Guinness targets party people to build on St Patrick's Day celebrations

LONDON - Diageo's Guinness has launched an integrated direct campaign urging drinkers to get together to celebrate St Patrick's Day on March 17.

The campaign asks Guinness drinkers to "Party with us" by visiting their local for a Guinness St Patrick's Party.

An email viral sent to a database of 170,000 drives visitors to a campaign .

The site features an animated online party and lets users search for pubs hosting parties. Visitors can also enter a competition on the site, with the chance to win a trip to New York by guessing how big the "viral party" will be.

Two mail packs target Guinness's database of 600,000: people who drink Guinness regularly received a pack containing a pair of green shamrock-shaped glasses to wear on St Patrick's Day; and a more basic shamrock shaped-pack targets less frequent drinkers.

Pubs local to consumers' postal addresses have been lasered on to both packs and a questionnaire in the pack gives recipients a chance to win a trip to Dublin and visit the Guinness brewery at St James' Gate.

The campaign was developed by agency Tullo Marshall Warren.

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