(Work) The Woohoo Box invades Ipoh

The BRANDTHINK team was in Ipoh on June 12, 2010 to officially launch IT World Ipoh Parade, Apple’s latest reseller in Ipoh, Malaysia. The new store opened its doors for the first time to the public and treated customers with the signature Woohoo! box giveway for the first 100 customers.

Special guest, Jack Lim, DJ with My.fm gave the crowd many reasons to be excited about as he rallied and entertained the crowd during the opening ceremony.

For the launch, our team was tasked with experimenting with a new marketing technique. The main highlight to our viral campaign was the use of “ExtremeBudget”, a lower than low-budget technique of creating viral videos to promote the event. The team had only the use of a compact digital camera, an iPhone, iMovie software on the iMac and less than 6 hours to create the movie. The result was a quick, silly video that is easily shared across social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and  YouTube.

Ipoh experienced a wave of energy and excitement never seen before with other brands and the event drew an amazing crowd, the earliest arriving as early as 2am!

We even witnessed the world’s first marriage proposal using a Woohoo! box.

The IT World launch is part of an on-going campaign created to increase hype and excitement over the Apple brand in Malaysia with activities that include the DiscoveryWeek roadshows, the DiscoveryWeek social media campaign and the Woohoo! box events.

At the end of the day, the event closes with much excitement that started in the wee hours of the morning and lasted the whole day. For more photos, visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/brandthink.