The Digital Project Manager would be hired to work alongside a Senior Digital Project Manager and studio teams ensuring that the project work runs on time and to budget and is delivered to the highest possible standard.

The Digital Project Manager needs to be a highly organised and motivated individual. The role is about “making things happen” and requires the ability to be solution orientated and think creatively when faced with project issues as well as being highly organised and with a good attention to detail.

Working within the Volkswagon.co.uk client team you’ll be responsible for project managing a variety of projects

Challenge
Volkswagen wanted people to experience the ’simply effortless’ Tiguan for themselves.

Solution
We decided to use social media to turn ordinary individuals into influential brand advocates, by creating a competition in which we searched for a new kind of car critic - The People’s Reviewer.

Over 1000 people applied via YouTube video auditions and email entries. We selected nine contestants, divided them into three heats, and each was given the Tiguan for a week to try out its features and record a short video review. These were posted on the People’s Reviewer site where the public voted for their favourite. The competition culminated in a final between the winners of each of the three heats.

The journey had us meet some crazy characters and the ultimate winner drove off with the Tiguan. In keeping with the unconventional nature of this social media campaign, Harriet donated her prize to Romanian Relief, a children’s charity. Harriet and our team will be delivering the Tiguan personally in January 2010.

To help the contestants win votes we taught them how to tell their story and generate support using social media tools: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. They were a quick study!

This is a real example of a campaign that leverages the power of social media with an off-line experience, whilst being bolstered by a traditional media spend. The People’s Reviewer demonstrated the enormous potential of social media when embraced by major brands, even in these early experimental days. In undertaking the campaign, Volkswagen has broken new ground for the way UK car brands can and will connect with the public.

Impact

• 251,411 site visits
• 6,834 participants (votes, sign-ups, entrants)
• 1,019 entrants
• Over 1,000 followers on twitter
• Over 50,000 video views
• 2.2 million reach through social media [excluding paid advertising figures]

…and one People’s Reviewer

But it doesn’t end there.
The People’s Reviewer has made a star out of our winner and a star out of the Tiguan.

Voting ends 12pm GMT 13th January 2010.

Thanks!

Trivial Pursuit Experiment is a fun and addictive game that reveals your inner genius by pitting Men versus Women across the world to discover once and for all, who is the smartest sex! Players can also create banter cards to send to their friends, the perfect way to enlist more players for your side, or to have a dig at the opposition! Because we all have days when our inner genius is hiding, we created the Trivial Pursuit Wedgie awards: send in your favourite clips of real life mistakes and we’ll share the winners every week.

The game is running in nine languages, with a world-wide score of over four and a half million questions already correctly answered. It’s proving to be a close call with the men in the lead by a narrow 500 questions, though the scores are changing in real-time.

This year the classic Trivial Pursuit has had a makeover with six new question styles allowing for faster and more exciting game-play. Trivial Pursuit Experiment was created to support this launch, after all playing in teams is better, because no-one knows everything!

Currently COO of DDB London, Fox will take on the new group-wide role of Chief Client Officer, and will be responsible for client service and new business development across the DDB UK group.

A former MD of Touch DDB, and currently CEO of Gutenberg Networks, Goulding becomes Chief Operating Officer of DDB UK. As the agency’s production and implementation specialist, he will work across all the group businesses with the brief of consolidating integrated operations. He will retain his Gutenberg Networks role.
MD of Tribal DDB, Mike Parsons, leaves the group to be replaced by the former Tribal DDB Deputy MD, Tom Roberts. Roberts has worked with many leading brands, including Sony, Hasbro, Barclaycard and AXA, and has produced award-winning interactive work for VW.

Victoria Fox, formerly deputy MD of Touch DDB is promoted to the position of MD.

“The changes are in recognition of the highly integrated direction of much of the group’s work for clients such as VW, Philips and Hasbro .” said Stephen Woodford, Chairman and CEO of DDB.
He added, “Mike has played a major role throughout the rationalisation process, and he leaves in place a strong framework for Tom to move forward for the benefit of both the group and our clients. We wish him every success in the future.”

“Seamless integration between disciplines is key,” said Nick Fox, “and this new structure will help us do this by delivering effective group-wide organisation.”

The restructure will not affect the existence of the DDB UK market-facing brands, which include DDB, Tribal DDB, Touch DDB, Radar DDB, DDB Matrix and Gutenberg Networks, and these individual brands will still exist under the DDB UK umbrella.

This month DDB London has clinched the global Flora brief, worth over £100million. It was also named “The World’s Most Awarded Agency” by The Gunn Report for 2009. DDB have been given this title three times over the last 11 years, the only agency to have done so.

The Volkswagen rollercoaster is a thrilling online ride that explains the key Volkswagen Efficiency technologies.

FWA recently awarded us Site of the Month for the GTI Project. This will be the 4th SOTD from FWA for Tribal DDB London, nice going!

The report follows the release of the bi-annual study from the Internet Advertising Bureau which shows a growth of 4.6% in online revenue against the falling numbers of television advertising. Nick spoke of the exciting changes advertising has gone through over the last 10 years with the rise of the web, the boom of social media platforms and the necessity to keep one step ahead of this constantly evolving channel.  He begins “there’s been a revolution…” and uses our Volkswagen Golf GTi Project, VW’s first purely digital car launch, as an example of a brilliantly successful online campaign. Watch the BBC 1 news segment here.

The search is over! After just over 1000 applications, three entertaining heats and one challenging final, you have decided who should be crowned The People’s Reviewer. From our three finalists you chose your favourite: CONGRATULATIONS to Harriet.

Check out Harriet’s brand new simply effortless Volkswagen Tiguan here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/#/new/tiguan

Enjoy Harriet’s final challenge video on the People’s Reviewer Site http://www.thepeoplesreviewer.com

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MONOPOLY City Streets will be taken down at 15:00 GMT on Thursday 17^th September for 12 to 24 hours for the test and reset. When the site is live again the game will restart with improvements to gameplay. This means that everyone will need to register again and everyone will be starting over with $3million to spend.

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