Tohato
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Tohato Inc. (Kabushiki Gaisha Tōhato) is a Japanese food company specialising in snack food.
Products
- All Raisin
- Beano
- Bōkun Habanero
- Caramel corn
- ふわ丸 (Fuwamaru) Ninja snack
- Harvest
- Poteco
- Chokobi (チョコビ)
Advertisement campaign
Tohato launched two new snacks brands, "Tyrant Habanero Burning Hell Hot" and "Satan Jorquia Bazooka Deadly Hot" in 2007 in an award-winning campaign which broke new ground in engagement marketing, by combining multiplayer online gaming with advertising, on a mobile phone. Customers were encouraged to join nightly battles in a virtual game, on behalf of either snack brand, to determine the winner of the "World's Worst War". The games ran at 4 AM. The campaign was designed by Japanese ad agency Hakuhodo and won the Yellow Pencil award at the annual D&AD advertising awards ceremony where mobile ads were recognized for the first time in May 2008.