Friskies Hidden Object Game for iPhone

What creative worth his salt in 2009 wouldn’t push to bring his hit branded game to iPhone?

Friskies Wins 2009 Pro Awards

We just won at PROMO Magazine’s PRO Awards! And we were up against some steep competition.

Best Loyalty Program or Shopper Rewards Program

WINNER: Feed the Senses
Agency— Arc Worldwide
Client— Nestle Purina

2nd Place: 
Miller High Life Extras
Agency— Upshot
Client— MillerCoors

3rd Place:
 The Dark Knight $10K Giveaway
Agency— Momentum Worldwide
Client— Domino’s Pizza

Honorable Mention:
 My Coke Rewards
Agency— The Marketing Store
Client— Coca-Cola

It was an honor to be up against such amazing campaigns. And great fun to attend the gala at Museum of Science and Industry.

Now in its 19th year, the PRO Awards are the gold standard of recognition for those who measure themselves against the industry’s best and brightest promotion marketers in the world.

Friskies Hidden Object Game

My role: Concepter, Salesman

The Friskies Hidden Object Game lets you dive deep into the magical worlds of Friskies in search of hidden brand icons.

This was Yahoo’s most successful branded game launch ever. Yahoo guaranteed the brand 500,000 plays within six months; the game reached over 700,000 people within three weeks.

My team concepted the game based on the insight that hidden object games skew highly with Friskies’ target consumers; 59% of hidden object gamers are women between ages of 25-54 (source: Media Metrics).

Here’s a walkthrough.

Friskies Awards

Mobius Award – 2008
Arc was awarded a first place statuette for overall effectiveness and creativity on Friskies.com.

WebAward – 2008
Friskies.com received the WebAward for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development.

Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Award – 2009
Friskies.com received two awards for Best Online Community Website and Outstanding Website: Food.

Caples Award – 2009
Friskies.com was a finalist in the Consumer Website category.

Fab Award – 2009
Friskies.com was a finalist in the Food and Beverage Awards

District Addy Award Competition – 2009
Friskies.com was awarded a silver in the Elements of Advertising: Animation, Internet category and is moving on to the National Competition

Friskies Dry Ads

My Role: Conceptor, Creative Director

In this #1 scoring ad for all Purina brands in 2009, we hooked people with a video cat and a glimpse of the trippy world of Friskies.

Interaction rate: 10.75%
Time in banner: 11 seconds

Friskies Blog

My role: Concepter, Salesman, Creative Director, Writer

All things cat, all week long. Updated five times a week by multiple authors, the Friskies Blog accounts for 40% of traffic to Friskies.com. It’s been a great acquisition tool for Friskies, as thousands of readers have registered with the site in order to comment.

This ongoing project positions Arc as content creator and community moderator – brave new territory for the company.

Friskies Flythrough

My role: Concepter, Creative Director, Writer

We put this flythrough together for award submissions at the end of 2008.

Friskies Pix

My role: Concepter, Writer

Friskies Pix enables people to create fantastical pictures of their cats within the magical world of Friskies and then download those pictures as wallpaper.

Pix has been a great acquisition tool for Friskies. In order you save your Pix, you have to join the Friskies Explorers.

Over 10,000 people have created Pix. But what I’m most proud of is that people have spoofed us online, such as this genius:

We even found a random tutorial: