For the outdoor elements of the Ready Baked Jackets launch campaign, McCain Foods seems less concerned with eyeballs than noses. It has created “3-D baked potatoes” that fill bus shelters across the U.K. with the smell of the baking potato.
When people press a button on a poster, a hidden heating element warms the fiberglass 3-D potato and releases the aroma of oven-baked jacket potato throughout the bus shelter. The aroma was developed over three months in collaboration with a specialist scent lab.
The shelters will also dispense a discount for the product: baked potatoes that are ready to eat from frozen in five minutes, but claim to offer the same smell and taste of slow oven-cooked potatoes.
Creative work is by ad agency Beattie McGuinness Bungay, with media booked by PHD and Hyperspace – the innovation division at Aegis Media’s Posterscope.
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