Drown-Simulating Websites

CLM BBDO Created a Website that Lets Viewers Simulate Drowning at Sea

Popular creative agency CLM BBDO has figured out an interactive way to promote wearing a life jacket. The website they created starts off showing two people talking to each other on a boat at sea. You soon realize the video is through the one man's perspective and you are "him."

"You" get thrown overboard by accident, and it is your job to use your mouse pad to try and swim back up to the surface and stay there. The website simulates the mental and physical fatigue that a real person would experience when drowning, and it is terrifying. Eventually you drown and the ad ends with the message, "At sea, you tire faster than you think," and then encourages you to wear a life jacket.

Interactive Advertisement Experiences
Opportunity to create immersive and engaging ad experiences through interactive websites.
Emphasizing Safety Awareness
Opportunity to promote safety awareness by creating powerful simulations that showcase the potential dangers.
User-centric Marketing
Opportunity to personalize marketing campaigns by allowing users to become active participants in the storyline.

Industries Being Reshaped

Advertising
Disruptive innovation opportunity for advertising agencies to create impactful and memorable campaigns.
Safety Equipment
Disruptive innovation opportunity for companies in the safety equipment industry to leverage interactive experiences to educate and promote their products.
Digital Marketing
Disruptive innovation opportunity for digital marketing agencies to explore new ways of engaging consumers through interactive and immersive experiences.
SCORE
5.6 out of 10
GENDER
50% Men50% Women
MARKETTop markets: North America, Europe
GENERATION
  • Gen Alpha
  • Gen Z (primary audience)
  • Millennial (primary audience)
  • Gen X (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 82%
Activity 78%
Freshness 8%

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