Messe Frankfurt To Launch Multi-Media Brand Experience at Automechanika

Until recently, the archive material of the Automechanika fair was locked away in the northeast tower of the ‘Festhalle’. Now, everyone can explore this wealth of interesting information on the internet at www.automechanikaexperience.

com. Detlef Braun, Member of the Board of Management of Messe Frankfurt: “Our aim was to create a digital world that brings to life the 43-year history of Automechanika. Content marketing is currently much in demand and an elegant way to communicate brand content.”

Visitors can take the title of the website – ‘The Automechanika Experience’ – literally. Thus, as car drivers, they navigate through a metropolis and stop at a variety of places where films and images from the last 40 years are to be found. They include impressions of the first Automechanika fairs outside Germany and several oddities that are sure to surprise even Automechanika experts.

The project has been realised in cooperation with Schaller & Partner (www.schaller-partner.de) and 3spin (www.3spin.de). Designer Thomas Hoger: “The technical challenge was to transform classic archive material into an interactive and interesting experience. To this end, we created a modern city in the visitor’s browser, in which we bring old photos to life by using effects and animate numerous motifs in the form of 3D models.”

Following Automechanika Racer, automechanika-erleben.de represents another step in the digital marketing strategy of the international Automechanika brand and is one of the digital services offered by Messe Frankfurt under its ‘Dexperty’ label.

Background information on the Automechanika trade-fair brand

Automechanika is the biggest trade-fair brand in the professional automotive sector. At present, 13 Automechanika fairs are held in 12 countries. Global player Messe Frankfurt began building up an international organisation at an early stage and now has a global network of 28 subsidiaries, five branch offices and 52 international Sales Partners. Thus, Messe Frankfurt is on hand for its customers in more than 150 countries of the world.

Background information on Messe Frankfurt Digital Services

The digital services of Messe Frankfurt are unified under the Dexperty – digital expertise by Messe Frankfurt – label. In addition to the smartphone apps, the services offered include productpilot.com, the 24/7 exhibitor and product portal, AdWords campaigns in cooperation with Google, online banner advertising, etc. With its comprehensive range of event-oriented and supra-event digital services, Messe Frankfurt is a pioneer of digitalisation in the fair and exhibition sector.