2015 Winners & Shortlists

THE WAITING GAME

BrandROYAL AND SUN ALLIANCE (RSA)
Product/ServiceMOTOR INSURANCE
EntrantOGILVYONE MIDDLE EAST Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
CategoryWebsites
Entrant Company OGILVYONE MIDDLE EAST Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Advertising Agency MEMAC OGILVY Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Production Company GEOMETRY GLOBAL Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Creative Execution

We know that the motor insurance category tends to be very simple and direct in their comms. A doom and gloom message, a price or a tactical offer and a phone number. This may work when you are just another option, but we wanted to prove to people that RSA thinks about the customer journey. So we conducted a series of trials, through the phone and online, with the competition to understand what it takes to get a policy and we dramatized the heck out of that. Tying the steps to incredible (but still possible) negative outcomes.

The campaign worked a treat. In terms of final sales figures, the campaign, which ran for the entire month of April 2014, delivered 44% more sales than the same time last year through pure online and assisted (where a query comes in online and is converted offline). The number of quotes, however, was only up by 18% over the same time last year, which means that conversion during the campaign was extremely high, which is a testament to the relevancy of the messaging and the targeting.

RSA’s motor insurance is a quality offering. The service, the care, rate of payout and overall customer satisfaction are all proof points to that. However, Motor insurance is a legal mandatory in the UAE, which means people will always try and find the cheapest option, which RSA isn’t. The advent of insurance aggregator sites meant that people could, quickly, find out how they could pay less for a product they hope to never use. Our brief was to try and illustrate to the target audience that motor insurance isn’t just a price tag. The execution of the campaign leveraged the fact that both RSA and the target audience spoke the same language. An intelligent one that focused on quality of service, and of life.

Credits

Name Company Role
Nabil Moutran Ogilvyone Regional Director
Ramzi Moutran Memac Ogilvy Executive Creative Director
Sally Tambourgi Ogilvyone Creative Director
Antonio Rodrigues Ogilvyone Art Director
Louise Bolo Ogilvyone Copywriter
Fahad Osman Memac Ogilvy Business Director
Samed Yadegari Ogilvyone Account Executive
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