Honda got YouTube to write custom code for a single ad. Here's what they built.
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Honda once made two ads that played on top of each other in the same video.
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Not a series or split test. Literally two ads running simultaneously.
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They called it The Other Side.
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A caring father by day. A getaway driver by night. Same man, same Civic, two completely different lives.
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But Honda didn't stop at the concept.
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They convinced YouTube to build them a custom feature, one that didn't exist anywhere else. Press the R key while watching, and the entire ad flips to the other life. Same moment. Different world.
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The mechanic WAS the message.
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The Civic Type R is still a Civic. Familiar, dependable, yours. But push it, and everything changes.
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When it launched alongside print and cinema, it won at Cannes Lions, The One Show, The British Arrows, and Auto Express.
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But the number that mattered most? Viewers averaged over three minutes of interaction time. On a video ad like this? That almost ne...