THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

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No Bad Seats

Finalist in Multi-Platform Partnership, Technology, Product Feature Video, Branded Content

Objective

In a market saturated with specifications and traditional product messaging, we faced a critical challenge: demonstrating the Galaxy S24 Ultra's revolutionary camera capabilities to a Generation Z audience that trusts TikTok reviews over TV commercials. 

 

Our research revealed a universal truth: for Gen Z, concerts aren't just events – they're defining moments of their youth that demand to be captured and shared. Yet this generation faces a persistent frustration: what they experience at a concert almost never translates to their camera roll. Traditional smartphone cameras always reduce live performances to grainy, distorted footage that bears little resemblance to the actual experience. This forces an impossible choice: be present in the moment, or document it for posterity – but never both.

 

Our objective was to solve this genuine pain point while authentically demonstrating the S24 Ultra's superior camera capabilities in a way that would resonate with Gen Z's real lives.

 

Strategy

We positioned the Galaxy S24 Ultra as more than a phone – it's your ticket to capturing concert-worthy content from anywhere in the venue, even the nosebleeds. We identified rising pop star Tate McRae's European tour as the perfect proving ground, knowing her high-energy performances and dramatic staging would push the phone's capabilities to their absolute limits.

 

Our execution transformed Tate McRae's European tour into the world's most audacious product demo. Across Lisbon, Madrid, and Barcelona, we recruited 25 of the world's most discerning content creators and gave them what would typically be a content creator's nightmare: the worst seats in the house. No special access. No prime positions. Just the Galaxy S24 Ultra and the challenge of capturing extraordinary content from the most challenging vantage points.

 

The scale was unprecedented: 40+ Galaxy S24 devices capturing over 1,600 hours of footage, transforming every corner of each venue into a potential shot. This wasn't just documenting a tour – we were proving that with the right technology, there's no such thing as a bad seat.

 

The execution unfolded in three phases:

  1. We partnered with visionary director Marilyn Hue to elevate these authentic fan perspectives into a crowd-sourced music video for Tate's hit "Think Later" – shot entirely on the Galaxy S24 Ultra.
  2. We collaborated with 25 individual creators to showcase the S24 Ultra's features through a series of travel vlogs, premiering on their channels to deliver genuine, engaging content directly to their followers.
  3. We crafted bespoke product cutdowns highlighting the Galaxy S24's key features, rolled out on Samsung's Instagram channels to effectively engage our target audience.


 

Results

Content captured from the "worst seats in the house" generated 3.6 million views in its first week alone. This momentum continued to build, ultimately achieving over 30 million views across Samsung and Tate McRae's platforms, as well as 200,000 social engagements and an overwhelmingly positive sentiment.

More importantly, we created a blueprint for the future of mobile content creation. By turning concert venues into proving grounds for the S24's capabilities, we showed that Samsung empowers consumers to capture the best of pop culture in ways never before possible.

 

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Entrant Company / Organization Name

We Are Social, Samsung Mobile

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