Honda "Best yourself" (2013) 2:00 (USA)

Honda "Best yourself" (2013) 2:00 (USA)

In order to launch the 2013 Civic, and make it seem cool to millennials, Honda enlisted America's Got Talent host and all around uber-success Nick Cannon to star in a new campaign/social launch. The VO carries the same platitudes we've heard before: Be yourself, be better than yourself, strive each day, reach for the stars, etc. And it ends on the obligatory hashtag #bestyourself.
For all the ad students out there who may not know or may not have thought about it, whenever you come up with #fillintheblank, there are people on the social team whose job it is to look that up on twitter to see if anyone is using it already. If there's very little "chatter," it's considered "ownable."
In the case of #bestyourself, there was only one instance of that hashtag being used before Honda had anything to do with it. And that was written either in Indonesian or Malay. (I'm not familiar enough with either language to know for sure.)


By the way the spot airs tonight on America's Got Talent. Which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
Reach for the stars! Agencies: Quantasy and Muse Communications
Client: Honda

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