Hasta La Creative!

Earlier this week, Toyota announced the consumer release of a new Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicle in Japan, the U.S. and Europe slated for 2015. Now, AdAge reports, Toyota has chosen New York agency Droga5 for the car’s pre-launch campaign.

The move marks the first auto marketer on Droga5?s roster. Although Saatchi & Saatchi LA is Toyota’s agency of record, the company looked to other agencies for new ideas for the breakthrough vehicle. “We approached Droga5 to give us some ideas, and they came back with something that blew us out of the water, said Kimberley Gardiner, director-digital marketing strategy for Toyota Motor Sales USA. “It ended up being a full campaign pre-launch proposal.”

“The opportunity was very much in our wheelhouse,” Droga5 Creative Chairman David Droga said. “If you get a call from Toyota asking, ‘Do you want to help launch the new generation of vehicles?,’ that’s about as juicy an opportunity as you can get, so we took that very seriously, and here we are. It’s very validating to have a chance to work with a brand like this.”

Gardiner didn’t reveal any details about the campaign, but, according to AdAge,”pre-launch will begin in the coming months, rolling out initially in the U.S. in digital and non-traditional media” and will last from 12-18 months.

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