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T-Mobile invades busy London rail station

Tom Warren   on 17 January 2009 - 00:37 · 28 comments & 10417 views

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T-Mobile invaded London's Liverpool Street station yesterday to the shock and amazement of onlookers.

350 dancers performed surprise routines as commuters passed through the concourse of Liverpool Street Station at 11am yesterday. 'Dance', created by Saatchi & Saatchi London, was produced using hidden TV cameras within the station, which captured the reactions of commuters as they watched the dancers perform. The three-minute guerrilla-style ad, which is part of T-Mobile's 'Life's for Sharing' campaign aired tonight on British terrestrial TV.

The dancers were similar to Internet based "flash mobs" where hundreds of people organise to meet in a public place and have water fights, pillow fights or parties. As you can see from the video below, the public were initially shocked but got into the swing of things eventually.


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#1 Rob on 17 Jan 2009 - 00:52
So cool! I was at the Rickmob at Liverpool Street station last year and it was so fun... but this, such a highly choreographed setup - superb!
#2 alan on 17 Jan 2009 - 00:53
wow. i wonder how many of them were employed by t-mobile and how many were the public
#3 fr0zen on 17 Jan 2009 - 01:32
That was bloody brilliant! Good work on the whole choreography!
#4 LTD on 17 Jan 2009 - 02:03
Amazing! We need more of this.

#5 gigapixels on 17 Jan 2009 - 02:05
Amazing! I would have loved to be right there when it happened.
#6 McDave on 17 Jan 2009 - 02:16
That was frickin ace. Is the best advert I have seen in a long time. It didn't have to scream "MY NAME'S BARRY SCOTT" to get my attention. It's positive attiude left me. . .
#7 Sandy on 17 Jan 2009 - 02:19
Wow! That was incredible!
#8 Majesticmerc on 17 Jan 2009 - 04:04
Fricken awesome!
#9 +Lexcyn on 17 Jan 2009 - 05:04
That was awesome. This world needs more spontaneous dancing!
#10 Cyplex on 17 Jan 2009 - 05:09
Pretty neat!
#11 Kaidiir on 17 Jan 2009 - 06:04
Brilliant! There need to be more of these events!
#12 Tikitiki on 17 Jan 2009 - 07:31
that is pretty damn brilliant
#13 Exosphere on 17 Jan 2009 - 09:34
Wow, is this Neowin I'm visiting? ... I mean all the comments are positive!
#14 Mr Spoon on 17 Jan 2009 - 10:34
1:57 - i think the lady with the white bag was an employee

Seriously though very good. If you like more of this, search for ImprovEverywhere or their official site where there's loads of these.

I'm gonna do one in the UK next time
#15 ghostrider86 on 17 Jan 2009 - 10:48
Great performance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZuHlDuulk - here is another one. Something similar I guess.
#16 DomZ on 17 Jan 2009 - 11:24
I saw this on TV last night, awesome advert!
#17 +vlsi0n on 17 Jan 2009 - 11:32
Looks fun =]
(1 reply) #18 +tunafish on 17 Jan 2009 - 11:39
My boss was there lol on his way to BETT. He was like wtf lol he phoned me lol i was like yay rave!!
#18.1 +WindowsNT on 17 Jan 2009 - 13:51
tunafish said,
My boss was there lol on his way to BETT. He was like wtf lol he phoned me lol i was like yay rave!!


Did you boss join in at all? :-) I would have done.
#19 Examinus on 17 Jan 2009 - 11:55
Best advert ever!
#20 s31teg on 17 Jan 2009 - 13:00
awesome display
#21 Tr0picana on 17 Jan 2009 - 14:02
genius idea!
#22 Bhav on 17 Jan 2009 - 14:43
fantastic!
#23 zer0day on 17 Jan 2009 - 15:44
Great stuff!
#24 RobertH on 17 Jan 2009 - 19:03
I like ^_^
#25 Lant on 17 Jan 2009 - 21:53
If I had known and didn't have an exam I whould have been there!
#26 vetRadish™ on 17 Jan 2009 - 22:09
That was win.

Radish™
#27 Quikboy on 18 Jan 2009 - 17:01
That's how advertising should work

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