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The 2012 Volkswagen Beetle offers the same smile with sharper teeth.

The Volkswagen Beetle has been many things over the years. But whether playing the role of the friendly, utilitarian car of the people, or a smile-on-wheels with a !ower vase by the steering wheel, it’s also always been a single-minded exercise in progressive, iconic design. The latest incarnation of the Beetle is no exception. Although, lurking beneath a shell that harkens back to the original is a machine that’s dedicated to performance and driving enjoyment.

While a focus on performance is de"nitely a new direction for the Beetle, innovation has always been a hallmark of the car’s personality, so Volkswagen Canada and Toronto advertising agency, Red Urban, agreed that innovation must also inform the marketing effort to launch the Beetle in Canada. To this end, much of the Beetle out of home advertising in Toronto and Vancouver offers an enhanced experience, using augmented reality (AR), a technology that allows people to use mobile devices like iPhones and iPads to see animations on the advertising that are triggered by markers embedded in the ads themselves.

The AR animations can be seen on gigantic billboards in Toronto’s Dundas Square, as well as on transit shelters throughout Vancouver and Toronto. The animations

themselves show the Beetle launching itself through billboards, jumping off of a massive ramp that appears to emerge from the side of a building, and smashing through transit shelters after racing through a long tunnel that appears to be built behind the shelter itself. All the animations serve to demonstrate that this is a much more aggressive, performance-oriented Beetle than any of its predecessors.

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“Previous Beetles have been kind of cute and friendly, but this one has a lot more attitude, so we thought the advertising better live up to that,” notes Bruce Rosen, Director, Marketing and Communications of Volkswagen Canada. Steve Carli, President of Red Urban adds, “The car is a nod to the past and the future at the same time, so using the AR overlay on a very traditional out-of-home media buy really seemed like a solid conceptual "t.”

The out-of-home campaign runs from September 26 to October 28 in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. An event will take place on October 21 at Yonge and Dundas Square in Toronto. In addition, an online digital campaign will run from September 26 to November 4. The free app can be downloaded at vwjuicedup.ca.

Founded in 1952, Volkswagen Canada is headquartered in Ajax, Ontario. It is the largest volume European automotive nameplate in Canada, and sells the Golf, Golf Wagon, Golf GTI, Beetle, Jetta, CC, Eos, Passat, Tiguan, Routan, and Touareg through 133 independent Canadian Dealers. It is the leader in affordable TDI Clean Diesel vehicle sales in Canada, and forms part of Volkswagen Group Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Volkswagen is one of the world’s largest producers of passenger cars and is Europe’s largest automaker.

Red Urban, an advertising agency in Toronto, Canada, is one of Volkswagen Canada’s Agencies of Record, and a member of the Omnicom group of companies.

For more information, contact:

Thomas TetzlaffManager, Public Relations

Volkswagen Canada777 Bayly St WAjax, ON L1S 7G7Thomas.tetzlaff@vw.cawww.volkswagen.ca

Steve CarliPresident

Red Urban33 Bloor Street East, Suite 1100Toronto, ON M4W 3T4scarli@redurban.cawww.redurban.ca

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Download the app at vwjuicedup.ca and scan this marker to see the AR animation.

BEETLE CAMPAIGN

Agency: Red Urban Canada

Creative Director: Christina Yu

Writers: Matt Syberg-Olsen, Jon Taylor

Art Directors: Damian Simev, Liam Johnstone

Producer: Andrea Hull, Sam Benson

Account Director: Nicole Milette

Tech Consultant: Joe Dee

Production: Pixel Pusher

Animation/Design: Bully! Entertainment

Billboards (Atrium at Bay and 10 Dundas St. West): Clear Channel

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