AC HOTELS X AC ORIGINS 

Winner of the 2024 Adrian Awards (Silver) - Creators, multi-media, video & short-form

Budget: $250-500K | Agency: Think Jam


Background

AC Hotels opened its doors in 1999 in Madrid, Spain, bringing style, precision and attention to detail to the forefront of hospitality while leaning into its European heritage. At AC Hotels, every moment has been meticulously designed, refined, crafted and considered with our guests in mind to create a comfortable, elegant and unobtrusive experience.

AC Origins is a brand platform that grounds us back to the foundations of what makes the AC brand: purposeful design, well-crafted food and beverage, signature moments, and memorable destinations. As the Perfectly Precise Hotel with everything you need and nothing you don't, the Origins platform strives to delve deeper into the meaning and purpose behind each aspect of the brand.

To tell the brand story, we partnered with social media influencers in the cinematography and videography space to experience the brand in 6 different locations worldwide, including Melbourne, Lima, Malta, Naples (Florida), Croatia, and Tokyo. They were tasked with showcasing the brand and different aspects of the AC Origins platform in their own voice, creating a storyline in each piece of content.

With a heavy emphasis on video deliverables, this campaign was amplified with paid support across both Meta and TikTok and Brand Lift Studies appended to each.

Objective

This campaign was designed to achieve the following:

  • Drive awareness and education on the AC brand and its offerings through visually compelling storytelling

  • Inspire leisure travel with the AC brand at the forefront of consideration as a historically business travel brand

  • Generate buzz and drive social engagements around the AC brand

This campaign produced the following assets:

  • 12x in-feed posts (6x collab reel posts on Meta | 6x TikTok posts)

  • 18x brand video assets

  • 60x brand still image assets (6x of which were used in the paid campaign)

  • 20x value-added Instagram Story frames

45M+

paid impressions

Meta: 24.4M | TikTok: 21.2M

Meta

11.01% Video View-Through Rate

10.68% Engagement Rate on Static Images

+5.6pt on Ad Recall for the Meta Brand Lift Study

3.6M+

paid engagements*

Meta: 2.8M | TikTok: 805K

TikTok

8.12% FVR

+4.7pt on Ad Recall for the TikTok Brand Lift Study

*inclusive of likes, comments, shares, & video view-throughs

  • Everything about this is so aesthetically pleasing

  • I love Marriott!! This is so rad Jack!

  • I love AC Hotels and this just reinforces that

  • The best ads for a hotel I ever saw, so inspiring thank you for sharing this