THE WORK
THE THINKING
XCOM designed and developed the scUber campaign microsite to intoduce this world's first on the Great Barrier Reef. Uber and Queensland, Australia, gave riders the opportunity to explore the Great Barrier Reef in the world's first rideshare submarine, scUber.
From May 27 to June 17, 2019, this once-in-a-lifetime experience provided riders with an unfiltered view of an extraordinary underwater world, rich and diverse in marine life.
This hugely successful global campaign featured a competition component, along with promoting travel offers from global partners; 'how-to' sections for requesting a scUber ride when in TNQ, and how best to explore the reef and get the most from your trip.
OBJECTIVES
Promote the Great Barrier Reef through an extremely performant microsite - able to handle very high-volume site traffic. Grow TEQ's subscriber databases, across both domestic and key international markets with an appealing game of skill competition mechanic.
OUTCOMES
Case Study
CLIENT
Tourism and Events QueenslandCAMPAIGN
scUber- XCOM's design fused elements from the TEQ and Uber brand style guides to produce a beautiful and highly performant website; showcasing fantastic video and imagery of the reef and scUber vehicle.
- Our Microsite and Competition architecture was based around static web pages utilising an API for dynamic behaviour (high-volume competition entries and sending triggered confirmation emails).
- Fast page load speeds were ensured through our architecture solution, utilising Amazon CloudFront to provide global edge hosting for the static content.
- Dynamic Content was handled via AWS Lambda functions (serverless compute services) - providing an incredibly scalable back-end, to handle millions of entries.
SUMMARY
XCOM are very proud to have designed and delivered this global campaign for TEQ and Uber. With a challenging timeline and evolving requirements from multiple stakeholders, this campaign has been a fantastic success! Going out to an estimated global audience of 3.3 billion people and generating over 3,900 positive news stories about the reef's resilience and world-leading management.
SOLUTION
The microsite featured multiple pages about scUber, the competition component, how best to explore the reef, and travel offers from global partners. XCOM's robust and scalable competition technology could handle over 500 entries every SECOND, and sustain this for over 1.8million entries per hour.
RESULTS
- 3.3 billion estimated global audience
- > 3,900 news stories generated
- 87% of total opt-ins were new subscribers
- 32% of total entrants were from the USA
- > 500 entries per second and > 1.8million entries per hour