Today a new
advertising campaign called Una Passione a fresh
marketing strategy which aims to
promote the new Fiat Idea Adventure model in Brazil is
set to get underway. Fiat Automòveis, the Brazilian
division of Fiat Auto, has initiated an action that
comprises of an online ARG (Alternative Reality Game) a
popular method of promoting products over the internet
which is
already used widely and highly successfully in the United States and
in Europe, but which is a relatively new phenomenon and
untried in South America.
The Fiat Idea Adventure made its public debut on
24th August at the annual Adventure Sports
Fair in São Paulo, Brazil and since then high profile
promotional appearances for the new tough, off-road
designed "Adventure" series
model include a supporting role on the South American leg
of the Ferrari Panamerican 20,000, an intrepid
journey currently being undertaken by two Ferrari 599
GTB Fiorano sports cars.
The starting point of the online game
called Una Passione is a
fictional history which focuses around the lives of two Italian brothers, Lucca and Sofia Fratelli. They are
the great-grandsons of Hildebrando Novas, a Brazilian artist
specializing in plastics who during the
decade of 1920s sculptured Una Passione a great
and significant work of art composed by five major steel
parts which have in the intervening years individually fallen in
the hands of other people, and have been spread out around
Brazil.
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The Fiat Idea Adventure made its public debut on 24th August
at the 8th annual Adventure Sports
Fair in São Paulo, Brazil, and since then its high profile
promotional appearances have included a support role on the
Ferrari Panamerican 20,000.
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Today a new online advertising campaign called "Una Passione" a
fresh marketing strategy which aims to
promote the new Fiat Idea Adventure model in Brazil is
set to get underway. |
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After discovering a letter filled with clues as to the location of the
remains of this work of art Lucca
and Sofia decided to travel to the native land of their
great-grandfather, and to try to search for the five
large steel parts which are now scattered all over the country, and
it is exactly at this stage of the online game that the players enter into
action. They receive virtual coupons, and when the
players discover the parts they qualify for the prizes such as iPods, Adventure
accessory range kits and for a Fiat Idea Adventure model
itself.
“We need to move forward with more alternative
and contemporary forms of communication with future
Fiat custumers, and this game look to us to be a very
effective way to achieve this goal,” comments Fiat
Automòveis' Director of
Advertising and Marketing Relationships, João
Ciaco Baptista. The Una Passione online game was developed in partnership
with the Datamidia agency, FCBi.
To
discover more about the online game visit: www.unapassione.com.br
by Claudio Perlini
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