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So light, it's like wearing nothing at all. The launch of adidas Golf's lightest shoe, and the campaign of flying golfers, skydiver deliveries and floating shoes that made it the brand's most successful launch ever.

The adidas adizero is so light it's like wearing nothing at all. Engineered from the ground up to include only what's essential, it had already changed other sports. Now it was coming to golf.

We were handed the non-traditional ideas to launch it. If the shoe made you feel like you could fly, the campaign should too.

Overview
The role

Concept and non-traditional marketing for the adidas Golf adizero launch, created with copywriter Michelle Gilbert at Kastner & Partners.

No. 1
adidas Golf's most successful footwear launch, and its biggest sales month globally since the brand began in 1999.
The adidas adizero golf shoe — yellow and white product beauty shot

The flying golfers

On the PGA Tour at Torrey Pines, we turned the golfers into drones. Remote-controlled replicas of Dustin Johnson, Brandt Snedeker and Jason Day flew over the course before play. Then the drones landed, and the real golfers walked to the first tee in the new shoes, as if they'd just flown in.

The team holding the flying-golfer drone cutouts at the Torrey Pines Gliderport

The skydiver

At the Qatar Masters, we delivered Sergio Garcia's shoes the only way that suited a shoe this light: by skydiver. A parachutist in full adizero yellow landed on the practice range and handed them over. Sergio liked it so much he put the parachute on himself.

A skydiver descending under an adizero-yellow parachute to deliver the shoes

The floating shoe

Even the press kit flew. We suspended the shoe inside a light-up box so it appeared to float, so light it wouldn't stay on the ground. The idea followed all the way through: from the tour, to the sky, to the box on an editor's desk.

The press kit — the adizero shoe floating inside a light-up box
Sergio Garcia in head-to-toe adizero yellow — swing, bag and campaign kit
We've had some amazing success stories so far this year, and we're not even in the peak of our season yet.
Ben Sharpe EVP, adidas Golf

The result

adidas told us it worked. The adizero became the brand's most successful golf footwear launch, its biggest sales month worldwide since adidas Golf began in 1999, with a 25.6% share in the UK and 30% in Japan. They put the record down to the tech-forward, non-traditional campaign we made for it.

Edoardo Molinari at sunset in adizero yellow
The adizero shoe deconstructed — every layer, only what's essential

Credits

Alicia Evergreen

Concept, Art Direction & Non-traditional Ideas

Michelle Gilbert

Concept, Copywriting & Non-traditional Ideas

Kastner & Partners

Agency

adidas Golf

Client

So light, it's like wearing nothing at all

Campaign line

Like wearing nothing at all

adidas Golf adizero, 2013