Another Win for the 2011 Ford Fiesta

How and Why "Gimme the Gig" Came into Being

It was an amazing summer for Flash Point -- as well as me, personally. Got to fulfill a dream. Lots of them, really. But one of our most recent adventures was developing and launching a campaign for the folks at Ford.

Gimme The Gig is an integrated campaign, led by one of our Ford clients, Tom Grill. He had a vision. And that was to reach out to bands across the Western United States and see if we could encourage them to submit their music. At stake? A chance to get produced by the legendary Don Was.



But he didn't want to do an ordinary music submission contest. He challenged us to come up with more.

...and I think we did.

The campaign consisted first of a basic music submission website called "Gimme the Gig", which we developed. Over 900 bands submitted their music in about 90 days.



Next, we developed a Facebook page, which supports the entire Western United States. This is proving invaluable to get the word out, talk directly with local bands, support all the dealers that make up the groups and even get really good feedback from the fans of bands.



Integrating with local events throughout the US, we brought (and are bringing) the campaing to life with local bands, input from local folks and pictures and video from music fans throughout the Western United States.

But there's no question that one of my favorite pieces is the complementary video. You see, along with Don Was, we got some help from extreme athletes and some amazing Dancers. Help from Kaba Modern (America's Best Dance Crew), pro surfer Erica Hosseini and pro skateboarder Sergie Ventura, lifted the campaign to a whole new level.

Here's the video we just wrapped a couple weeks ago. And if you're viewing this in early September of 2010, you can consider it an advance screening. The goal was to highlight some of the coolest features of Fiesta, working with folks that didn't talk about the car...but showed it off. We gave them free reign on what they wanted to do. And I think they absolutely delivered. It was fresh, fun...and the first weekend live it's generated over 500 views--which means we're probably off to a good start. Here it is. Enjoy your ride. It's what the cool kids are driving this summer. :)