adidas · adizero
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.
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 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.
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.
We've had some amazing success stories so far this year, and we're not even in the peak of our season yet.
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.


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
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