CANADA GOOSE Lightweight Down social/digital campaign

Canada Goose is a function-first brand. But fun can be functional too. Sometimes it’s necessary to not take things too seriously and just take a moment to play. Play opens you up to new ideas. Play moves the world forward. Especially at a time when all we seem to do is argue and worry. Our Play with Puffer concept showed the joy that comes out when you feel liberated from the cold and weight of winter. It’s a fun-driven campaign that explores the different ways Lightweight Down puffer jackets can inspire play. We wanted to encourage people to play and experiment with the packability and light weight of puffer jackets. Show products in playful, unexpected situations. Manipulate the product for the simple joy of experimentation.

Our art direction was all about “playing with puffer”: puffer-inspired background textures, floating jackets, popping bubble-gum, big winter balloons, people playing with their packable jackets and floating in their extra-light down jackets. At the same time, we borrowed the lightest elements of winter to make the campaign seasonal without being cold. The colour palette played with silver-y winter whites and used the most colourful products to create pop.

We honed in on two product aspects that were ripe for play: lightness and packability. The ability to feel like you’re floating, in the heaviest of seasons. And the ability to play with the tightly-packed jackets, which would otherwise take up all of your luggage space. The final campaign was a series of still and stop-motion assets, designed for engagement on social and digital media. In stop-motion, we got playful with the actual products to produce stop-motion games of Tetris and origami. Still assets showed the products in action, inspiring play with models floating in mid-air and blowing bubble-gum-balloons. The campaign went live across paid and owned social and digital channels (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, website). The largest spike of the campaign was planned for the Black Friday weekend. Play With Puffer became one of the top-three most engaging campaigns on Canada Goose’s Instagram channel, attracting over 66,700 likes across just 7 posts.