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CIROC and Uber, today turbo charge their new year campaign with the launch an OOH Social campaign using Monster Social (the platform formally known as LocaModa), Twitter and the huge Times Square digital billboard at 1568 Broadway at 47th Street.

Sean Diddy Combs’ Ciroc vodka has teamed up with on-demand transportation app Uber, who will provide discounts for safe rides home on New Year’s Day 2014. Throughout the remainder of 2013, consumers are urged to pledge to #CIROCthenewyear on Facebook and Twitter and make their commitment to never drink and drive.

Tweets with the hashtag #CirocTheNewYear are filtered and age-gated before being displayed in Times Square. For every message CIROC receives with #CirocTheNewYear, Uber will provide new Uber users with a $25 coupon code, up to a maximum total of $1,000,000.

At 12:00pm EST on January 1, 2014 Combs will personally tweet and post a special code for new Uber users to redeem their discount. The rides will then be made available on a first come, first-served basis beginning at 12:00pm on January 1, 2014. Consumers will be able to sign up with their code at Uber.com.

Celebrities have been joining the cause at pledge parties including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Zoe Saldana, Michael Yo, Kevin Frazier, and Thea Andrews and CIROC will also host additional pledge parties throughout December in key markets including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Washington DC and Chicago.

The campaign runs 24/7 until Jan 1st 2014.

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a selfie is “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.”

Now the very nature of the “look at me” selfie is being leveraged as a strategic tool that OOH networks are using to help drive awareness for their screens. This is an engagement STRATEGY not a campaign. Designed to be attention grabbing and improve engagement for Cemusa, #TSQselfie enables advertisers to skin the application and be part of the consumer dialog in New York City’s busiest intersection.

As our very own Mr Beauchamp said in today’s press release “#TSQSelfie application enables Cemusa screens to be even more engaging for pedestrians, and therefore more valuable to brands and agencies. It has the perfect balance of fun and fame to get pedestrians noticing and participating.”

Expect to see more OOH networks working on similar strategic initiatives to drive engagement and therefore value.

The application runs for 30 seconds every 5 minutes, 24/7 across 20 screens on 10 Cemusa newsstands in Times Square.

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