JWT Melbourne introduces a literary innovation with Wi-Fiction at Melbourne Writers Festival
JWT Melbourne has launched a world-first digital literary innovation at the Melbourne Writers Festival, using Wi-Fi networks to bring short stories to the mobile devices of unsuspecting festival goers.
Called Wi-Fiction, the initiative was created as part of JWT’s brief from Melbourne Writers Festival to make stories more accessible to the public.
Powering Wi-Fiction is ‘Router Writer’, a box full of wireless routers, placed at the epicentre of the week-long festival at Federation Square Atrium.
When the public tried to browse the internet on their smartphone or tablet devices, they were shown a list of Wi-Fi network names which created the Wi-Fiction stories.
Says JWT Melbourne executive creative director Richard Muntz: “Wi-Fiction is a new genre and medium of storytelling which, for the first time, uses Wi-Fi networks as a communication medium. Router Writer was an innovative and ingeniously simple way of bringing the stories to life.”
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fucking cool.
O_o
Good and good.
JWT Sydney creatives talk the talk.
JWT Melbourne creatives walk the walk.
Good case study I guess…
New territory again. Well done.
JWT Sydney creatives talk the talk.
JWT Melbourne creatives walk the walk.
JWT Melbourne Creatives also write self congratulatory posts on the blog.
Simples and clever.
Oh please, that’s not innovative
Who are the creatives that worked on this? Is Richard Muntz saying that this idea is completely his?
This was Amy Smith’s idea!! Give it back to her now, you robbers!!
Putting stories in the phones of people who are interested in stories, by using an established medium in a completely different way…kinda innovative, isn’t?
It’s innovate . . . back in 1976!!
I liked it better when Hemingway did it in 6 words.
Kick Ass!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
C’mon no jwt walks the walk.
Can someone explain? is this anything more than naming a few Wi-Fi networks? As clicking on them would simply give you internet access not a link to the story?
What the point of being given a whole lot of titles and no access to the actual content?
“they were shown a list of Wi-Fi network names which created the Wi-Fiction stories” – how do network names create a story?
Either I’m missing an obvious part of this or its designed to wow people who have no technical knowledge.
JWT Melbourne creatives have earned the right to!
Life is like a box of chocolates made by JWT creatives. You never know what kind of shit they’re going to taste like.
Been done.
I don’t have the link handy but it was done in an airport to communicate an offer.
You’re single-handedly keeping the JWT name alive in the asia region.
Putting stories in the phones of people who are interested in stories, by using an established medium in a completely different way…kinda innovative, isn’t?
Yes – I was waiting for one of the sessions and I noticed this. Very clever.
Who is Amy Smith?
The posts from JWT on here are really embarrassing. You, more than any other creative dept in Melbourne need to get off the blog and go do some good work… Maybe on a client other than mwf…
So let me get this straight – you created a clever way of advertising something TO PEOPLE WHO WERE ALREADY THERE?
And were the “stories” shown jumbled? How did you ensure they played out in order in the Wifi lists?
Fucking hell, something fishy going on here.