Tourism Australia selfie campaign a winner at Cannes

Tourism Australia selfie campaign a winner at Cannes

The innovative recent tourism campaign by Tourism Australia, GIGA Selfie promotion, has received international recognition at this year’s prestigious Cannes Lions Advertising Awards.

The national tourism organisation picked up three awards for the campaign which involved the world’s largest selfie service being offered to travellers in two of the country’s most popular and iconic destinations.

The awards included Gold in the Cyber – Tangible Tech category, Bronze for Direct Use of Ambient Media – Large Scale and Bronze in Mobile – Social Trends.

Tourism Australia Managing Director John O’Sullivan said it was the first time a Tourism Australia campaign had been recognised at Cannes.

“Global tourism is a highly competitive marketplace which means we are always looking for new ways to stand out from the crowd and demonstrate to potential travellers why they should visit Australia over other rival destinations.”

O’Sullivan commented that the selfie has become an integral and almost essential part of many people’s travel experience today and the GIGA Selfie campaign was the perfect platform to take social media advocacy to a whole new level.

The Giga Selfie idea originated out of Tourism Australia’s Japan office, working alongside Tokyo creative agency TBWAHAKUHODO. Using ground-breaking camera technology, giant selfies taken of Japanese travellers on the Gold Coast’s Main Beach were shared on social media and generated extensive coverage around the world.

A few months later, Tourism Australia teamed up with Canon and the City of Sydney to repeat the GIGA Selfie promotion in Sydney, as part of the 2016 Lunar New Year celebrations. This time Sydney harbour was used as the iconic backdrop for travellers to be captured in the mega-sized selfie.

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