Times Square Mudsling
This is like ten years old, and it's starting to show it, but I just can't quit it. 'Times Square Mudsling' is sentimental because it was the first of many briefs we pitched, won and built in-house that also took home an award for the agency. In this case it started as a crumby $10k jumpball to fulfill a static Times Square billboard buy. Instead of following the brief— we decided to hack the billboard's ancient graphics server to turn it into a giant, interactive, trash-talking point-of-contention on NFL's Opening Weekend. By integrating the Twitter api, over a million passers-by and fans online were able to get dirty and 'sling mud' at one another's rivals in good clean fun. Sort of.
Merits—
We served up rival NFL jerseys, and when fans tweeted #TideMudsling, the board dumped mud all over the opposing team. When the jerseys were filthy, Tide bubbles came in and cleaned them up, cueing the next round.