We created a billboard that switched itself off in an activation for KITKAT aiming to persuade the public to have a break from Electricity. On Saturday 24 March at 8.30pm millions of people around the world joined together to switch off their electricity for 60 minutes.
To drive awareness of the cause J. Walter Thompson London customised a digital billboard, which comprised of a simple circuit with a KITKAT finger as the switch. When the clock hit 8.30pm and the world turned off their lights, the KITKAT finger in the special build unit snapped, breaking the circuit and turning off the electricity of the poster.
It was timed perfectly to turn off at the same time as the lights on Tower Bridge, giving the illusion that it switched off the bridge’s power in order to reinforce the significance of the message.