Think UK Future Journey - wireless game and website

Challenge
In 2002, the British government conducted a global survey to better understand perceptions of the UK. China was revealed to be a market where people had outdated perceptions of the UK, or no clear perception at all. In order to counter this observation, the British government launched the Think UK campaign: an initiative to provide greater access to creative and innovative ideas from contemporary Britain to 16-35 year old Chinese in 4 key cities across China: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing.

The Think UK Future Journey, an SMS trivia game and website was developed to demonstrate and communicate an innovative and creative angle of the UK to an online target audience.

Solution
Postcards, radio and web banners drove to opt-in to the game. Print advertising supported the overall brand message of the campaign: Think UK - Create your future.

Lots of creative and innovative prizes, including the main prize, a trip to the UK, could be won based on the amount of questions answered correctly. At any point the player could go to the site and ask the on-line 'expert' about the background of a particular field of interest. Also there were 12 interactive web questions to answer to get the maximum amount of points.

SMS Game

Drive to Opt-in Postcards

Online Response Campaign

Website

Web Questions

Print Advertising

Online Branding Campaign