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KitKat customises OOO emails for those clocking out over the holidays

Partnering with creative agency Publicis Middle East, the KitKat campaign features a nostalgic twist: OOO emails created entirely using ASCII art, a throwback to the pre-emoji era.

For those of us clocking out for a much-needed break over the end-of-year holidays, KitKat has come up with a new ‘Auto Reply Break’ campaign that creates a customised out-of-office (OOO) email for us.

These clever email auto-replies don’t just apologise for the sender’s absence; they bring a laugh and offer the rest of the desk-bound workers who are not off during the season a ‘sweet surprise’ through an Instashop code for a redeemable KitKat.

Partnering with creative agency Publicis Middle East, the KitKat campaign features a nostalgic twist: OOO emails created entirely using ASCII art, a throwback to the pre-emoji era.

Given that much of the Campaign Middle East team is on


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.