another way to spot astroturfers is the arfully deliberate typos and poor spelling/grammar. Apparently ‘real’ people don’t know the difference between its and it’s, etc.
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The idea was done better – in my opinion – with more humour and with less wank by Vinnie for the Smiths campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVi8-AdU_IQ
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Yep, and that right there is why I love Mumbrella. Keeping us ad folks honest since 2008.
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@ Josh Mehlman. Or they’re just Art Directors… haha.
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Pssst …. Sarah. Didn’t Mumbrell launch in January 2009 – well that was my first email from Tim. Or is it a clever test to see how honest Tim wants to keep us ad folks?
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Hi John,
Our first posting on the website was on December 9 last year – we didn’t start up the email til early next year…
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Thanks Tim. Full disclosure at it’s best! Sarah … props to you!
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Any agency people that use the word ‘hits’ should never be allowed to work on anything digital. Oh and also those that don’t understand the concept of IP tracking. Come on people, how hard is it to go to a couple of internet cafes and use your phones? 🙂
The eye of the tiger ‘remix’ was also pretty crap. Anyone thinking this will create a new ‘social trend’ is dreaming. Don’t mean to be harsh but it’s a pretty weak concept and the ‘celebrity’ factor used here is only appealing to a rather small segment and can’t see too many snob scrilla fans cruisin in their yaris’
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While we’re tearing this campaign apart, I’ll say that I’m a pretty massive hip hop fan I personally think the ‘music’ they’ve created is…. um…. lame?
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