THE 19,340 FT WEBSITE
Our challenge was to give HP technology relevance in times when actions speak louder than any media buy.
So we built a website that is literally as tall as Mt. Kilimanjaro (19,340 ft, or 16,709,709 pixels), where fans could track a group of celebrities and activists climbing the world’s tallest free-standing mountain to raise awareness for the global clean water crisis. The climbers used HP technology to amplify their message to the rest of the world, sharing their photos, clips and tweets on the site in real time.
The 16,709,760-pixel Web site allowed fans to climb with the team in real-time. You could follow their photos, videos and tweets along the way, as well as track their vitals, their position on the mountain and the current weather conditions. Most importantly, you could donate water by sponsoring a foot of their climb.
Getting dynamic updates from the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro requires a lot of planning, organizing and testing to ensure information would be communicated correctly and timely from the mountain. As we developed the website, we also prepared climbers with the equipment and instructions they needed to keep us connected.
The site was featured in Communication Arts, won a Cannes Bronze Lion, an FWA, and was nominated for best of show SXSW.
Flash, Custom CMS, Database, Twitter integration, analytics, various vital monitoring equipment, remote wireless packs, all-nighters.
Agency: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Production Partner: Number 9