2011 Winners & Shortlists

Results and Effectiveness

Started in Mid Feb, the campaign had excellent results. * 5,000,000 of Henkel target audience are aware of El Balad Baladna Campaign. * 15,000 Face book members in just two weeks of the campaign. * + 500 volunteers physically helping in cleaning the streets and beautifying Egypt. * 10 areas cleaned and on the finalization of the campaign this will reach +30 areas/streets.

Creative Execution

“El Balad Baladna" campaign requested all Egyptians via huge TV & Digital campaigns, to volunteer and join this excellent cause, cleaning new neighborhood every Saturday. The plan is to clean the streets, paint the platforms and provide tools and equipment that will facilitate the whole process of garbage removal, streets watering/cleaning & platforms painting. Henkel facilitated all needed cleaning materials, such as detergents, disinfections, brooms, paint, brushes, rubbish bags & garbage trucks. Holistic Media Utilization was a big support to publicize for the campaign with TV copy aided with celebrity endorsement, top rated programs, digital (Facebook & Twitter pages), press coverage and top rated newspapers & magazines & Reports/interviews with volunteers in top rated programs. The full media utilizations played in harmony in a) maximizing the campaign awareness b) attracting hundreds of volunteers on the cleaning day c) Thousands of impressions on face book/twitter pages.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

The Challenge: El Balad Baladna campaign or Egypt is my country, has a great community/emotional objectives which mainly lies in helping people to make Egypt a cleaner and a better place. The campaign targeted ABCD youth 20-40 years old that cares about their country. The idea is very unique and rare to happen given its connected relevancy to the January Egyptian revolution. Egyptians stayed striking for 18 days in Tahrir square, and for two weeks in Egypt, nobody went to work, including Streets cleaners/other relevant workers. Accordingly Egyptian streets were in complete mess/full of piles of garbage everywhere, on top of needed paintings even before the event. As one of the biggest leaders in cleaning products in Egypt, Henkel fulfilled its responsibility and chose Persil & Pril as perfect brand fits to lead a huge CSR campaign to clean and beautify Egypt one neighborhood at a time.