Uber IPO

In six weeks my Brand Experience team, in conjunction with the Creative Production team, created the product and brand campaign experiences surrounding Uber’s IPO.

My team was responsible for telling the business and consumer story of Uber’s mobility platform at the NYSE. Updating web, social, paid and OOH with a docuseries about nine of Uber’s most prolific drivers created the basis for the consumer story. While inside the NYSE, we created a brand experience that told the business story of Uber’s innovative mobility platform.


The Opportunity Story

For the consumer narrative we focussed on telling the both the rider and driver perspective of taking an Uber. To exemplify this, we created two U-Frame TVs that told those experiences from each customers’ perspective using their own words.

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A large advertisement poster in an indoor setting showing a woman riding a bicycle, with a city skyline and bridge in the background. The text on the poster says, "Sunny, you changed the way the world eats." Two people are walking past the poster, one with a backpack and the other with a striped bag, both blurred due to motion.

We celebrated nine incredible drivers by telling their story and inviting them to ring the bell at the NYSE.

Here’s the story of Badriyah, one of Saudi Arabia’s first female drivers followed by an example of how we translated these stories into OOH.

City square with large digital billboards displaying Uber ads featuring women, historic buildings, a fountain, and a busy street with pedestrians and buses.
A group of diverse people, including men and women, standing on the New York Stock Exchange balcony during the ringing of the NYSE opening bell on May 10, 2019, celebrating the event with clapping and smiling. The background features a large sign displaying the Uber logo and text about Uber being listed on the NYSE.

On the day of the IPO, five million drivers woke up to a lookback video appreciating their efforts on the platform.

Perhaps the craziest video I’ve ever helped to produce, we were able to create five million dynamically generated videos in 44 different languages in five weeks. At the time, this was Uber’s single most shared video by earners ever. Uber also gave $300M in stock to earners worldwide. What follows below is a sample video due to privacy concerns.


Inside the NYSE

Uber’s innovation and mobility story took center stage inside the NYSE. Here my team was responsible for telling that story as succinctly as possible from the entryway to the trading floor.

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