Recruiting balloonists and site owners before the race

The World's First Balloon Race Across The Internet

Get yourself a balloon, and join the animals at the start line...

And we're off!

The World's First Balloon Race Across The Internet

Remember to collect daily prize tokens, promote your balloon to get a boost from your buddies, and teleport ahead on a rainbow.

Boosting like crazy

Balloons fly across overlays on thousands of real sites across the internet, players navigating as they go.

The champion goes to Ibiza in luxury

Add the widget to your blog or Facebook page to follow your race stats, and canvas friends to boost your balloon.

Generate awareness of Orange's animal price plans amongst social network savvy 16-24 year old. That was the brief. So we came up wtih a balloon race across the internet. Something that people could play and interact with regardless of whether they're a blogger, a Beboer, a MySpacer, a Facebooker or a whateverer.

And if you're a site owner or a blogger you can get the balloon race to pass over your site, briging you new eyeballs and making you part of something a little bit special.

The prize was a super-deluxe villa holiday in Ibiza for you and a bunch of mates. The prize, along with the kudos of winning, encouraged peopel to recruit their chums to give them extra boost. This could be done using widgets and all that kind of new-fangled jazz.

And what else..

Well there were warp rainbows. And a flashy 3d PaperVision map of the internet. And spot prizes. And lots of people played it a lot. And millions of poeple saw it. And thousands of sites applied to be part of it. And lots of people worked very hard. But nobody died. Hooray!

Webby Awards

Webby Awards

Winner 'Telecommunications' 2009

Art Directors Club

Art Directors Club

Gold Cube 'Innovation' 2009

One Show Interactive

One Show Interactive

Gold 'New Media Innovation' 2009

Revolution Awards

Revolution Awards

Winner 'Best Use Online Advertising' 2009

London International Awards

London International Awards

Silver 'Best Utilities and Telecomms' 2008

IMA Awards

IMA Awards

Winner 'Technological Innovation' 2008

BIMA

BIMA

Double Winner BTC & Websites 'Technology & Innovation' 2008

IAB Creative Showcase

IAB Creative Showcase Grand Prix

'Campaign of the Year' 2008

IAB Creative Showcase

IAB Creative Showcase

Winner 'Best Campaign', July 2008

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