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Red Bull Cartoon

A national Thanksgiving TV spot that still airs every year, and the explorable cartoon world we built to hold twenty-five years of them.

Every year, hundreds of scripts are written for the Red Bull Cartoon campaign, and the founder hand-picks just two to air. Michelle Gilbert and I wrote The Story of Thanksgiving: a funny take on the real origin of the holiday, told in the world of Red Bull. A decade later, it still runs every Thanksgiving.

The Flying Planet

One spot is one story. To bring the whole campaign together, we conceived an explorable cartoon planet, a world where every Red Bull TV spot becomes its own little colony. Scroll, zoom and wander the surface to rediscover a favourite. Twenty-five years of cartoons on one planet, with our Thanksgiving turkey penned in a field of its own.

Flying Planet — the Red Bull Cartoon archive, every spot a colony on the map
The explorable cartoon map, with every spot listed and its own village or city
Wiiings Inside — the Red Bull cartoon world

Credits

Alicia Evergreen

Concept & Art Direction

Michelle Gilbert

Concept & Copywriting, The Story of Thanksgiving

Red Bull

Client

Kastner & Partners

Agency

The Story of Thanksgiving

30-second TV spot · still airing

Flying Planet

The Cartoon Archive · interactive experience

Happy Thanksgiving

Still airing, a decade on