Archer Roose - Book club

The Book Club for Wine Lovers

From appealing to the general public
To a highly-targeted, breakthrough creative program.


CHALLENGE

Archer Roose, makers of luxury wine in cans, was piquing consumer curiosity. Our brand building efforts were driving sales, but success (as we all know) breeds new benchmarks.That meant we needed to get more people paying attention and most importantly, putting wine to lips (their words, not ours. Although maybe it was ours.)


STRATEGY

Limited budget meant limited media which meant the need for maximum creativity. So instead of putting ads into the wind hoping to reach the wine drinker, we unearthed a clever insight that led to a highly efficient approach. The insight? Book Clubs are just excuses to sit around and drink wine with your friends.


CREATIVE SOLUTION

We created the Archer Roose Book Club. Which, as you can imagine wasn’t actually a book club at all. Our program offered all of the ingredients to become part of an actual club … book titles and wine … only no reading was required. Why? Because all the titles were fake (and completely preposterous). The purpose of the club was to cut to the heart of it all and just get people drinking Archer Roose with a room full of friends, co-workers and probabation officers.

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Elizabeth Banks reading a book poolside called "34 things you shouldn't put in a blender" with a picture of an adorable kitten."
Three books.  A part of a clever ad campaign created by Colossus.
"How to Play The Violin Despite your IBS." Hardback book on display next to a can of Archer Roose Wine. A part of a clever ad campaign created by Colossus.
Three books. "Things horses don't care about." "Riding a bike is hard. Tax fraud is easy." "Make mommy's new boyfriend, Alan, disappear." A part of a clever ad campaign created by Colossus.
Social posts for the Elizabeth Banks Book Club.
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