Tags: Industry: Computer,No ProfitCompany: Johannesburg ZooAgency: FCB,FCB JohannesburgCountry: South AfricaPrize: One ShowYear: 2014Language: EnglishTopics: Social Media Marketing
With the help of some innovative technology, we were able to transform one of the Jo'burg Zoo's very own animals into their official social media spokesanimal. We did this by creating a high-tech animal enclosure that enables the zoo's mascot, a resident honey badger named BG, to tweet about what he is doing and thinking throughout the day. As BG moves around his enclosure our custom-designed system picks up on his location and automatically triggers relevant tweets from his Twitter account, in real-time. By enabling an animal to tweet directly to the public we solved the zoo's communication challenge, and completely changed the way social media can be approached and used. (http://www.awardify.com)