THE GREAT OLYMPIC ICE BLOCK CHALLENGE

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Client

New Zealand Olympic Committee

Service

Experiential Events

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Experiential Marketing
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Challenge

Beijing 2022 was coming. COVID-19 restrictions were still in play. And we needed to build genuine public excitement for a Winter Olympics during the height of the New Zealand summer.

Generate media coverage and public engagement for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics under COVID restrictions, in a way that felt playful, unexpected, and genuinely shareable.

Solution

We built a 2m³ block of ice and embedded 32 individual prizes inside it. The game was simple: guess when a specific ice cube would melt. The closest entry wins what’s inside. The installation became a genuine spectacle – people came back to check on it, photographed it, entered repeatedly, and the media couldn’t resist.

540K people reached through media coverage
5,122+ public interactions with the installation
584 on-site competition entries

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