Advance Auto Parts is a leading automotive parts supplier that serves motorsports fans, professional installers, car enthusiasts, and do-it-yourself mechanics alike. It's Advance Auto Parts' mission to provide personal vehicle owners and enthusiasts with vehicle-related products and knowledge that fulfills their wants and needs at the right price. Advance’s friendly, knowledgeable, and professional staff will help inspire, educate and problem-solve for their customers. Advance needs your help coming up with clever and engaging concepts for social media that attract viewers to shop at Advance Auto Parts by driving awareness that the automotive tools, parts, knowledge, and services are available from Advance online and in person.

 

The main interest here is to come up with creative social video concepts that keep the conversation going beyond the basic product post, and that drive viewers either into the storefronts or Advance's social channels for all their automotive needs. We're primarily looking for live-action concepts that would play well for 9x16 social videos, and more traditional in-feed videos that might work without sound. Concepts that are repeatable or could support a series format are highly encouraged - whether they're a format that you can do over and over again or a series on a specific subject - although we're certainly open to standalone concepts too, so if you've got a good one-off concept, you should still send it in. The key challenge is considering how you can make car parts exciting in an organic, authentic, entertaining, and even educational way, and ensure it plays well specifically on either their Facebook channel or their Instagram channel.  

 

We're looking for more than the typical product- and employee-centric content that they've done in the past. We are looking for social-forward trends and formats that go beyond basic how-to content, general product promotion, or testimonial, so share out-of-the-box concepts that push the limits and capture attention - although let's avoid anything too unrealistic or celebrity-focused, and while we're at it, you can probably avoid generic influencer-style testimonial stuff too. Part of the way you might drive people to stores is by leveraging specific products, so while, again, we don't want product promotion videos here, using a product or in store brand (like Diehard) to drive someone to the store could work well. With that in mind, consider that the most popular products from Advance tend to be wipers, oil, brakes, batteries, and lighting. In terms of demographics, it's especially important that everyone feels comfortable shopping at Advance, whether they've been building cars for ten years, are just starting to drive, or don't even know where the engine's located. 

 

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EXPOSURE:

• Advance Auto Part's  Facebook  and Instagram
• Please review the platform best practices page

 

TARGET AUDIENCE: Car enthusiast Millennials and Gen Z 

 

TONE: Clever, engaging, unique, memorable, unconventional, educational, fun

In order to be considered, include the below materials in your submission. 

• CONCEPT (REQUIRED): Tell us your Concept using up to 250 characters. Remember, a concept is not a detailed script - it is a spark of inspiration or distillation of what will happen when your concept is brought to life. As always, concepts should be clever and engaging.
  
  
• HELPFUL REFERENCE LINKS (Optional): Have you seen another idea, video or marketing activation that you think makes for a helpful reference? Feel free to include a link to any existing content that'll be useful when trying to understand your Concept.

1. Creators of selected submissions must provide the standard Tongal W-9, Winner Affidavit, and IP Assignment.
   
   
2. Unless provided otherwise, all work must be your own original creation and free of any copyrighted material. You shall provide detailed information of your work regarding the source, the creator and background information as requested by Tongal.
   
   
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4. You may not contact any employees or members of the Sponsor’s organization, their affiliates, or any of their partners. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in disqualification of your entry in the project.
   
   
5. Submissions must not portray Sponsor in a negative way, the determination of which will solely reside with Sponsor, nor can Submissions contain any profanity, offensive language, nudity or otherwise objectionable material, the determination of which is solely at the discretion of Sponsor.
   
   
6. Limit 5 submissions per member.
   
   
7. You must be at least thirteen (13) years or old to enter.
   
   
8. The Sponsor reserves the right to repost the contest at their discretion.
   
   
9. See OFFICIAL RULES for additional contest information, terms and conditions. If there is any conflict or inconsistency between these requirements and the Official Rules, the terms and conditions of these requirements shall prevail.