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Clients: Case Study

Costa Del Sol For Aliens

What We Did

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The brief from VisitScotland, Scotland’s national tourist body, was to devise innovative ways to keep Scotland “top-of-mind” during VisitScotland’s Spring Short Breaks Campaign.

Our response included marketing Scotland as the UFO capital of the world and "the Costa del Sol for aliens". We used “International UFO Day” to publish a world league table of UFO hot-spots… topped by Scotland, with most sightings per square kilometre.

“The job you've done has been fantastic - everything we hoped for. I want to say a big thank you.”

—VisitScotland

Outcome

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Huge national and international coverage – and a delighted client.

The UFO story, complete with gorgeous images of the rolling Scottish countryside, featured on UK network TV 17 times on the first day alone, plus every national radio station,a range of national papers, news agencies … and on websites and TV around the world.

Visit Scotland

Key Points

Featured on UK network TV 17 times on the first day alone.

International coverage.

A delighted client. 

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—Gart Davis, Lulu.com/Spoonflower.com

Think Inc provides quirky, creative PR that spreads virally and wins global attention. We are UK-based but also work internationally.

Other names for what we do include: social media marketing, viral marketing, viral PR, guerrilla marketing, guerrilla PR, buzz marketing, buzz PR, or simply online PR, since it works so well online.

One Communications Director called it "the Holy Grail: what everyone's looking for; the sort of PR that drives traffic and spreads around the web".

Another client called it "a uniquely cost-effective form of online marketing [that] brought us both visitors and high-quality links".

Others hire us for generating buzz or brand awareness.

Our work helps clients stand out from the crowd and typically delivers value out of all proportion to cost.

We’ve worked for Craigslist, Apple, Marks & Spencer, The FA, Visit Scotland; Lulu.com and Badoo.com.

We’ve scientifcally identified London’s most romantic Tube station and the perfect title for a bestseller; published the world’s first Testicle Cookbook; and launched the first literary prize for books based on blogs.

In an age when attention is the scarcest resource, our ideas cut through the media clutter and win attention that money can't buy.

Note: Not everyone spells “guerrilla” – as in guerrilla marketing or guerrilla PR – the same way.

Some people also write guerilla PR or guerilla marketing; guerila marketing, guerila PR; or, of course, gorilla marketing or gorilla PR.