HP Business makes laptops, workstations, and other high tech devices for companies. This means our audience is IT decision makers—the folks who decide what sort of mousepads and monitors your office gets, when they aren’t busy re-setting passwords and replacing coffee-soaked keyboards.
We wanted to give them something fresh and unexpected for the versatile HP Elite x2, so we partnered with Instagram influencer Joel Strong, AKA “MyDayWithLeo.” He’s known for making quirky stop motion videos that combine real people with photos and graphics.
We felt that this low-tech approach would be an ideal way to connect our audience with the very high-tech HP Elite x2. The approach is unexpected, the visual style is irresistible, and most of all, it’s profoundly human (something sorely lacking in most B2B marketing).
We produced 5 videos, each one based on one of our three pillars of security, design/performance, and collaboration, and each one telling a different story of the Elite x2 and the people it helps.
So far only two of the videos have been shared. But they already have over 17 million impressions, over 2.5 million views, and over 100K completions.
Contributors:
Creative Director: | Craig Erickson |
Executive Creative Director: | Michelle Franzoia |
Copywriter: | Tif Slama |
Art Director: | Jeremy Blakslee |
Motion Designer: | Kevin Brown |
Senior Producer: | Zach Loker |
VP, Account: | Liz Budd |
VP, Account: | Natalie Croswell |
Content Creator/Influence: | Joel Strong |
US BPS Commercial Marketing - Social Strategy, HP: | Cheryl Walters |
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