Cadbury Celebrations’ makes birthday’s special through #MyBirthdaySong campaign
Cadbury Celebrations are making birthdays even more special with its latest campaign via Ogilvy India. Over the years the brand became integral to the way India celebrated festivities, and as the next step towards growth Cadbury Celebrations is redefining one of the most celebrated day across the world – Birthdays – by targeting the ‘Happy Birthday’ song.
Created with their agency partners Ogilvy and Wavemaker and technology partners Gan Studio and Uberduck, the campaign allows the gifter to make their near and dear ones feel more loved by creating a customized ‘#MyBirthdaySong, intricately woven with likings and shared memories of the giftee.
Through the campaign, Cadbury Celebrations aims to highlight how the jingle that’s same in every language can now capture the uniqueness of the person being celebrated. To bring to life its unique vision of birthday celebrations, the brand introduced this new-to-market tech which uses 4 types of generative AI tools to ‘personalize b’day songs’, namely AI generated lyrics, AI composed music, AI generates vocals and real-time generation of personalized songs.
To put this to action, Cadbury Celebrations created a microsite, a custom platform created by ADSMN Interactive Pvt Ltd for users to share information about what makes the person so special to them, such as nicknames, anecdotes, and prized memories. The digital tool then creates custom birthday song lyrics embellished with these details. Users can also set the song to their preferred music genre, including options such as rap, hip-hop, and classical. They can also download it as a video with the lyrics playing in sync with the vocals in the video to make it easy for them to sing along thus, providing a new tech-enabled twist on an age-old tradition.
Nitin Saini, Vice President, Marketing, Mondelez India, said: “In every culture, every language, the lyrics and tune of the ‘Happy Birthday’ song have remained pretty much the same since it was first published over 120 years ago. But each person is special in their own way and the celebrations on their special day should reflect that. That is the core idea behind this campaign: making people feel more valued and cherished on their Birthday, which perfectly integrates with the brand’s proposition to make every occasion special. With #MyBirthdaySong, we are unlocking a whole new element of sharing and caring by giving a personal twist to a long-standing tradition. With this campaign, we aim to be at the heart of the tender and loving moments that people share with their friends and family. We are confident that our consumers will take to this novel way of elevating birthday celebrations and surprise those near and dear to them with a special song for their special day!”
Sukesh Nayak, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy India, said: “At Mondelez and Ogilvy, we’ve always created experiences that delight our customers when exceptionally strong human insights collide with breakthrough technologies in the most unexpected ways. With Cadbury Celebrations, we saw an opportunity to make birthday gifting and celebrations more personalized and delightful. For a planet that’s home to over 8+ billion people, each unique in their own way, isn’t it just amazing that we have the same one birthday jingle celebrating them all?
“Building further on our generosity platform, we wanted to make Birthday gifting special, thoughtful and generous. We built a platform by engineering a transformative AI and machine-learning aided technology that will help people create their own unique personalized ‘Happy Birthday’ songs for their loved ones in real time. That’s maybe 8+ billion birthday songs, for a planet of 8+ billion people. We believe this delightful AI-enabled human idea will enable everyone to express how much their loved ones mean to them by making them feel truly special on their birthdays.”
Shekhar Banerjee, Chief Client Officer & Office Head – West, Wavemaker India, said: “Birthdays are the biggest gifting occasions however, they are year-round, one to one and very personal. While Cadbury Celebrations is one of the most preferred gift during festive occasions, approach for birthdays had to be different. We anchored our solution to create a ‘thoughtful gifting experience’. With the help of tech and data, we focused on creating a seamless and exclusive gift that every giver and the recipient is proud of sharing.”
As a process, the entire song, including the vocals, is created by a unique generative AI solution created by Ogilvy Creative Tech & Innovation Team in partnership with GanAI & Uberduck Inc. Basis the answers shared by the user and the choices made, Uberduck’s Generative AI engine creates unique lyrics which are then sung by custom created vocal models by GanAI on the fly, and then mixed & mastered with AI generated music by Uberduck’s proprietary AI remix technology for rap output. The end result being a unique #MyBirthdaySong.
Credits
Client Mondelez Team
Nitin Saini – Vice President, Marketing, India
Siddharth Singh – Category Manager, Gifting & Countlines, India
Vinay Pingle – Senior Brand Manager, Gifting, Chocolates, India
Arpita Kalubarme – Senior Brand Manager, Gifting, Chocolates, India
Anjali Krishnan – Consumer Experience Lead, India
Yash Desai – Consumer Experience Manager, India
Ogilvy Creative Team
Sukesh Nayak – Chief Creative Officer – Ogilvy India
Harshad Rajadhyaksha – Chief Creative Officer – Ogilvy India
Kainaz Karmakar – Chief Creative Officer – Ogilvy India
Hemant Sharma – Group Creative Director
Sagar Jadhav – Group Creative Director
Rohan Rane – Senior Art Director
Anas Khan – Art Director
Shibumi Desai – Creative Supervisor
Planning
Ganapathy Balagopalan – Head of Strategic Planning – Ogilvy Mumbai
Bhakti Malik – Senior Vice President, Planning
Nikhil Chinnari – Planning Director
Anushka Mukherjee – Group Head, Planning
Account Management
Hirol Gandhi – President & Head of Office, Mumbai & Kolkata, Account Management
Maninder Bali – Associate President, Account Management
Parshuram Mendekar – Vice President, Account Management
Smita Sodhia – Account Director, Account Management
Nived Sawant – Account Supervisor, Account Management
Creative Technology & Innovation
Rajneesh Bolia – EVP & Head of Creative Technology & Innovation
Dishant Malik – Management Supervisor, Creative Tech & Innovation
Vaishali Mange – Account Director, Creative Tech & Innovation
Pratik Shringi – Management Supervisor, Creative Tech & Innovation
Media Partner – Wavemaker
Contributing Partners
Uberduck, Inc – Technology Partner
Gan Studio Private Limited – Technology Partner
ADSMN Interactive Pvt. Ltd. – Microsite Development
Balancing Act Films – Artist Management Partner
Monkey on Hot Bricks – Music Direction Partner
Production House – Thematic Film – Good Morning Films
Shashanka Chaturvedi aka Bob – Director
Robin Dsouza – Producer
